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[tzikeh]

Over in lifein1973, I got into a scuffle with excathedra1895 over the possible American remake of Life on Mars. Not because I give a shit either way, really, but because she was all whiny about how Americans just remake British tv series and then they're "dreadful". "Don't the Americans have any original ideas??????", she asks, with multiple question marks.

Yes, yes, I know, cereta's porn mantra, but I got caught up in it.

She just called me a "graying 37-year-old", said I probably didn't know what an oxymoron is, and called me "*love*".

Dudes -- check her profile. Be sure to note the photos and photomanipulations and color bars.

*is dying laughing*

I'm just so glad there was no lj, or worldwide web, or any kind of gui when I was twenty. She's damned for all time. I hope I run across her when she's a "graying 37-year-old" and find out if she's learned anything. Ah, youth. Really, with this kind of entertainment, who needs kick the can and mumblety-peg! Get off my lawn! That's just banana oil!

ETA: I've been informed that excathedra1895 has removed all of the photos and color bars and giant list of everything she "is" (including "old souled", "an anachronism", "elitist", etc.) from her user profile. She sneered at me, I sneered at her, she took her toys and went home. I guess the game's over -- besides, it's dusk, and I hear momma calling me, so I best head to the pump out back and wash up for supper.

Perhaps, despite my doubts, all is not lost when it comes to learning and growing.

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

I fear what I sounded like when I was 20. *shudders*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Remember Beetlejuice and Winona Ryder's character? "My life is a dark room. One, big, dark, room."

[slb44.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha!

I love the "I'm not a Nazi" statement. *eg*

OMG yes, can you imagine having your twenty year old likes and dislikes, rants and raves, passions and bugaboos distributed all over the net and then coming back to haunt you? Thanks very much, but no thanks.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love the "I'm not a Nazi" statement. *eg*

Just... yeah. And you know why she's not a Nazi? BECAUSE AMERICA SAVED HER ANCESTORS'S ASSES FROM THE GERMANS!!!eleventy!!!

And that's why we remake British television shows. BECAUSE WE CAN!

And by "we", of course I am speaking for all 300 million Americans. Because we know that when we say "the Americans" do such and such, it is as one, because we all think exactly alike.

[delle.livejournal.com]

oh ye gods thank HEAVENS there wasn't an internet back in the dinosaur age when I was 20. I'd NEVER live down my emo-badself.

hee. I took a look at her interests - she's a LOST fan. Gee.... did I miss something? Is LOST based on the supremesy (sp,sorry) of Brit TV as well? >snerk

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

She made the oxymoron comment when I pointed out that she's both emo and goth. She said that was an oxymoron. I'm sorry; look at her interests and tell me I'm wrong.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

What are the odds that her bedroom and bathroom are done in pink? Frilly, poofty pink. With lace.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

But also BLACK! Lots of BLACK because she likes GOTH METAL.

She is also an "old soul".

I mean... just looking at her list of how she defines herself, and she thinks *I* don't know what oxymoron means?

*continues to die laughing*

[excathedra1895.livejournal.com]

It is actually - want pictures??

[excathedra1895.livejournal.com]

=D I'm going to have so much fun reading through these comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Maybe you'll learn something (though I don't think so).

Enjoy!

[danceswithwords.livejournal.com]

I am transfixed by the idea that Grima Wormtongue might be unrequited love. WHAT?!?

In any case, the American remake of The Office turned out spectacularly, thankyouverymuch.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I am transfixed by the idea that Grima Wormtongue might be unrequited love. WHAT?!?

And that, to me, is the PERFECT example of being both Emo and Goth. But I forget myself; she says that those two things together make an oxymoron. *nods solemnly*

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

When she's 37, she'll look down her nose at people and say that she has real world experience, even if she's just a snooty dork.

... you're 37?

...

No wonder you sound very mature. *facepaw* I'd been imagining you as a mature 25 or 26, because there's no year on your birthdate.

*facepaws again*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'll be thirty-eight next month. :D Looking forward to my forties, actually.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

BWAH!! Dude, maybe I'm kidding myself when I judge that I was never that obnoxious as a 20-year-old fangirl. But I don't think so.

Mind you, whatever follies I committed at the time (and I'm sure there's no shortage)? Are in print. Not as accessible, perhaps, but somehow more permanent-seeming.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, my letters to APAs and my zine stories?

Yeah, much harder to come by, but... wow.

I'm especially fond of the photo she uses on the main page of her lj for "friends only".

I'm sorry - she listens to goth music, and uses that photo on her main lj page, and she still maintains that someone can't be both goth and emo at the same time.

[cleversimon.livejournal.com]

I'm nearly 23. Let's just dial the ol' LJ back three years…

Hm. It's not scintillating prose, but it holds up to better scrutiny than that trainwreck. My smug sense of superiority is unscathed.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

It ain't the chronology, as I'm sure you know. There's maturity, and then there's *maturity*. A forty-year-old woman could very well have the same lj as she.

And I'd mock her too. ;)

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Dude. When I was a freshman in college? I wrote a letter to the Uncanny Xmen. And it got printed the next year. WITH MY FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS. I *still* occasionally have people find that and tease me.

THE SHAME WILL NEVER GO AWAY!11!!1!!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh, *MAN* that's gotta suck.

(what did the letter say?)

[elance.livejournal.com]

I am very much with the 'who cares' if the American market wants to remake a TV show made in the UK first? It's not like anyone in the UK will be tied to their chairs and forced to watch it.

And I find it very interesting she's going on about Americans not having any original ideas, what with, oh, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Scrubs, The OC, One Tree Hill, Smallville, and many more American televisions shows airing on UK tv every single week.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

It's not like anyone in the UK will be tied to their chairs and forced to watch it.

Yeah, I don't get that either. What the hell does it matter one way or another? It's not like someone's burning all the copies of the original series. I always go to Alan Moore when it comes to that kind of thing; a journalist asked him about the movies made from his graphic novels and pretty much said that the movies "ruined" them. Moore pointed to a bookshelf that had all his work on it and said "No they didn't - they're right there."

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

I read the OP for context. It's hilarious the way she got all huffy because you gave a well-reasoned answer. What did she expect, a 'You're wrong, so there!' without anything to back it up with?

LJ never ceases to amuse me. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, we expect of others what we ourselves would do, so...

I'm currently being amused by the fact that her lj is friends-only, yet she posts publicly the names of people she has defriended, and tells them to please remove her from their friendslist.

Is it just my perception, or is it mostly very young people who have "friends-only" livejournals? What, exactly, is the appeal? That you don't have to be held accountable for anything you say and you can be certain that you're surrounded by yes-men?

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

Oh, noes! How will you survive such withering insults?

She's taken down her pics and colorbars on her profile, FYI. I'm so sad to have missed them.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

She's taken down her pics and colorbars on her profile

You're fucking kidding me.

AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA!!!

And here I thought she was "elitist about everything [she cares] about, really". That was in the big fat list of everything she "IS", which is also gone.

I guess not.

How sure am I that she's posting about this thread in her friends-only lj so that no one who isn't her bestest buddy can see it?

Lame.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

When I was 20, and living in the UK, an amusing number of my classmates would, like, ask me why it was that Americans didn't understand irony/have a sense of humor/the phrasing varied. And I'd be all, "Do you want me to answer that before or after we all watch Seinfeld this evening?" And once in a great while, they'd get it and I'd be all "PWNED!" If, that is, the word "pwned" had existed at that time, because I am AGED and GREYING and two and a half weeks shy of thirty, so, you know, my life is more or less over.

Off to put on black makeup and get weepy. Cheers!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

why it was that Americans didn't understand irony/have a sense of humor

Ah, yes. The "Americans (all 300 million of us!) have no sense of irony" trope. Know it, love it, mock it (ironically, of course).

Cheers, *love*!

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Well Bob, I can get that emo-goth to delete her journal in 6 comments.

- your fellow greying 37 year old

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. She was all laughing in my face and telling us how much she was going to enjoy reading the comments here. What did she think was going to happen?

And I *love* grey hair.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

I bow to your ability to take down the weak-of-mind.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You know, I did not mean for her to delete her lj. It was not even on my radar. She came *here* and told us to bring it on. WTF?

I remember being 37 with such affection...

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

...I decided to stay there until further notice. [gives 37 an affectionate squeeze.]

I was Very Small Indeed when "All in the Family" ran. Surely your knowledge is not from first run?

Re: I remember being 37 with such affection...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Some of it I remember - it ran til I was 10. But mostly I know about the impact it made because I read a great deal in media studies. :)