Something Weird, Something Annoying, Something Old, Something Blue

[apolla]

OK, so I'm sat watching Super 70s on Vh1 Classic a couple of nights ago and a couple of weird things happen:

1. I identified the video for Silver Machine by Hawkwind just by looking at the audience at the beginning. I haven't ever seen the Silver Machine video, and I don't like Hawkwind and how did I get what it was just by looking at a sad bloke from the 70s with a poor excuse for a white man's afro?

2. I'm watching the Q music channel during Silver Machine and in the list of songs you can request by spending £300 a minute on the phone, I misread a new song as 'Miss You', which is a Rolling Stones song I like very much. I haven't heard this particular song in months, and I haven't even thought about it for as long.

3. I flicked back over to Vh1 Classic and the video on is Miss You by the Rolling Stones. Am uber-freaked out by the coinkydink, but not so freaked that I can't get up and dance like Mick. Yes I did, and I don't care if I looked like a total twat.

I have moments like these. I don't think for a second that I'm psychic or anything, but sometimes shit like this happens and it freaks me out. The night before Princess Diana died in Paris, I remember having the following thought: "How come members of the Royal Family always seem to die of old age, and not in car accidents?" That was my exact line of thought (while reading a book called The Queen & I by Sue Townsend.) and the next thing I know, Princess Di is dead.

That same summer, we were in Epcot at Disneyworld (That's Disney's Epcot as opposed to Epcot on Kilburn High Road *rolls eyes at idiocy of comment*) and in the ride in the big golf ball. Towards the end the cars go backwards at a very steep gradient. As we did, I thought to myself "wouldn't it be weird if the ride broke down right now?" and then it did.

Now I know that Disney rides break down all the naffing time- and usually when I'm on it- but I hadn't ever thought about royal mortality rates before that night, nor had Miss You entered my mind for months. So, I'm a little freaked out.

Also, there's something bugging me. Nothing huge, but I nipped to the PP thread over at FAP for the first time in ages and ages and noticed a question: Would Harry and Hermione celebrate Thanksgiving? What the Flying Rat's Arse Fuck? Whatever gives anybody the impression that the British celebrate Thanksgiving? I'm not calling every American stupid- I'm sure that the fact Canada has Thanksgiving too doesn't help, but why would this occur to anyone? Natasha and I celebrated Thanksgiving when we were actually living there, but even so it was more of a 'Hey, no class! Hey Brad Pitt on Friends! Hey, excuse to watch a ton of rental movies all day!' We ate stirfry chicken with pasta and Newman's Own salad dressing!

Am I really missing something here? Am I being very dumb? Am I under the impression that Harry and his mates don't give a damn about Native Americans bringing corn and pilgrims bringing the flu to a random dinner because they're from Britain?

I just... I don't know... I find it hard to believe that people know so little about my country when I know so much about theirs. I'm not really having a go or calling people stupid at all, I just find it disappointing.

Comments

[windtear.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. It's things like that that have convinced me that 95% of Americans think the world ends five nautical miles out from the American coastline, and all these other nations are just states that aren't connected to them, like Hawaii and Alaska.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

And it's a real shame, because I know that it's tarring some very intelligent people with that same brush and I don't like it. I see proof of great wisdom from people from all kinds of places every day on here... as well as great stupidity from all kinds of people. That's the way of the world, but right now America really isn't coming off well to other parts of the world.

And it's a real shame.

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Am I really missing something here? Am I being very dumb? Am I under the impression that Harry and his mates don't give a damn about Native Americans bringing corn and pilgrims bringing the flu to a random dinner because they're from Britain?

Heh. Then again, look at the ship name. Accuracy hasn't been a worry for a while. (Though I guess one could make the argument that with all the other pumpkin stuff wizards eat, they could eat that too, but that's beside the point.) I think they're taking the pumpkin pie thing a little too far. Or it's addled their brains. :P

Though I am shamed by the seeming stupidity of some of the people in this country at times - several people in my high school class couldn't even identify the capital city of our state. And we live in it.

[krisdalooney.livejournal.com]

Would Harry and Hermione celebrate Thanksgiving?

*headdesk. repeatedly*