People that are in movies/series that other people are in

So I downloaded the shortfilm DEBS which has later been made into the MOVIE DEBS (which is in my amazon basket ready to be shipped) and guess who I saw making out (well, more than that) with her "helpless kidnapped girl"? Well Glorificus herself, naturally, Clare Kramer, who played the wonderful Glory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now that was funny. Since the short was crappy quality I didn't recognize her until she started talking hehe. So yeah... haha it's a small world. ^___^

Numbers

So yesterday I had to work pretty late and by the time I could go home I was tired and unmotivated and facing the long bike ride home was the last thing I wanted to do, eventhough I wanted to BE home. So I decided for it to go faster and be less dull I'll just count. Yes, count, as in, with numbers. So I started counting. I counted in German, by the way, since that's still the most natural language for me to count in. When 40 minutes later I stuck the
key in my frontdoor's lock I had reached 1280, or "Eintausend-zweihundert-achtzig". While I was counting I noticed several things. I stumbled over some numbers whereas others just rattled into my brain easily. For example it felt strange to count from 510 to 511 instead from 510 to 520. And after the 50s I just wanted to jump to 100 (e.g. 250, 300, 350). Very strange.

Also it's odd that I counted to exactly 1280. My screen resolution at home is 1280 x 1024 pixels. also 1+2+8+0 = 11, it's now 11.46 (46 turned around = 64) and 1280 = 64 x 20. Also 12x80 = 960 which again is also a resolution for the computer screen: 1280x960.
I could go on and on... but I gotta go running. at 12 which is in 8 minutes (at least at my clock here) ... -_-;

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Germans and Dutch most intelligent Europeans

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Well Germans, certainly, but the Dutch? Excusé-moi? There must be a couple 180s somewhere cause they'd have to compensate for all the morons that walk around here. No offense, I enjoy living here but the Dutch, as a collective mind, are dangerously ignorant and definately lack IQ. Oh well at least I belong to both groups and my IQ is in the 130s (every IQ test I've ever done gave around 130-140) so that's good. Makes me feel good that I'm more intelligent than the average German or Dutch Person. Ha!

The lowest IQ average is said to be in Serbia. Any questions?
Also the more Northern a country lies the higher the IQ and the more south, the lower... Thanks for confirming what everyone up north already knew. ;)

Also when the normal IQ is from 85-115 and exceptional people start from 145... then where does that leave us "inbetweenies"?

Cinderelmo

So we watched Cinderelmo.



And look who was in it playing the dog that gets turned into a person:



hehehehe

Flippy

OMG!!!!

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I So want to be able to do that!!!!! WOW!!!!! I mean... WOW!!!!!

here's some more: Clickeh

This is going way too far

Most people kow it as "Negerkuss" or "Mohrenkopf" (german), "Negerzoen" (dutch) or "tête de nègre" (french).
Before I enter Kuschi rant mode I shall write a abit about the history of such names. For example the German word "Mohrenkopf" is created from "Mohr" (meaning dark clay swampland and it's also an older word for "black person") and "Kopf" (which means head). The word was first used in my birthtown of Leipzig (Beethoven's hangout place) in 1892. So more than 110 years ago. It was changed later from "kopf" to "kuss" (kiss because well it's a "baiser" which is french and means kissing) and they also chaned the older word for "black person" to the more wellknown "negro" and no, people tend to always mistake the German word "Neger" with the American N-word, which it's not. "Negro" means nothing more than "black" (lat. = "niger").

I asume it's about the same story in the Netherlands. It's just a name for a yummy mellowy confection. When I grew up I ate TONS of those things and I called them "Negerkuss" all the time and not ONCE did I make the connection between my treat and "black people". Not once until some "politically correct" people brought it up how racist we Germans are by calling it by that name. They even won and "Negerküsse" are now called "Schockoküsse" (chocolate kisses).

Now the same thing is happening in The Netherlands. The Negerzoen (same meaning as the German word) is now being renamed to "Buys Zoen" and I have no idea what it means, btw.

I personally think that these kind of names mean nothing literal to the wide masses but because some people like to start fights and be whiney these things become huge issues. Well screw all you political correctness whores, I'll still call it "Negerkuss" or "Negerzoen" cause that what I've ALWAYS called it. No meaning behind it other than that foamy goodness! Germany had a very small amount of "black people". To us they were exotic, interesting and something uncommon. We didn't have slavery or civil rights stuff like in the US. We had some colonies in Africa but lost them before ever doing as much crap to them like for example France, or great Britain. So we have a totally different view towards "black people" than for example Americans. Also I grew up in East Germany and we had close ties with many African countries in the 70s and 80s. We had exchange programs and Africans just came over and there was no racism or discriminations.

So get frakking over it! It's not like naming it differently will make racism stop in the world. How about US cops stop with shooting African Americans in the head? Seriously, stop the real crap instead of pointing fingers at chocolate coated marshmellows.

There, so now I shall buy "Negerküsse" tonight! Hah!

There's even things a Kuschi never thought she's see...

150 phones of the 150th Phone House store. Makes sense, no? but aren't they just the cutest thing? I wonder if we can adopt one. We'd have to shrink them, though.

Also in our most recently videotaped Episode of Escape to the Country it finally reached my microscopic brain that socalled "periodic" houses in the country do not always mean "cottage-y". A rather wealthy family sent out the presenter with a budget that could buy them a castle and not too surprisingly one of the houses they went to see was a Victorian/Gothic house. whereas through the Episode the house turned out to be much too big and horrible furnished/decorated it did have several periodic features that took my beath away. A huge wooden staircase that went up the 3 stories in a square, leaving the space in the middle a long toweresque hall of sorts. Lovely. It had little corner towers with bedrooms in them and great sitting rooms. Those are features all victorian houses have so I now want to retire in such.




And yeah I sort of also like the American-Victorian house style you see in New England.


And when you surf around the American Real Estate websites and look at their prices including the land you could just flip out. Everything there is so cheap!! We could buy such a huge piece of land and a giant house on it for the price of our current house over here. Too bad it's the country I would LEAST like to live in. That leaves Canada... hehe ^____^

Recovering Old Things

I know that picture is 2 years old but I seriously believe this is the best photo I have ever taken. Kinda sad but I think it's because it's the only time I ever moved my ASS to go to the right place at the right time. I really need to take more photos again since I just spent all that money on a new camera... o_O;

So yeah... that's my new week's resolution. Hehe.

Oh and I tried using conditional tags for this but that didn't work so here are two images linked without a comment then so that if you haven't seen America's Next Top Model the compilation Episode it won't spoil you but I just had to post these pictures:

Image 1 Image 2

Click at own risk.

And it keeps getting more and more disturbing o_O;

So after the Animatronic Chimp Head and the Down-Syndrome Baby dolls I present you with the Rectal Examination Trainer (click at own risk).

"A realistic representation of the buttocks, anus and rectum allowing for the practice of diagnostic skills associated with rectal examination."

Need I say more? -_-; I know it supposed to be for medical students but you know... well let's not go there...

In the weird foods department one can spot Green Tea KitKat and Black Caffeine Chewing Gum.

I do actually have a giant box of these Japanese Lime & Lemon Mentos which I got at Xenos. Funny stuff.

"This is Bob. He steals here."

Now there's a interesting way of selfjustice. In a small town in Belgium shop owners tend to plaster your face on their websites or shop windows if you take their goodies without pay. Well stealing = bad, so boohoo to you, that's the risk which comes with the "job". A judge however gave one of those shop owners a fine a while back for violating the privacy of the thief. Privacy shmivacy! Usually those shops are the only source of income for those shop owners and then some kid comes in and steals cigarettes or in the most recent case, expensive audio equipment and apparently the Police can't deal with them. What else is a shopowner supposed to do? Of course they ban the thieves from the shop but it's not like they have a force field that can be adjusted to only let people through that haven't stolen from you. And in all those cases the thiefs have been PROVEN to have stolen so it's not like the rule of "innocent until proven guilty" comes into play.

I say, plaster their faces up everywhere in your store if you like. If it has the garlic on a vamp effect and those kids will stay clear of your shop from now on, awesome! And why does that judge not rule that if the thief sets foot back into the store he's been banned from that he then can go sleep in a cell for a week with Igor. That's be a fun prospect for them, I'm sure.

Really, sometimes the whole privacy preserving crap goes way to far.


Edit: Okay now some smokers rant-time.

As you know my office seems to be the only one in this country, heck on this entire continent even, where people are allowed to smoke in their rooms. Well I just went to one of my supervisors to ask several questions and he was sitting there with 2 other collegues at a table next to a closed window, smoking like chimneys. I HAD to ask those question since my boss wasn't there and I needed to finish all the data for upload and publishing. So I went in and talked as fast as possible and ran out again as fast as I could. Still now my clothes, may hair and my skin reek of that shit! Argh!!! I need to go in there every other day to get new documents etc so I'm exposed to the smoke. Man it makes me so angry, why can't they just go to the designated smoking areas? And since all people in the staff union, as well as our president & vice president are smokers, this smelly policy will not change. It's so frustrating. Man standing in that room with all the smoke I could feel my life get sucked out of me. And then I get a negative comment during my evaluation talk about me not socializing enough with all of my collegues, and regardless of how fast and precise I work, overal my grade wasn't the best it could be because of me being "asocial" (i.o.w.: work instead if taking 4 coffee breaks per day) and meanwhile all those other people are much more asocial by exposing their non-smoking co-workers (who are in a majority, btw) to that disgusting shit they spew out. Yes, I'M the asocial one... *grumble grumble*

Animatronic Flattie

So I'm just doing some surfing and I come across this: SONY Turing Terrier If you look closely, he even has spots on his tummy. Just think the brown ears black and you have the Flatman!

On a different note, Final Fantasy XII hs gone on sale in Japan with all that comes with it.

I have no clue how and if I'll ever get it, since I'm kinda out-playstationed. I simply hate the memory sticks... give me a Hard Drive already!!! So let's wait for PS3 ^__^ which will be introduced in November.

And for the gadjet lovers under us here a playground. If things like Takara Walkie Bits Walking Turtle or Segatoys iZ iPod, MP3 Player Speaker get your hands all tingly... this is the place for you to spend drool time. ^___^

I'm still busy playing Lost in Blue on my Nintendo DS. The girl whose name is Skye in the English version is sorta a whiny pain in the arse. She doesn't seem to understand the concept of surviving and keeps letting the fire go out. Also I haven't caught a single deer yet, I have traps everywhere and those deer just walk around them. - angryface - But yeah, despite all that it's fun, you even get to dig out shells, potatoes, crabs, taros and you find bananas and coconuts... seems like a perfect island... if there wasn't that ingling that the we are not alone... O_o;

Introducing: Kirika

As you might have read on Angel's blog we had a little adventure trip to the awesome Build-A-Bear Workshop. First thing I noticed: feels like I'm in America. It's truly like Disneyland in the sense of gooeyness and staff attire as well as attitude. Kinda scary when they all start singing a song and you have to rub the little LITERAL heart (well as in valentines day shaped heart not surgical removed heart) and hold it to your forehead and make a wish while spinning around 3x with your eyes closed and then kiss it. I swear, I'm not kidding. Anyhoo... you also had to say character traits you want your bear/cat/plush to have, man I felt like in a AA group or something.

Nevertheless once we arived the clothing section (one whole step to the left) and I had spend 10 minutes finding underwear for my then still nameless cat my eyes fell on something that changed my entire attitude towards the whole experience:



Oh. my. God. So naturally that was gotten and then I also knew how to dress my kitty... just with the clothes that I'd wear. Easy!

So yeah, that's how I made Kirika. And yes, she's named after Kirika from Noir ^__^

But if you think Kuschi's field day of super fun was over, you are mistaken. At The Hague Central Station we have a Tiny Tokyo, which is a Japanese Sushi/Onigiri place with really awesome Sushi! So I had loadsa Sushi and Angel had an Onigiri and we got free green tea with it ^__^ I already signed up for their discount card so that should be in the mail soon. Heh.

Oh and if you're wondering what's going on with the layout, well I got lazy so I'm gonna screw around abit with this premade one and change some stuff but this is gonna be it ^__^ Much kinder to the eye, desu ne?

Japanese Rockmusic = no glam or pink bubbles

Okay I admit I have quite a lot of Anime Soundtrack however it's mostly instrumental stuff or the occasional rock or nice pop balad. I just cannot stand the plastic J-pop that much. So I looked into J-rock... and well it's just as bad.. well the glam J-rockers that is. It stinks that I have no idea how to search for good Japanese music.

Well it took me a while and I found several great rock bands that make great rock music: Asian Kung-Fu generation (Amazon delivered one of their albums yesterday ^__^), Tsubakiya Shijuusou and Bump of Chicken. Sadly enough their Albums are non-existent on the western market so I'd have to buy 2nd hand. I'll keep my eyes open and until then I have the couple of mp3s I COULD find and the streams on their websites... lol

But yeah... it's good stuff and it's sad that you can buy that plastic pop everywhere in Europe but the real music doesn't make it over here. That's also how people keep their predjudices.

So yeah... Just wanted to post some links so if you like rock music, check out their websites.

And for those who go to Japanese websites more often, here's my favourite tool ever: MOJI. You need to install the extension from the firefox website and then install the language kits from the Moji website. ^___^

Ja mata!!!!

Saving your face

So yeah we finally watched Saving Face and it truly is my favourite non-victorian gay girls movie (see how I refuse to say the l-word ha!). And by non-victorian I mean that Fingersmith stays my all time favourite just cause they are. so. cute!

But yeah saving face seemed so realistic to me eventhough I have no idea if chinese american communities are really like that since I'm neither chinese nor american but it was VERY convincing how the families worked. As common in these kind of movies it just kills you how they don't "tell" either each other or other people about their feelings and all that leads to is suffering. But in the end all is well... me &heart; happy endings.

Btw, I will NEVER ever look the same way at a candybar machine ever again... *g*

Other stuff we watch is Season 4 of the America's Next Top Model (yeah our networks here are behind 2 years), how can we not watch a show of 10+ girls in a house and hate half of them and adore the other... well we only adore one of them actually which is Kahlen Rondot. We got spoiled as to who'll win and it wasn't her, which in itself is a shame since we liked her best, but actually I think you're better off not winning since then you're not bound to a shitty contract. But yeah Kahlen seems the nice calm girl who is by far the most gorgeous of them all but has such low selfesteem that she'll never see that. Plus we get a huge gay vibe from her, she's just 2qt2bstr8, and well "I don't understand why I'm so scared of boys" *rolls eyes* Could have been my quote 6 years ago. But you know, it's just a TV show and you don't really know anything about these people, but yeah we were rooting for her!

On personal stuff we have been working on our secret little project all the past week and my sister has returned home to finish it off. It was so much fun having her over, she was so nice to even leave the room exactly as she found it. Nice to know we were both raised well... lol. So now the tefkaak will have to fully concentrate on getting that bathroom quoted again (the previous quote really was outrageously high), get the garden done, and also before next winter, get the last single glass window in our bedroom changed for a double glass one, since we were freezing our arses off last night.

Oh and I made the scooby gang in my Sims2 game which reminds me that my favourite Spike quote is when they all lose their memory and he's Randy Giles and he figures out he's English "bollocks, knickers, bloody hell I'm English, too!" or something like that. Well me &heart; Spike. :D :D :D And yeah I also made an Andrew and he alreday has a crush on Xander... hahaha

What's mew?

So I had a mini Karate Kid Marathon this week. I watched part 1 and 2 on Thursday when Angel was out at IKEA and I watched part 3 and 4 yesterday when Angel was at Anna's party. So I really liked part 1 and 2, those got me into the whole martial arts thing when I was a kid so it was all nostalgic but I hated part 3 and 4 which were too obviously money making oriented. What is it with Hilary Swank being in crappy fighting movies? -_-;

Other than that we finished watching all the Buffy episiodes. Season 7 is so final and brutal. I couldn't stop crying because of Spike and Anya since they're my favourite characters... well after Andrew who is my all-time favourite character in Buffy. And through watching all the seasons again I really grew to like Tara more. I always sorta thought she was a spaz but I liked her in season 5 and actually I liked her when her and Willow were "on a break" cause she finally wasn't Willow's girlfriend but she was her own person. So yeah I like that. Also it's weird. I remebered liking Faith and then I hated her in season 3 and 4. But in the end when she comes back in season 7, I liked her again. I hate principle Wood, he's a dopehead and Xander stays a big loser, though I feel bad for his eye. Dawnie would make a good watcher someday. Oh and Willow and Kennedy, well I have the feeling they don't belong together. I don't know. There doesn't seem to be a connection. Kennedy is such a brat , man you just wanna smack her around. And I can't remember her being so short o_O;
In the end, my favourite (non)couple is still Spike and Buffy. In my Sims game they WILL marry happily ever after and have little fangy offspring, you betcha! Oh and yeah I hate that Angel dude! Gah... how he keeps coming back and Buffy is all over him whereas, Angel is only good when he has a soul. Spike was already good before he got his soul back. Also Angel was a jackass when he was still alive and Spike was just a geek. So I'd rather take the geek thank you very much. :P Plus he looks way better in leather XD
So yeah, I'm really gonna miss Buffy-talk, I'll have to get used to normal English again, haha.

My sister is coming over to visit me on Tuesday. So I took off the rest of the week and we're gonna work on a secret project and also have loads of fun. We haven't hung out, just the two of us, in about 5 years so it's gonna be real quality sister time. :) It did result in a giant house cleaning fest. That's wasn't so much fun -_-; mreh....