Short sleeved jumpers. Why the dickens?

[whatho]

Discuss. Jumpers are for cold weather; short sleeves are for hot weather. A marriage of the two makes me uncomfortable. It doesn't affect me directly. I didn't accidentally purchase a short sleeved jumper. Why would I do such a thing? I merely became aware of their existence and rightly questioned it.

Also I so very nearly signed up for Nano just now. OH GODS. I might leave it till very much the last minute so I don't have to spend too long feeling committed. Possibly I should make a poll about subject matter. But then random interlopers might steal my subjects. OH GODS. Nothing about Nano makes me easy. Oh gods.

My ear itches like bally bally heck.

ETA. I just read this on Wikipedia and it made me cross:

'Outside of the United States, there is a burgeoning stand-up comedy scene in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands....'

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Good LORD. I just read that out in horror. Do you think one day we'll have an actual stand up scene? I just can't imagine what that would be like.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Do you think we REALLY might? Then we could do stuff with clubs and theatres and put funny people on panel shows. Missing out on music hall was a real downer.

I actually had to go and look up burgeoning because I felt sure I must've been thinking of another word. But no.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Do they think that because we don't have the slurry that is generally Saturday Night Live that we don't have anything? We tried Saturday/Friday Night things in the 80s, I think, and realised they weren't any good, so did different things.

Perhaps one of the stepping stones to proper stand up could be radio. They could have things that showcased different acts, and perhaps sponsor a new comedians competition, and even combine comedic talents in radio panel shows. Very special people might even get to see them being recorded. OR! They could have a place, perhaps initially in London and then perhaps in other large cities as well, and it would be a place where acts went to get known, like a one stop shop for comedy, and they could call it "The Funny Shop".

[jekesta]

Oh I don't know what of to do about nano either, no. Oh dear.

I hate itchy ears more than most other things. I hope it passed.

I think they mean burgeoning to mean flourishing? Which is less new and small and more strong and ever growing, maybe? Apparently americans use burgeoning to mean that sometimes.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I didn't not know that about American-English burgeoning. But basically the whole 'stand up comedy' article is mis-named - it should be 'American stand up comedy'. It talks about the origins of stand up being 'in various traditions of American entertainment popular in the late 19th century', not really saying owt about European music hall and then ignoring stuff like ENSA and The Windmill. It's wholly about US stand up: that 'burgeoning' thing is the sole reference to other countries.

My ears cease to itch, hurrah, and Nano STILL perturbs me. What to do, what?

[jekesta]

Oh, I didn't really realise it was meant to be about stand up in general. Dude. That's quite scary yes. Wankers all of them.