Everything makes me grumpy at the moment, it seems

[usuallyhats]

1) First of all, via Anna at FWD/Forward, it looks like blind voters had trouble voting last Thursday. According to one of the commenters, this is at least partly due to the templates for blind voters not coming with any instructions, so the staff at the polling station had no way of knowing how to use them. This is on top of other people not being able to vote due to long queues and polling stations running out of ballot papers. GREAT.

2) Re: our new Tory overlords, I am a) not happy and b) waiting to see exactly what grade and variety of D: we're going to get.

3) Friday's Quote of the Day in the BBC Magazine made me a little angry, since it seems to think that the idea of a woman being too embarrassed to ask a man to stop harassing her is a) hilarious and b) something that only happens in Japan.

4) LJ is being skeevy again, it appears. SIGH.

5) Hey, actually this last bit's sort of positive: Facebook has fiddled with the privacy settings again, but now it lets you hide a lot of things that were previously public only! Of course, they haven't announced this so far as I can see, and everything defaults to still being public, but it's something anyway.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I note that the short name for the new govt is condem - I think this says *everything* we need to know. We're condemned to madness and nastiness hereafter. Personally, I give the new govt 6 months max. If it lasts any longer, I'll eat my hat!

As for LJ - that is beyond skeevy - that's stalking. *shudders*

[usuallyhats]

Personally, I give the new govt 6 months max. If it lasts any longer, I'll eat my hat!
Yeah, I've heard a lot of people saying that, but I think I heard they were talking about fixed terms? I don't know, it's all so up in the air at the moment.

As for LJ - that is beyond skeevy - that's stalking. *shudders*
*nods* Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, you've still got a staff member leaving a creepy comment and LJ failing to respond properly. :/

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

They are talking a fixed five year term - but that won't make a blind bit of difference if the Lib Dems start voting against them. I guess it depends whether the Lib Dems want to be in government at any cost - if they do, then they'll keep backing the Tories. But I don't see it lasting...

*nods* Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, you've still got a staff member leaving a creepy comment and LJ failing to respond properly. :/

Personally I don't give them the benefit of the doubt. And they should fire the member of staff...

[the-smut-fairy.livejournal.com]

So, when you saw the door of No.10 close behind the Camerons, was it a mental picture of the Slitheen or the Master that first popped into your head? They've been doing shifts in my brain. This is prompted in no small part by the fact that everything that the Slimy Schoolboy has said in the last 24 hours completely and utterly contradicts everything I have heard from him before, so I keep expecting him to rip off his face and do the laugh.

[usuallyhats]

I was thinking "Auton" myself, but Slitheen is a good call too. D:

[the-smut-fairy.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that creeeeeeeepy shiny face, I see your point.