VA: Waiting in Line for the New Harry Potter Book is the Very Definition of Shame
Jul 23rd, 2007
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Original post: Waiting in Line for the New Harry Potter Book is the Very Definition of Shame
Funniest article in a long time. I WISH Harry and Ron had explored their sexuality with each other.
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I’d have to agree, the ending is pretty tame. For making Voldermort kill himself with his own spell you’d think Harry would end up as an ass-kicking Auror or the Minister of Magic or something. The ending didn’t surprise me though, as all Harry’s wanted is a real family and now he has one. Butterflies and rainbows, baby!
What pissed me off is that it didn’t go into detail when Bellatrix exploded. You’d think it would say something about her entrails splattering against the wall and her head landing in the hands of a freaked-out student, but NO, just, “she a splode lol”.
I thought the ending was all that could be expected. With as much hype as there was around the book and the closing of the series, to have it not suck was all that I could hope for, and I wasn’t disappointed.
The epilogue, on the other hand, was awful and horribly generic. One could literally end any series like that. Yes, we know life goes on and that eventually historic events become nothing more than a memory. I know this happens, I don’t need the author to tell me that it happens. The epilogue doesn’t even have to be one event, it could be brief episodic chunks that lead up to the final epilogue. I’d much rather know what sort of job Harry got.
And something I’ve wondered throughout the entire series, how did his parents become rich? What kind of job did they have?
I had someone try that “open your bag” shit on me at a big box store. I said ” why-what did you see me steal?” She said-”Nothing sir, but I need to check your bag.”
I told her “Unless you tell me what you think I stole, the only way I open this bag is if you call the cops.”
Long story short-cops called, bag searched, nothing but my personal stuff found. I have turned down an offer of $4k from box store to settle.
8l
She… went… to… wait… in… line… for… a… Harry… Potter… book… like… a… tame… sheep… ?
What’s wrong with doing something useful when sheep are being herded to the store and when the people who have no life have managed to get their Harry Potter books and their Star Wars XII collectables and their Teletubbies lunchboxes and gone home to fondle them, then go to the shop and buy the book?
I don’t know why people waited in line. I got up at 6.30 Saturday morning to drive my boyfriend to work, stopped at Wal-Mart on the way, bought the book in about a minute and left. There was no waiting in line for four hours, like some people I know. All in all, book was pretty good, but the epilogue was freaking lame.
The idea of V standing in line - like just another cow in the herd - to buy the book is so ironic to me I’m shitting nails.
Anyone of her purported intelligence would do what many of my friends did: preorder it online at amazon.com. It arrived Saturday morning a mere 10 hours after release.
As for the guy demanding to see the receipt - I really don’t agree with V. Making a scene, getting evil on some poor slob just because he’s doing his job, freaking out the kids in the store, upsetting parents - what the fuck is the sense in that? Just show the stupid receipt and go on your way. She obeyed the rules by standing in line, why not obey the rules and show the receipt on the way out of the store? She’s becoming one of those nasty women she enjoys bitching about.
And as for the end of the book and series - did anyone really expect anything different? Really?
Real men stand in line–losers pre-order.
A black sheep is still a sheep…
She waited in line to pick up something she’d enjoy, nothing wrong with that. Feeds a psychological need to complete something. Plus reduces the chances of spoilers.
Kudos to the husband for being smart enough to bring an MP3 player and not get suckered by flyers heh.
@ myroid - LOL! I’d rather answer the door bell than stand in line with a crowd of noisy & costumed kids. Sometimes it’s easier to be a loser. :)
For those who don’t agree with V about the store reciept check, you go ahead and show your papers all you want. I won’t throw away my rights just to make it easy on some company’s bottom line.
“He’s just doing his job..” Yea, yea. I heard it all before. Don’t care. Nobody without a gun and a badge can paw through my bag or make me do anything I don’t feel like doing. (And then, they better have a damn good reason for doing so!) Hardly ever had a problem yet. Whenever I (Politely) decline to show my reciept or allow security to look in my bag, I have been allowed to continue on my way almost every time. The very rare occurance when a security person tried to detain me, I firmly informed them that they needed to have some sort of evidence of my wrongdoing and better be prepared to back it up in a courtroom if they wanted to keep holding me against my will. Luckily there was a manager present and he straightened out the situation.
Overzealous security persons can do major harm to a business when they hold people, without evidence, simply on suspicion. These people (and the store owners/operators) can be charged with assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and unlawful detention. The damage awards for these types of cases can run very high.
I would have absolutely no problem with contacting a lawyer and filing a lawsuit if I was held against my will. Perhaps if enough of these case hit the businesses in the pocketbook, They will change their anti-shoplifting tactics to something a little less invasive.
Technically it would work better having your pride set on fire before being urinated on, as damp pride probably wouldn’t light up.