Anyone with any interest has probably seen this already, but if there are any Supernatural fans on my f-list who want to feel better about the batshittery of their fandom, or any House fans who still can't get over that crazy tribute booklet-thing that was made for Robert Sean Leonard and his fiancée, then the Torchwood fandom has manufactured an entire fucking book to showcase their insanity. 400 pages of boohoohooing at its entitled best. They even quote Margaret Thatcher. Not even ironically.

It's something special.

And while I'm here, some things I liked from the Odd Section of Digital Spy:

Spanish region to teach masturbation
La Vanguardia columnist Pilar Rahola added: "Extremadura should be pleased with itself. It may have the most unemployed young people in Spain, but they will be the best at masturbation."

Man attempts sex with toy giraffe
Sergeant Bob Smith said: "He was pretty enamoured with it and decided he was taking it home. Then he turns and sees one of our officers and he puts the giraffe down and walks away.
"Later in the evening, he did it again. Maybe he had struck out with all the women at the bar and this giraffe was looking pretty good."

Female tortoise is actually male
O'Konowitz explained that large tortoises' reproductive organs are not usually visible during examinations, but in this case "became visible to the staff".

Police cross-dress "to catch thieves"
According to the Asahi daily, the all-male police group in the central Aichi prefecture walks the streets in high heels, short skirts and wigs while holding designer bags.
One unnamed 26-year-old officer said: "It's cowardly to target women who are weak."
Another 25-year-old policeman admitted that he "panicked" when a male driver propositioned him from his car.
[...]
It is claimed that no thieves have yet been caught by the team, though an Aichi police spokesman refused to comment to AFP on the report.

Girls' pink toys is "colour apartheid"
Ed Mayo said: "There may be worse things to worry about, but I feel this colour apartheid is one of the things that sets children on two separate railway tracks. One leads to higher pay, and higher status and one doesn't.
"Does it ultimately lead to the 15% pay gap suffered by women further down the line? That's far too simplistic, but I feel gender roles are becoming polarised far too early on."
An Early Learning Centre spokesperson said: "Come down to Early Learning Centre and see for yourself the huge range of toys in an assortment of colours.
"Customers can choose a red kitchen, a blue kitchen, a blue cash register, a yellow dolls house or a gorgeous farm."

Pensioner escapes jail after sex with horse
The 71-year-old retired farm worker of The Crescent, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty at Teesside Magistrates' Court to outraging public decency by committing a lewd act with the animal and was sentenced to a 24-month community order.
Brockbank said: "The witness was shaken and disgusted by what he saw. He was the owner of the horse.
"He picked up a stick and struck the defendant. That startled the horse, causing it to run off, dragging the defendant with it."

First, thanks to lennongirl for the v-gift. I'd send one back, but you look like you'll get snowed in at this rate? They need a snowplough one.

I forgot to do my sexy men in santa hats calender. Haven't really had much time for LJ at all this weekend, been too busy being excited over the World Cup draws, and the Davis Cup, and why won't Bremen beat Köln, and I've had some stuff to do for uni too (suddenly, last week of term, they want us to start doing work that has to be handed in and everything, what's with that?).

Anyway, Spain won!! ^_^


4^th, 5^th, and 6^th Dec. (and maybe also 7^th and 8^th if I forget them too)

Ginormous trophy for Feli to put his hands all over, but still he wants to put his on top of Ferru's. Subtle as ever, Feliciana.

Watching Bremen's match on the shittiest quality webstream ever, I thought "Wiese's looking awfully pale today". Turns out, wasn't Tim at all, but this pretty little thing:

Sebastian Mielitz, more usually seen playing for the second team in the 3. Liga.
*licks*
Really not too bad of a first show from him either, except for a couple of mistakes. ...Well, a few mistakes. But he's young, he'll learn.

I'm most pleased for Rosi <3
He's been getting so much flack lately (mainly because he's been playing so woefully badly, but you know). Nice to see him being all awesome again.


And it's probably just a bad shot/angle, but Frings' thighs are looking very out of proportion today.



Now to find someone to stick a Santa hat on.

2^nd Dec.


(...Please don't look at the background behind the hat, it's awful even by my poor photomanipulation standards. But it was the best I could do in Paint.)

Also, does anyone have any other Santa hat pictures to stick on stuff, because it's going to be boring if they all wear the same hat, right? Or maybe you aren't looking at the hats, idk.

Had a "why isn't the an advent calender of sexy men in Father Christmas hats?" discussion on a forum today, so I'm doing one. Or at least saying I will. First day done anyway.

1^st Dec.

^^The reviews on last.fm shoutboxes make me lol so much.

I totally misread Reese Witherspoon as Reece Shearsmith, so this headline on DigitalSpy made me 0_o for a moment.


Oh, and last call for Christmas cards, leave a comment on this post if you'd like to exchange festive wishes in a tangible medium. Doesn't matter where you are in the world, I'll post crap to anywhere.

(Like, I saw the funnest cards in Clintons, but they were £6 for 4. That's extortion! So you all will be getting cheaper, but still very fun, cards. Hope you don't mind.)

Gots to get me some Werder Bremen baubles. ;)

I should go to bed.

Wha'?

BBC Sports, there. The Olympic Broadcaster.

*snort*
Frings not so impressed with the sparkles?

Wiese being stood between the palest guys in the picture just adds to the lolarity.

My dream last night was of Wuthering Heights, but Frings was Cathy, Wiese was Linton, and Heathcliff kept switching between being Ballack and Diego. Thankfully it didn't get as far as any kids being born, because I really don't think Wiese and Frings would have attractive children. Orange and hairy isn't a good look on a baby. Well, not a baby human. Baby orangutans make it look adorable though, so it might work. ....Jesus Christ, what am I saying.

Anyway, forget Frings and co., because omg, look who might possibly, maybe be back for the World Cup, perhaps:

Holland hope World Cup will tempt Edwin van der Sar out of retirement

It's probably false hope, but I am very excited. And what with Ruud staking his interest too, maybe I'm not going to have to spend this WC looking out for younger slashy guys at all. The old ones will still be going strong. (...I'll still be looking for new ones.)

Why I hate Maple T.A.
Part 1 in a probably everlasting series.



Are you fucking kidding me, Mr Computer??

I was going to post about how I retract my scorn over the Verbotene Liebe anniversary episodes because they were actually quite good, and then do a little sadpandaing over Wawrinka's loss and why he inexplicably continues to wear bright yellow, even though it makes him look very pasty.

But, er, Robert Enke's dead. (+ here in English)

0_o (that's a sad 0_o, ftr, but how do you do sad and jesus-shitting-christ in one emoticon?)

Really don't know what to say.


My internet is being so unprecedentedly bad at the moment that this may have posted about 400 times by now, if so, I apologise. I don't know how many times I've pressed refresh in the last two hours...too many.

I'm also more than a little appalled by the comments on a certain forum about how Wiese would probably be pleased by the news (...Enke that is, not my internet) so that he has better chances of staying in the NT. I know he isn't well-liked or anything close to, but I'm not being derisive to Hamburg implies he wants his competition to die... Stay classy, guys.

k, well Stan lost. :(

But have a fun gif of him staring at Federer anyway. Watch how he realises his staring, turns towards the camera, but then his eyes drift back.

Gregor and Luise! Marrying! Finally!

...Yeah, I don't care.

But the bonus video on the website is fun, if you like to watch Jo and Thore looking at each other like they love each other. Which I do.



I had a massive Jo/Thore RPS dream the night before last actually, which was weird. I was reading fanfiction before I went to bed, and it was basically just one of the stories I'd just finished, but with Jo and Thore instead. They fell in love, but didn't tell each other and Jo quit to do plays to try and make everything easier, but Thore was all like ":O no!" and tried to get him back by telling him how he felt, Jo was like Roman on AWZ and thought Thore was just saying it for the job, and then Kris from Hollyoaks came to be their relationship councillor. It would have been nice if it had ended happily. Sadly, there was an explosion, and a coyote ate Uncle Lars. Such is dreams.

First of all, I actually need a cheetah cub. And a Usain Bolt. But I want the giant kitten first.


Stan won!! He did a bit of being adorable and injured first... (I defy anyone to look at his eyes in this picture and not want to hug him.)

But then he did actual winning. And 15 aces isn't bad either, that's more than the number of double faults he did against Lapentti at the USO anyway.

The commies on the bet365 stream were literally the funniest thing I've heard in ages. They kept talking about love being in the air between Stan and the trainer, and Stan's parents' organic farm, and the roller-coaster near their hotel, and criticising Stan's shirt.

Feli also won, woohoo! I can't find pictures of that, so here have some beach pretty. (That disguise is phenomenal, you'd hardly know it was Verdasco!)

I jest, obviously it's not Nando. But what sort of straight man who has boobs waved in front of his eyes chooses to look to the near-distance?

Whilst I'm Armada-ing, I absolutely love this picture of Feli and Ferru. Look how protective Feli's being! Ferru's all like "hey pretty birdie!" and Feli's like "whoa, stand back..." and has his racquet poised to hit it if it gets feisty.


I did have other trhings to say, but I forgotted them while staring at the pics. Soz.

Oh my lord. Aaron Hunt deserves some kind of medal for salvaging that. Christ. All these "Englishe Woche"s (...why are they called that?) are taking their toll on the Bremers, I think. But look at this:

It'll only last until the end of the Schalke vs. Leverkusen match, because whatever the result there, one of them will finish with at least 23 points. But my God. That last minute was a miracle.
Here's Fringles looking hot (in contrast to his playing)

I now entirely ship Marin/Schäfer.

I love how Marin is constantly nearly getting into fights goalkeepers who are about 50 times his size. He's like one of The Borrowers. But a little more aggressive. Maybe he has whatever that thing's called, small-man syndrome. Or maybe he just likes taking advantage of the fact that no one will hit a child.


Verbotene Liebe now,
The people on GODT are always going on about how VL aren't listening to the fans enough, but I'm beginning to think they're doing entirely too much of it. If Jasmin Lord hadn't won that Most Popular Actress award (incidentally, does anybody know who the other options were? because unless it was between her, Stella off AWZ and Emily off GZSZ... no, even then she shouldn't have won it) then she wouldn't be in every scene in every story all of which are centred around her. The Producers must have thought "hey, let's put our most popular actress with our most popular couple and we'll get the best storyline EVER" when what they should actually have done is left Rebecca in New York. I want Ollian. (Or Olligor.) Not Chrollibecca.

But on the other hand, I absolutely love Helena/Tristan. Especially Helena. She's gorgeous.


And happy Halloween/Allantide/Saturday everyone :)
I hope you're all having a nice day.

Semi-final bitches! He's barely got past the first round of anything for about 6 months, and then he pulls this off. Go, Feliciana, go! (Incidentally, feels a bit weird calling him Feliciana now he has his new manly hair and beard. I wonder if Nando approves?)

Anyway, here's a picture of him looking hot:


And here's a picture of Soderling looking sad. (I'm sorry Robin, I still love you. Just not as much as the sexy Spanish one.):


Handshake time:


Now he just has to beat Nadal...

Hope Kolya beats Djokovic, too. A Feli/Kolya final would be almost as good as the Nando/Stan one I had in my bracket. Plus, Feli might be able to beat Kolya, what with Kolya having a massive crush on him and all. Except I guess without the pretty hair, he might not be able to distract him so well, idk.

:'((((



I was really actually slightly beginning to think he might have possibly had a chance here. Then he goes and strains his abdomen.

The illusive Stan/Feli final will have to be saved for another day.

But OMG, look at the tendons in his wrist!

I can't decide whether it's awesome or gross. Maybe both.

For anyone who wants to see the pathetic state of my bracket now, it's behind the cut.

( Who do I support now, Feli or Soderling? )

( If you just want to see pictures of Stan, look behind this cut. )

Bonus Stan/Andy:

Watching Stan's match earlier almost gave me an aneurysm. Man.

That second set tie break, I was convinced he was a goner.

And the last game of the third before the TB.

But that last tie break was a thing of beauty, especially when Stan did that second ace and the commie was all like "Yeah, Wawrinka means business!". It was the same commentator who did one of his matches against Delpo earlier this year (I think Rome, but maybe Madrid), I think he quite likes Stan. Or maybe he just likes the miraculous comebacks, he does talk a lot about determination. Thank God it worked out in Stan's favour this time (although I do remember being quite impressed at the time that Stan managed to hold Delpo off until the end, even though he spent half of that match playing like he'd never seen a racquet before).

I should have been doing Maths homework this evening.

Instead, I've spent the last 6 hours reading/watching interviews with a certain Mr Wawrinka to calm me down from earlier whilst listening to Boyzone songs (...oh Stephen ;_; (because I was asked to translate on Facebook, Stephen Gately dying is basically like Nick Carter dying, if that helps any of you Americans who aren't familiar with the mid-to-late-nineties-Irish-boyband-scene understand the gravity of the situation)).

See, I always feel quite sorry for Stan, that in basically every interview he has the interviewer always asks about Federer, and sometimes Stan seems a bit like "yeah, Rogi's great, but if you just want to know about him then interview him, not me" although he's always far too polite to say that outright. But, then I noticed that even if the interviewer doesn't say anything at all about Roger, Stan still mentions him anyway. Sometimes completely superfluously and awkwardly. Which makes me rethink my attitude to the quote from last week. Maybe the interview did actually go "So do you mind playing indoors instead of out?" "I don't care, indoors or out, it's all the same to me. And I don't care that Roger isn't here either. I mean, is he not here? I actually hadn't even noticed, because I so don't care about him not being here. It's not like he promised to take me out to dinner in Japan or anything." rather than there being a second question in there like I assumed.

I also think it's very, very sweet that after his loss to Stan in Monte Carlo, Roger doesn't get all "he only won because I played badly". I mean, you can see sort of he wants to. If it had been Murray he'd lost to, he would have had a field day with it. Or I guess basically any other player. But with Stan he's basically falling over himself to keep saying that it's Stan's win not his loss. If that's not love, I don't know what is.

(Is it wrong for me to lol every time Stan says "very happy"?)

Anyway, more pics from today's fuckery:
( Cut time. )

Not looking forward to the match against Roddick.

However:

http://tennis-atp.blogspot.com/2009/10/japan-open-wawrinka-and-greul-advance.html
"It makes no difference to me indoors or out," said Wawrinka. "I don't care if Roger is here or not," he added. "I'd be happy to have a friend to go to dinner with but it's all the same to me."

I assume he was asked some sort of question pertaining to Roger's absence, and was just answering it, rather than him suddenly blurting that out unprovoked. But either way, I think the lady doth protest a little too much.

...and also loses to Monfils. *sad*

A question first, does anyone have either of these images any bigger than thumbnail size? I know I've seen them bigger somewhere, and have no idea why I only have saved the teeny versions.

Assuming thee file names I gave them are correct, the first is from the 2008 World Group playoff, the second from an article from November 2006. Cheers for any help.

Anyway, today's match. *sigh*

On the plus side, Stan's hair was a lot better/adorabler/funnier than in yesterday's Doubles. Compare:

Although maybe his hair only looked flat yesterday because he was stood next to Tsonga the whole time, idk.

On the downside, even though it was a good first set, and he played well at lots of times in the second and third, his cock-ups were badly timed. I thought maybe the racquet smashing (which was quite Koellerer-y, in a way) would get rid of some of his frustration. But, not really.

I'm thinking maybe it wasn't worth missing two lectures just to watch it. (...but how could I leave?)



( High-Res pics from today and yesterday behind the cut. )

Go, Marat!!