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So we're probably putting in for a flat. This means there'll always be a floor for any of you lot while I'm still in Brum. I am trying to be calm about it, but I'm torn between panic and an odd sort of calm, which I think might dissolve into panic at any moment (AC/DC are helping with the avoidance of this).

The second viewing led to me observing on of the most fun game of verbal chess ever. What was actually meant in italics:

Mum's boyfriend: "So, do you have any idea why this hasn't sold yet?" ( Are you expecting us to actually meet your full asking price?)

Seller: "Well, we've had offers but they were insultingly low. We don't need to sell so we just walked away." ( Pretty much, yes. )

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Another funny thing was how different Mum and her boyfriend's memory of the flat were from how it actually was. Like totally different. Not just size of rooms, but things like colour and what state they were in.

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Friend of mine is just back from New York and on the way back she got the surprise of her life when Richard Branson decided to wander through economy class on her flight, checking that everyone was having a nice flight.

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F1

Nico Rosberg will never be one of my favourites but I'm so glad he's finally got a win under his belt.

NCIS

( Spoilers for 'Life Before His Eyes' or episode 200 )

Knitting

So Operation Hat, and the knitting pattern that makes no sense, are finished. Unfortunately, the hat is probably too small for the intended recipient. Therefore, we move on to Operation Bigger Hat. Any tips on how to knit more loosely are gratefully received.

Shakespeare Meme - Day #14: Your favorite fight scene

I've been obvious and gone with the one at the end of Macbeth, as found here

It's the McKellen version, even if I was wrong in blaming Peter Hall for the direction, apparently we're to blame Trevor Nunn. It has the advantage of also show the 'tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' soliloquy that I mentioned yesterday. It has the disadvantage of showing what I didn't like about that production. Sadly, it doesn't even with the award for worst lit Macbeth I ever saw (via TV), that goes the the Antony Sher one. Which annoys me because they had Harriet Walter as Lady Macbeth and I couldn't see her. And before anyone says, surely it's the words that matter, not the visuals, if I'd wanted to just hear it acted, I've got the Ken Stott radio version on tape, and that's perfectly satisfactory.

( Other Days )

First a question - why do all* the wrestling fanboys hate TNA with such an unholy passion. Seriously did Jeff Jarrett or Dixie Carter going around individually peeing in their cornflakes or something?

* for varying definitions of all, in my case, any wrestling message board I have ever read seems to despise TNA.

( Secondly, bitching about this week's RAW )

About Kid Kash being sacked - is it really bad that my first thought was 'well, that's Noble screwed, again!'. Because I think it probably is. And to think last week I was so happy to finally see the Kash and Noble tag team on last week's SD.

Actually, given the amount of squeaking I was doing over that and an old TNA Dutt v Kash match, I can kind of see why my Mum thinks Kid Kash is my favourite.

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On to NCIS - please tell me I'm not the only one who spends most of her time hoping for Di Nozo to end up on the wrong end of a beating. A hard one, that might, you know, get him off my screen for good. Sorry, I realise he's supposed to be annoying with a heart of gold, and I know it's not the actor's fault, but seriously, Di Nozo pushes every last one of my 'kill' buttons.

Fileg was talking about a show called Navy CIS or NCIS or whatever it's actual title is. I like crime shows so I might have watched it anyway but she dangled the fact that it has David McCallum in it so I couldn't resist.

So I watched and ended up hooked. Good science, interesting, imperfect characters, it's a krimi, really it's like they designed a programme just for me.

But anyway, I was watching episode 1:23 "Revaille" and I recognised the bad guy but I just couldn't place him. Accent sounded familiar.

Anyway, I looked it up on IMDB, who's servers I kiss as usual, and it's the guy that played Dracula on Buffy. I'm amazed I've actually seen his face now (the only other time I did was when he appear on an Enterprise ep as a scrunchy forehead alien) and it looks different. And the Buffy make-up artists did some seriously good work because he's as dark as I am, if not darker, and they made him look pasty white.

In short:
David McCallum squee
NCIS squee
Obscure actor squee