25 types of men on Tinder

As Blogger would make you sign in to verify your age, I have decided to publish the list on Google Docs. 

Enjoy! 

The 18 types of people on Book Twitter

1/ The Book Shopper:

Buys more than reads. Tweets photos of book posts and book hauls, but doesn’t say much about books. Loves book sales, especially NYRB sales. Has an NYRB collection. Complains about lack of space, but continues buying books. Once in a while says “oh no, I went to a bookstore and accidentally came out with a pile of books”. 

2/ The Fancy Book Photographer:

Visual. Likes beautiful covers and sees books as objects of beauty. Takes photos of books with flowers, a cup of tea/ coffee, some decoration, etc. Doesn’t talk about the beauty of prose or metaphors.  

3/ The Book Counter: 

Posts photos of books read in the week/ month. Counts number of books they read in a year, and compares it to previous years. More extreme: may have statistics about how many books are by women, how many books are by writers of colour, how many books are in translation, and so on. Generally prefers novellas and short novels to “loose baggy monsters”. 

4/ The Ranker: 

Likes lists and rankings. Occasionally creates a poll comparing books or authors, even when there’s no basis for comparison.  

5/ The Memer:

Regularly shares memes about how much they love books, how all they need is a library and a garden, how books are friends, how books allow you to travel, how books make you better people, and so on and so forth. Doesn’t talk much about specific books, however. 

6/ The Quoter: 

Types lines from books, or shares photos of passages in books, though doesn’t comment on them. 

7/ The Plot Summariser:

Has a blog and reviews books by summarising the entire plot then adding about 2-3 sentences of comments. 

8/ The Group Read Participant:

Takes part in group reads, often more than one at the same time. Reads a set number of 20-40 pages a day. Sees reading “loose baggy monsters” as climbing the Everest, and feels a sense of accomplishment after getting to the top. Congratulates others for reading books. 

9/ The Challenge Participant:

Takes part in challenges such as German Literature Month, Women in Translation Month, Japanese Literature Month, and so on. 

10/ The Text Disruptor/ Canon Hater:

Attacks the Western canon and hates the concept of a canon, though forgets that other countries and cultures also have their own canons. Thinks that the canon is created by a committee, and wants to “disrupt texts”, “decolonise the bookshelf”, “decolonise the curriculum”, etc. Thinks that Shakespeare is celebrated only because of the establishment. First and foremost concern when they look at a book list is to see how many of the books are by women and how many are by people of colour. Often an English teacher.  

11/ The Canon Defender: 

Continually argues with DisruptTexts proponents, always in vain, but doesn’t learn. There can be an overlap with the next group, but a Canon Defender isn’t necessarily a Bloom Worshipper. 

12/ The Bloom Worshipper: 

Quotes Harold Bloom often, and sees The Invention of the Human as a Bible. Often speaks of the School of Resentment, and uses words such as “inwardness”, “anxiety of influence”, “overhearing himself/ herself”, etc. Has little interest in non-Western literature. 

13/ The Nabokov Worshipper: 

Aesthete, only interested in details and “the tingle in the spine”. Refuses to look at literature through the lens of gender, race, or ideology, and ends up looking at literature through a Nabokovian lens. Always defends Nabokov when someone criticises his novels, especially Lolita, or his views, especially on Dostoyevsky. 

14/ The Book Slut/ the Omnivore:  

Reads everything, from different periods, different countries, and different genres. Thinks all kinds of books are good and people shouldn’t be snobbish. Often says “as long as people are reading, that’s good”. 

15/ The Book Snob/ the Old Fogey: 

Reads classics (almost) exclusively. Only interested in books that have stood the test of time. Out of the loop, has no idea what’s hip and who’s currently big.  

16/ The Women Promoter: 

Reads women (almost) exclusively, and often uses the hashtag #ReadMoreWomen. Tends to prefer modern literature. When looking at a book list, first checks how many books are by women. Protective of Persephone Books. Loves Woolf and A Room of One’s Own. 

17/ The Edgy Kid:

Sees Modernism as the peak of literature, and thinks the novel belongs to the 20th century, not the 19th. Likes Proust, Kafka, and Dostoyevsky, thinks Tolstoy is sunny and simple, and doesn’t care about Shakespeare. Not interested in Dickens or Jane Austen, sees them as old-fashioned, boring, and “safe”. Not interested in plot, and generally not interested in anything before the 20th century. Tends to read books that are difficult, challenging, plot-less, experimental, and overall intellectual. Likes unreliable narrators, dislikes intrusive narrators. Often male. 

18/ The Peacemaker: 

Cheers for everyone. Sees “argument” as a bad word, and sees any challenge to an opinion as a provocation. Sees Book Twitter as a safe space. Mostly female. 

2 fish videos I've just made

Here's a video of a potato grouper from The Deep in Hull.


Recently I also went to Tropical World in Leeds, and here's a dance film of what I think is a ray fish.

A review of Woody Allen’s films

Love and Death? Watch Bergman’s The Seventh Seal instead. 
Stardust Memories? Watch Fellini’s 8 ½ instead. 
A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy? Watch Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night instead. 
The Purple Rose of Cairo? Watch Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria instead. 
Radio Days? Watch Fellini’s Amarcord instead. 
Alice? Watch Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits instead. 
Husbands and Wives? Or Scenes from a Mall? Watch Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage instead. 
Shadows and Fog? Watch Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, The Magician and Sawdust and Tinsel instead. 
Deconstructing Harry? Watch Bergman’s Wild Strawberries instead. 
Crimes and Misdemeanors? And Match Point? Read Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment instead. 
To Rome with Love? Watch Fellini’s The White Sheik instead. 
Blue Jasmine? Watch Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire instead. 
Interiors? Just watch any Ingmar Bergman chamber drama instead. 


Disclaimer: I do like Woody Allen, especially Annie Hall, Love and Death, Manhattan and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Reasons I didn’t read your novel

Inspired by biblioklept.

1/ You write plain prose.
2/ You write unreadable purple prose.
3/ Too long.
4/ You don't have my interest even after 100 pages.
5/ I made the mistake of reading the introduction and was out of breath when finished with it.
6/ It's ngôn tình (term for Chinese internet romance novels).
7/ You barely read, and write from experience.
8/ You write in Chinese and I have the English and Norwegian translation but not Vietnamese.
9/ Your novel is a sequel or prequel or spin-off or modernisation of a classic work.
10/ Worse if that happens to be a favourite of mine.
11/ You're compared to Jane Austen.
12/ Or Tolstoy.
13/ So much praise that I'd probably prefer the novel in my head. 
14/ Banal and unintentionally filled with clichés.
15/ Too "experimental".
16/ It's young adult fiction.
17/ Your novel about high school is compared to The Catcher in the Rye.
18/ Too unreal and unconvincing (not in the sense that it's not realistic, but in the sense that things don't make sense in the world of the book).
19/ Too deeply rooted in realism- "pure", bare social realism.
20/ Your novel is morally instructive? I'm happy with my immoralities.
21/ You avoid writing "I blushed" by going for "I must be the colour of the Communist Manifesto".
22/ Your novel sounds depressing and I happen to be depressed.
23/ You sound like a feminazi, with a shade of misandry.
24/ You're a male writer in the 21st century and say you have no interest in books by/about women.
25/ Your sex scenes make me laugh.
26/ Or want to watch porn instead.
27/ You're praised for being bold, honest, not afraid of being controversial.
28/ Don't you think it'd do your novel an injustice to read it right after a Tolstoy, Melville or Nabokov?
29/ You write about the Vietnam war.
30/ You think Mao's wonderful.
31/ Or Stalin. Or Lenin. Or Marx.
32/ Or Hồ Chí Minh.
33/ You make me think of Haruki Murakami.
34/ After 10 pages I decide you're more like a storyteller than a writer.
35/ I'll watch the film instead.
36/ I've watched the more-famous film.
37/ Your novel's part of a trilogy.
38/ You write about the experience of immigrants and their children.
39/ Too much passion and rage.
40/ Too little passion.
41/ A minor Tolstoy seems less like a waste of time.
42/ Your characters, except the villain, are all stupid, and their stupidity is needed for the plot. 
43/ I don't recognise the title.
44/ The pages are yellow and the letters are small.
45/ All of your sentences are so short I get a hiccup.
46/ Your magical realism unties all the knots.
47/ Your characters sound emo.
48/ Your protagonist is a nerd.
49/ I see too much of myself in your novel.
50/ Sounds like misery memoir.
51/ Your novel makes me feel stupid because I don't understand it.
52/ Your novel makes me feel stupid for reading it.
53/ I feel sorry for all the trees that have been sacrificed for your book to be published.
54/ Too vague.
55/ No ambiguity or multiple meaning.
56/ Your main character is a Mary Sue.
57/ Your narrator is a literature student that reduces books such as Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre to romance stories.
58/ You know nothing about your characters' jobs (when they have a job).
59/ Your prose reads like translation.
60/ You're fond of name-dropping, which reminds me of other writers I should be reading instead. 
61/ I'm lazy.
62/ I find you lazy.
63/ The person that recommended your novel to me is a fan of Stephenie Meyer or E. L. James.
64/ Too general- details, where are details?
65/ I suddenly remembered that I had something else to do.
66/ Your novel might have worked better as a cartoon.
67/ You're unbelievably ignorant.
68/ You obviously write with a thesaurus.
69/ Neither my university library nor the public library have your novel and I don't feel like buying it.
70/ I feed it to bookworms.
71/ You've written more than 50 books.
72/ You claimed not to have taken to editing.
73/ It's sunny outside and I prefer to go out instead.
74/ I'm drunk.
75/ You sound drunk.
76/ All characters, including the working class, philosophise.
77/ I've read 5 of your novels and know the 6th would be exactly the same as those 5.
78/ Your novel doesn't demand from me any effort.
79/ You cling to lexical teddy bears. 
80/ Oh, 1 character is a robot that has emotions? How original.
81/ You're an AI.
82/ You take pride in being sincere.
83/ Your novel is described as Dickensian, but the word doesn't refer to style or characterisation. 
84/ You're too careless, disrespectful towards readers.
85/ Too serious- why so serious?
86/ Too politically correct.
87/ Your novel makes me doubt the fairness of the world.
88/ I'm envious.
89/ Too many aliens.
90/ All characters refer to the vagina as "hole".
91/ The marginalia are more interesting.
92/ I fancy that I have ADHD.
93/ Another novel of yours has killed the appreciationist in me.
94/ Everyone finds your protagonist- narrator relatable. 
95/ All characters have unusual names. 
96/ Your novel's torn apart by my imaginary dog.
97/ It's not a novel I'd like to be in the middle of reading if I die before completing it.
98/ You're alive.
99/ Worse, I know you.

"To love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer..."

Lately I've been watching Woody Allen films, and now just watched Love and Death. Go see it if you haven't. Who wouldn't love this film? It's hilarious, it's absolutely hysterical and absurd, and it's a spoof of Russian novels.
Here are 4 of my favourite scenes from the film:

One, Two, Three

Why is One, Two, Three not better known? It's hysterical! 1 of the funniest films I've ever seen! Quick-witted, "fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce", "a yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful noexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal". The film is just as much fun being listened to as being watched, so instead of posting clips as I considered at 1st, which might not be funny out of context, I offer you some quotes from the film:

Otto: I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.
Scarlett: When he's 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.

Otto: Is everybody in this world corrupt?
Peripetchikoff: I don't know everybody.

Otto: I'll pick you up at 6:30 sharp, because the 7:00 train for Moscow leaves promptly at 8:15.

Scarlett: Do you realize that Otto spelled backwards is Otto?
Phyllis MacNamara: How about that?
Scarlett: You'll like him. He looks just like Jack Kennedy, only he's younger and he has more upstairs.
Phyllis MacNamara: More brains?
Scarlett: More hair. And of course, ideologically, he's much sounder.
Phyllis MacNamara: Maybe we voted for the wrong man.
Scarlett: That couldn't happen in Russia.
Phyllis MacNamara: They don't make mistakes.
Scarlett: They don't vote.

Otto: We will take over West Berlin. We will take over Western Europe. We will bury you!
C.R. MacNamara: Do me a favor. Bury us but don't marry us.

On 2nd thoughts, I'm posting this clip:



Regarding the question at the beginning, of course I know why. It's overshadowed by Some Like It Hot. But if you enjoy Some Like It Hot, you'll enjoy this one. If you haven't watched either, what are you waiting for? 






Maybe 1 day I'll be able to repress my excitement and enthusiasm, and write a decent post about Billy Wilder. Let's hope.

Ibex

Probably the funniest thing ever. Or silliest. 

Victor Borge videos- P.2

Because 1 post isn't enough.

Phonetic punctuation and other videos of the brilliant Victor Borge

Just saw this hilarious video on All Things Linguistic. This is a must-watch.



I 1st knew about Victor Borge from this act:


And here are some other videos:

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Have I said I love this film?
I watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" the 2nd time last night. Of course it's not as great as "My fair lady", but it would be unfair to attribute the appeal of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to Audrey Hepburn's charm alone (though I don't deny that Audrey Hepburn's delightful in the role). One can compare this film to "Hors de prix".



Paul, compared to Jean, is better as a man- loving, kind, understanding, generous and proud. He has self-respect and pride, he has the guts to break off the relationship with 2E and change his life. Also better as a character, Paul's a conflicted, complex one.
Holly, too, is a better character than Irène. Lots of girls, including me, can relate to Holly, since even though I don't share with her the same interest in jewelry and luxury, even though Holly can be seen as superficial and mercenary, she's a runaway, an escapist, full of fear and afraid of facing reality. Having left home at a young age, she keeps running away without knowing that no matter where she runs, she always ends up running into herself. She doesn't dare to believe in happiness- many, I reckon, can relate to that. I particularly love the cat scene in the end, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is thus romantic without becoming sentimental. The character Irène doesn't have the same depth, and I doubt that the audience may love Irène as much as Holly. 
One may wonder how the film might have turned out if Marilyn Monroe had accepted the role. I can't tell, but if "My fair lady" could be good whether with Audrey Hepburn or Julie Andrews or someone else as Eliza, I have a feeling that Audrey would be much better than Marilyn in this film (though Marilyn's Truman Capote's choice). Her performance in this film is a balance of charm and acting. Without charm, Holly wouldn't be iconic as it is, but Audrey Hepburn doesn't rely on charm alone, as in "My fair lady" and "Roman holiday" and perhaps even "Funny face". Truman Capote might have had Marilyn Monroe in mind whilst writing the story, and Holly does have the instability and vulnerability often associated with Marilyn, but Audrey does a nice job and becomes Holly in people's minds, depicting the naivete, vulnerability and dreamy escapism of Holly and at the same time having the sweetness and the natural quality Marilyn lacks. The fact that Audrey has charm and a cute face instead of sex appeal is another asset, which makes the friendship between her and Paul (aka baby Fred) possible, and though I do like Marilyn very much, I must confess that her way of acting, facial expressions and voice can be exhausting and irritating. It's not right to praise Audrey Hepburn as an incredible actress, she's definitely not on par with Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis... but neither is it right to dismiss her talent and attribute her status to charm alone.
1 of her best scenes is the "Moon river" singing scene. 
Plus, she and George Peppard have great chemistry.
[...]

I'd like to write more, but words are inadequate. Here are some lovely video clips:











Update on 17/4: 
This is such a nice piece of writing that I must share the link here: 
http://fritzlovesoscars.blogspot.no/2010/12/best-actress-1961-audrey-hepburn-in.html

Le plus grand cabaret du monde (P. 2)

Because 1 post isn't enough.

Le plus grand cabaret du monde

Some of the best.

Random hilarious dance videos

Bonus:

Miscellaneous: woman, woman reader, woman writer

1/ Charlotte Bronte's reply to a critic:
"Whenever I do write another book, I think I will have nothing of what you call "melodrama." I think so, but I am not sure. I think, too, I will endeavour to follow the counsel which shines out of Miss Austen's "mild eyes," to finish more, and be more subdued; but neither am I sure of that. When authors write best, or, at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them which becomes their master -- which will have its way -- putting out of view all behests but its own, dictating certain words, and insisting on their being used, whether vehement or measured in their nature, new moulding characters, giving unthought of turns to incidents, rejecting carefully elaborated old ideas, and suddenly creating and adopting new ones. Is it not so? And should we try to counteract this influence? Can we indeed counteract it?"

Jane Austen's reply to a critic:
"You are very kind in your hints as to the sort of composition which might recommend me at present, and I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe-Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of profit or popularity than such pictures of domestic life in country villages as I deal in. But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."


2/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jane-Austens-Well-Known-Style/125078/
According to the article above, research has shown that there are differences between Jane Austen's manuscripts and the published texts in terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar, so negatively speaking, much of her style isn't hers, contrary to the public's view of her as a perfect stylist, and she owed much to the editor; or positively speaking, she had an innovative, experimental voice that wouldn't be heard again till the early 20th century and she thus was ahead of her time.
To be honest I don't know which of these 2 possibilities is the case and can't even say if there indeed are significant differences, not having seen the examples. All I can say is that I have read many of her letters and her style is pretty much the same there as in the novels I've read and people are unlikely to have changed anything except the spelling (indeed, Jane Austen was a horrible speller), the random capitalisation common in English writings at the time and the ampersands and some minor errors/ inconsistencies. 

1 thing that attracted my attention is that 1 person commented "The question that arises for me from this information is whether or not this is a case of a male publisher distorting or silencing a female voice?"
Then somebody else snapped back "As a professional editor, and a woman, please know that I distort and/or silence MALE voices every single day. It's my job.
I am a pedant, and the genitalia of authors has no bearing on my obsessive compulsion to repair errant grammar, bad punctuation, and poor word choice.
I abhor the knee-jerk tendencies of some (c.f., mren2 above) to make a feminist (or racist) issue out of every simple human interaction. That proclivity is divisive and, if I may be frank, immature." 

This is absolutely true.
If Jane Austen was bad at spelling, grammar and punctuation, the editor was doing his job. If she was indeed an experimenter and the editor misunderstood her and corrected her style, that only means that he was an ordinary man who was unable to understand what she was doing and that she was ahead of her time. Why must it have had something to do with sexism?


3/ A bit of feminism in Emily's "Wuthering heights":
"‘He’s in the court,’ he replied, ‘talking to Doctor Kenneth; who says uncle is dying, truly, at last.  I’m glad, for I shall be master of the Grange after him.  Catherine always spoke of it as her house.  It isn’t hers!  It’s mine: papa says everything she has is mine.  All her nice books are mine; she offered to give me them, and her pretty birds, and her pony Minny, if I would get the key of our room, and let her out; but I told her she had nothing to give, they were all, all mine.  And then she cried, and took a little picture from her neck, and said I should have that; two pictures in a gold case, on one side her mother, and on the other uncle, when they were young.  That was yesterday—I said they were mine, too; and tried to get them from her.  The spiteful thing wouldn’t let me: she pushed me off, and hurt me.  I shrieked out—that frightens her—she heard papa coming, and she broke the hinges and divided the case, and gave me her mother’s portrait; the other she attempted to hide: but papa asked what was the matter, and I explained it.  He took the one I had away, and ordered her to resign hers to me; she refused, and he—he struck her down, and wrenched it off the chain, and crushed it with his foot.’"


4/ Toni Morrison on rape:
"Rape is a criminal act whatever the circumstances. A woman riding the subway nude may be guilty of indecency, but she may not be raped. If she invites or even sells sex at 10:00 and refuses it at 10:45, the partner who disregards her refusal and forces sex is guilty of rape. If she is drunk, asleep, mentally defective, paralyzed or dead, she must not be raped. Why? Because sexual congress must be by consent."


5/ http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?22769-Who-really-wrote-Wuthering-Heights
Ah! Conspiracy theory.
"While the three Bronte sisters, Emily, Anne and Charlott met with great literary success with Withering Heigths, Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre, biographers suggest that it was actually their genius brother Branwell Bronte who was behind it all.
So why did he alone perish in anonymity? It’s a sad story of a man whose fertile mind and high flights of fancy were never allowed to take wings in the real world. As a child, Branwell was the leader among his sisters. If he cried, they cried. He laughed, they laughed. They followed him everywhere; delighted by the fantastical characters he created and awed by his brilliance..."
Branwell must have been behind it all because, well, it's impossible to believe that in such a family all the 3 sisters are acclaimed and well-known today, especially the 2 older ones, whereas the only one who perished in anonymity was a man! 
More interestingly, let's consider the theory: Branwell wrote all these shocking, scandalous books, then signed as 3 different masculine/ unisex pseudonyms Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, Acton Bell because it was difficult for authoresses at the time in a male-dominated society, and then when the question of their identities was raised, he told his sisters to appear and tell publishers that they were the ones that wrote those books?


6/ My gender does not disappear when I read just because I do not discriminate against an author based on gender. I read as a reader and as a female.


7/ Adrienne Rich sees Jane Eyre as more valuable to the woman reader than Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary and Catherine Earnshaw combined. That is true.


8/ In the end, I'd like to end this post with something happy-go-lucky:
Here is the witty, humorous Emma Thompson, receiving a Golden Globe for her "Sense and sensibility" screenplay, pretending to be Jane Austen:



Even more hilarious is her diary from the filming. Here are some extracts: 
http://theotherausten.tumblr.com/post/66288230010/saintkitten-im-reading-emma-thompsons-diaries
http://sapphoshands.tumblr.com/post/14065351419/thequietworld-cheia-brideofgob

7 random dancing scenes in films that make me happy

Đất trời tiếc thương bác Võ Nguyên Giáp*

Bác Võ Nguyên Giáp!
Người cha thứ 2 của dân tộc,
Nhà ái quốc vô song,
Vỹ nhân nhân đức động thiên hạ,
Vị nguyên lão vỹ đại của nhân loại,
Cha đẻ của thế giới quân sự,
Nhà sáng tạo và thực hiện tư tưởng quân sự tiên tiến,
Nhà chiến thuật chiến lược thần kỳ,
Nhà quân sự vạn mỹ vô khuyết,
Nhà quân sự bách chiến bách thắng,
Tướng quân của các tướng quân,
Biểu tượng của người thắng mọi kẻ địch,
Nhà nghệ thuật lãnh đạo đệ nhất thiên hạ,
Tư lệnh bất bại,
Anh hùng người trời, 
Bầu trời của vạn dân,
Thái dương của thế kỷ 21,
Thái dương của nhân loại,
Thái dương vĩnh cửu,
Thái dương của cách mạng,
Thái dương của cuộc đời,
Thái dương của hy vọng. 
Khi mới 3 tuổi, đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp đã biết bắn súng. Năm 9 tuổi, đại tướng đã có thể bắn trúng mục tiêu di động. Cũng từ năm 3 tuổi, đại tướng đã học lái xe. Năm chưa tròn 8 tuổi, đại tướng lái chiếc xe tải chở hàng cỡ lớn, vượt qua đoạn đường khúc khuỷu với vận tốc bình quân 120 km/h và tới đích an toàn. Khi mới 6 tuổi, đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp đã cưỡi ngựa thành thục và đua ngựa thắng vận động viên chuyên nghiệp. Có thể nói, không có môn nào ông không giỏi. Ông cũng rất giỏi bóng rổ, những kỹ năng của ông khi còn là cậu bé 10 tuổi khiến nhiều vận động viên bóng rổ chuyên nghiệp phải ngả mũ kính phục.
Ông là 1 vị tướng quân dũng mãnh, cưỡi ngựa trắng, đeo bên mình 1 thanh gươm sáng lòa, có thể hạ cây lớn nhẹ nhàng như cắt miếng đậu hũ. Ông có thể biến quả thông thành đạn, biến cát thành gạo và lướt trên lá rụng để vượt sông. 
Tài liệu mật còn cho biết, 1 nhà nhân tướng học nổi tiếng của nước ngoài khi gặp ông Võ Nguyên Giáp đã bảo "Đời tôi chưa gặp ai như thế này. Từ đầu tới chân toát lên phong thái của bậc đại tướng. Người này rồi sẽ là thống soái của cả một quốc gia."
Ngày ông sinh ra đã có rất nhiều điềm báo cát tường: chim nhạn hót mừng, trên trời xuất hiện 1 ngôi sao sáng kỳ lạ và 1 cầu vồng đôi rực rỡ. Ngày ông qua đời, 1 cơn bão lớn xảy ra ở quê ngoại ông thôn Mỹ Đức, xã Sơn Thủy, huyện Lệ Thủy, đầu nguồn sông Cẩm Ly. Sao bão, bỗng có 1 tiếng nổ lớn, rồi hàng loạt đá ở sông Cẩm Ly nứt ra và vỡ thành tảng. Và trên dãy núi Trường Sơn xuất hiện 1 luồng hào quang rực rỡ chiếu rọi mãi đến hoàng hôn. Cùng ngày 4/10, 1 con sếu gục đầu trước bức tượng của cố lãnh tụ Hồ Chí Minh ở thành phố Hồ Chí Minh. Không những thế, ở thị xã Sa Đéc hàng chục con chim bồ câu đậu hầu như bất động trên những cành cây gần đài tưởng niệm Hồ Chí Minh và không chịu bay đi cả khi người dân đốt đuốc lại gần. Ngay cả chim chóc dường như cũng tiếc thương sự qua đời của Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp. Điều đó cho thấy đại tướng kính mến của chúng ta là 1 người vỹ đại bẩm sinh, thiên nhiên cũng như người dân khắp thế giới đều không quên ông.
Nay, cả nước đau thương vĩnh biệt ông. Người dân òa khóc tiếc thương đại tướng, như các bạn Triều Tiên từng khóc thương chủ tịch Kim Chính Nhật.
Đại tướng ra đi, dân tộc đã bình yên hàng chục năm nay thêm 1 lần nữa thảng thốt nhận ra ý nghĩa của sự kết thúc chiến tranh và thống nhất đất nước, của máu xương hàng triệu người đã đổ xuống. 
Đại tướng ra đi, dân tộc này sẽ đoàn kết hơn, sẽ thấm nhuần hơn tư tưởng vỹ đại vì Đảng vì cách mạng của Người.
Nên chăng, chúng ta nên đổi tên Hà Nội thành thành phố Võ Nguyên Giáp và thêm vào là "Học tập và làm theo tấm gương đạo đức Hồ Chí Minh và Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp"?


Ký tên: Bơ Bay 

Ylvis

Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker, 2 Norwegian comedians of the talkshow "Ylvis" on TVNorge.
Music video "The fox", currently trendy in many countries (it should be noted that this video, albeit compared to "Gangnam style", is not meant to be a song, but a joke, a parody of some sort and therefore it, with its silly lyrics, shouldn't be put in the same league with "Friday" and similar songs).




Elevator pranks from their show.









And here is a fake trailer: 



I like these guys. The elevator pranks are hilarious as hell. Proof that Norwegian humour ain't so bad after all.

Chế ảnh

(Nguồn: http://forum.vietdesigner.net/threads/cac-thanh-che-giup-em-sao-cho-tam-anh-nay-ngau-nhat-nhe-thank-cac-bac.30277/)
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Kết quả: 

Steven Spielberg's "Obama"

I can't help sharing this hilarious video.



Daniel Day-Lewis is a legend. And Obama's so cool.
PS: Today's Daniel's birthday. 


Bonus- updated on 30/4/2013: http://www.thejournal.ie/daniel-day-lewis-funny-889316-Apr2013/