This song makes me want to buy My Best Friend Is A Vampire ...

[apocalypsos]

Ugandan official: Virgins to get free college -- Aw, maaaaan. Why can't we do that here? Jesus, you want teenagers to stay celibate, that would work. (Not that we should seriously do it, but then again, some of us would really appreciate the freebie.)

What happened to the original 'Charlie Bucket'?

Battle over Supreme Court nominee may center on abortion -- Gee, you think?

Want your LJ zapped into space? -- "We strongly urge our users to refrain from language or content designed to provoke our alien neighbors," Murphy said. Like what? "Independence Day sucked!"?

The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed. -- Oh, for fuck's sake. *headdesk*

German police let a nearly naked shopper go home after she told them she was getting groceries in the nude because she lost a spin the bottle contest, a police spokesman in Cologne said Wednesday. -- *snerk*

And now is the time on Sprockets where we link movie trailers --

Grizzly Man -- Pretty bears! Although considering what happened to the guy, you keep waiting for some bear to come out of nowhere and try something.

Underclassman -- This movie is going to suck, but look, Shawn Ashmore! Now I'm morally obligated to go! *whimpers*

Bad News Bears -- On one hand, all remakes need to end. On the other hand, Billy Bob Thornton can play assholes hilariously, the trailer looks funny, Linklater already has shown he can do a great job directing kids in School of Rock, and the line about kissing your sister at the end of the trailer totally didn't make me think of Shannon and Boone. No, sirree. *whistles innocently*

Comments

[vass]

I feel like such a deferred successor.

Wow. He's basing it on gynecological virginity? Like, how tough your hymen is? As my mother always used to tell me, some people break theirs horse-riding!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Of course, anybody could just say they're a virgin for the college money and not really be, but hymens aren't exactly made out of teflon and adamantium. Sheesh.

[vass]

The way TMI: some are. My GP says it could take years of gentle stretching, and that mine's *not* tough enough to warrant surgery. I asked her "So how the fuck do heterosexuals manage?" She didn't know, which is what I get for going to a sympathetic, GLBT clinic.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the exame is mandatory to get the scholarship. I wonder what will happen to the girls who take the exam and "fail" it. Will they be punished in any way? It doesn't say, but at the very least, I imagine that they could be in trouble with their families.

I wonder about the girls who were raped, too. I guess there's no free college for them.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for these reasons I'm not thrilled with the idea. It reminds me of the mandatory gynecological exams I read about in Romania under the Ceaucescu dictatorship.

[divabat.livejournal.com]

I should move to Uganda then. I knew being a virgin was good for something ;)

[hiddenw.livejournal.com]

Once aliens get a whiff of the Harry Potter shipper wars they will surely blast us to kingdom come because of our stupidity. Well done, aliens.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

I see why you're headdesking about the "fail" thing, but there is a valid point in there. We had an exam called the "eleven-plus," at the juncture between primary and secondary schooling, and someone I know was told she had "failed" it. Turned out she hadn't, it was just that the secondary school where the bright kids went had some kind of weird quota system, but even knowing that she still thinks of herself as a "failure" and that belief has influenced her life for the worse.

Only a very few kids would be that sensitive, of course, so we're sledgehammering a frozen pea here, but if it keeps one child from letting her entire life slide because she's "not good enough" then I think it might be worth it.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I was a horrible, Grangeresque kid all through school. The one time I got a C, I was deeeevastated. Close enough to a "U SUK LOL" to count.

Once my teacher gave me a friendly bonk on the head with a rolled-up report card and some encouragement, though, all was good. Never forgetting that damn C, though. Jerkface.

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

There was an article about the grizzly-bear guy in Reader's Digest a few months ago. This movie looks like it wants to make him out to be some kind of hero, but from what I read, it looks like he was just a moron who didn't listen to the professionals when they told him he should leave the bears alone before one of them kills him. Which is exactly what happened.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

That system (the fail thing) doesn't work. We have "U"s here (for unsatisfactory) instead of "F"s -- the students just learn that it's the lowest grade and internalize it as a failure.

Of course, C's and D's can be as bad if you really like doing as well as you can in everything, but even so. If you know what the lowest grade is, it doesn't matter whether someone tells you you've failed, you know you have.

[ljs-lj.livejournal.com]

My Best Friend is a Vampire

OMG I'm not the only person on the planet who's heard of that movie!!!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love that movie! Rene Auberjoinis and Robert Sean Leonard as vampires? *SQUEE* I want that handbook so very, very badly. :)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

!!!

I MUST HAVE IT.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

It's the reason a tiny corner of me is still patiently waiting for someone to to a Vampire AU of House.

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd be able to stand that guy in Grizzley Man for more than 20 minutes. He looks annoying as fuck. No wonder a bear mauled his ass.

[sexybee.livejournal.com]

the line about kissing your sister at the end of the trailer totally didn't make me think of Shannon and Boone. No, sirree.

The tv was on TLC last night (as it usually is) as I was washing dishes, and they were premiering their new series about tattoo artists. This young blonde woman came in and was tearfully consulting about getting a tattoo in honor of her dead brother. I swear to God, I turned around and said, "Shannon?"

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I find it fun that he Ostrum lives in a town with a food-related factory :) But maybe that's just me being weird!