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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*

[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.

[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*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

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

[excathedra1895.livejournal.com]

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

[excathedra1895.livejournal.com]

It is actually - want pictures??

[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.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

Okay, I KNOW had that going on, but I think it was a tad earlier, college was a REVELATION for me in terms of finding people who totally got what I was into.

Still though. Yes.

I'm sure I spouted SOMETHING that was special.

[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*

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

I remember that movie. Lydia was a strange, strange girl. :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

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

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

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

Enjoy!

[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*

[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.

[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.

[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?)

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

OMG. She publically lists the people she's unfriended!!

We are 12, people! 12!!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

For. The. WIN.