[Manda] says:
Hee! XD I can't help it, I always want to hug him, despite his more... /controversial/ sayings. XD
Moose: Motorhome Racing Grid Girl says:
heh, you've got it bad, girl ;)
[Manda] says:
XD
[Manda] says:
I really DO, it's terrible!!!
Moose: Motorhome Racing Grid Girl says:
First sign of madness: crushing of Jeremy Clarkson
Moose: Motorhome Racing Grid Girl says:
^crushing ON
[Manda] says:
XDDDDDDDDDDDDD
[Manda] says:
"I CRUSH YOU NAOW"

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!"
Moose: Motorhome Racing Grid Girl says:
*howls*
Moose: Motorhome Racing Grid Girl says:
and thus a tragic typo was responsible for the mangling of one of the country's top broadcasters
[Manda] says:
Clarkson's fellow presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, had this to say;

"Well... you can't say the bugger didn't deserve it."

"Hey; does this make his Lifetime Achievement Award actually /meaningful/ now?"

"I think it does!"

"Success!!!"

I love my Mum dearly, but sometimes following her train of thought requires satellite tracking...

Me: *leafs through Radio Times* Oh, yay!
Mum: Yay?
Me: Ant and Dec's new show's on on Saturday. The only thing is, I'll have to restrain myself from being physically sick, Piers Morgan's one of the judges.
Mum: You know that judge on Dancing on Ice, the one they always booed?
Me: Jason Gardiner?
Mum: That's him, he was on Masterchef last night, cooking. He's quite nice really. You know who he was up against?
Me: No.
Mum: That guy...
Dad: No, we don't know that guy.
Mum: Stan.
Me: Stan who?
Mum: Or maybe it wasn't Stan... oh, what's his other name? Played some sport...
Me: Stan Collymore?
Mum: *in a 'don't be silly' tone of voice* No, he's dark skinned.
Me: You didn't say this guy was white!
Mum: No he's a cricketer... he was in the jungle thing.
Me: Phil Tufnell?!
Mum: That's him! It's not very like Stan is it?
Dad: He was stanin over there, that's what confused you...

Dad and I were in our favourite cafe today. Unfortunately, somebody there had stuck Westlife's Love Album on the cd player and was letting it run through. By the time they started murdering Easy I was in despair:

Me: Oh, god, next stop, the seventh circle - I swear, this is hell's elevator music!
Dad: *giggles, covers face with hands*
Me: What?
Dad: No, just I had this thought about 'going down with Westlife' but no-one needs that.
Me: For the love of god, mental floss! Or the number of Richard Hammond's brain surgeon!
Dad: Why, have you developed a sudden liking for celery?

This then put me in mind that I hadn't told dad about the bloody hilarious Four Horsemen Drivers of the Apocalypse comment fic that turned up on rionaleonhart's journal. Dad was impressed, but he had his own take on it...

Dad: Actually, I can see James May in a little hippie Beetle - you know, with big flowers painted on it - smiling and waving at people as he goes past and Clarkson on the phone going, 'You haven't quite got the hang of this Grim Reaper thing, have you, May?'

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Like you couldn't tell, I've not had much more than an hour's sleep since Wednesday, and I'm now at the seeing through time stage...

Because if the heat's getting to you as badly as it's getting to me (I'm a silly, I got dehydrated), you will need cheering up. Animation is shit, but who cares!

Today, we went for a drive in the 30° heat... blasting Christmas songs on the car stereo.

I love my family.

One thing I learned pretty quickly doing media, is that the way you edit something can change the whole feel of it. Slowing shots down, or speeding them up. Change an angle. Even something as simple as changing the music over a piece of film can change the whole mood of it. I found these trailers online a while ago (promotion pieces for an editing studio) that exemplified that - making the Shining into a romantic comedy, that sort of thing. And tonight, I found this. Genius, sheer hillarious genius!

Oh and you can find the original trailers that wowed me so much here. The one for West Side Story is the mad kind of brilliance.

This is extensively cool. Got a site you really hate? Nuke it, have meteors hit it, have a cow shit on it, or cover it in pretty flowers, to name but a few. I just spent the last few minutes having god almighty himself smite godhatesfags.com - very satisfying ;)

(Link via Jawbone Radio)

Hahaha! GMTV just did a tiny behind-the-scenes on Ant and Dec's movie (I missed most of it because I was out of the room and had the sound off, so had no idea what I was looking at when I returned ). OMG... madscot, when you said Ant was in glasses, I did not realise the true magnitude of geekdom entailed in this - bad shirt, hair plastered to expansive forehead and the NHS specs... and Dec! Gordon Bennett! Ginger hair and a bum bag! It took me a minute to grasp the full glory of the hair because I was laughing at the bum bag so hard I teared up...

The movie had better be funny... ;) It's not out 'til next year, omg...

First up, the writings of a very funny person who says what most of us think while surfing Chick.com. Sure, mocking the deranged ramblings of Jack Chick is like shooting fish in a barrel, but at least in these hands, it's a very funny barrel. Check his tags for a few more! If those tickled your funnybone, there's more here, by a different, but equally funny person :) (jamaisneutral, he's done the biz on your favourite one! ;))

If mocking the fundies is not your cup of warm beverage, may I suggest this? It's a cutup of an old sex-ed film and a home plumbing tutorial video (and a few other things). I had to clamp my hands over my mouth so I wouldn't wake mum and dad with my laughter!

I found it here, the website of an exhibition of artworks that have, for one reason or another, fallen foul of copyright laws and pissed off huge corporations.

I especially reccomend all the art in the visual art section and the film short State of the Union, which combines the two most horrifying things visited on television screens in the last few years - George W. and the Tellytubbies.

Finally, the cure for all life's woes, now in handy quicktime format!