The World: It Is Weird
Apr. 13th, 2009 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyI got coerced into watching The News Hour tonight because there was chocolate fondue in honor of Mom’s birthday.
I suck at watching real news, because the reporters are always straightfaced about this totally bonkers stuff happening in the world. Some things are so loony it’s hard to believe them, and today was like a highlight reel. Three of the topics focused on were:
-Pirates. Unfortunately, these are neither the fun swaggering grog-swilling pirates of story nor the kind that don’t have to watch five minutes of unskippable FBI guilt trips at the beginnings of legit DVDs telling you that you’re a scummy thief, because the pirates have pirated copies.* These are the kind of pirates who steal actual money and have now vowed they will engage in more murder and mayhem because a few of them got killed. Turns out holding a gun to a hostage’s head is not the best way to keep snipers off of you.
- Redshirts. Apparently, law enforcement officers in Thailand are called “redshirts.” Thai officials keep sending in more redshirts to try to keep the peace during some riots. And, yes, they go the way of all redshirts. I may have cried out, “My god, it’s TRUE!” at some point.
-Footage of Obama during the White House Easter Egg Roll. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a POTUS frolic before. I didn’t even know that was a verb you could actually do, but dude was all, “WHEE! Easter eggs!”
*This always seemed a little strange to me. I know they can’t very well stick these warnings on the bootlegs, but as far as I’m concerned five minutes of shame-on-you PSAs are a deterrent to buying legit items, since you get punished for it. You can get right to the movie with a bootleg.
I suck at watching real news, because the reporters are always straightfaced about this totally bonkers stuff happening in the world. Some things are so loony it’s hard to believe them, and today was like a highlight reel. Three of the topics focused on were:
-Pirates. Unfortunately, these are neither the fun swaggering grog-swilling pirates of story nor the kind that don’t have to watch five minutes of unskippable FBI guilt trips at the beginnings of legit DVDs telling you that you’re a scummy thief, because the pirates have pirated copies.* These are the kind of pirates who steal actual money and have now vowed they will engage in more murder and mayhem because a few of them got killed. Turns out holding a gun to a hostage’s head is not the best way to keep snipers off of you.
- Redshirts. Apparently, law enforcement officers in Thailand are called “redshirts.” Thai officials keep sending in more redshirts to try to keep the peace during some riots. And, yes, they go the way of all redshirts. I may have cried out, “My god, it’s TRUE!” at some point.
-Footage of Obama during the White House Easter Egg Roll. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a POTUS frolic before. I didn’t even know that was a verb you could actually do, but dude was all, “WHEE! Easter eggs!”
*This always seemed a little strange to me. I know they can’t very well stick these warnings on the bootlegs, but as far as I’m concerned five minutes of shame-on-you PSAs are a deterrent to buying legit items, since you get punished for it. You can get right to the movie with a bootleg.
