Pity me...

[desperance]

Pity Me is actually a place in County Durham, but this is not a tour guide, this is a lament: pity me, for I have spent my morning watching "Jumpers". And it is stupid. Why did you not tell me this, O internets? You must have known. *blames internets*

And it's so enragingly frustrating, because with the cast and the budget and the concept that they had, they could have made a good movie, but no: they made a movie composed of stupidities and shouting, wherein the writers & director seemed to have given not a moment's more thought to anything than the bloody characters do. I am not pleased.

Never mind. I have shifted something off my desk that has been squatting there like a foul & leprous toad for days now. And I have cleaned a shelf in the kitchen, and done a load of laundry, and worked myself up perhaps into a fit state to commit throwing-away of dead and redundant spices (no one needs three separate containers of caraway seeds, each of which is past any useful savour-date).

And! I have a question!

Given that plagiotropism is defined as "orienting at an angle to the direction of stimulus," does this mean the way Mac lifts his chin when I stroke underneath it, as opposed to the way Barry leans into my whole hand? Are they plagiotropically diverse?

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Jumpers? You mean, it isn't a novel by Jilly Cooper?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oddly, not: an SF movie, based on a novel by Steven Gould. What we in the trade call a Wasted Opportunity, damn it...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. The original novel is pretty decent YA fare, so I hoped for better. The sequel, however, Reflex is very good - the teleportation equivalent of Dying Inside's take on telepathy.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Its not even a play by Tom Stoppard! It appears to jump from place/time to place/time rather than jump on bones (Cooper) or jump to conclusions (Stoppard)

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Pity Me is one of the most appropriately named places I know (up there with Cold Blow Lane and Land's End)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

IIRC there's a "Pity me" in Cornwall as well.

There's also a "Praze-an-Beeble", but that's just getting silly.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Don't let the movie put you off the original books by Steven Gould -- they're excellent.

[(Anonymous)]

There's also a place in Cornwall called Parkandillick. Which, if translated from the original Cornish, means "field of the dung-heap". Lovely place to live apparently...

[carandol.livejournal.com]

And there's me thought plagiotropism was a tendency towards stealing other people's ideas.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

There are several small communities in the US called Little Hope, and at least one called Hard Luck.