23 July 2009

Grr...

I just wrote an entire post, only to have it disappear in an internet drop-out thing because the autosave thing didn't work for some reason. So, to summarise what I had written, because I'm too lazy to type it all out again at this time of the evening...

* Amazing Race is back. Casting seems a little anonymous this time around, but hopefully some of them will turn out to be interesting. First team to be eliminated were being awful to each other the whole time, and I won't miss them.

* Shopping at the DFO outlet mall is a terrifying experience for those of us who are bad at shopping, and find it hard to resist the lure of a 'Discount' sign. I was persuaded to get a nice pair of Skechers (my first non-running-shoe style casual shoes in many many years), and managed to find them just before starting to twitch from sensory overload as far as bargains and '70% off sale' signs were concerned.

* 'Dance your A$$ Off' is a horrible idea, and I have no idea why anyone would want to watch 200kg specimens of humanity clad in lycra, jiggling and twirling on their TV screens.

* Tour de France is an amazing feat of endurance, skill, and stunning French scenery. I'm impressed, as I am at this time every year. Now if only Australia would win the cricket...

* It's far too cold here at the moment, but on the up-side, winter has passed its halfway mark as of last week, so it should all be uphill from here.
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  1. Which season of TAR are you getting now? The last one that wrapped up stateside was satisfying but it wasn't very exciting.

    Unless someone geeks out over it, I don't think very many people here know anything about the Tour de France except when some blurb comes up about Armstrong. Although, I do like watching it during the Olympics. Hmmm... maybe it's because I'm biased against France?

    And it is cold here too! Mid to low twenties for you metric people. I'm lovin' it. I suppose if my leg wasn't broken, though, I'd be wishing it was warmer so I can head to the beach.

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  2. We're getting the TAR season with the deaf guy and his mum, the 'little people' brothers/stuntmen, and a collection of (to my eye) reasonably anonymous others... I think it's reasonably recent, but may not be the latest one.

    And it seems that most of the rest of the country agrees with me on the concept of 'dancing with obese people' - it's been canned after one episode...

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  3. It's an American show? Ha. Are you sure we didn't rip it off the Brits? We have a tendency to do that nowadays. I think that its comparative success in a America would proably have to to do with the show finding it's target audience--Oprah Winfrey's.

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  4. Nope, definitely American. And America now owes me a bottle of eye-bleach, given that I accidentally watched one of the promos for the show... urgh.

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