Things that make you go WTF?

[Aeryenne Tederich]

Oh, believe me, I'm a huge fan of ACD's original stories, but it's just what I've always personally read into them. It's not a particularly popular view, I know, but it's what I get from his writing.

[helios]

Man, no-one gets platonic relationships anymore... If close relationships between people, such as between Holmes and Watson, were all sexual, I'd be getting so much non-heteronormative sex.

That said, Aeryenne, you're totally entitled to your own opinions and views into how you read ACD's stories. As an English Major myself, I am quite aware that meaning is as much read into a story as written. So really, it doesn't matter all too much what either of us read into the story, so long as we can both argue the point.

[Little_Red]

Oh, believe me, I'm a huge fan of ACD's original stories, but it's just what I've always personally read into them. It's not a particularly popular view, I know, but it's what I get from his writing.

You're not alone, Aeryenne.  I always did wonder how they celebrated closing a case back at Baker Street 

Man, no-one gets platonic relationships anymore... If close relationships between people, such as between Holmes and Watson, were all sexual, I'd be getting so much non-heteronormative sex.

You mean, you're not?  But kidding aside, I understand what you mean - I always wondered where people got the Frodo/Sam stuff from in LOTR.

[Atterton]

It is sad how people these days tend to have drinking buddies rather than friends.

[Aeryenne Tederich]

Man, no-one gets platonic relationships anymore... If close relationships between people, such as between Holmes and Watson, were all sexual, I'd be getting so much non-heteronormative sex.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do agree - I'm not one of those people who shoves together every fictional duo who happen to have a close relationship. Some positively baffle me, I must be honest (Kirk/Spock...?). But Holmes/Watson has always been one that made sense to me. Unfortunately, however, it doesn't seem to make sense to anyone else I accidentally mention it to!

Oh, believe me, I'm a huge fan of ACD's original stories, but it's just what I've always personally read into them. It's not a particularly popular view, I know, but it's what I get from his writing.

You're not alone, Aeryenne.  I always did wonder how they celebrated closing a case back at Baker Street 

Little_Red, I'm glad to hear it. We shall stand over here in our little minority-corner and feel content with our strange ways xD

[Little_Red]

Oh, believe me, I'm a huge fan of ACD's original stories, but it's just what I've always personally read into them. It's not a particularly popular view, I know, but it's what I get from his writing.

You're not alone, Aeryenne.  I always did wonder how they celebrated closing a case back at Baker Street 

Little_Red, I'm glad to hear it. We shall stand over here in our little minority-corner and feel content with our strange ways xD

Sounds wonderful!  "Look, Holmes just called the doctor "My Watson."  He must love him!" 

[Aeryenne Tederich]

Oh, believe me, I'm a huge fan of ACD's original stories, but it's just what I've always personally read into them. It's not a particularly popular view, I know, but it's what I get from his writing.

You're not alone, Aeryenne.  I always did wonder how they celebrated closing a case back at Baker Street  

Little_Red, I'm glad to hear it. We shall stand over here in our little minority-corner and feel content with our strange ways xD

Sounds wonderful!  "Look, Holmes just called the doctor "My Watson."  He must love him!"  

I blame growing up watching Jeremy Brett's portrayal in the Granada version - that man can make anything sound like innuendo...

(Also, this is the second time I've derailed a thread recently. I think I'm unwittingly going for some kind of record...)

[Picaroon]

I pre-registered before leaving for summer break and thought I was set. I come back to school, ready for class and... my schedule's completely blank and the system says I have no classes. I almost broke down. So, I spend hours hopping from building to building to try and get this mess resolved. Good thing the dean's cool and she sat there and helped me register for my classes again, going through everything I've taken up until now (86 credits) to see what I still need based on my major's curriculum. She even pressured two teachers into letting me in to their full classes. It took about two hours for her to help me as obviously people were interrupting by calling, emailing and going in and out for assistance, it being the first day of school. I had a laugh after all of the stress as my best friend needed to speak with the dean, too and came back three times, every time seeing me in there through the glass of the closed door. So, she had to schedule a meeting for tomorrow.

Also, my internet, computer login and ID card all didn't work. I had to go to IT twice. I also switched rooms, meaning, I unpacked and put my stuff away, then packed, unpacked and put my stuff away again, on a different floor. The good thing is that I managed to snag the last single room in the honors dorm. Being a first semester sophomore with junior credits has its perks. Freshmen and sophomores aren't allowed to have single rooms whereas I've had my own room since freshman year.

[Sorontar]

I greatly sympathise with you Picaroon. I have had various troubles with university admin over the years. At the moment I am waiting for the uni ethics committee to say how I should go about getting approval for the data collection I have been discussing with them through my supervisor (who is a committee member) for the last six months!

Hopefully this will all end before my scholarship does!

Sorontar

[OswaldBastable]

Pubs that advertise that they are showing live football games on huge TV's, and have bouncers on the door stopping people wearing replica football shirts from coming in.  WTF?

seriously?? words fail me 

[Indefinitive]

My dream. First half was zombie apocalypse. The second half, after I reset my alarm, was just me hanging out with S. Except I kept mixing up the two dreams, and kept thinking that the rest of the house was full of zombies, and he kept looking at me like, "Wtf is wrong with you?" because he obviously had no idea.

And my cat is all sorts of cracked out. I just found her in one of my dresser drawers. A closed one. Crackhead.

[Ezra Hogbin]

Finding out that I have to pay full price for the night school course I want to do, but an offender, serving  community sentence would have his course paid in full by the taxpayer, hang on, that's me!

WTF!!

Maybe I should assault a police officer. Then I could have my course paid for too!

[Atterton]

It might still be cheaper for society than having him return to a life of crime.

[Ezra Hogbin]

Round here he'd just be a better qualified criminal  

[Mr. Boltneck]

A bit of a startler in the local news reports: variations on headlines about "Battling the Curry Blaze." Well, I must try that restaurant, thought I.
Alas, this refers to a fire that broke out near Curry Canyon, California, a bit to the north and east of here. Alas, and also WTF?

[MWBailey]

Having worked in an architectural sign firm, I can say that Proteus is dead on. Pretty much all major public signs in a building get Braille. Also, not only does the law not try to spell out every exception, but for a shop, it may be easier to turn out 50 of the same thing, rather than 48 of one sign and 2 of another.
This does not, in and of itself, explain the presence of sprinkler nozzles in the shower room at my gym (entirely covered with tiles, and damp), but I suspect that the fundamental reasoning was identical.

how about a transparent braille tag on the outside of a plate glass window...15 floors up?!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(I know, I know, window washers, etc, but still...)

[Capt. Dirigible]

  I always did wonder how they celebrated closing a case back at Baker Street 

With a couple of lines of cocaine?

Pubs that advertise that they are showing live football games on huge TV's, and have bouncers on the door stopping people wearing replica football shirts from coming in.

There are many pubs that  strictly ban team colours at all times. Usually it's to avoid any fan aggro especially if the pub is near a major railway station or football ground. But then those sort of pubs really shouldn't show live footy. To advertise a live match and then ban anyone in team shirts is just daft!


There was a story in today's British  newspapers about some scummy chav tart and her equally scummy boyfriend who were arrested and went to court (but escaped imprisonment somehow) because , whilst drunk she urinated on a War memorial in broad daylight and then gave her boyfriend oral sex.
When they arrived at court there was a 'guard of shame' made up of war veterans lining the steps. When they emerged from court with just a community service charge they boyfried put a finger to his top lip in a Hitler 'tache impression, gave a Nazi salute to the veterans and shouted "Up The IRA" and "F*ck the British Army!!"

Now I'm not condoning their behaviour in anyway..I think they truly are scum (and sincerely hope that Mr Scumbag  gets met in a dark ally one night but a couple of 6ft squaddies) however the judge in the case said that the people whom the memorial was built to honour fought for freedom and their (the scum) actions is an insult to them, their memory and everything they fought for. Fair enough...I have no argument there.
But he also said "'You have got the right to do whatever you want, think whatever you want and say whatever you want. Those rights were won by people who fought for us and died for us."

is it just me or are those words a bit of an oxymoron? She clearly ISN'T free to 'do whatever she wants' because she wants to piss on public monuments and give her boyfriend oral sex in public...and she ended up in court over it.

Again..I do not condone their behaviour at all..they are disgusting scum..but I thought, under the circumstances, the judges choice of words were poorly chosen.

Full story here

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

They're utterly reprehensible specimens of the worst Britain has to offer, and it's a terrible shame that an appropriate sentence wasn't placed upon them.

[OswaldBastable]

They're utterly reprehensible specimens of the worst Britain has to offer, and it's a terrible shame that an appropriate sentence wasn't placed upon them.

Indeed hardly making an example of them is it

[arcwelder]

Sort of mixed feelings. Service to the community is probably appropriate when the problem is disrespect of the community...but I'd be inclined to increase both the length and the onerousness of the service when there's obviously no contrition as a result of the existing penalty. Mucking out the sewers for a few months ought to be a good start if they don't like the more mundane variety.

[Ezra Hogbin]

When they arrived at court there was a 'guard of shame' made up of war veterans lining the steps. When they emerged from court with just a community service charge they boyfried put a finger to his top lip in a Hitler 'tache impression, gave a Nazi salute to the veterans and shouted "Up The IRA" and "F*ck the British Army!!"

Erm..WTF!?!?!

Bring back the stocks.!

Or make sure that, on doing their "Community Service" that (a) they are doing a service for the community offended. Maybe cleaning the loos at the local British Legion.
And (b) Let us see them doing it! What happened to the idea about offenders wearing High Vis vests whilst carrying out their community service?

[proteus]

OK, all this talk of propery penalties and jurisprudence is wandering toward politics now.  Might be best to let that rest.

[MinistryOfTruth]

...Some positively baffle me, I must be honest (Kirk/Spock...?)...

Apparently, though, that's what's supposed to be read into it, up to a point.  The story goes that Rodenberry wanted to have a few openly gay characters in the original Star Trek, but the studio executives threw a fit and wouldn't let him.  In order to surreptitiously get back at them, he threw in as much gay innuendo (such as having Kirk behave like the stereotypical "repressed homosexual", jumping into bed with every woman he comes across to try and prove to himself that he's straight but unable to sustain a lasting relationship with any of them) and homoeroticism (I mean, how often do Kirk and Spock have to take their shirts off and wrestle each other?) as he could get away with between the two leads without making the executives suspicious.

Also:

The fact that it turns out someone's attempting to hack my computer and change my IP address. Ah, hell no.

Why would someone want to hack into someone's computer to change their IP address?  Also, how do you find out if something like this is happening?

[AlegrahEredschtadt]

It was through my internet. :/ It was so they could kick me off my wireless internet. I found out by the fact that my computer kept coming up and telling me that my IP address was in correct and that I was interfering with my internet connection. And someone else was working through my modem, which I could tell by the flashy lights. But it's been fixed for maybe two weeks.

[Mr. Boltneck]

Thank you for that explanation of the undercurrents in Star Trek, MoT. I had never heard that, and it certainly jibes with some other issues Rodenberry put in.
Where did I put that collection of Orner's Ethan Greene cartoons? There was one with an aside about Star Trek that always cracks me up.