{ so yeah, I'm a little pissed. }

[delga]

re: last week's Life (the one with the video game) -

When they say Persia what they actually mean is Iran. And if you want to know how fucking ridiculous I find that, well, Omid Djalili says it best:

There was at time when we used to be embarrassed to call ourselves Iranians. We used to call ourselves, we'd say, I'm not from Iran, I'm from Persia. I'm from Persia. As if that made a big difference. People would say, "Oh, really, you're from Persia? You mean next to Assyria, Mesopotamia and Thrace?! Of course! What a noble race of people! Actually, it's a bit like a Persian cat, makes sense - a Persian cat, they're so sweet. Not an Iranian cat, no. An Iranian cat has a bomb under the body warmer. A Persian, that's something completely different."

Yeah, god forbid we expose Dani as being half-Iranian. Or, you know, Sarah Shahi.

The above link might not work if you don't live in Britain. This is basically the same sketch but with more dialogue.