Hi I'm bored

Casting Call meme from butterbuns, trollprincess and florahart. (Overwhelming evidence suggested I do this.)

I think it's inevitable that as we read each other's journals we create mental pictures of each other. Post this on your own journal to find out who your friends see when they read about your life.

Two Rules:
1) The person must be in the movies or on TV (but doesn't have to be an actor/actress). The person can be specific to a role (e.g. Jennifer Elhe's Elizabeth Bennent) or just the person themself.
2) You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments.

These castings can be based on things in the person's personality or on physical traits you know they have.

I'm putting this up for two reasons. A) I want someone else to post it because I already have an answer for that person (is it you? maaaaaaybe.). B) I want to know what you think.

Anyone who posts this will get an answer when I go on lunch - I'm not ganking not intending to play. I just can't think that quickly at the moment.

I have the right to be a fool

Everyone's heard of ICE for your cell phone, right? It's the thing where you put "ICE" in as a new contact and list a phone number and that's who the paramedics or whoever call if you get attacked.

I have two problems with this.

A) The email I just got about it implies that it's some sort of chain email (I had a friend who was attacked out jogging and she had 12 stitches in her head and ICE let the medics notify her family, blah blah blah) which sounds a hell of a lot like "Mrs Smith didn't forward this letter and died ninety hojillion years later after a constant run of bad luck, when a blender fell on her head. AVOID THIS FATE AND SEND THIS LETTER TO THIRTY SEVEN PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN THE NEXT TEN SECONDS.

Besides, who the hell goes jogging in Compton, anyway?

B) "Emergency services know what this number is and will use it immediately." Considering that there was an article about it in the Times or something THIS WEEK where the Seattle Fire Department DIDN'T know about it - I don't think so.

But those are, in the scheme of things, mere quibbles, mere lagniappe to the main problem. If, for some reason, paramedics decide that they need to look at my phone to figure out who to call, I would really, really hope that the listings "Mom", "Mom - Mobile", "Dad" and "Dad - Mobile" might tell them who to call. This is as opposed to "Rick", "Dot - Mobile", "Matthew", "Abaddon" - any of the other numbers, often with international dialing codes, that I have in my phone.

And yes. This is me being difficult. But when you have a phone as special as mine is, you like to be difficult. See, my phone has a one-touch unlock. I am, additionally, the person who bent a brand new debit card within hours of receiving it by jamming it into a pocket that was already full. I have been known to get more than one phone call saying "Your phone is calling mine. Take it out of your pocket and put it away."

The next phone I get, I suspect I will have to leave my beloved blue Siemans behind because I realistically need a three button unlock on my phone. I do not have 911 programmed - if I need 911, the chances that I can dial it are better than the chances that I can find it in my phonebook that quickly - because I know it will get called. If I do call it, I have to clear it out of the memory immediately - or it might get called again.

The final reason, though, that I disagree with ICE is that it's stupid. If you, let's say, get a lifethreatening injury, the paramedics AREN'T going to wait to find out if it's ALL RIGHT to treat you before they start. The idea that ICE saves time - whose time does it save? Mine? I've just been hit in the head by an Easter Bunny. My schedule is newly clear. The paramedics? The twenty seconds it will save are not that important. If we're talking make-or-break on medical services, then we need to fund more of those. The doctors? Hello Hippocratic Oath or something similar! They treat FIRST and ask questions LATER.

So. There is NO net benefit I can see. Argument of this contention is welcomed, though not if you're going to phrase the comment in terms of a chain email.

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Some kids need grief counselling after reading Harry Potter.

Okay. See this? It's a big iron ball with spikes on. Some people call it a morningstar, some people call it an appointment.

I call it grief counselling.

It is a BOOK. Book =/= real life in this instance. In fact, I doubt most autobiographies = real life anymore.

This means that the nice person who dies at the end of Harry Potter ISN'T REAL. NOT REAL NOT REAL NEVER WAS REAL NEVER WILL BE REAL.

LIFE IS NOT AN A-HA VIDEO! And yes, I realise that that reference is about twenty years too old for these kids; so fucking what? YOU ARGUING WITH ME? YOU NEED SOME GRIEF COUNSELLING?

Seriously, I don't get it. But we'll pretend that I wasn't pleased by the death. I still don't get it. These kids must've read the Poky Little Puppy and cried. Or Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens and called CPS.

Entitlement much?

Two random HP theories

( I love you, so I shall save you from spoilers. )