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andrewducker) wrote2012-04-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2012
- Why the Super Mario Movie Sucked
- Only 22% of British people are horrifically racist, 25% just a bit racist when it comes to definition of "English"
- Why is there a dead bird on Tonto's head? Johnny Depp explains
- Details on the proposed House Of Lords changes
- My nightmare about falling, is pretty much like the 4th image here.
- The cast of Mad Men go bowling. Featuring Wierd Al. Yes. Really.
- What publishers do for authors
- Customer Reviews: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel (Made me giggle)
- Game of Thrones: How HBO and Showtime make money despite low ratings.
- John Slattery on playing Roger Sterling in the latest episode of Mad Men (S05E06)
- First Asteroid Mining Company launched. Has a few billion behind it.
- Facebookâs new moneymaking scheme - hide your posts and then charge you to make them visible again.
- The woman who edited Nuts magazine
- When I see emails like this, I get a massive rush of anticipatory schadenfreude.
Game of Thrones
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In fact, apparently they sucked just the right amount: more than enough that no-one actually LIKED them, but not quite enough they got a cult following who liked them "ironically" for being the worst movie ever made. Or at any rate, I don't know if that's true, but I'd literally forgotten anyone even tried to make a mario movie :)
Which is a shame, because I agree it was PROBABLY going to be a disaster, but a Mario that had the cheery-but-scary vibe of the game could be quite a good story if someone with a clear creative vision got to make it up.
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And it seems a bit strong to say that identifying nationality with ethnicity is necessarily racist. I mean, even Sunny Hundal doesn't do this in the article, and he's usually 100% politically correct loon. It's not the definition I use*, but I wouldn't think ill of anyone who did.
* For what it's worth, I'd say someone who was born and brought up in England and whose four grandparents and two parents were all born and brought up in England, regardless of skin colour, could justifiably claim to be English. Someone who doesn't meet one or more of those criteria would be rather less English. My parents and grandparents were all born and brought up in England but I was born and brought up in Wales. I certainly consider myself less English than I would do if I was born and brought up in England, and less Welsh than if my parents and grandparents were born and brought up in Wales.
I'd also say that someone is also less English if they claim some other nationality and / or support another nation's sports team.
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It's exactly as you'd expect.
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