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Jinger -> RE: Ask me anything (10/17/2007 2:32:36 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FullCircle
1. Can you introduce me to your good friend Kate Blanchett?
2. What month does the zodiac sign of cornbread cover?
3. What is specifically wrong with BBC nature programmes?
4. Jinger means? J=G?
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1. Can you introduce me to your good friend Kate Blanchett? 2. What month does the zodiac sign of cornbread cover? 3. What is specifically wrong with BBC nature programmes? 4. Jinger means? J=G?
1. We've stopped talking ever since I yelled at her a couple months ago. She actually tracked me down online and read a lot of what I wrote about her, and actually confronted me about it. Totally shocked that she would go to such ends I just lost it and told her that she was being a real creep, and a child. I think it would be a touch too awkward at this point, especially seeing as how I don't even want to talk to her anyway. Sorry!
2. Livumber, silly!
3. I don't have anything against the british at all. But I was raised on nature programs, good old Nova and Nature back when they weren't dumbed down. Back when they had really good narrators doing the commentary. I loved those shows and still do, nothing gives me a great childish thrill than watching a good nature documentary sometimes. But then the national science foundation (to name a few) lost a lot of funding from the government, and the nature documentary was lost. With PBS groping for support they reached out to commercial corporations like Nelvana, and then the BBC came. British comedy night wasn't enough, they bought prime time and weekends almost completely. And then came the nature documentaries. At first everyone loved it, Walking With Dinosaurs was new and exciting. But the older I got and the wiser I became in the field of biology the more resentful I became of these. Not only did the pronunciation of certain words bug me (EEvil-ootion...IG-yew-wana-don)...but a lot (and I mean a LOT) of these shows depicted animal behavior that was purely hypothetical to say the least. They were presenting things as fact when the reality is that much of their "fact" was just based on the behavior of a completely different species of animal.
*Gaaasp*
Furthermore they took liberties with the sound design. I can understand dinosaurs, they had to make noises. But a jellyfish several miles beneath the ocean does NOT hum like a UFO. It doesn't jingle or crune. It's a JELLYFISH. It can barely MOVE. A sperm whale does not sound like a walrus when it comes up for air!
Perhaps I have simply seen the wrong BBC documentaries, but I feel the ones I've seen so far pale in comparison to those that I grew up with. But then again, it is better than nothing. I suppose.
4. Back at home I joined an LGBT youth group that had a number of drag queens and kings in it. I became friends with a bunch of them and eventually they began to show me some of the ropes because I was rather interested in drag queening (and yes, I'm very sexy as a girl). I picked it up almost as fast as I picked up biking, and my friends implored me to work with them in a club they performed at. Now I am a confident person but NOT on the stage. I get incredibly nervous, to the point where I am petty much useless. I learned this when I actually did go to the club, exactly twice. I didn't dance, just a lip-synche. And my stage name was "Jinger." I was younger at the time and thought this was very clever because I'm a ginger, but my name starts with a J sooooo...
Yeah. 17 year old wit.
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