Yesterday was Doctor Who day (a.k.a. the day the new season comes back on the air) and I had to tiptoe around the internet to avoid getting any of the fangasm it was having on me *ahem* I mean, to avoid getting spoilered.
I love that I know people in the internet world who get excited about the same things as me but it does make it tricky if your real world life gets behind schedule. At least in real life you can clap your hands over their mouth or stick your fingers in your ears. That’s much more difficult with the internet. Unless you avoid it all together.
…which… no… that would be…
My head doesn’t like that plan.
I won’t tell you about it (because I’m nice) but the episode was good. And they did the joke again. You know the one. And I don’t know why but every single time they do that joke it’s hilarious. (Well, I think it is. I admit the possibility that my brains have been a little scrambled.) But I will report this conversation:
Me: The second to last episode is all traumatic, but the last episode is hilarious. …As well as traumatic. Because everyone dies. But in a funny way. Cause there are clowns.
Paul: Clowns aren’t funny.
Oh don’t cry so much. That was about season four. Also it was a lie. There aren’t any clowns in season four either. Unless they’re cleverly disguised as daleks…
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
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jasssa
29/08/2011
My general approach with spoilers is to just watch the episode as soon as possible. But yeah, if that’s not an option then I’ll avoid places where people I know may be talking about whatever it is. Most of my friends/people I follow are good at not spoiling stuff though so I can usually still get away with using Twitter, G+, etc. as normal.
The bigger problem I have is for shows I do intend to watch one day and would prefer not to be spoiled for. It’s unreasonable to expect people to not talk about episodes which are a few years old at this point so I just have to exercise caution and avoid any detailed conversations about the shows where possible.
jasssa
29/08/2011
What the hell WordPress. Did you just eat my comment?
jasssa
29/08/2011
Oh you son of a bitch.
Cliff notes version: My friends/people I follow are generally good about spoilers. I can usually browse the web normally. But I try to watch shows I care about ASAP anyway. It’s difficult to avoid spoilers for shows you haven’t started watching yet (but have been out for several years). Usually it’s easy enough to avoid such conversations though, when they occur.
Kandace Mavrick
29/08/2011
WordPress hates you and your little dog too.
It’s not so much that people aren’t good about giving you a heads-up in the title or putting stuff under cuts it’s just that I have to navigate around them and at the same time make a note of where they are.
Cause I WANT to know what my friends had to say about these things. I LIKE watching them squee-gasm, it’s HILARIOUS.
The best solution really IS just to not look at the internet until I have remedied the gap in my education but… that is a problem. For a number of reasons, not just my apparent addiction to the thing. Okay, mostly that. See? At least I’m aware that I have a problem.
jasssa
29/08/2011
At least it’s finally emailing me when people reply to my comments. It was frustrating to discover when signed in as Twitter the “email me about replies!” option doesn’t do anything.
Better/customisable search options would be another possible solution for your problem. Twitter should allow you to search amongst a particular user or group of users. Google+ too – it’s surprising it doesn’t let you search posts at all at the moment considering search is kinda Google’s thing.
Kandace Mavrick
29/08/2011
Baby steps, grasshopper. G+ is still in its infancy. I’m sure they’ll get there.
jasssa
29/08/2011
Yeah, that’s what I keep telling people too. It still makes me a little sad they didn’t make it a bit more fleshed out before launching the beta.
Kandace Mavrick
05/09/2011
Turns out, no. It just decided you were spam. Maybe the excessive use of the word ‘duck’. Or perhaps it just thought your duck-related humour infliction was cruel and unusual so to punish you it put you in the spam filter. I don’t check it that often and had to liberate a couple of your comments (including the one about ducks). No idea why it objected to this one, unless it was just a hold over from the previous duck fiasco.
jasssa
05/09/2011
Well, WordPress can go duck itself! Glad the post was read eventually. I still think it did that because I logged in (which doesn’t refresh the page) and then posted a comment. I haven’t had any problems since I began actively avoiding doing that 🙂
Claire
29/08/2011
Love the Lego clown skeleton Kandace. Sheer brilliance.
Darrell
01/09/2011
Thanks for using the time and effort to write something so interesting.
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