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So, tomorrow there is a plebiscite on whether to keep air traffic at Tempelhof airport, as opposed to closing it down in favour of the international airport at Schönefeld, turning the area into a leisure park kind of thing. Conservative parties are for it, ostensibly because it's a historical site and whatnot (who cares that there are plans of making it into a museum, thus rendering the argument void), the governing parties are for closing it, since there's barely any traffic there anyway, and it's one of the terms on which Schönefeld was allowed to be turned into an international airport.

Now, the "Bild", Germany's biggest tabloid, ran a hilarious list of 100 "reasons" why Tempelhof should stay open for air traffic, and I felt the overwhelming need to comment on it. I was going to do it in German, since this is not likely anything that anyone out of Berlin cares about, but the idiocy was too good not to share with the rest of the world, and I like translating.

( Some of the 100 best arguments, if by 'best' you mean 'ahahaha, are you kidding me?' )

"Be Tempelhof. Be Berlin."
"Mommy, when I grow up, can I be an airport?" Can't argue with that kind of reasoning.

If you have any love for Lost's Sayid and/or Sawyer/Sayid and/or cracky picspams, you need to go and take a look at dreaminoflorien's ongoing picspam/photo love story - Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Seriously, people. So funny.

Music later. Unrelatedly: Am I a bad fan for still not having watched last week's Doctor Who? *ashamed* The days are just rushing by, it seems. It's already Saturday afternoon again? Also, I need to cut back on posting. Tell me if I'm being too spammy, ok?

So, I was taking a break from (so far fruitlessly) browsing job offers and reading OTF Wank, where they were talking about some post about spiders and then went off on a tangent about centipedes and someone posted a link to a video of a giant centipede eating a mouse. Everyone was squicked out.

Me? I went "OMG So awesome! Ok, I feel sorry for the mouse, but that's nature for you, and OMG GIANT CENTIPEDE SO COOL I WANT ONE!! ♥ ♥ ♥" I think they shall now be my third-favourite insect-ish thing, right behind spiders* and praying mantis...ses? And stick insects. Ok, my fourth-favourite. Insects are love.

If you don't mind big crawly things, watch the video here. BEWARE: It's one fucking huge centipede, and one cute, terrified, poor little mousie. If you're not sure you can take that, better don't click. But the centipede is so, so pretty.

*Yes, I know that a spider is not an insect.