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Saturday, February 04, 2006
"The Teletubbies love each other very much!"
This is a sentence which (and other variations of it) constantly echoes from our living room these days. Bjorgvin bought a Teletubbies DVD - Teletubbies: Christmas in the Snow - for Sugrun Ugla, and she has been watching them non-stop the whole week. Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, LaaLaa and Poh have already started annoying me just as much, if not more, than P.B. Bear & Friends. And the Sun Baby, despite being cute and all, kind of creeps me out, and Sigrun too! When "laughs" she looks at it with such big eyes; she doesn't understand what a disembodied "baaa"'s head is doing in the sky. It's also very bugging that the Tubbies always speak like babies. I swear, their vocabulary is almost worse than SUB's, and that's saying something (she calls me "Dattee" and Matti "Daddi"). The narrator says things like "inside, outside!" and the Tubbies imitate him with their intended adorable baby accent. I know that this is especially for babies like Sigrun, but why not let them speak normally? I mean, it's teaching children to say "I lobe you bery much!" instead of "I love you very much!". It's literally encouraging baby-talk. Babies need to learn how to speak so people understand them, not so people have to stretch their ears and ask them two or three times what they are actually saying. But Sigrun likes them, so we'll just have to put up with them until she gets bored of them or gets a new DVD. Whichever comes first. I predict the latter.
I went to a superhero-themed fancy dress party last night. Much fun. A girl at school held it to raise money for her gap year; she's going to Malawi to teach children next year. I went as Rogue (you know, from X-Men), and wore a white-streaked dark brown wig, a green cape, black clothes, and last but certainly not least long black gloves. You know what they're for, right? OK, I'll remind you: Rogue's superpower is that she can drain the life-force, and superpowers too, out of people with mere skin contact. Hence the gloves protecting other people from her potent fingers. Exactly four people knew who I was (the superhero, not me. Me they almost always recognised, except in a few cases in which a person was too drunk to recognise me). There were all kinds of superheroes at the party. There were three-four Catwomen, two Mrs. Incredible, a set of Powerpuff Girls, two Superwomen, a Clark Kent, a Spider-Man, a Spiderwoman, A Buzz Lightyear, three-four Bond, James Bonds, two-three Batwomen/-girls, two Wonder Women and so on and so on. I took a bunch of pictures which I will soon put in my internet album, but here's a little preview:
Rogue and Bond, James Bond whith his Golden Gun
Bubbles, Blossom and Catwoman (with her ears and mask missing, it seems. looks like somebody's identity's been discovered!)
Catwoman (this one's got her ears and mask in place!), Superwoman and Buttercup.
QotD: Rogue: "You know, you should wear your seat belt."
Wolverine: "Now look, kid, I don't need advice on auto..."
[car crashes] - X-Men (the movie) |
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