So, I had a brilliant idea. I'll put down all my favourite characters from the TV shows I'm currently watching or have watched in the past. Brilliant, just brilliant. *HEAVY sarcasm* But the list is real, no sarcasm there.
Here we go then:
First thing first, favourite male characters in a leading role: Neal Caffrey (White Collar), Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries), Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock), Dean Winchester (Supernatural), Merlin and Arthur (Merlin), Mike Ross (Suits), Fox Mulder (The X-Files), Sgt Gavin Troy (Midsomer Murders), Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood, Dr. Who), Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
Favourite female characters in a leading role: Kate Beckett (Castle), Dr. Joan Watson (Elementary), Sydney Bristow (Alias)
Favourite male characters in a supporting role: Lincoln Lee (Fringe), Javier Esposito and Kevin Ryan (Castle), Jamie Lannister (Game of Thrones), Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Michael Vaughn (Alias), Logan Cale (Dark Angel), Andrew Martin (Ringer), Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls), James "Sawyer" Ford (Lost)
Favourite female characters in a supporting role: Diana Berrigan (White Collar), Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries), Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Jessica Pearson (Suits), Kelly Taylor (Beverly Hills 90210), Kate Austen (Lost), Gwen Cooper (Torchwood), Sam Marquez (Las Vegas)
Friday, 22 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
YUP - a lesson in history and philology
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor"
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Monday, 4 February 2013
Korraldame homme kõnevõistlust
Saatsin just paar minutit tagasi sellise kirja:
"Kas õpilane tõmbab ühe lipiku, kus peal on kolm teemat, kust ta siis ühe valib või tõmbab ta kolm lipikut, kus igaühe peal on üks teema ja siis ta valib neist ühe? Ja miks on kümme teemat ja kuus teemat? Et meil on 10 teemat ja homme võtame kuus suvaliselt nii et kõiki kuut teemat peab olema paberi peal kolm eksemplari aga tegelikult on välja prinditud kümme teemat igat ühte kaks tükki?"
It made a lot of sense NOT. Nagu näha ei ole minust korraldamise juures just suuremat kasu :D :D :D Recently the only clear and coherent emotion of mine has been confusion ;)
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Huumorinurgake aka Giggling overtiredness
Täna. 8. tund. 12. klass. Kell on kolm läbi ja kõigi aju on täiesti töötamast lakanud. Kahjuks tuleb korrata homseks grammatika tööks, teemaks tingimuslaused ja soovid. Teeme täiesti siivsalt ja süütult suuliselt grammatikaharjutust. Tuleb lause nr 13. "My car is too small. I wish I … a bigger one." Poiss, kellelt küsisin, loeb ette ainult viimase lause, kus tuleb lünk täita. "I wish I had a bigger one." Murdosa sekundit enne kui ta lausega lõpuni saab, jõuab mulle kohale, et kontekstist välja võetuna on see lausa küllaltki kahemõtteline. Jõuan veel mõelda, et äkki nad ei pannud tähele. No such luck. Oma kaitseks võin öelda, et ma suutsin vähemalt oma 30 sekundit täiesti tõsiseks jääda, uue lause edasi võtta ("I was only in Miami for a week. I wish I … more time there but I had to go on to New York.") ja samal ajal kuulata, kuidas osad inimesed vaikselt naerust luksuvad. Siis ma enam ei suutnud, minupoolne väike kommentaar, et oli ikka väga naljakas nali ja järsku leiavad kõik, et nüüd on luba naerust kokku kukkuda. Kõik hirnuvad, näost täiesti punased. Ma üritan ennast kokku võtta, lähme järgmise lause juurde. Järgmine lause on "My face is bright red. I wish I … (sit) in the sun so long yesterday." MA EI TEE NALJA, järgmine lause algab "My face is bright red." Sel hetkel me lõpetasime lihtsalt selle harjutusega, sest ma teatasin, endal enam-vähem pisarad silmis, et mina seda enam edasi teha ei suuda. Not my proudest moment as a teacher. But I still have giggling fits, uncontrollable ones. Overtired.
Monday, 28 January 2013
Saturday, 26 January 2013
The thing about SPN is that you can't stop watching it. As much as I love the series, it is increasingly more difficult to come up with anything new after 8 seasons. They should have probably ended it about three seasons ago, but I'm not actually complaining as from time to time you get an episode that is so full of reference and pure fun that you just forget the previous three episodes that weren't that good. The most recent one definitely falls to the former category. Dean in chainmail. Dean as William Wallace, of all people :D References to Tolkien, Arthurian legends, Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Grey, Star Wars. LARPing. Sam's hair in an actual ponytail :p An absolutely gorgeous fairy who can do magic... And all that in one episode.
So what have I done today?
Slept.
Marked some tests.
Taken an amount of painkillers that's probably bordering on an overdose (I do feel a bit loopy to tell you the truth).
Went shopping. Twice.
Cooked.
Watched SPN.
Read a good story.
I've decided I'll watch all the films that are the best film Oscar nominees and best film and outstanding British film BAFTA nominees. There are thirteen of them all in all. So far I've seen TWO. I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to watch them all, just thank god the best film nominees for the BAFTAs and the Oscars are identical.
Last but not least, good news. Mark Gatiss has revealed that they are going to film series three of Sherlock this year and it will most probably be also released this year. They have actually started building the sets! Good things come to the ones who wait.
So what have I done today?
Slept.
Marked some tests.
Taken an amount of painkillers that's probably bordering on an overdose (I do feel a bit loopy to tell you the truth).
Went shopping. Twice.
Cooked.
Watched SPN.
Read a good story.
I've decided I'll watch all the films that are the best film Oscar nominees and best film and outstanding British film BAFTA nominees. There are thirteen of them all in all. So far I've seen TWO. I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to watch them all, just thank god the best film nominees for the BAFTAs and the Oscars are identical.
Last but not least, good news. Mark Gatiss has revealed that they are going to film series three of Sherlock this year and it will most probably be also released this year. They have actually started building the sets! Good things come to the ones who wait.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
It would have been loads easier if I had actually followed the Les Mis drinking game of "drink every time somebody dies or somebody says the words 'barricades'". It would have worked so well! Maybe the film would have started making sense as well. So yes, I didn't like it. It had an almost perfect cast, it was beautifully filmed, it had many excellent shots, but I still didn't like it. I kept waiting for it to get better but it hardly did, people only kept dying. At some point I started playing the game of "spot a great actor" in my mind, it was pretty amusing because they had managed to include such a large number of well-known actors and actresses. It went sort of like that in more or less this order:
Oh Russell Crowe...
Is THAT Hugh Jackman?!? Huh, he looks old. But amazing.
Anne Hathaway! Go Anne. Anne, you look great with short hair. Don't die Anne. Uh, dead.
The one and only Helena Bonham Carter. Has she ever had a role where she looked like a normal person?!? Without her hair playing a major role?!? Oh, right, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Is that. Is that Sacha Baron Cohen? Honestly. What else.
Mammmma Mia! Well, not literally. Just Amanda Seyfried. *pictures a Greek island and eternal sunshine in her head, it makes a VERY sharp contrast with the VERY filthy streets of Paris of the 19th century*
Eddddie Redmayne. Cool. I hope he won't die right away. He's rather rebellious. And suicidal. I loved him in the Pillars of the Earth.
Oh, that guy looks familiar. He looks SO familiar. What's his name!?! *Can't remember his name, but knows his face* Aaron Tveit...
More people die.
Some hours later - end of film.
All people in the cinema are crying. I'm sitting there like "meh". Let me repeat, it's ME who's sitting there like "meh" not even close to any kind of tears. Me who cried hysterically the first five times she watched Ashleigh and Pudsey's audition on Britain's Got Talent. Now I just know how to steel myself when the video comes on. And I spread the love a lot so I even can't tell how many times I've watched it. Ashleigh and Pudsey were at the NTAs last night as well doing Gangnam Style. But I still prefer their Flintstones routine, it was classic.
So yeah, smoothly from Les Mis to Ashleigh and Pudsey.
Oh Russell Crowe...
Is THAT Hugh Jackman?!? Huh, he looks old. But amazing.
Anne Hathaway! Go Anne. Anne, you look great with short hair. Don't die Anne. Uh, dead.
The one and only Helena Bonham Carter. Has she ever had a role where she looked like a normal person?!? Without her hair playing a major role?!? Oh, right, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Is that. Is that Sacha Baron Cohen? Honestly. What else.
Mammmma Mia! Well, not literally. Just Amanda Seyfried. *pictures a Greek island and eternal sunshine in her head, it makes a VERY sharp contrast with the VERY filthy streets of Paris of the 19th century*
Eddddie Redmayne. Cool. I hope he won't die right away. He's rather rebellious. And suicidal. I loved him in the Pillars of the Earth.
Oh, that guy looks familiar. He looks SO familiar. What's his name!?! *Can't remember his name, but knows his face* Aaron Tveit...
More people die.
Some hours later - end of film.
All people in the cinema are crying. I'm sitting there like "meh". Let me repeat, it's ME who's sitting there like "meh" not even close to any kind of tears. Me who cried hysterically the first five times she watched Ashleigh and Pudsey's audition on Britain's Got Talent. Now I just know how to steel myself when the video comes on. And I spread the love a lot so I even can't tell how many times I've watched it. Ashleigh and Pudsey were at the NTAs last night as well doing Gangnam Style. But I still prefer their Flintstones routine, it was classic.
So yeah, smoothly from Les Mis to Ashleigh and Pudsey.
What amused me to my wit's end last night was the fact that after Colin won, "Merlin is Irish" was trending on Twitter. At first I honestly didn't get it but then it hit me that normal people wouldn't know what he sounds like in interviews and hence in real life because Merlin actually doesn't have an Irish accent and Colin's just so good at accents that you couldn't tell when watching Merlin that he's from Northern Ireland.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
His hairdo though. Priceless. I hope it's for his new role in Quirke that he's filming right now because he looks like a dork with it.
He's the most adorable person to walk this Earth.
You little Irish leprechaun
COLIN WON BEST MALE DRAMA PERFORMANCE AT THE NTAs
The whole thing almost gave me a heart attack because he wasn't even THERE five minutes before his category. And then Alex tweets "Colin just rocked up". Well, he could have been in the tavern, obviously. Besides, a wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
I NEVER in my heart believed he had ANY chance against Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith. HONESTLY.
But he so very JKDHFIUDHFHJVDGBFIBCJ much deserved this. Plus his acceptance speech was flawless.
I'm so overemotional right now that I can't form sentences :D
The whole thing almost gave me a heart attack because he wasn't even THERE five minutes before his category. And then Alex tweets "Colin just rocked up". Well, he could have been in the tavern, obviously. Besides, a wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
I NEVER in my heart believed he had ANY chance against Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith. HONESTLY.
But he so very JKDHFIUDHFHJVDGBFIBCJ much deserved this. Plus his acceptance speech was flawless.
I'm so overemotional right now that I can't form sentences :D
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Because I am a self-hating masochist
So, we had this training course on how to use databases (ESTER, ISE, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar and the like) and we had to make an e-book on a chosen topic where we made different searches in different databases, analysed them briefly and gave examples of the most relevant search results. The idea probably was to help our students who're writing their research papers right now (and I have FIVE doing research in COMPLETELY different fields, four of which I don't know anything about) and collect materials for their papers. Did I decide to collect materials on the difference between Estonian and British superstitions, on the series An Idiot Abroad (which I hate with passion), on the connections between Estonian and British ballroom dancing or on the different charities the players of Manchester United are involved in? Obviously not. I did research in, tadaaa, yes, you guessed it right, the legends of King Arthur. Or more precisely, in the places in Britain connected with King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. I almost placed a boat on the title page, but then decided against it, because it would have been too heartbreaking, seeing that Glastonbury Tor did make it into one of the pictures. What else? I, very sneakily, sneaked in three YT links of Colin and Bradley's documentary The Real Merlin and Arthur. I feel like a dork. A major one. But happy with my subtlety nevertheless.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Käisin reedel ja pühapäeval kahes erinevas trennis, mida üks mu kursaõde andis - Nia ja JourneyDance. Need mõlemad olid tõenäoliselt parimad trennid, kus ma üldse käinud olen, sest nad ühendasid elemente joogast, erinevatest tantsustiilidest, võitluskunstidest ja lihtsalt liikumisest. See öeldud, saabub loomulikult "aga". Nimelt ei ela mu kursaõde siin ja otse loomulikult ei anna Tartus/Eestis neid trenne keegi teine ka ehk siis loomulikult tahan seda, mida ei saa :D
Saturday, 12 January 2013
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