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[shinytoaster]

Tinkering with LJ.

There needs to be a way to change my icon settings. I have 15 right now, but I have more inactive ones still on the site from when I had extra icon space, and I want to use some of those, but LJ is assigning me my 15 icons out of my 38 uploaded icons completely randomly, and there doesn't seem to be a way to get the inactive ones back without deleting all the icons and starting over from scratch, so round and round and round we go.

Oh wow, people. Blinking.

I got away from the cold calling centre of doom last Friday, away from Toni with the funny name who consistently mistook my polite interest for actual enthusiasm. It's strange, but when hiring a temp for a paltry wage, he actually seriously expected me to care how many people showed up for his poxy little seminar (about three, incidentally). If you're in Brighton, you may feel free to go along and point and laugh. It's at the Hilton Metropole on the front at 6:30 this evening, and Toni is the one who looks like a Tellytubby crossed with Robert Kilroy-Silk.

So, House is getting it's UK terrestrial premiere this week, so I may give it a go and find out what the fuss is all about - from the vibe I'm getting it seems to be a bit like Green Wing, season two of which I am awaiting breathlessly. The only trouble is it clashes with Kath and Kim, arguably the best Australian show since Round The Twist.

I watched about two minutes of Big Brother 6 the other night, and, wow, well. Maybe it's the fact I've read Ben Elton's 'Dead Famous' since BB5 - an excellent critique and very funny murder mystery, if you're interested - but I have never in all my days seen such a bunch of empty-headed, boring little twats. I hate, hate every single one of them, with their stupidly spelled names and their 'Oh, we should respect Mykhael's feelings' or 'No, Enema has every right to express herself, Peatar' after Enema has just said something along the lines of 'I fink there's like a terrorist chav paedophile immigrant under everybody's bed innit?' and then it's into the diary room and backstab backstab backstab. We should deny them the oxygen of publicity; I would feed all of them to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

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[owlman.livejournal.com]

LJ is assigning me my 15 icons out of my 38 uploaded icons completely randomly

It is supposed to be the ones that you used the most that stay active. How this is worked out I am not sure ;)


It is at times like this when I am glad I do not have a TV and so can avoid BB6. It makes life so much better :)

[benjj.livejournal.com]

...it's easy to avoid when you have a TV too...
Though I get the latest reports on the radio news for crying out loud, today's in someone and someone else had an argument.

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

I used to like Round the Twist but have yet to catch K and K.

House is good. Am looking forward to it as long as five subtitles it.....

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me if you want subtitles for House, you're probably going to want them for Kath and Kim, as the Melbourne accents verge on the inpenetrable. However, that's clearly half the fun, as it's where all the verbal gags and wordplay comes from, and also you should ignore what Ben is saying below. He has had a taste bypass.

[benjj.livejournal.com]

taste bypass

must be all the coffee affecting my tastebuds...

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

I only like subtitles because it means I don't spend so much time missing bits. But House is still gooooood !

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

I read Dead Famous a couple of years ago and have not been able to look at Big Brother the same way since. Not that I could really look at it much after possibly the second series, but yes, the new lot seem to be even more unwatchable than their predecessors. I wouldn't be surprised if a naked sauna was arranged a la Dead Famous just to give the viewers something to watch.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Have you read his new one, Past Mortem? It's actually quite effectively frightening.

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

Is that the Friends Reunited one? I haven't picked it up yet but I've been meaning to. Ben Elton has excellent timing - whenever something new is under the "Modern Life: Awesome Innovation Or Have We Gone Too Far This Time (Again)?" media spotlight, his latest novel satirising it was published the week before.

[benjj.livejournal.com]

I watched about three minutes of Kath and Kim, oh my god the pain, I thought my ears would bleed! It's the sort of thing they use in American torture camps and you subject yourself to it voluntarily?

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Hem hem. Clearly a man of very little taste.

[benjj.livejournal.com]

...yes you must be ... [/playground jibes]

It was the annoying girl, sounded as if it was going to be like Little Britain's Vicky all the way through...

[nmg.livejournal.com]

We should deny them the oxygen of publicity

I'd prefer to be a little more literal when denying them oxygen.

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

Oh count me in on that one.....

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

You're a bloodthirsty one, aren't you?

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

Darling, if it means we didn't have to endure BB, then hell, yeah !

[saucy-wench.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why, but this entry has amused me.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Fine rant. :-)

I haven't been watching BB so I don't know whether I agree with it, but I certainly can't help but admire it!

[earth-magic.livejournal.com]

LJ did that with my icons and I had to delete all the inactive ones before it would let me load any more.