DumbNicky is really annoying
Jul. 11th, 2006 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beelikejGrumble. My weekly SneakPreview-Movienight is on summerhiatus, so again I stayed at home last night. Luckily Mondaynight is CSI-night on Dutch TV, but they started reruns a couple of weeks ago plus they break for commercials and not in the appropriate/original break-scenes, so I don't really sit down to watch, but I find it comforting to listen to the team while I'm working on my computer. Usually. I forgot Nesting Dolls was the one with ignorant Nick and the scene that pissed me off...
(Ronnie Litre processes the writing on the pocket lining for Nick. Nick reads the writing.)
NICK: "Madame ... Matryoshka's. Tuesday ... Eight? G A.M."? Some kind of appointment. "G A.M."?
[...they talk about matryoshka's (nesting dolls)]
RONNIE LITRE: My grandma had a set. Anyway, people who've gone from writing cyrillic to English often write their nines as lowercase g's.
Well, how about that: so I guess it's not g a.m. but 9 a.m. Huh: an appointment in combination with a time. Duh. (I'm not sure about the Russians so I won't argue about it, but we don't divide the day in a.m. and p.m. but use the 24 hour system.)
I have never written cyrillic, but have also been accused by Americans that my nine looks like a g, because of the lovely loop at the bottom. I must admit I go a bit overboard, but it's still obviously a nine and not the letter g. It's not that confusing people, ever heard of context? I like my loopy nine:)
I'm sorry, I just get really pissy about stupidity. But I guess this was the episode where Nick had taken a stupid-pill, because there was another scene that was annoyingly out of character. (I prefer SmartNicky)
(Nick is going through the various photos of the mail-order brides on the internet)
[...]
WARRICK: Well, life is short. Dating's complicated. This makes it much simpler, doesn't it?
[...]
NICK: Hey, wait a minute. You're not telling me you're into this stuff?
WARRICK: Me? No. But you know, for a guy who's over 40, lonely, tired of the bar scene, got a little cash, wants to buy himself a sweet honey, be his companion ...
NICK: He needs a translator, 'cause you're not even speaking the same language.
WARRICK: That's the best part.
CATHERINE: (groans) Ugh ... !
(Catherine turns and leaves. Warrick chuckles.)
NICK: (clueless) Best part of what?
And I don't care how cute Nick looks when he's clueless, it was still very annoying.
(Scene-description courtesy of Twiztv)
(Ronnie Litre processes the writing on the pocket lining for Nick. Nick reads the writing.)
NICK: "Madame ... Matryoshka's. Tuesday ... Eight? G A.M."? Some kind of appointment. "G A.M."?
[...they talk about matryoshka's (nesting dolls)]
RONNIE LITRE: My grandma had a set. Anyway, people who've gone from writing cyrillic to English often write their nines as lowercase g's.
Well, how about that: so I guess it's not g a.m. but 9 a.m. Huh: an appointment in combination with a time. Duh. (I'm not sure about the Russians so I won't argue about it, but we don't divide the day in a.m. and p.m. but use the 24 hour system.)
I have never written cyrillic, but have also been accused by Americans that my nine looks like a g, because of the lovely loop at the bottom. I must admit I go a bit overboard, but it's still obviously a nine and not the letter g. It's not that confusing people, ever heard of context? I like my loopy nine:)
I'm sorry, I just get really pissy about stupidity. But I guess this was the episode where Nick had taken a stupid-pill, because there was another scene that was annoyingly out of character. (I prefer SmartNicky)
(Nick is going through the various photos of the mail-order brides on the internet)
[...]
WARRICK: Well, life is short. Dating's complicated. This makes it much simpler, doesn't it?
[...]
NICK: Hey, wait a minute. You're not telling me you're into this stuff?
WARRICK: Me? No. But you know, for a guy who's over 40, lonely, tired of the bar scene, got a little cash, wants to buy himself a sweet honey, be his companion ...
NICK: He needs a translator, 'cause you're not even speaking the same language.
WARRICK: That's the best part.
CATHERINE: (groans) Ugh ... !
(Catherine turns and leaves. Warrick chuckles.)
NICK: (clueless) Best part of what?
And I don't care how cute Nick looks when he's clueless, it was still very annoying.
(Scene-description courtesy of Twiztv)