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[personal profile] andrewducker 2012-07-31 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
OMG! Graham Linehan just followed me on Twitter!!!!

I tweeted this link yesterday: http://likethebookshop.tumblr.com/post/28164604850/oh-my-god-i-just-witnessed-the-single-greatest-moment
and it got about 2,000 clicks. Which is high for me, but happens once every couple of months.

And then Graham Linehan retweeted it. And Chris Addison seems to have picked it up from him. Which means that it's had an additional 31,000 clicks in the
last three hours.

I feel all special. Now, I just wish I'd _written_ something that viral.

Lessons learned: use all caps when linking to things. It makes people click them (ok, not really. It works for the various HULK tweeters, but I can't see it working for me.)
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[personal profile] simont 2012-07-31 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.

This is more or less a real-life reenactment of that bit from Life, the Universe and Everything, isn't it?

"You want to step outside?" he [Arthur] snarled at Thor.

"All right!" bellowed Thor, like an enraged bull (or in fact like an enraged Thunder God, which is a great deal more impressive), and did so.

"Good," said Arthur, "that's got rid of him. Slarty, get us out of here."

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2012-07-31 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
The Tesco thing horrifies and infuriates me. Who the hell do they employ to do their website this badly?

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2012-07-31 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing is with rape story lines is that they have their place and are probably needed if they make sense in the world the author has created.

Given the brutality of the world that Game Of Thrones is set in, and the way women are regarded in that world, it would be bizarre if rape wasn't brought up.

That said if you suddenly inserted a rape into The Hunger Games (a society that is fucked up in many ways, but does seem to have a certain equality for women and absence of rape culture) then it would be gratuitous and jarring.

Bilbo Baggins and the Never Ending Trilogy to Wring Them All

[identity profile] snarlish.livejournal.com 2012-07-31 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't too happy when it was announced the Hobbit film was in two parts.

It isn't too difficult to put all the elements of the book onscreen in under 2 hours. possibly three hours if you are setting up the big war a bit more and showing more of the battle than what's described in the book.

Adding a third part just takes the cake. Sure, it'll be visually pleasing, but this really smacks of squeezing every last penny out of the fans rather than giving us a good film.
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