Oh god. Haha.

Mum's looking through the local paper at the job section.

"Do you want to be part of a dynamic, outreaching team?"
"I doubt it... What's it for?"
"...the chlamydia testing centre."
*pause for hysterical laughter*
"There's a limit to how much outreaching I wanna do in a chlamydia situation."
"The money's not bad, though..."
"There's not enough money in the world."

Seriously. Best advert ever.

Quote of the Day

"When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time."
-Kevin Arnold, from the Wonder Years (1988-1993)

Quote of the Day

"Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair!
Down we plunge to the prison of my mind!
Down that path into darkness deep as hell!"
- The Phantom of the Opera.

Also I keep watching films where Alan Rickman appears and I didn't realise. A few weeks ago I was watching Dogma for the first time and he's in that. Tonight I'm watching Love Actually for the first time and here he is again. Not that I'm complaining, mind... *ahem*

*edit* Wow, seriously, EVERYONE is in this film. xD

The world has gone mad.

I was listening to the radio while I made my lunch today and some people were reviewing a book.

"The book offends my feminist principles... At the end, the father comes home from work to his wife who has spent the day at home with the child."
"It's not about masculinism, it's about power and a sense of menace."

The book they were reviewing? The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

Then they spoke to the woman who wrote the book. She sounded completely and utterly bewildered, unsurprisingly.
"Er... no. It's just a children's story. I thought that a friendly tiger would be a nice story for a child to read about. There's no subtext or hidden meanings to it."

For Christ's sake. For those of you unfamiliar with the book, it's aimed at young children who are just learning to read, and it's about a little girl helping her mother when a friendly tiger comes into the house. He sits at the table and shares their food, then leaves, and then the father comes home and the girl tells him about the tiger. That's it. And these truly insane people were analysing it and projecting all sorts of issues and symbolism. The author clearly couldn't believe that anyone could seriously talk about her book like that.

I'm a little scared now.