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I’m not sure why I never really noticed this before (I haven’t been the the UK in a while tho. That may be it), but the brits are really polite. Almost annoyingly so. They’re very fond of Please and thank yous.
For example if you’re in a store they will ask for (example) 10 pounds please. Thank you. When you hand them money they say thank you a second time, and then again when they give you change. It’s disconcerting.

But also when they’re giving you bad news they’re so sincere. In the states you might hear some canned response like “Thank you for choosing Wal-Mart” or some such shit…and you know it’s just fakery and they don’t mean it, but in england it doesn’t matter what they’re saying – I just want to believe them cuz they’re saying it so nicely.
“I’m sorry, but we had to put your children down because they were a nuisance”. I’m so sorry. Thank you
Or
“I’m sorry, but I’m not going to have sex with you”.

Just two random examples, but ya gotta love the brits

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Off to London tomorrow…since I mentioned death plans and I don’t expect that I can dodge the terrorist bullets very well…Just in case I die my preferred funeral (root word is “fun”) would be everyone feeding me to piranha and then feeding the piranha to alligators. Someone needs to bring booze and someone needs to say something nice That’s about it…Matt can divy up my stuff….

This is a legally binding will right?

If the logistics or law gets in the way of feeding piranha with people then just cremate me and give a bit to everyone who shows up…Then each person can scatter me as you will.
That is all…

Random out of context quote of the day:
Andreas: There’s something fundamentally wrong with America…

Amen brother…

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This made me giggle…

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Jonnie Fox is closing for 2 months…no more healthy food for a couple months. I’m sort of sad…

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Random road trip and weekend to Bologna.

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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_madmaxtown/

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Since I have today off I wasn’t really motivated to do anything and just threw on a movie. It was Amélie…which if you haven’t seen is a french movie from 2001 or so. I absolutely love it!!!
I’m not sure why, but that movie really hits me every time. In fact I’m a big fan of French film. Apart from about 3 seconds of “Inside” which just sort of bugged me out…

More observations on foreign films….
It’s really hard to multi task when you have to read words on the screen.
and
It’s really hard to nap when you have to read words on the screen.

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I guess it’s larson’s birthday today…Here’s a classic.

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This question occurred to me the other night and it reminded me of way back in school days (a waaay fuzzy memory) when I used to love starting a story with one sentence and then passing it to friends who would also write one sentence and pass it on.
I don’t know where I got the idea (I always find out later that it was never really my idea – I probably overheard it/them somewhere else), but I always seemed to enjoy it more than my friends. We’d sometimes have several going at once so that I didn’t have to wait more than 2 minutes to get something passed to me

Anyways it’s best to do this with just a few friends because at some point someone had the bright idea to pass it to every single person in the class (whether they knew how it was supposed to work or not)…Somehow that one ended up in the teachers hands (and even worse it had morphed into a story about the teacher – haha).

One time I tried this and one guy I didn’t know basically took the 4 sentences that had been written so far and proceeded to write about 10,000 words on his own. This irritated me

Anyways so I had a brilliant idea for my novel (yes, a midget is the main character and yes in the final scene he is shot out of a cannon – to his death btw) and at the same time realized everything is crowd sourced these days (didn’t that guy from weezer do a whole album this way?)…but has anyone used google docs or something to say write a beginning, middle and end to a story (or more like plot points really), and then turned it loose onto the net with some mechanism to allow the owner to edit it, but not allow any one person to write more than a few sentences/paragraphs/pages at a time?

As usual I thought of this on my own, but I’m sure I’m not the first person to think of it…

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