Been visiting youtube.com recently? These past two weeks or so, I've been having much fun with finding as much stand-up comedy as I possibly can. I have seen Eddie Izzard, Robin Williams and a whole bunch of Swedish comedians as well (of which I have to say that Magnus Betnér is probably the funniest Swedish comedian out there today, with Johan Glans as a close second). Right now, I'm amusing myself with George Carlin (which you can probably tell, because I've officially adapted his speaking pattern), but that's besides the point. 

The point here is the comments. Oh, holy mother of Christ. I beg your pardon, but what is it with stand-up comedy that makes the commenters behave like flaming dipshits? Half of them cannot spell, and half of them doesn't give a shit about the feed they've just seen. Now, George Carlin isn't exactly the nicest among men - he's rude, crude, at many times disgusting, but in my (and many others) point of view, he's still pretty funny. One person (male, female, I have no idea) disagreed, and said so. This was the response, and I quote:

""I had to stop under 2 minutes" HA! WHAT A FAGGOT! This is why you guys caved in both world wars, cause you're pussies. Keep watching "Taxi" you shit eating panzy." 

I think the guy who thought Carlin was an "arse" was French, hence the WW comment above. (Which could lead me into a whole other rant about Americans and the French, but I'll save that for another day.) Also, WTF is a panzy, you uneducated fuckwad?

Jesus Christ. 

I can't stand George Carlin, Dave Chapelle/Richard Pryor/Ray Romano is so much better. Well, if you don't like the man, don't watch all seven parts! George Carlin ruulz! Anyone with a different opinion SUCKS! If you cannot watch a stand-up number without getting offended by and lashing out at someone with a differing opinion, I think you need a reality check. Right. Fucking. Now.

The comments section has a purpose, which generally can be said to give the person who downloaded the video some sort of feedback, even if it is something as simple as "Oh, yes, I quite liked that, thank you, give us some more, please." It is not - and I repeat: NOT - the place for some sort of digitalized argument. People who feels the need to make replies like the one above needs to step away from the keyboard and go do something productive, real fast.

Seriously, things like this gets on my last nerve. It's like there's suddenly two camps - the ones who loves the show, and the ones who hate it. I don't mind that. But there really is no need to start insulting people in the comments section. Save that for some other place. Or even better, don't lower yourself to their level.

Ah. Well, now that's off my chest. I'm still sick, still feel like hot crap on wheels, but at least I'm not as pissed off anymore. Always something, eh? I think my tolerance level of stupidity lowers as my temperature goes up, honestly... not that I "suffer fools gladly" when I'm not sick either, but that's beside the point. 

Bleh. I hate being sick.

Oh dear.

I posted a rant on fanficrants an hour, maybe two, ago and obviously I touched some kind of nerve. Admittedly I could have expressed myself better, but now I know what to avoid until next time, right? 

What really fascinated me was the responses I got. My mailbox was flooded for the first time ever since I blocked fanfiction.net's messages about new chapters. Holy crap. I spent the past hour trying to explain where this rant came from to all and fucking sundry, just so this wouldn't get completely out of hand. Geez. *wipes sweat off forehead*

Burning subject, mpreg is, obviously.

Since I posted my HP ship list earlier today, I've been tinkering around Fictionalley, checking out other ships (besides my regulars) that seems interesting. But then I decided to check out the cookie jar on HMS Orange Crush and other things like that, and found a list of really bad excuses not to ship H/G. It seems that people claim that Harry and Ginny's relationship came out of the blue and that there was no foreshadowing or anything, among a lot of other more or less silly excuses. I laughed at most of it (because, really, durrr) but it kinda got me thinking.

You already know where I stand with RL/NT, and how incomprehensible I think that particular ship is, be it canon or not. Many of my reasons for not liking this particular ship is uncomfortably close to many of the reasons as to why people ship H/G. So, I went through the list of more or less confirmed ships in my head and my responses to them.

I've been a shipper of Ron/Hermione since the beginning. It's a reason the ship motto is "We believe in trees", because their attraction and love for each other is just that obvious and has always been. Harry/Ginny has been on my mind forever, I wanted Harry to ask Ginny to the Yule Ball long before Ron suggested/ordered it. Bill/Fleur was a little bit of a surprise, but thinking about it for a few moments, I could see why JKR would decide to do this, even if I would rather have seen Tonks as Bill's fiancée, but no matter. All of these ships had foreshadowing, just take the calculating look that Fleur bestows Bill in GoF, for instance.

Remus/Tonks? Came out of nowhere. I couldn't see it. I mean, before HBP I couldn't see a single instance where JKR hinted that a Remus/Tonks pairing could be a possibility, and I've read the books - all books - more than once. I mean, I'm sure that she had her reasons and I'm sure that there's probably some hints hidden here and there, but I just can't see them. Not even now that I know what I'm looking for. Where is it? 

Every single other pairing in that book I can on some level understand, even if it may not be what I would have picked. But when I read HBP for the first time, I read the last chapters with a feeling of "WTF is going on here? Tonks throwing herself at Remus? Where did that come from?" I read it and thought, "No! Bill, Charlie, Hestia, whoever, but not Remus!" And this wasn't because I wanted Remus/Sirius 4evah OMGslashylove! but because I just didn't see the match. I didn't become a Wolfstar shipper until a year later, and still RL/NT was incomprehensible to me. And when Remus was holding her hand in the end I just felt "No. Nooooo. Nononono. Remus, you are not that stupid. Let go of the jailbait!" Because she is more than ten years younger than he is (Remus was born in 1959, and Tonks in 1973; she was in the same year as Charlie Weasley.)

And even if I had objected on purely ship-based arguments, I could still have approved after ranting about it for a while. I mean, Remus does deserve to be happy, and if Nymphadora Tonks is the way to go, then so be it. Just because he's now with Tonks it does not negate any relationship he might have had with Sirius Black. There is such a thing as bisexual, after all. And I like Remus, I like him a lot (along with most of the fandom out there, because Remus is a very lovable guy), and I like Tonks as well. Just. Not. Together. Please?

Urgh. I feel like I need someone to explain this to me, but I don't know if I dare to go over to HMS Wotcher Wolvie on Fictionalley. First of all, they'll be unbearably smug, since it's pretty certain that it's canon now, and second, I'm not sure I want to be convinced. Ever.