Something Weird, Something Annoying, Something Old, Something Blue

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.

Something Weird, Something Annoying, Something Old, Something Blue

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.