things you have noticed.

empty mirror

remember the jackalope
Troubling to read about the cat/fox brawl, as we've just moved to a fox-heavy neighborhood. Neighbors assured me that their cats haven't been killed by the foxes, as evidenced by their (cats) presence (there). When I first heard the foxes howling, I'd assumed that they were teenagers carrying on in the basketball courts or creek, as they are wont to do; it was 3AM-ish, judging by the angle of the shaft of moonlight across the floor. So far, I've seen one fox with a squirrel (either screaming silently or mute, on account of being dead) in its (the fox's) mouth. Another fox had an empty mouth, but it was older and wizened.

Unrelated, but I saw a skunk a couple blocks away, scurrying. Or skulking. Hard to tell as I was driving by at a moderate pace (in miles per hour[I am in the USA]).
 

you

Well-known member
'caveat' everyones using it in conversation nowadays, its the 2010 equivalent of 'juxtaposition'
 

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
I remember hearing John Peel doing an impression of a screaming fox on the radio (ie Peel was on the radio, he wasn't pretending to be a fox that had gotten into Broadcsting House or something)
 

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
I've noticed that my life is slipping into a state of ennui which involves slumping on the sofa watching programmes about houses and illnesses, but I don't know if this is a conscious desire to slowly destroy myself, an unavoidable condition dictated by parental example, or increasing laziness through lack off enthusiasm...for anything...
 

slowtrain

Well-known member
I've noticed that my life is slipping into a state of ennui which involves slumping on the sofa watching programmes about houses and illnesses, but I don't know if this is a conscious desire to slowly destroy myself, an unavoidable condition dictated by parental example, or increasing laziness through lack off enthusiasm...for anything...

This is the main state of my life... I love it! Hahahah
 

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
I've noticed that my life is slipping into a state of ennui which involves slumping on the sofa watching programmes about houses and illnesses, but I don't know if this is a conscious desire to slowly destroy myself, an unavoidable condition dictated by parental example, or increasing laziness through lack off enthusiasm...for anything...

That sounds like clinical depression
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've noticed over the last year that my urge to kill myself is strongest whenever I see adverts on TV. It can be any type of advert - a sepia tinged advert for mobile phones where everybody holds hands around a candle on a beach, a WKD advert that finds the lighter side of date-rape etc.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I've noticed over the last year that my urge to kill myself is strongest whenever I see adverts on TV. It can be any type of advert - a sepia tinged advert for mobile phones where everybody holds hands around a candle on a beach, a WKD advert that finds the lighter side of date-rape etc.

Reminds me of this big study I heard about that found that the more "brand-aware" kids are, the more likely they are to be depressed/anxious/insecure. Makes sense, I suppose, because all advertising works on the basis of convincing you that there's something missing from your life or something you could be doing better.

The hokey-folky holding-hands-and-laughing-together kinds of advert you allude to are definitely the worst. Your standard retarded buy-our-product-and-hot-chicks-will-want-to-fuck-you schtick is almost refreshingly honest by comparison (even though it's clearly untrue, if you see what I mean).
 
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slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
I can't stand adverts...but used to enjoy the Guiness epics (yeah, that Leftfield tune)...hate the ones involving puppet-people...or bankers singing!...and the 'push a little button' thing on the Beeb sets off a Pavlovian response of absolute horror....as does the Go Compare song...AAAAAGH!
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Haha, I actually quite like the Go Compare ones, they're just *so* stupid - it's like they've tried to out-do the Slavic meerkat for sheer ridiculousness. We Buy Any Car is horrible, though - it's that awful 'song', ugh.
 
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4linehaiku

Repetitive
Just get rid of your TV. You'll just waste your time in other ways of course (or at least I do), but it'll still be better the watching TV. Especially the ads.
 

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Possibly sound advice...but my working class roots won't allow for such drastic action...and...no offence intended but...I don't trust people whose homes have no Idiot Box...;)
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I have a TV (or rather, there is one in the house I live in) - hardly watch it, there's a few good things now and then, though I can see why some people don't bother having one at all.

But people who make a big deal out of not having a TV, like it makes them a better person or something, can piss right off.
 

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Still, here's the good news...Mad Men is back soon...which I'll watch on the computer...
...hesitate to turn this into a TV thread but must mention that I'm re-watching The Singing Detective...now that was TV drama as it should be...
 

luka

Well-known member
you have to have tv to watch sport on. i havent watched anything but sport for the last 10 years, more really. if you dont watch tv much its good when you do becasue it seems creepy and dystopian and jarring and weird.
 

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
I quite like the Go Compare and We Buy Any Car adverts cos they're just so daft, unpretentious, don't take themselves seriously etc. The cutesy twee ones make me want to put my boot through the TV and send the makers of Amelie the bill
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Dunno where exactly to put this but it seems strange to me that a normal little newsagent on Dalston Lane has shut down and re-opened as.... a boutique hotel.

http://avohotel.com/

Not something I would have predicted.
 

sufi

lala
someone reading this on tube - looks super, but not translated to inglish as far as i can see...?:(
google translate said:
In London carousel thousand tongues, a thousand races and English is no more
Dario Olivero, the Republic, 16/03/2011

Card of the book: Babylon London, Enrico Franceschini

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""My newspaper is Pakistani, my dry cleaning is Persian, my family is Italian doctor, the dentist is Brazilian, the veterinarian is in Spanish, is Polish painter, the electrician Serbian, Indian grocery, the mechanism of ' car is Bulgarian, Latvian, the maid, the porter of South Africa, the valet of Lebanon, the guardian of my child's school is Israeli, the clerk of the bank of Bangladesh has always smiles at me, the bartender that makes me a cappuccino is Hungarian, My barber is a French made the hire of DVD is turkish, the computer engineer is Russian and my taxi driver is confident of Sri Lanka. I stop, but I could go on for a while: I live in London for over seven years and sometimes I wonder where are the British. 8 million people, 3 million foreigners, 130 000 Italians, 300 languages, 183 synagogues, 130 mosques, 13,000 restaurants, 6,000 pubs, 600 cinemas, 400 theaters, 300 nightclubs, casinos 150, 18 000 taxis, 275 metro stations, 649 bus lines, 8 stations, five airports, five football teams in the Premier League, all the religions of the earth, the queen, a number of principles, a lot of money ": a brilliant story and fun to learn everything else there is in the British capital, which the tourists never see, and understand how it is possible that a different humanity London living with 10 thousand foxes scattered throughout the city. 'and so on for pages and pages. It is the best introduction to London Babylon, book, travel guide, divertissement and act of love for the British capital by Enrico Franceschini that there is a correspondent of this newspaper.

The world city, unlike New York, does not ask those who choose to change, but agrees with the same calm people and customs of every race and color. The city where the language is growing every day new words and that is no longer English, but the language of the same jumble of accents, cadences, dialects and proverbs global Inglese not, please, But globish u'know. The city where you always know what to do but did not get enough.

The metropolis with skyscrapers, but especially with the low roofs. The city of excess, the great carnival and the confidentiality and composure. The city that after centuries of porridge and fish and chips and that it had an expression to say "bon appetit" and has become the world capital of cuisine, every kind of cuisine. London calling to the faraway towns, despite the Clash sang everything.
 
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