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[apocalypsos]

[Poll #603963]

Speaking of the DVD, here's the cover art, if you haven't seen it already? What, no kitchen sink? And why the hell don't I get to be on there? Everything else in existence is crammed on there.

EDIT: Why did I flip past Trading Spouses? Because they switched a Christian mom with a Wiccan mom and it's a train wreck. The Wiccan family and mom are trying to be nice and the Christians are just acting like assholes. I don't know if producers do this on purpose or whether they just luck out like this, because I know the other mom-swap show did the same thing and got the same result. Except, you know, apparently this Christian mom is going to have the mother of all screaming fits in the second half. I don't know whether I'd want to watch that or not. On one hand, this mother is acting like a snot and I'd love to see her explode, but on the other hand, it's much like watching the Weavers on TAR, in that real Christians shouldn't act like that and I feel sorry for the good ones.

OTHER EDIT: You know that BBC poll with the 50 foods everybody should try in their lifetime? Well, here's the foods -- I bolded the ones I've tried:

1. Fresh fish
2. Lobster -- I cannot live without seafood. I just can't.
3. Steak -- The main reason I can't be a vegetarian ... because I adore steak, especially incredibly rare. Mmm-hmm.
4. Thai food
5. Chinese food
6. Ice cream
7. Pizza
8. Crab
9. Curry
10. Prawns
11. Moreton Bay Bugs
12. Clam chowder
13. Barbecues
14. Pancakes -- *snerk* All of my favorite foods taste like pancakes.
15. Pasta
16. Mussels
17. Cheesecake
18. Lamb
19. Cream tea
20. Alligator
21. Oysters
22. Kangaroo
23. Chocolate
24. Sandwiches
25. Greek food
26. Burgers
27. Mexican food
28. Squid -- Oh, I love me some squid.
29. American diner breakfast
30. Salmon
31. Venison
32. Guinea pig -- Guinea pig?! EW! I used to own a guinea pig ... TWO guinea pigs, for crying out loud. See, that's why I don't own pet fish.
33. Shark
34. Sushi
35. Paella
36. Barramundi
37. Reindeer
38. Kebab
39. Scallops
40. Australian meat pie
41. Mango -- Ick. Tropical fruit sucks.
42. Durian fruit
43. Octopus
44. Ribs
45. Roast beef
46. Tapas
47. Jerk chicken/pork
48. Haggis
49. Caviar
50. Cornish Pastry

Comments

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Not a Whedon fan, never bothered with the movie, and I STILL know all the major spoilers. The Internet's a free-for-all, just have at it already.

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

That hardly even looks like River on the cover. She's too clean and airbrushed...

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that too - she's been cleaned up so much that could have just used another person entirely for the photo!

[maechi.livejournal.com]

I've been spoiled since the screenings, but I still voted for 'after the DVD'. Mainly because Serenity got pulled from the theatres pretty quickly & not everyone who wanted to got a chance to see it. *cough* And it's not that much longer to wait, really.

[ruuger]

I'm voting for after the DVD 'cause it hasn't yet come to the theatres in these parts of the world. I think Germany gets the movie later this months, same as some other European countries, and if the rumours are true, we poor Finns won't be getting it until in December at the earliest.

[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

Every time I go check, it's moved back a week. So now I've stopped looking and will start building stink bombs if it's not here by Dec 2nd as promised.

::suffers::

::considers trip to Sweden::

[ruuger]

What worries me most is that Finnkino doesn't have it listed on their upcoming movies yet. I just hope they're not putting it straight to DVD like they did with Galaxy Quest.

[anonymisty.livejournal.com]

So that's what all the shrieking was about...I saw the commercials and wondered what the deal was. She's a scary chick!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, she was out of her goddamn mind. The Wiccan mom was getting treated like the plague and wasn't making a fuss, but the Christian mom was acting psychotic. And this is even before the next episode, where she's going to go fucking apeshit on her own family. But hey, she IS going to Heaven. *eye roll*

[budclare.livejournal.com]

I voted for "never" because it had an evil laugh. Is that so wrong?

That DVD cover is spawning so much wank... *sighs* It's just not funny anymore. I remember when the wank was funny. Maybe it stopped being funny when my fandom became one of the wanky ones.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know. The wank's getting ridiculous, although I don't much like it myself. It's too cluttered.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

The colors are nice, though. It could be worse.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Not all of our European friends have gotten the chance to see it yet. It'd be a kindness to keep spoilers under wraps as much as possible for a few months yet.

[dorei.livejournal.com]

Yes the producers do it on purpose. It's called "ratings."

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

The lovely thing is that the family isn't Wiccan. The mom said she used to go to a UU church, but I'm pretty sure the family is just spiritual.
At least you are an intelligent being and understand that not all Christians are out of their minds :). I for one can't wait to see her declare herself a God warrior and wreak havoc.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought they were. I missed the first few minutes, so I wasn't sure. They do seem like a lovely family.

And I grew up in a small town with a LOT of churches, so I've gotten used to there being just as many Christian spazzes as they are in any other religion. :)

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of 'Firefly fans' who haven't had it released in their country yet, let alone see it twenty times in the theatre.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's true, although I'm always curious about what people think about the whole spoiler-cutting thing with certain movies. :)

[munchkin62.livejournal.com]

I am recording the show because by the time it is on, I would like to be asleep (fat chance, I know, I haven't been going to bed earlier than 11pm)

But I really want to watch the Wiccan mom. Thanks for the heads up!

And I don't like Clam Chowder, never have. yecch.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I cannot eat twelve of those foods. Maybe more, depending on the ingredients. It can get very odd, being kosher and seeing all the non-kosher foods around. I have actually stopped thinking of pig products as food. I know they are edible and taste good, but the idea of me eating them never occurs to me anymore. Just...non-food.

32. Guinea pig
Yep. My dad ate them when he was in Peru. He said it tasted like lamb because of how tender the meat was, on account of their lack of exercise.

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

Hebrew Hammer icon?!

I was looking at the list too and going "well, I've never had most of the seafood on that list because it's not Kosher." Ah well, I don't intend to keep it much longer so perhaps I will try those then :)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Yep, Hebrew Hammer. Up for grabs too. The icon maker's journal has been deleted and purged, though. (Also, this one. Not as Jewish as the first icon, but still quite nice.)

I have found it is easier to stay kosher if I just say I am vegetarian, and over time, it has gotten easy for me to live as the latter.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for about two weeks past the last theater release date. The BDM hasn't been released in some countries yet. I know it's going straight to DVD in some places, but others may still be waiting for a release. (I'm not up on the latest dates, but last I heard, there's at least one person on my flist still waiting for a theater release.)

[thebitterguy]

A) Jerk Chicken is good. Find a carribean restaurant and go to town. Get something to drink, depending on your heat tolerance.

B) Curry, good. Lamb, good. Lamb curry? Two birds, one dish. Ditto on the drink.

I can watch about 20 minutes of those family trading shows before my basic human decency kicks and I feel horrible.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

All the world isn't the USA, you know. At least wait with the spoilers until the movie has premiered in all the countries listed on IMDB. We've still got more than three weeks until it opens over here, for example.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know ... it was just more a random question at this point, 'cause God knows I'm not about to start tossing about Big Damn Spoilers at all. It's just the difference between tossing out Big Damn Spoilers and tossing out spoilers for, say, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that amuses me. I mean, stuff like that you can get away with spoiling, but spoil other movies and people will throttle you in your sleep from great distances solely with the power of their mind. :)

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

Why did I flip past Trading Spouses? Because they switched a Christian mom with a Wiccan mom and it's a train wreck. The Wiccan family and mom are trying to be nice and the Christians are just acting like assholes.

*twitch*

Gahh! The one time I was gonna watch this stupid show and I missed it!!!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry -- it was a two-parter, so next week is when the Christian mom is going to go REALLY batshit.

I can't believe I just said "don't worry" about missing Trading Spouses. *headshake*

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I sit and wait, sad and patient, and yet Serenity does not come to me, here in our tiny town of 9000 people which is yet the largest town for a two hour drive in any direction. Where, also, the theater owner is kind of a dick. With no taste.

*sigh*

[whitewithsnow.livejournal.com]

when it's finally out in belgium!

[whitewithsnow.livejournal.com]

(because i'm selfish like that)

[liamere.livejournal.com]

You're kidding. You've never tried curry (#9)?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I have to confess to being a bottom-feeder - this is the first time I've ever watched Trading Spouses, and it's because they mentioned in the paper that the fundamentalist mother (let's not lump her in with all Christianity, because she's hardly representative of all Christianity!) was going to try to convert the kids. And indeed, they show us a teaser of that for next episode, along with infinite repeats of her breakdown (and, it looks, tearing up the check for her family.)

I wonder... does she not watch the show? Didn't she know that they like to switch the women into utterly incompatible families?

But the "acting like a snot" award goes to one of the mother's friends, who walked into the house and instantly started grilling the switched mother on her beliefs, not even attempting to hide her disgust and condemnation.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

(let's not lump her in with all Christianity, because she's hardly representative of all Christianity!)

Ain't that the truth. Normal Christians don't stand around and scream about being God warriors. 'Cause that shot from next week is just a wee bit creepy.

And that friend of the mom's was just awful. They were all pretty bitchy, and it really grated at me that they could talk about her like she worshipped Satan when a.) she was standing right there and b.) she was behaving nicer than they were.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

and b.) she was behaving nicer than they were.

The producers are going out of their way to get this "new age good/fundie bad" vibe going on, and it's creeping me out a bit, even while I revel in the wank. The fundamental family members are all fat, the wife grossly so, yet the new-agers are thin and relatively good looking. The new agers are tolerant, even to the point of having a prayer for Jesus to make their swapped wife feel better, while the fundamentalist friends make it clear that their Christian love is conditional - and they feel the woman on their side of the bargain is hardly worth basic courtesy.

When the fundamentalist mother had her first mental breakdown, with the psychosomatic smell that made her flee the house and vomit, the producers had to know that they were pushing her far too hard, but they keep going, following her as she breaks down again into tears and demands they turn off the cameras and take her to a church. If they keep pushing her like that, no wonder she has a major breakdown. It's what the producers outright wanted.

At the same time, that clip of her trying to convert the kids creeped me out into having a lot less sympathy. One's faith shouldn't be peddled with the same tone of voice and approach that one uses to get infants to eat strained carrots. And my brain bends at the competing notions of "I don't believe in psychics and I don't want to be near one."