andrewducker

Re "6 Reasons You Should Sleep Naked"

The phrases "Your Hoo-Ha" and "According to naturopath" indicate that this is not an article to take at all seriously.

But the comments are fantastic!

Unsurprisingly, I didn't get as far as the comments. I'm having a look now :)

Yeah, I usually never read the comments. But now I come to think of it, if some of the worst comments are on some of the best articles, maybe it's only fair that some of the best comments are on some of the worst articles...

The article may have a point, if you stop at "be comfortable" and don't assume the only reason to be comfortable is to make yourself super thin.

I thought for sure you'd be pushing the star wars news today.

As soon as it's confirmed by JJ or Disney, I will!

So far everyone is quoting "a person close to the production" or similar.

So it may be true, or it might be the same kind of thing as the hoax about XBox games I liked to yesterday.

Yeah, but Forbes doesn't tend to fuck around. If it was on a Gawker media site I'd be less inclined to believe it.

Plus, my local Virgin Records sent me an ad today with the new logo containing J.J.'s name - and I doubt a major chain store just happened to have a fake logo on hand to send out, or would risk being sued by Disney for sending out a fake logo.

If you mean this Forbes article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/01/24/star-trek-director-j-j-abrams-to-direct-star-wars-episode-vii/

then it's a comment piece, put up by someone whose only source is The Wrap, which is still quoting "an individual with knowledge of the production".

Which doesn't mean it's not happening (you'll note that there's not been a denial). But as Disney haven't officially confirmed it, there's not a chance that they've sent out art to local record stores to hand out - that would count as an official source!

Right, which is why I'm taking Virgin sending out that logo this morning as confirmation.

It came over as a paid Facebook post, which must have cost Virgin a fortune to do on Facebook.

I cannot see any way on earth that Disney are going to officially confirm things via the method of Facebook posts by Virgin.

Me neither. But I can't see any way on Earth that Virgin would send that out otherwise.

The only thing that makes sense is that they had the art ready for an official announcement next week, saw the news this morning and decided they may as well jump the gun.

I mean, if Virgin just made up the logo on their own, won't Disney sue them forever?

Naah. Not for something that's selling more Disney-owned DVDs!

Is it, by any chance, a Star Wars logo with some Lens Flare photoshopped over it? I've seen several variants of that over the last day - people seem to think that Abrams is going to make Star Wars look like his Star Trek movies.

I don't know what lens flare is.

I stuck it on my blog.

It's the effect you get when you move a lens past a bright light. the first Trek reboot movie was full of it, a sa deliberate choice. I liked it, but not everyone did.

Looks like this.

Or like the one that's been photoshopped onto a Star Wars logo that you now have on your journal!

It seems really dumb for Virgin to have done that.

Then again, this is a company that is trying to close down, but is being prevented from closing their doors by the French government so who knows who the fuck is doing what for them.

It'll get people buying stuff, so I guess it's a risk worth taking for them!

And I'd be happy for JJ to get the role, so if the rumours are true then it's better than it being handed off to M. Night Shyamalan (or George Lucas).

I must get around to watching Super 8!

MTV now says they have confirmation that it's JJ.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700760/jj-abrams-star-wars-episode-vii.jhtml

And the Los Angeles Times also has confirmation.

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2013/01/24/j-j-abrams-set-to-direct-star-wars-episode-vii/#/0

"MTV News has confirmed the report with a source close to the production. Emails and calls to representatives at Disney and Abrams' Bad Robot were not immediately returned."

The LA Time says "Sources have confirmed"

Which does all make it look like it got leaked a couple of days early. I'm not going to be completely convinced until either JJ or Disney says "Ok, yeah, you got us."

Disney confirmed it overnight.

Yay! Let's hope he doesn't fuck it up!

Not that I don't want a gay person - or child of a gay marriage - to be monarch, but shouldn't MPs be pressing for more important changes to this kind of thing, like recognizing remarried divorcees?

Divorcees are evil, and shall not be allowed to run the country unless they renounce satan first.

Hmmm, what happens if Kate's kid is a single mum? I assume that doesn't cause any problems for the succession.

Divorce suggests a lack of commitment and/or bad judgement and/or a focus on self rather than others.

Any of which could be a good reason to be denied the monarchy.

I'm assuming that the succession is still governed by the 'heirs of the body' rule - which allows for AID but not adoption (which is what the article implies), Kate's daughter would take the throne on her own behalf, to be succeeded by her child in due course.

I suspect that the situation has arisen in the past - most have.

It IS impossible to be completely safe. The world is a dangerous place, and that's part of what makes it so interesting.

Now I'm even more annoyed about that Woman's Hour piece and I was already ranting about how I'm sure the fact that a bunch of presenters act like anything tech is rocket science* doesn't help matters (the One Show lot were doing it with Brian Cox too - apparently Alex thinks basic pre-GCSE biology is really hard).


*Yes, I know, but it's a funny play on the stereotype, honest!

Yeah, I was completely baffled as to why they'd do that! I have no idea what they were thinking.

The phone thing is apparently slightly misleading.

While you might break the law, I suspect the enforcement will be patchy. And I'm informed by AT&T that if you have to leave the country they'll unlock phones for you so you can insert SIM cards.

I have so many phones I will admit I don't really think about it.

Naked sleeper author obviously lives in a warm climate. I can't stand the feeling of cold air coming into the bed when you turn over. When they do duvets with an integrated button-up collar I'll consider it (I guess they do and they're called sleeping bags...)

Oh yes, I wouldn't want to do that in Scotland, outside of maybe a couple of weeks per year!