gdp's Comments

: Big Hard Excellent Fish - "Imperfect List"

Tue, 7 Jul 2015 02:33:36 +0000

I corrected and added a few you missed, like Homeless, Hiroshima (not Russia), Nurse Rached, Phony friend rather than Family friend (originally thought it was Phone a friend but yhis came out well before Millionaire was on in the UK!), etc. Went back to my original HQ version, this v2 btw, which I think was the released version, same as on Snub TV. This is the full list: "Adolf Hitler. Mike Gatting. Terry and June. Fuckin’ bastard Thatcher. Insincere social climber of mixed origin. Overdose. Scouse impersonators. Macho dickhead. Bonnie Langford. Poll tax. Neighbours. Lost keys. Phony friend. The Royal Family. Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Heartbreaking, lying friend. Smiling Judas. Myra Hindley. Acid rain. Stinking, rich female in furs. Disloyal lover. Wife and child beater. Drunken abuser. Racist bully. The Sun newspaper. AIDS inventor. Leon Brittan. All nonces. Massive, massive oil slick. Loneliness. Cancer. Hard, cold fish. Hunger. Greed. Imperfect list. Gut-wrenching disappointment. Homeless. Evil, gossiping fashion bastard. Radio One. Tasteless A&R wanker. Nurse Ratched. the Tory invention of the non-working class. Cold turkey. Mister Jesse Helms. Fractured coccyx. Hillsborough. Weird British judges. Depression. Apartheid. J Edgar Hoover. John Lennon’s murder. Hiroshima. Anyone’s murder. Vietnam. The breakdown of the NHS. The bomb. Heysel stadium. Police harassment. The death of the rain forest. The troubles. Rednecks. The clamp*. Rape. Imprisonment of innocents. The all-American way. The sending off of Len Shackleton, Red sock in the white washing. Nancy’s turn. Tiananmen Square. Ronnie’s turn. Sexual harassment. Jimmy Tarbuck. Mile-long check-out queue. Sick baby. Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment. Miscarriage. Where were you?" * not sure if this is The Clap (slang for VD) or The clamp, wheelclamping had come to Britain just before this.

The New Civil Rights Movement : 'I Fucking Hate Faggots': 50 New Yorkers Stood By As Gay Man Beaten On Subway

Sat, 8 Mar 2014 05:15:34 +0000

That didn't actually happen...not the murder, but 30/many people ignoring her, that's a myth. They all saw or heard little bits, not the whole thing, I think maybe one person saw what happened, and they did act - most thought it was a lover's tiff. Some did think someone else will do something, but certainly nearly all of them didn't know she was being murdered. But the paper made out that everyone didn't care... number is wrong too, about a dozen people heard or saw something. Problem of big cities, having stood up to people and found the 'victim' turn on me because it wasn't what I think it was - easy to make out no-one cares but people do odd things, get drunk, have fights, make noise. Not always black/white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Gen...

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Credit Where Credit Is Don't

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:29:59 +0000

Also I always tell people who ask where my T-shirts are from! Least I can do.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Credit Where Credit Is Don't

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:18:43 +0000

I've had people steal (i.e. put their name to them) and sell my mashups. That's annoying, since the original artists don't get anything, I don't expect anything since it's not completely mine, and obviously post them for free as fun things to promote the artists and maybe myself...although there is skill in creating a mashup. Really annoying that they sell them on iTunes and Amazon and I can't do anything since - you guessed it - I'm not the copyright holder. Ditto with my photographs, and that's more annoying as they are 100% mine, so I tend to watermark those now...and I had a RSS button once that EVERYONE stole, which I actually didn't mind but the lazy people linked it directly, stealing my bandwidth and screwing up my stats. Back then I was more polite, since then I've invoked the 'gay porn switcheroo' strategy which stopped the likes of Cracked.com nicking my content. Naughty. Their getout clause was 'it's a user generated list'. Grr.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Where My People At?

Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:10:53 +0000

Oh yes. Small talk. I hear people do that. I'm not one of those people who claim autism spectrum, but I took one of those quizzes which apparently a friend's autistic son scored highly on, and came out borderline, as probably many geeks would. Not surprising...I can talk for England about subjects I love, but get off the weather and I'm a bit...lost. Or go into politics or religion which is a big no-no usually! I don't mind the beard questions because of that, it's safe territory. I do get the 'are you a homeless person?' type treatment as it's very long (longest part is 3 inches from my chin) which I hate, and the 'can I touch it?' from gangs of girls at 3am might be some blokes wet dream, but for myself it's the wrong gender!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Where My People At?

Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:04:43 +0000

I've had that. Sadly a few days after the 7/7 bombing in London I had to go somewhere and took my army rucksack. With the long beard and large backpack I got all kinds of evil stares. Which kind of annoyed me, because I'd narrowly missed being bombed myself and if anyone should be freaking out it should be me (I was working at Edgware Road that day - overslept!) but like everyone else I just got back on the trains the next day or so...And it was a bit like the profiling I got when flying, I wasn't aware terrorists had a uniform or look? I think actually they don't because that kind of misses the point? A bit hard to be a terrorist if it shouts out HEY TERRORIST HERE!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Where My People At?

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:04:08 +0000

With a long beard, I never pass for normal, LOL. I get all the questions too - how long did it take to grow it, can I touch it, etc etc. Better than my partner who gets all the 'aren't you cold' jibes and oddness as being from the South Hemisphere he of course wears shorts all the time. I wouldn't say I usually pass for geek though, I have ironic logo T's but of the musical variety (Accordion Hero, etc which is a bit geeky game ref I guess) - I do have the odd EFF shirt, or Bubble Bobble Tshirt, but rarely wear those. Mostly political. gay or musical (punk) really. And never, ever, jewellery. Find it interesting that there is a GeekDar, it's a version of GayDar really. It's equally fun/hard sometimes to get gay family, although quite often was seems bleeding obvious to me the straight people are like 'what? That person is queer?' and I'm like DUH. Similar function, different cues (although a love of Doctor Who and sci-fi generally scores highly on both!)

The New Civil Rights Movement : Guess Who's Furious Over Macy's Thanksgiving Parade's 'Kinky Boots' Performance?

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:57:35 +0000

As I posted over at FB: I guess they don't do pantomime in America? Any kid who has seen UK TV (Lily Savage, Julian Clary or the like) or a pantomime knows what drag is! And they love it... That musical hall/drag tradition is so ingrained it's not a surprise here. You have talk show hosts in drag, and have done for many years (Edna Everage for instance) and although we do have our 'Moral Majority' -who are actually a minority - they don't seem to get upset about drag but other things.

The New Civil Rights Movement : Guess Who's Furious Over Macy's Thanksgiving Parade's 'Kinky Boots' Performance?

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:54:55 +0000

Q is Queer or Questioning (it's traditionally Queer, but Questioning has kind of been added in recent times) and A is Asexual not Ally. There's sometimes an I for Intersex. TBH I tend to use LGBTQ or LGBTQ* as I think the queer spectrum includes all the others, but others will disagree...so hence the * for everyone else!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : DDS Attack

Fri, 8 Nov 2013 17:29:47 +0000

That wasn't all they sued over, just what stuck. You're talking about the States only - Apple and Samsung (and Google for that matter) sued and countersued all over the world, including Europe. Some of the 'look and feel' patent legals did cover stuff that I'm pretty sure was prior art - 'square phone with rounded edges?', apps, touchscreen, etc. Thankfully most of these were thrown out, because they were pretty silly, apart from the US oddly. But it did mean sometimes the imports were stopped, which I'm guessing was the main reason.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : I Wanna Be Where The People Are

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:07:35 +0000

Just going out to a cafe or library helps, just to be near people, it helps the cabin fever!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Chicken Fight

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:48:50 +0000

SEMI NAKED HAGRID. *rubs knees* (probably won't get that joke unless you've watched Stars in their Eyes, classic UK comedy)

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Dark Tutelage

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:38:33 +0000

Bored of the Rings - the National Lampoon version is ACE and well worth reading...like all NL stuff I don't think you need to read the original, either. They managed to get the whole trilogy in one small book, no mean feat - and it's funnier and you can see where Terry Prachett took notes ;-)

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Dark Tutelage

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:36:17 +0000

It's a way of showing the original and prequel Star Wars films in a special order which I think cuts out some of the crap in Episode 1 (PM), and makes more sense rather just starting at 1 (Phantom Menace) which will Put You Off For Life. I still haven't see it, my Hardcore Star Wars friends told me not to. Seen all the rest though.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Dark Tutelage

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:32:32 +0000

I fell asleep seeing a later reshowing of Star Wars, I was exactly the right age group - 4/5? I found it boring. Didn't see it all the way though til many years later. I love those films now, but never really got it as a kid.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Dark Tutelage

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:30:11 +0000

My gaming knowledge conks out at about Gauntlet and Bubble Bobble, briefly resurfaces with later sequels (Dark Lengends, Legacy, Rainbow Islands etc) and Pinball Dreams/Fantasy on the Amiga and then a brief blip around Portal 1 - I like a puzzle game, but all the other games all my 30-40 y.o. friends get into, Call of Duty. Mass Effects etc? Really. Cannot. Be. Bothered. Give me an old MAME game anyday.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Dark Tutelage

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:23:21 +0000

Withnail and I. And I regular get told how AMAZING IT IS and how CAN I NOT HAVE SEEN IT? I never did, until I found the memes and endless quoting so annoying it fell into a dark pit of NEVER WILL WATCH EVER AND I DO NOT CARE.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Reading Comprehension

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:17:37 +0000

Good adaptations: Harry Potter - pretty good, not always but impressed how much they kept in. Had the wonder of the original books, but less of the boring diary format (what makes Tolkien so dull apart from Hobbit, actually - I do not CARE what Frodo eats for breakfast John Ronald) Changes - TV series in the 1970s, loved the Phillip Dickinson books, the series I saw much later was very good. V for Vendetta - actually think the film is better, despite Alan Moore's protestations League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - gets a bad rap, but compared to the terrible Superhero fodder we get now it's a really good thoughful film in the vein of Sherlock Holmes or Indiana Jones Sherlock Blade Runner - will annoy some K Dick fans here, but srsly the film pisses over 'Do Androids Dream...?' - You know stuff like CHARACTERISATION? Dick was never good at people. Hence the androids, convenient. Terrible adaptations: Watchmen - the only time I thought a film was TOO close to the original. It did a good job but really, no cigar. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - BURN IT WITH FIRE. The movie I should have walked out of, it was that bad, but stayed hoping it would get better. It didn't. When a 15 second cameo is the best thing about a movie, then you know something is wrong. AI - a really amazing story, although not a new one because really sure I'd read it before and not the story that gets published as the inspiration, another short story with similar Terminator type themes - gets spoiled by slushy Spielberg. *sigh* LOTR - first movie, impressive scene setting and CGI. Second movie, oh look MORE FUCKING CGI. And less impressive acting, And less stuff happening, more wandering around forests, and oh look here's Frodo having breakfast just like the boring bits of the book.I bailed from the series then. Still can't believe Hobbit, the shortest and best of those books is TWO FILMS. Peter Jackson has filmic diarrhea..

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Reading Comprehension

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:04:54 +0000

I'd have LOVED the H2G2 movie to move beyond the books into something new and funny in keeping with Adams - in fact I think he wrote a script which I'm guessing the unfunny and silly movie they made they probably didn't use much of. All H2G2 fans expect each one to be different, the books weren't the same as the radio which wasn't the same as the TV series or the towel ;-) (or the game actually). Problem was they tried to make a multiplex-friendly modern film for non-H2G2 fans and ended up satisfying no-one. The beauty of Adams' work is his written speech, ludicrous situations and surreal technobabble - lose all of that and you have something that takes itself way too seriously yet reads like an unfunny slapstick farce.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Reading Comprehension

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:57:56 +0000

Radio 4. BBC 4 didn't exist then, it's now a TV channel. /pedant. Pilot was made in 1977, I'm not sure it was broadcast, I do remember hearing that one critic complained the BBC was jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon - which annoyed Adams as it totally disregarded how long it takes to produce radio, and the original pilot was commissioned and written before Star Wars was even out!