One Week Of Madness, Brought To You By... (part the last)

[Sunday]: Dogs and ducks... but not the kind you think
No, I don't mean pubs... just an unusual day. I can't remember when I last had an alcoholic drink... nah, actually James probably got me a cider when we were in the bar. How many drinks do I now owe this man..? Please, if anyone happens to work it out, keep it quiet. ;)

Anyway - spent the afternoon eating sandwiches on the Backs and complaining about the blanket coverage of waterbird crap on the grass -
Richard: "It's like a frag shit-grenade!"
- but then got stupidly pleased in the way that most people do when two of the ducks came up beside us on the grass and started picking up our leftovers. There was a discussion about whether or not there was anything in the Cam resembling prawns, but either way the ducks refused to eat them (Blaise's) or the tomato bits Richard kept throwing at them. Almost got one to eat from my hand... didn't, but it was only a few inches away, dammit... and may have argued with Richard over "whose" duck was better (after a few minutes Blaise and I had basically adopted the female and Richard the drake - Ramsey wasn't sharing).

In the evening I was persuaded to bar it with the others and some people from Fitz - Geologists are surprisingly entertaining people. :P After that James got us (Ana, Blaise, Richard, me - supposedly Nick as well, but he never showed up) to watch Reservoir Dogs. Fell asleep halfway through against Richard's chair. Woke up fairly abruptly when Blaise stole (read: threw herself into) his seat.

At the end of the (overly violent, not hugely funny, and unfortunately fairly predictable) film, there was a "discussion" of whether or not we liked it... other than James, who'd picked it, we didn't...
Some quotes to illustrate the debate:

James: Isn't that the coolest intro sequence you've ever seen for a film?
Group in general: Uh... no.

James: But don't you love the Mr. Blonde character?
Richard: Nooooo, because-he's-a-fucking-PSYCHOPATH.

"But everybody diiiiiiiiieeeeed!!"

Group: [general points involving the words "predictable", "not funny", possibly also "just stupid" and "retarded"]
James: [muttered comments involving the word "cynics"]

[after Richard made a comment on gratuitous violence]
James: But it's well-made...
Richard: Yes, the Holocaust was a "well-made" Holocaust - doesn't mean I have to like it...

Hee. Poor James... we liked Shawshank...