Have a morning blog post of things that have recently amused me

[andrewducker]

It seems that the USA is quite sensitive:


I particularly liked the mouseover on this:


This was _not_ my first date with meaningrequired. Honest.


A rant about Pachelbel that I've probably posted before, but remains very funny:

Which led me to a video where the pianist from The Axis Of Awesome is asked to play Knights of Cydonia while selling tickets in the street, and does a fantastic job:

And finally, have some Star Wars burlesque (unless you're in work, of course. Unless you work for somewhere a lot more understanding than I do!)

Comments

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

Aye :)

I should, of course, included the all important exception of American's who /travel/, who are an entirely different breed.


this I am very much aware of, having a few deeply beloved American friends. All of whom, not coincidentally, wanted to escape the closed American mentality I alluded to in my previous comment.

Having lived my entire life in or near Edinburgh, I can confirm that I have absolutely no concept of the scale of America, or for that matter Europe. I'm flying to Moscow this month, though, which will no doubt be a vastly enlightening experience.
perhaps ironically, I am of Dutch decent - a nation, I only recently realised, smaller than my own.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

*laugh* If it wasn't implied clearly enough, I'm something of a map freak. When I was making my plans for the Dutch Worldcon, I remember the shock of realizing that the Netherlands was maybe six times the size of the Chicago metropolitan area. The best single decision I made in planning my trip through the Netherlands was renting a bike to bicycle from Amsterdam to the Hague. Actually, in my original plan, I added a dogleg to make it longer so it would take two days.
One day in Amsterdam, I had nothing much to do, so I phoned a friend in Utrecht, and asked if she were free for lunch. She was boggled at the thought of riding the train for forty-five minutes! just to have lunch and turn around . . .

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

As a career cyclist, I would *love* to take a bike tour of the Netherlands.

it's actually something I need to plan now, possibly for next summer.

yeah, since Scotland and Netherlands are both very contained countries [not discounting that the Highlands are relatively remote], travel that seems very common to you would be somewhat rarer.
My partner took me for a road trip to Newcastle recently, and I was *stunned* how close it is. Basically one road. And it took her a while to convince me it was doable.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's pretty awesome that you can get to Newcastle or Penrith in 90 minutes by train.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

indeed.

kinda funny, I've been a colossal travel-phobe for pretty much my whole life. I hit Glasgow a few times over summer, went to Newcastle last month, and am going to Moscow on the 26th.

the strange things love can do to you.