Shinnewn ([info]ambiviolent) wrote,
2005-08-10 10:20:00
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No Spoilers are Contained in this Harry Potter Spoiler Rant


What is it about people that makes them think they are funny or edgy or hip OR WHATEVER the heck it is they think they are when they give spoilers? There's someone on dorkottawa chortling over driving by Chapters and screaming Harry spoilers at the top of their lungs!

Harry Potter spoilers abound. Cheflad heard one on the radio 1 1/2 days after the book came out (he was not done yet, and noble enough not to spoil me who hadn't even started). [info]beable told me about a moron who posted huge no-warning spoilers in lj. I have heard about it being posted in giant letters on a church sign.

There is this place on-line selling t-shirts with the main spoiler on it - blazing yellow on black with the smug caption "I just saved you 4 hours and $30" underneath. No, wanker, you did not. You spoiled my fun, that is why it is called a spoiler!

If I look at a lot of QAF sites, I know I might spoil the fifth season for myself. I don't want to spoil Serenity either. So I'm careful. Who can avoid looking at a friggin' sign or t-shirt? Not funny, not witty, not urban edgy or grand; some people get off on ruining other's fun - that is all there is too it and it's pathetic. And the church? "Boo-hoo, we can't get it banned so we'll be pissy." Pissy, pathetic, passive-aggressive: great things to associate with your place of worship.


Grrr.
Tags: in which i am filled with rage

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[info]touhou_fuuhai

August 10 2005, 16:58:47 UTC 6 years ago

Sometimes they feel they are being assholes and it makes them feel good. The best cure to being miserable for some is to try to make others even more miserable. Sometimes they're just fanatics who take things to far. But mostly they're people who cannot fathom why someone else should be different. Most people like to be different by being the same as everyone else, I think the people who spoil books for others are probably trying to make everyone else like them by ruining for others things they themselves do not find pleasurable. I could be wrong though.

[info]ambiviolent

August 10 2005, 17:54:41 UTC 6 years ago

You could very well be wrong, and yet what you say makes sense. Troy used to have a heck of a time trying to read on a bus or at a stop sometimes. "Say, you're reading a book." "Yep." "What is it?" "Science fiction/fantasy/alternate history". Followed by a bundle of comments "For school?" "Weird." "What do you think of the Sens's chances?" etc. etc. It seemed to be the goal of many to ridicule him for reading. Or pull him into long, pointless discussion about anything but literature because that must be why he was intently reading on the bus!

[info]beable

August 10 2005, 18:05:43 UTC 6 years ago

Only quasi-related, one of the tings I miss vastly about the now-closed Basilisk Dreams bookstore was the way one of the owners, whenever someone walked in would look at them and ask them if they knew that this was a science fiction bookstore. She'd do this in a way that always sounded vaguely menacing, as if she hoped to scare away her customers, which of course was not her actual intent.

I did have great fun the day I asked her if this meant she did not have the latest John Grisham novel, or anything of significance by Sidney Sheldon. The ensuing discussion when I went up to the cash half an hour later (despite having gotten a hairy eyeball when I showed no signs of leaving after she told me they didn't carry those sorts of books there) with my usual pile was amusing. She didn't see that her tone was off-putting to potential customers and yet never was I asked after that day if I knew I was in a science fiction book store.

[info]meloncolliepoet

August 10 2005, 21:09:15 UTC 6 years ago


When I went in there (I think that's where I got this one hard cover copy I was looking for from...) I didn't get any response at all.:( Do I come across as non-mundane? It'd make sense, I suppose. It'd explain why I have difficulties fitting in with mundanes, why puppies and small children like me, and why pickled turnips are yummy. It's just something in my aura.


[info]ambiviolent

August 11 2005, 13:10:38 UTC 6 years ago

Ummm.......................................yes.
You positively seeth with non-mundanity.
Perhaps it's the giant sunglasses, dressing completely in black or the wolves or giant gaming symbols on your shirts.
Whatever it is, people get the message.

[info]beable

August 11 2005, 14:41:36 UTC 6 years ago


Turnips are turnips, and prunes are prunes, whether you eat them with forks or you eat them with spoons.

[info]beable

August 16 2005, 19:25:07 UTC 6 years ago


(escalation is a time honoured tradition)

Turnips are indeed turnips, everyone knows that.
Prunes are likewise prunes, though this is kept a deep dark secret.

Protect my turnips and I will follow every pumpkin.
Honor my turnips and I will answer big mad monsters.
The snark is a boojum, the pear is in the apple tree.
All windows are glass, all your misquoted biblical references are belong to us.
The zuchini has proclaimed independence.


(This message bought to you by the black cherry halls society)

[info]beable

August 16 2005, 19:26:25 UTC 6 years ago


Puppies and small children lick^H^Hlike you?

Are they made out of turnips?

[info]ambiviolent

August 11 2005, 13:08:22 UTC 6 years ago

Was it Basilisk that Troy and I went into one day as it was staffed by two guys? I can't recall - I do recall we were the only customers in the store. The guys immediately did everything in their power to draw Troy into gamer/sci-fi conversation while refusing even to make eye contact with me. After awhile, to be creul, I went up to the desk with a gentle smile and stood in front of them. They turned away rapidly, almost desperately. After that it was fun to slowly herd them this way and that for awhile until I grew irriated and left.
I was not impressed.

[info]beable

August 11 2005, 14:39:40 UTC 6 years ago


I never had that problem with them, but I will definitely concede that they were an unsocialized bunch and I don't recall ever walking in there with a guy.

The unsocialized non-owner guy mostly didn't acknowledge my presence (which is FINE by me, BTW) but was capable of conversing when I went up to talk to him, particularly when I was bringing up "science fiction-y" conversation or the Flash Girls.

The unsocialized owner guy (as distinguised from the unsocialized owner woman - his wife) was heavily amusing the one day I remember him being there when I was the only customer in the store. He talked my ear off about how he was great friends with Harlan Ellison. The only thing that could have made it funnier is being talked about how he was great friends with Spider Robinson (ask Joel for the story on this if you haven't heard it).

[info]ambiviolent

August 16 2005, 18:56:48 UTC 6 years ago

That reminds me, do you still have "Rum and the Legend of the Muggles?" or whatever it is...the eye-wateringly horrible book by that lame chick who claims that the Harry Potter author ripped *her* off. Joel bought it for you in fun. Do you still got it or has it bit the dust?

[info]beable

August 16 2005, 19:18:49 UTC 6 years ago


Yes, I forgot about it on Sunday when we are out. I don't know exactly where it is (I was literally unable to finish reading it) but I have it somewhere and when I find it you are welcome to keep it.

[info]ambiviolent

August 17 2005, 13:17:59 UTC 6 years ago

Oh joy. As Cheflad has a weakness for horrible movies, I have one for bad writing. And I don't mean run-of-the-mill "I can do better than that" bad writing, I mean gasp and hold your nose, "every cry of 'dear God what is that thing' will be yours to cherish" kinda pain bad.

Joel assures me this book can deliver.
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