New note, to TV news programs:

[camwyn]

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.

I don't want to hear your exit polls. I don't want to hear you coyly congratulating yourselves on not wanting to call either guy a winner. I don't want ANY NEWS WHATSOEVER about this bloody election process until one of the following occurs:

- the results have been SIGNED and SEALED and CERTIFIED
- either George W. Bush or John Kerry has officially conceded
- or the SUN COMES UP ON NOVEMBER 3RD
- or there are kaiju. Because frankly I think New York or Washington or $MAJOR_CALIFORNIA_CITY_OF_MONSTER'S_CHOICE being attacked by a giant Japanese monster would leave me welcoming something as mundane as election Sort Of News But Not Really 'Cos It Hasn't Been Officialized Yet.

Regardless of any of the above conditions happening or not happening I really have to insist on one other thing: the words 'key battleground state' are no longer worth hearing. EVER! EVER! EVER!

... thank you.

Comments

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Um.... maybe it's time to turn off the TV?

(Yeah, I think it's insane too - but all you can practically do is stay away for the time being. Don't let them make you nuts, too.)

[camwyn]

That's the thing. I can't. The office keeps it on during the entire work day because the traders and analysts need the news and info feed for their work.

[thekit.livejournal.com]

As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.

Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

'You can turn it off!' he said.

'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'

[camwyn]

Yeah. The only thing that makes it bearable is that if I have to work in the accounting office, I can't hear the telescreen. And no one minds if I bip out for lunch, so that's something, at least.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... time to maybe accidentally trip over the power cord and not notice? Or go out and get earplugs.... that's just cruel and unusual punishment, if you ask me.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Totally, totally agree. I'm so not looking forward to Gilmore Girls being interrupted every 15 minutes to tell me there is no news yet.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Headphones. CD.

[camwyn]

Alas, I had not the foresight to bring these items. I have instead created a spreadsheet. When I am not busy constructing a cost and feature comparison between Exchange outsourcing and Exchange in-house hosting, I flip over to the other spreadsheet and concentrate very hard on the personalities of the Sims I'm going to be creating and loading into my first Sims 2 neighbourhood, once I've completed same. (The goal of this neighbourhood is to provide a relatively tranquil place in which I can goad my hapless pawns into raising children, so that I can see for myself how much difference having parents makes in terms of skill and personality points.)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Wax that cat, child, wax that cat.

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

I really have to insist on one other thing: the words 'key battleground state' are no longer worth hearing.

Not even if the kaiju thing pans out, and we get Gojira versus Mothra action going on in one of them?

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

That's a different kind of battleground. Much more interesting when FEMA and the American Red Cross have to get involved. Not necessarily good, but definitely interesting.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'd definitely vote for Mothra. His foreign policy is much better than Gojira's and his running mates are cuter.

[camwyn]

"AIEEE! Gojira has risen from the depths of Lake Erie!"

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

But will he attack the poll challengers in defiance of the Circuit Court's ruling? Film at 11!

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

Only if Allosaurus doesn't eat them first. (http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?comic=408)

[chn-breathmint.livejournal.com]

How about a musk-ox kaiju?

He wouldn't last that long... squads of determined knitters would climb him and shave him naked to make qivut with, tho...

- Mel

[camwyn]

Dude, I would be out there with a razor and a Hefty bag.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you gotta be careful with those yaks. I hear they have connections in organized crime.

[little-birdy.livejournal.com]

Your icon is cuuuute!

[chn-breathmint.livejournal.com]

The panda? Or ebony14's little dragonet? I have a long history of doctoring Tarepandas. Behold, the John Constantine panda.

- Mel

[little-birdy.livejournal.com]

Originally the little dragonet, but I <3 the panda too :) *goes to look at pandas*

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It originally came from Phil Foglio (http://www.studiofoglio.com), though I think I found it elsewhere, once upon a time.

Home Project.

[unsigned.livejournal.com]

..get some paper, soak it (saliva works great), make it into little balls, and stick them in your ears. You've just made some homemade earplugs!

Alternately, and probably less gross in a way, vaseline and cotton balls. You can get the cotton from Swabs, and if vaseline isn't around, try some cooling gel.

Anyway, it's relatively quiet here... like a news blackhole where I am. Hope you find silence.

[genarti]

Thank you.

And much sympathy; I have been avoiding the election returns with all the fervor in my tiny little soul.

*offers earplugs and white noise generators, and/or a baseball bat for the tv*

[irian.livejournal.com]

Yes. I would like to see some kaiju rise up from some volcanic formation about now...