So my dad came to pick up about 90% of my room to take back to my mum's house, now my room is all echoey and quite frankly the dirt really shows... who knew that skirting boards were supposed to be white?? and that the floor is supposed to be blue not bluey grey/brown (pretty sure that's my hair and dust if it's anything like the hall).
I'd you know clean but dad filled me up with Chinese and i can barely move :P annoyingly because i've sent my tv home i have to sit all day at my PC on the plus side ive pushed my bed against it so i lierally lie like jabba the hutt which due to the fact ive just put my clothes in the washing machine is almost factually true as an image...almost i'm not actually a huge fat space slug i just feel like one: a lot of chinese seriously...
So i move the rest of the stuff out on monday which hopefully won't take long till then im just killing time today tomorrow i'll write 1000 words cos i wont feel like a space slug :P
Saturday 10 July 2010
The trouble with Doctors....a rant
I'm having my gall bladder removed and I thought I'd share some issues I've had with healthcare professionals in my travels.
My GP misdiagnosed me, as did the 3 at the same practice who kept giving me the same acid reflux drugs, it took me saying I dont want to take them any more to make my condition flare up (acid reflux drugs do work on gallstones as they minimise acid) and get bad enough to be admitted.
When I was admitted to hospital the nurse who came into the GP's office to check on me while I waited for a taxi (yes a taxi, I was nearly passing out and they gave me a taxi which had to wait at red lights) asked me if i had 'belly ache' patted me on the head and told me i was sweaty, now I've been told gallstone pain is like giving birth so this is not what I wanted.
Today the Dr shoved me from department to department and literally saw me for 5 mins leaving the nurses to do all the real work.
My STI test nurse was bad as well asking me if the speculum hurt when i said yes she asked me if it hurt during sex - thats just not the same situ sex and a Dr's office totally different and then told me to relax.. oh yes relaxing in a pair of stirrups.
What is more shocking that I went to change my pill as i still get cramps etc, the Dr I saw who was a quite young woman told me that my PMS was all in my head, like taking hormones doesnt do stuff to you via build up etc.
TBH I get much more issue with lady docs than man docs, and young doc more than old ones, I actually ask for male docs now and old ones are very unthreatening.
Saturday 3 April 2010
Dr Who and Over The Rainbow
After a good ten min's of gently wiggling the TV aerial as the signal is constantly changing due to the scaffolding outside, and the fact I'd had no TV for 2 weeks, I went to the loo with mutterings of 'that TV's going the right way for a boot in the face', came back and violently moved the cable under the bed (10 meter cable fail) and finally got some signal. The only way to react to such a situation is to whoop and clap in rather a camp fashion and hope your housemates don't notice.
Point being I was able to enjoy the greatness of Easter season TV , which was Dr Who and Over the Rainbow. Here obviously be spoilers!
Dr Who - oh there were predictable moments, the little girl being the older 'policewoman' (that was a nice twist thou "kissogram" lol can the BBC not handle strippers?), the wedding night also predictable, and Sofie from Peep Show popping up again. However what was awesome was the new credits, loving them! I am quite liking the new Dr. thou obviously due to the plot he was unable to develop properly in the mere hour ( please BBC can we have a loo break next time, or a shorter ep, I don't want to nearly soil myself). Bow ties are in my mind the mark of the oddball, the murderer and the pedo: not a fan. The new tardis is ok a bit steam punk but with too much color thrown on. Also loved the mini Coupling reference (Steven Moffat wrote the ep and he wrote Coupling fact fans), with a character called 'Jeff' looking at porn on his laptop "oh Jeff get a girlfriend" lol hilarious, he should have said "oh Jeffery" really.
Over the Rainbow - I hardly ever watch stuff like this, mainly because having near perfect pitch and listening to people like Stacy Solomon hurts my ears. Only two contestants stood out as bad, Emilie, who was probably having a bad night but seriously reduced me to a ball and Amy who lovely voice shame she looks like a porn star. Several stood out as good in particular Danielle and Jessica. I missed the first two episodes and was shocked that the gigantic Claire had gotten through as far as she did, she looked like Bridget Nielsen. Also BBC fire whoever did the makeup this time, it was grim, too much blusher (you're on TV not stage) and generally everyone looked awful and OTT, even for musical theatre. I also can't wait for the judges gloves to come off, the Lord was much harsher with the Nancies, and don't think we haven't noticed his love of girls who lets face it look a bit like his ex-wife.
Bring on tomorrow's result show I say!
Point being I was able to enjoy the greatness of Easter season TV , which was Dr Who and Over the Rainbow. Here obviously be spoilers!
Dr Who - oh there were predictable moments, the little girl being the older 'policewoman' (that was a nice twist thou "kissogram" lol can the BBC not handle strippers?), the wedding night also predictable, and Sofie from Peep Show popping up again. However what was awesome was the new credits, loving them! I am quite liking the new Dr. thou obviously due to the plot he was unable to develop properly in the mere hour ( please BBC can we have a loo break next time, or a shorter ep, I don't want to nearly soil myself). Bow ties are in my mind the mark of the oddball, the murderer and the pedo: not a fan. The new tardis is ok a bit steam punk but with too much color thrown on. Also loved the mini Coupling reference (Steven Moffat wrote the ep and he wrote Coupling fact fans), with a character called 'Jeff' looking at porn on his laptop "oh Jeff get a girlfriend" lol hilarious, he should have said "oh Jeffery" really.
Over the Rainbow - I hardly ever watch stuff like this, mainly because having near perfect pitch and listening to people like Stacy Solomon hurts my ears. Only two contestants stood out as bad, Emilie, who was probably having a bad night but seriously reduced me to a ball and Amy who lovely voice shame she looks like a porn star. Several stood out as good in particular Danielle and Jessica. I missed the first two episodes and was shocked that the gigantic Claire had gotten through as far as she did, she looked like Bridget Nielsen. Also BBC fire whoever did the makeup this time, it was grim, too much blusher (you're on TV not stage) and generally everyone looked awful and OTT, even for musical theatre. I also can't wait for the judges gloves to come off, the Lord was much harsher with the Nancies, and don't think we haven't noticed his love of girls who lets face it look a bit like his ex-wife.
Bring on tomorrow's result show I say!
Monday 29 March 2010
Mean Girls and Gender Annoyances.
I love Mean Girls (2004) it's a film I cannot stop watching, I love my female friends but I have just this to say...
Why is it implied that all women MUST or at least SHOULD get along? I don't see films where men are thrown together near the end and forced to like each other. Just because you have a uterus doesn't mean we have to get along. There are lots of people who will just never get along a shared gender is not enough common ground sadly.
It is also an issue that there is ALOT of sexism towards men floating about in recent years who recalls CBB 09? There was a classic line by Tina Malone 'no man tells me what to do' - so if a woman pointed out your flaws and asked you something you'd do it? what does being a man have to do with it. I also cannot believe Ulrika Jonsson won after what Latoya correctly pointed out her 'dancing eyes', that is her sly looks of contempt, rolling eyes and generally being passive aggressive. Quite frankly at least Coolio was straight and forthright with his opinions.
This sexism towards men extends to adverts; a recent Pizza Hut ad, where a mother patronisingly remarks on her son being able to do laundry, in my (admittedly limited) experience men have no problem doing laundry whatsoever. If it was the other way around, with a woman being mocked for doing something, there would be hell up!
Finally not all women are nice:
http://listverse.com/2007/09/09/top-10-most-evil-women/
They miss out Maggie Thatcher lol, and I'm sure you can think of many women you quite frankly NEVER want to see, talk to or hear about again.
Oooh controversial.
Why is it implied that all women MUST or at least SHOULD get along? I don't see films where men are thrown together near the end and forced to like each other. Just because you have a uterus doesn't mean we have to get along. There are lots of people who will just never get along a shared gender is not enough common ground sadly.
It is also an issue that there is ALOT of sexism towards men floating about in recent years who recalls CBB 09? There was a classic line by Tina Malone 'no man tells me what to do' - so if a woman pointed out your flaws and asked you something you'd do it? what does being a man have to do with it. I also cannot believe Ulrika Jonsson won after what Latoya correctly pointed out her 'dancing eyes', that is her sly looks of contempt, rolling eyes and generally being passive aggressive. Quite frankly at least Coolio was straight and forthright with his opinions.
This sexism towards men extends to adverts; a recent Pizza Hut ad, where a mother patronisingly remarks on her son being able to do laundry, in my (admittedly limited) experience men have no problem doing laundry whatsoever. If it was the other way around, with a woman being mocked for doing something, there would be hell up!
Finally not all women are nice:
http://listverse.com/2007/09/09/top-10-most-evil-women/
They miss out Maggie Thatcher lol, and I'm sure you can think of many women you quite frankly NEVER want to see, talk to or hear about again.
Oooh controversial.
Well, first attempt at posting, mainly so my facebook friends can choose to ignore my insane ramblings, and so one day when I have time I will be able to turn these lil posts and reviews into videos for my youtube account.
So, I've been ill and working on a MRes in 'Dwarfs in Cinema', therefore being unable to do much except watch and write notes as opposed to writing notes on books, I buckled down and watched the living horror that is.... Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) . Now I get pissed off with the gender roles that dictate advertising (my TV is down atm I'm so happy to not have 'you must marry and pop out babies' thrown at me every ad break), I'm telling you this so I don't get eaten by rabid Disney fans.
It was 1937 a mere 2 years later war, and the icon that is Scarlett O Hara would appear (she wouldn't have taken no crap from her step mum). It is my theory that Snow White is offensive to damned near every group you can find. Sexism - Oh dear well Snow White is a mook, crying and running away from peril one minute, the next she's singing and tidying the house. The giggle is the one part I find really offensive, oh he he he yes 'Doc' is clearly 'a funny name' Snow White, who the hell when called Snow White has the right to judge someone's name? She also behaves like well... a princess lets not lie, barging into a house and cleaning it (do you remember Penny from TBBT's reaction? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3qFhfsRmY ) and bringing an entire menagerie in to help her. Plus why does SW get a new dress before she is almost killed, its not like the Queen is planning to bury her and have a state funeral. The Queen who is clearly fairer than SW ends up throwing logic to the wind and instead of marrying her off to another land say, destroys her own beauty.
Various Races - well everyone's very Caucasian in fairyland at this time (yes i know it was 1937 but still), there are some slurs thrown in as the final insult. Dopey in the yodeling song scene wears a cymbal as a hat and makes stereotypically 'Asian' gestures. The water fountain looks well sorta like a bad black stereotype. And finally the Huntsman ( http://images2.fanpop.com/images/quiz/198000/198394_1240757456442_300_240.jpg ) who looks like a Jewish stereotype as does the transformed queen, and oh look they are trying to kill the nice SW.
Animals - Oh a bit of a stretch I know, but seriously, using wild animals as our domestic slaves in order to further SW's quest to be house proud hausfrau. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't wanna eat a pie prepared by a bird.... OK so I would love a trained squirrel to do my bidding but hey, I blame Foamy on that one ;p .
Dwarfs and Developmentally Disabled - Dopey is lets face it an embarrassing character to watch nowadays, with his 'physical' humor ergh its just to offensive for words. The Dwarfs are never referred to as such only as 'Little Men' ironic because of their terrible portrayal, totally sexless, unknowing of women, elderly and yet also treated like children. This patronising of them like children is clear when SW gets them to wash up.
It finally is clear that there is a huge gay subtext in the Prince (it has also been argued in the Dwarfs) he wants SW as a beard clearly lol (a wife so people won't think he's gay for those not in the know). He's wearing lipstick, his outfit is slightly over embellished, OK I have very little Gaydar, but mine's twitching on that Prince.
Anyway those are my two cents on Snow White, you don't have to like it, but then again you don't haveta read it.
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