oooooo

2/3 of the way through the new Battlestar Galactica thanks to mingmerciless (I'm sorry, Ming, but I've already slashed a couple of the characters), and I say again, oooooo. :cough: but I'm having problems with the scientist guy, because I last saw him as the gay best friend on Bridget Jones' Diary. Keep expecting him to start staring at all the military guy's arses. Not that he's not doing that anyway. :g: Though also having problems with Jamie Bamber with non-Geordie accent, as I've never seen him in anything else except Billy Elliot, never having watched Hornblower or Peak Practice.

After driving lesson, I have to start sorting stuff for ebay and cutting out at least one of the patterns for costume. And stop eating chocolate covered coffee beans, which may be contributing to my mood.

bloody bunnies

I keep getting attacked by bunnies. Time travelling bunnies that want me to put a girl from nowadays into the Roman Empire, in Rome. Except the locals keep running a commentary....

'Ere, you know the new girl? She's not local.'
'Yeah. Looks are all wrong. Sort of half-celt, half-(whatever they call the area the saxons and angles came from in Roman times). All barbarian, anyway. She's bloody tall. Broad shoulders, too. Some sort of amazon, I'd say.'
'Seen her skin? And her teeth're too good to be true. They're white. Straight. None missing.'
'Too fucking clean, is what I say. And far too educated for a barbarian.'
'Sounds like a philosopher. Still a complete barbarian.'

Something they never think about, in those kind of novels. We'd stand out a mile because of our height (yes, even the short ones of our time would be at least medium height), build (ever tried to sit in a medieval chair? My hips are too broad to do that, and that's if you stripped me down to skeleton alone). Our skin's too good, and our teeth certainly are. And that's before we open our mouths... Ever considered the sheer amount of theoretical maths and physics and biology the average schoolchild absorbs? Compared to what the average person a few centuries ago knew, we're advanced scientists. Not to mention the actual looks. Most English folk have such mixed blood that we look very little like the original settlers of Britain, at least not how they looked back in Roman times.

....There are no words.

Me dad just forwarded me this pic of a pikey. There really are no words for the horrificness of this pic. I'm serious. Avert your eyes now.

( I'm Serious. Really. )

For those of you outside the UK who have no idea what the word 'pikey' means, it's... um... sort of slang for gypsy. With extra connotations of wastrel thieving layabout with no taste. Difficult to explain, yet easy to categorise and throw scorn upon. Mostly wears sportswear, garish labels, trainers and the female is often to be seen with way too much jewellery and a scraped back ponytail, no need for facelift as skin stretched so tight anyway... Also see scally, charva, townie and many other derogatory words that essentially mean the same thing...