Sometimes I think I shouldn’t be allowed out.
Maybe that’s why I’m mostly In.
I’ve just commented on a status update on Facebook and already there are comments following this that lead me to believe I’ve just said something else that makes me look like an arse.
If only *arse* wasn’t one of my most favouriest words in the world. In fact I wish I’d had the chance to use it more frequently when my parents were alive. Perhaps my past would have been a far more cheery place than I remember.
At the weekend (again on Facebook – why do I DO it?) I managed to cause a bit of a ruckus with one of my 172 ‘friends’ – 149 of which wouldn’t probably know who I was if served them in the Tesco Express – I don’t actually work in a Tesco Express, I’m just making a point.
And all because there was this thing going round. Somebody gives you an actor/actress and by reply you have to say which of their films you LOVED, LIKED, HATED and HAVEN’T SEEN.
I was given Dame Maggie Smith. Who I only know to have been Miss Jean Brodie in her Prime and the terrifyingly wizened woman in the Harry Potter Films. Probaby called something like Miss Wizzenedhag or something deeply clever as is JK’s wont.
So I had to IMDB her to see if I’d ever seen anything else she’d done. I love IMDB. It’s like the modern version of the Encyclopaedia (d-er)… once I’ve dipped in I can’t seem to stop until my stomach is eating itself and the cats are having a ‘where-the-f*ck’s-our-food!’ fight downstairs and the neighbours are complaining… not about my stomach, that would be TOO weird.
Anyway, once IMDB’d, I realised the Dame had been in a good many other movies I hadn’t remembered her being in. And so I prepared my list.
Movie I LOVED - Downton Abbey (does a series count?)
Movie I LIKED - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Movie I HATED - All the Harry Potters (didn't HATE them, I ENDURED them)
Movie I HAVEN'T SEEN - Death on the Nile
Movie I LIKED - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Movie I HATED - All the Harry Potters (didn't HATE them, I ENDURED them)
Movie I HAVEN'T SEEN - Death on the Nile
If you ‘like’ this thread I’ll give YOU an actor/actress
And sat back, fully prepared for nobody to ‘like’, or comment or anything – such was the terminable mundanity of this exercise – I mean it’s not exactly mind-blowing stuff is it? It’s not like I’m trying to bring back the death penalty or have Satan round for tea and cake, is it?
*yawn*.
But there followed what I can only describe as a potential Facebook bloodbath. I think, I hope, I managed to pull the plug (thanks also to JacqsSnooksSeddon for the part she courageously played in this mind-boggling debate) just in the nick of time.
I know there are Potter-ites-a-plenty out there. I know JK Rowling is a bit of an icon and I know Daniel whatsisname wouldn’t be where he is today (coming to checkout No. 5 at a Tesco Express near you…?) if it hadn’t been for some cute acting on his part when he WAS cute aged 9 or whatever he was in the first HP film. But do I HAVE to have liked the films simply because EVERYBODY ELSE does? Hmm? Do I?
