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		<title>Five Things Wot I Has Learned This Week</title>
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1) It is impossible to listen to The Idle Race and be unhappy as a result. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Concept shamelessly stolen from angry!Gregor of Chaser fame due to a distinct lack of other more interesting ideas with which to blog about. That, and I have a migraine, so this is as creative as I&#8217;m getting.</p>
<p><strong>1) It is impossible to listen to The Idle Race and be unhappy as a result. </strong><br />
I didn&#8217;t think it would be possible to like a band after only hearing one song, but, well, I&#8217;m shallow. And &#8216;Days Of The Broken Arrows&#8217; is EPIC. Srsly.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s partly the music. It&#8217;s just so&#8230; freakishly awesome. And happy! Yay for psychedelic rock. XD But yes. Also, /random fangirl moment/ Jeff Lynne&#8217;s voice is sosososo prettiful! /sanity restored. &#8230;I might be slightly in love with his falsetto at the moment. &gt;.&gt;</p>
<p>Though I still adore them post-Jeff as well. Very prettiful music, considering it&#8217;s ~40 years old. &lt;3 *watches music collection age a decade* XD &#8216;By The Sun&#8217; is epic and prettyful and I luffs it so. &lt;3<br />
<span id="more-55"></span><strong>2) People are morons.</strong><br />
I know, I know, I knew this already, but seriously. People are too easily offended. And if you go looking to be offended and find yourself offended, then it&#8217;s no one&#8217;s fault but your own.</p>
<p>Seriously. When did we become so up ourselves as a nation? When did we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves?</p>
<p>*sighs*</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know. I suppose I&#8217;ve reached the point at which any outrage about The Chaser is one too many. Then again, this is the same country who were obsessed with Utegate for over a week.</p>
<p><strong>3) You can never stop playing Tetris. </strong><br />
No, really, you can&#8217;t. No matter how hard you try, once it&#8217;s sucked you in, you&#8217;ll never be free of it. I&#8217;m beginning to believe it&#8217;s unbeatable just to keep you playing for eternity. D:</p>
<p>&#8230;Did you guess I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of NES!Tetris lately? XD</p>
<p>I have been playing Tetris on various formats/consoles for *thinks* 14 years? I started on my brother&#8217;s old black and white GameBoy. I was away on holiday, playing it, and I almost beat it. Since then, I have wanted to beat it, just once, so I can put this addiction to rest. Alas, I have no conquered level nine yet. D:</p>
<p>One day, people! One day! D:!</p>
<p><strong>4) Stephen McDonell is my new hero </strong><br />
*swoons*</p>
<p>The Eyebrow Man is ABC&#8217;s China Correspondent, and really quite kickarsedly awesome. I&#8217;ve always had a lot of respect for foreign correspondents, Sally Sara being a particular favourite. I don&#8217;t envy the job they do, even as it needs to be done.</p>
<p>But why is Stephen so awesome? Well, I do love that he speaks mandarin, and you really can tell he has a great respect for the culture in which he&#8217;s working, and a passion for his job. I might tease him for his errant eyebrows and his awesome wardrobe, but really, he&#8217;s completely awesome.</p>
<p>I remember seeing a doco series on foreign correspondents and how they cope with what they see and experience. Sally Sara was on that and oh, man, I may have kinda fell for her. &gt;.&gt; *seems to have a thing for ABC journos*</p>
<p><strong>5) It helps to actually have five things to write in here before beginning.</strong><br />
I thought I had five, and then I kinda forgot the rest. Should I do this again (due to lack of other ideas), I&#8217;ll remember to plan it out before hand.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll do them every week anyway, in case I fail at thinking of some deep and meaningful topic to bitch about for 600 odd words.</p>
<p>And on that note, since I am tired and in need of sleep (when I finish listening to moar Idle Race), I might finish this semi-successful attempt at blog content. Huzzah! XD</p>
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