Pois! Seasons — Olen Julkkis... Päästäkää Minut
So the next time you hear —listen closely. They aren't asking to leave the jungle. They are asking to leave the concept of celebrity itself.
In the pantheon of reality TV, few phrases carry the weight of desperate, mud-splattered honesty as the Finnish translation of “I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!” The cry “Olen julkkis... päästäkää minut pois!” is more than a title—it is a narrative climax, a white flag, and a cultural meme all rolled into one. olen julkkis... päästäkää minut pois! seasons
And they never actually leave. Because the contract says they have to stay for the reunion episode. So the next time you hear —listen closely
The celebrities are not trapped in the Australian outback. They are trapped in the endless scroll of content, the demand for authenticity, and the paradox of Finnish modesty clashing with the desire for fame. In the pantheon of reality TV, few phrases
To the previous commentator’s question: Does Groovy on Grails change things?
Well, first of all there’s also JRuby that is built on the Java platform. So you can have Ruby and RoR on Java directly. Then Groovy and Grails are there and provide similar capabilities. That changes things… but not in the way many of the old Java fogies may have anticipated: It validates DHH’s point of view in the strongest way possible. Dynamic languages are a powerful tool in any programmer’s arsenal–if you get exclusively attached to Java [1] and ignore dynamic languages, then do so at your own peril.
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[1] The idea of getting exclusively attached to a particular language/platform is silly–they are just tools. Kill your ego. Open your mind and explore new technologies and techniques so you can use them when appropriate.