The Thai are Revolitng!

I switched on the Russian news the morning and had a good giggle. Apparantly there are tanks on the streets of Bangkok, but the only footage that's coming out of there is the official Thai telebroadcast, which basically consists of endless fields of green crops, parades and guys in military uniforms saluting each other a lot, to the tune of some random Thai patriotic song.

The Russian newsreader guy was like "...well. Um, this is what's on Thai national television. We're not really sure what's going on... but evidence suggests that neither does Thailand's prime minister, who's at some conference... and uh... yeah... okay. I'm kind of reminded of the endless reruns of Swan Lake that constituted the whole of Russian television for a few weeks after the collapse of the Soviet Union..."

It's a coup!

In other news, Tatu had a concert in Korea. The sight of hundreds of teenage Korean girls jumping up and down waving black and yellow striped glowstickythings and singing in Russian is... quite hilarious.

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Here's a news article on that Thai coup I mentioned. Doesn't "thai coup" sound like a martial art? It's sort of appropriate, since this whole revolution seems to be going off like a tae kwon do match - somebody's getting seriously pwned, but there's no actual blood because they're too good at it to actually connect with force if it's not neccessary. I suppose they've been practicing for centuries...

Also, my pirate name appears to be either Geedunk Elizabeth or Keelhaul Sophie McPhearson.

Yarr. I ought to get started on my swashbucklathon fic... maybe I can work in a Thai Coup.

In case anyone's interested in Ye Nautical Saga Of Maggie's Exams (Yarr), all the Extension tests seem to be going better than the Advanced ones... er, and by all I mean maths and english, because that's what we've had so far and I'm not doing extension courses in anything else. But there really ought to be a law against exams on hot days like today. I spent about twenty minutes staring at the shitty stimulus page thinking "Man... that guy with the eyebrows is hot... I wonder who he's supposed to be... I don't recall Iago licking anyone's face in the play..." ...srsly. There ought to be a law.