Thoughts for today : There are many people on the globe who hate phrases such as 'at the end of the day' and 'you know' to prefix a sentence with something that says 'here's a precursor to my sentence. It's pointless and annoying but as with most things pointless and annoying, most of us will do it and not notice anyway. It's the over-use of such clauses that really fuck with you. If you have a 5 minute conversation with someone and a minimum of four of their sentences use 'at the end of the day', you will want to bake their unborn children in a pie and feed it to them. And I mean delicately blended herb gravy and a detailed puff pastry kind of satisfying vengeance. Yes, cooking-vengeance. Well, says the blogger finally getting to his point, I've started to notice these urges (the cooking-vengeance ones) towards games reviews. They all seem to have started adopting these phrases that mean NOTHING. You may be able to derive a small amount of kind-of-information-maybe out of each little crap-nugget but you'll just be lying to yourself. When a reviewer, or even more often a games publisher/developer employee being interviewed poorly, says 'out of the box', they should be stabbed in all available eyes. All of them. Yes, them too. They're using a pointless journalistic phrase that just implies you've opened a box and in it is this thing they're going to say. This is how your product should surely work anyway, right ? I don't expect to open up Legend of Zelda : Bathroom of Dysfunction (I love Zelda too, shh) and find even one of it's features not in the box with it. It's a lazy phrase that implies you've somehow put in extra special effort to have a feature you say is going to be implemented IMPLEMENTED. Another one is 'OK, so we're really excited' but I'm sure it's already been ranted about and possibly even parodied. Also, when I read it, I too am excited, so that just falls apart amidst my own pandering to their bastard whim. - This has bugged me for a few days, I apologise...
There's an English phrase 'I've been running around like a blue-arsed fly'. Someone used it at work recently, where I'm a simulations programmer and thus get all the ladies, so I've been intent on seeking out it's meaning. The first item I came upon, like a considerate lover, was written by someone who described it in a way I hadn't thought correct : 'blue arse fly' is someone who had been running round doing everything being really busy. Well, it's also written in the style of the warblings of a child too but that's besides the point. It would imply you can say 'John is a blue-arse fly' and people wouldn't think you a moron. The only satisfying explanation I could find was that it's a bluebottle fly in question and they can't run but only fly everywhere. They're noisy, fast buggers at it too. 
Also, it seems it's colloquial to Australia too, so it may be very old indeed. I'm also in the process of dealing with videos so they may be up in some sort of video section today. That is all of my brain I can be bothered to examine with you for today, Nunnery Showdown, - Daniel | 
