{"id":202,"date":"2005-09-16T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=202"},"modified":"2010-01-09T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:01:47","slug":"those-easily-offended-by-extreme-nerdiness-are-advised-not-to-read-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/09\/those-easily-offended-by-extreme-nerdiness-are-advised-not-to-read-this-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Those easily offended by extreme nerdiness are advised not to read this post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Two observations on British culture so trivial they hardly bear mentioning, but have been bugging me for months:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>1)<\/em> Someone once pointed out to me that it was a uniquely indicative trait of the Australian character that they don&#8217;t bother removing the dealer&#8217;s sticker from the back window of their cars. This is not true. I am not sure if the Australians inherited this behaviour from the British, or if it is a universal phenomenon. My future travels of the globe will be consumed with peering at the back windows of parked Volkswagens.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>2)<\/em> If you&#8217;re anything like me, and I&#8217;m sure you are (carbon-based lifeform, devastatingly attractive, wooden leg, martyr to strong drink), you will watch <em>Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em> exclusively for the surly man doing the voiceover at the beginning of each episode who is never heard from again for the remaining hour; specifically, for his superlative pronunciation of the word &#8216;heinous&#8217;. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">If you have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, you are probably British. For reasons that are beyond me, the UK episodes have a completely different credit sequence that omits Surly Man altogether. This is a grave error. No matter how special these victims are, I now find it hard to work up that much sympathy for them.  Whenever <em>SVU<\/em> (or, as a friend of mine habitually calls it, <em>Rape of the Week<\/em>) comes on now, I sit there thinking &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, this crime just doesn&#8217;t seem&#8230; well, <em>heinous<\/em> enough for Ice-T to get all that exercised over it.&#8221;  I need to check eBay for videos, explicitly marked &#8220;contains strong violence, sexual references, and the word &#8216;heinous&#8217;.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two observations on British culture so trivial they hardly bear mentioning, but have been bugging me for months: 1) Someone once pointed out to me that it was a uniquely indicative trait of the Australian character that they don&#8217;t bother removing the dealer&#8217;s sticker from the back window of their cars. This is not true. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}