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Hepatitis, uncoordinated, weldings, nuclear power

Posted by Marine on July 15, 2008 at 1:56pm
Do I have an hepatitis ?Let me explain : I had a laugh last week. Yeah. As we say in France, a rire jaune (litterally laughing yellow). This is translated as a forced laugh in English ; and I searched for the origin of the expression in French.[French language cultural moment]Yellow, when it's bright, is the symbol of gods. Conversely, when it's matt, it represents sulfur, therefore hell, but also perfidy. However the expression "rire jaune" mostly comes from the fact that hepatic people are moody, and when they force themselves to laugh, bile stains their face with this pale yellow colour. By extension, this expression applies to every person who seems to be forcing themselves to laugh, trying to calm down or not wanting to show they are offended.[/French language cultural moment]Question is, what made me laugh ? Urrggh, politicians again. The télépresident, as he is called outside France, is returning to his all good habits.Before I begin ranting, I have to say it's incredible how much you learn from your own country when you read the news from abroad - not in the same language of course !So what did he do ? Well, early 2008, he announced the end of advertising on the state television channels. Yeah, great. But how would these channels work ? With no money at all ? Oh wait, there's still money from the state, hmm... Journalists started worrying for their future, talked about it for a few days, then, nothing. Yeah, the value of the private TV channels went up at that time... Oh, and sarkozy said that the director of the group of public TV channels was to be chosen by... the President himself, and a qualified majority of MP and the CSAEverything was fine until I read the following stuff : Bolloré is buying the CSA ! Do I need to remind that Bolloré is a close friend of sarkozy ?More stuff about French TV here, here and here.I have to admit, it's good strategy.Soo... Probably no hepatitis, just irony. Or bewilderment.To continue on a brighter note, yeah, surgery went OK for the wii... I managed to burn myself with the soldering iron but my finger is still alive. Incredibly enough I did the best weldings of my short life, must be the ingested liquids that developed my self-confidence. At school I had the worst marks ever for this kind of things. Who would have thought that I wasn't worthless in that field ? Next stage, spaceship building ?Anyway, it looked like good work, even if I fucked the last two up, and got lucky it worked out fine, but it did. It went through the night in my bag, and woke up the following evening. I still have five or six orphan screws that got kicked out of the house - er, wii - as I've never been good in putting back together what I had been disassembling. Ahhh...someday...Still writing incoherently...Don't wanna spam so I bring all I write in one post but it has no logic in between paragraphs :(However, I DO agree with this vision of life (For those interested, it's from the postsecret website). But, as I am not talented in any artistic field, what am I gonna do that will last forever ? Kids ?!?Ending with environment once more. I wonder what the government will respond to nuclear power opponents after this : what isn't written (I read this this morning in a French newspaper ) is that they found uranium evidence in the groundwater, but it seems that the leak of last week is not the cause of it ! Could it be that nuclear-related stuff is not reliable ? I am sooo surprised...
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