I'm special

Managed to slam forefinger and thumb in patio door last night. Owwwwww. results: blood blister on finger and thumb I can't put pressure on directly.

In other news, Kings is busy killing me dead with awesome. Why hello, David. Yes, you spending the entire ep dirty and briuised is not at all a turn-on compared with your usual pristine. And feel free to start having an idea of your power and the confidence to use it without thinking.

Rose? Please keep being ruthless. Jack? ...I didn't think it was possible for someone to cry that much but still have me wanting to pat them on the head and say 'go forth and keep being you, darling.' Also, show : WHEN DO WE GET JACK/DAVID SNOGGAGE, DAMMIT?

popular newfangled music

anyone got The Saturdays' album? is it good enough to buy the entire album or is it like unto several other albums where the singles are good but everything else is distinctly average? (looking at you, Lady Gaga and Alphabeat) I feel I've been spoiled by musicals where all the songs have to stand up to scrutiny rather'n being shoved in as filler, bought unseen. Asked if anyone had heard the album.
Tom : 'Is that the fit birds?'
'Yes, Tom, it's the fit birds.'
' Can't stand their music.'

out of curiosity, I tracked down Journey on youtube due to the sheer amount of pop culture refs I've been hearing recently and having no bloody idea who they were.

I was happier not knowing. Status Quo soft rock, anyone? Turns out I know the chorus of one of their songs, which sounds almost like it should be adorning an 80s coke advert.

Save me from diet bores

:eyeroll: save me from crash dieters who don't believe that your body weight and shape changes as you get older. And when you try to point out that it does and there's probably a reason why you can't shift those inches, you're told you're not being sympathetic. Never mind that she's been pretty consistently an 8-10 for a year since she left uni.

'I'm not snacking, I'm exercising, I'm eating salad and soup and it's still not going!' (she's now going on the Atkins. Suggesting that she might as well do any diet that is less calories than your supposed to be intake was shot down and wailed at. As was my suggestion that if she's really that desperate, she should go on the drink and piss diet.)

Seriously. It's so bloody boring when they start calorie-obsessing. I'm constantly told to shut up when I point out that I don't calorie count and eat what the hell I want because this is clearly being smug, rubbing it in and not helping. Even when I point out why I can do this : there's this magical thing called exercise. My route home involves approx 4 miles of walking that I have no choice about. (They also say that I have a great figure with no problems, even when I point out that I'm a 12 and they're 10s. And yes, I'd like my stomach podge and some of my thighs and arse to go. It'll go gradually if I increase the jogging and didn't eat chocolate. Which I'm realistic in accepting is not likely to happen anytime in the near future.)

And before you ask, yes, these are the kind of people who'll debate the merits of diet coke vs. coke zero because coke zero has half a calorie less... and then go eat crisps or cake-type snacks. And ice cream. And yes, miss Atkins appears to forget that she has been eating crisps and ice cream this past week. Suspect pointing this out would elicit screaming, though.

You may have heard this rant before.