Funniest Pic I’ve seen this month!

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Must see, Ian! Must see!

Too Cool for School

As we near the end of University’s first year, my ‘good will’ canteen seemed to waning and it’s been harder and harder to be ‘nice’ to people and help them out. I’m just a little overwhelmed at times and it can be hard juggling it all, particularly being helpful and nice and pro-active.

And just when I have had enough and just can’t cope with any more, my beautiful and industrious friend Julia comes to my rescue with the best. post. ever. i mean, super best. post. ever

or series of posts as is the case. Here’s the essence of what she wrote:

Just FYI people: Dec is NOT a representative of Curtin University. She is in no way affiliated with ANY university. Quite frankly, you should all stop harranging her to help you with your shit. Basically, anything she can answer, you can find yourself at any of the following places:

1. http://www.google.com.au
2. Blackboard
3. Twitter (your TUTORS)
4. Common knowledge
5. No really, just *THINK* about it for a second.
6. Yeeeeeah. That’s it. Seeee. You knew it all along.

She’s a person, people. Not an encyclopaedia. She has a life and her own work to do…. so how about you ease up on the neediness?
Kthxbai.

I love you Julia, you really rock my world 🙂

Oh My! Bold and the Beautiful Revamp

Sometimes it’s like watching paint dry. Other times, you can’t wait for that thursday afternoon cliff hanger. And now, in true OTT fashion (excuse the pun), The Bold and the Beautiful have completely revamped their opening credits. It’s worth watching twice, because it’s hard to read that long list of actors.

But my favourite bit was watching the original opening sequence. Oh boy, haven’t the cast aged well!

Die Disney Die

There is something special about having a thought, a concept, a soap box issue vindicated. Maybe it’s just that you don’t feel all alone. Maybe it’s a sense of superiority at having ‘been right all along’. Or maybe it just becomes tedious to always be ahead of your time and it’s only decades later when the rest of the planet catches up.

And today, finally, the planet is catching up!

Thank God!

I am referring to the article, Tangled will be Disney Studio’s last fairytale adaptation from The Courier Mail. Not only does this article discuss how Disney is not going to be producing animated fairytales any further, but more importantly, it addresses an issue I have taken umbrage with since I was 7 or 8 and originally saw the film “The Red Shoes”.

I don’t watch Disney animated movies. I won’t watch them. And I haven’t since I saw “The Red Shoes”. Because Disney distorts the original story, bastardises it, removes the key moral to the story and inserts it’s own and does all of this while ramming down young girl’s throats the importance of being thin, of being good, of being unexceptional except at catching (and often manipulating) men, and of course only the bad, evil characters are ugly. For a short, independent, ugly child these references were crushing, debilitating and forced me to form a negative opinion of Disney way before I should have been old enough to do so.

But don’t take my word for it.

Some quotes from the article:

Academic Henry Giroux notes in his book The Mouse that Roared: “As a producer of children’s culture, Disney should not be given an easy pardon because it is defined as a citadel of good fun and cheer.”

Some of the main objections raised, rampant commercialism aside, have centred around the fact that Disney, despite having terrific source material, often reduces the tales to simple boy-meets-girl parables, limits gender portrayals, is often racist, and makes the princesses either motherless or orphans and, above all, passive.

On the other hand, academic Deborah Ross is disgusted that in The Little Mermaid Ariel “gets her legs, she makes her stand, she marches – but only down the aisle to marry some guy named Eric”.

Not only is the matriarchal and spiritual aspect of the Hans Christian Andersen tale lost in the film, but it is substituted with a superficial romance, in which the girl is all but silenced  and desire, choice and empowerment are linked to catching the guy.

The moral, never mind the context of the original story  [Aladdin] its setting [sic], themes of the abuse of power and the transformative nature of stories are reduced to a simple kid-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks-makes-good American Dream.

Read the entire article on the Courier Mail. I wish I could have said it as succinctly as the author does!

Die you bastard Disney, DIE!

Moo Boo goes to the Beach

Moo Boo forgoes the ball for the towel in the hope of a beach swim!

Missy Moo was so excited at the prospect of going to the beach, she was even willing to wear her towel. AND leave her ball behind. But when it came to posing for photos, she had to let of a huge howl of protest at being prevented from getting it immediately. Who could blame her? There’s so much to look forward to! There’s the drive and the off leash walk, then the sand between her paws, and barking at Daddy-dog until he pulls the pink dog toy out and then swimming to China to fetch the dog toy and bringing it back, and coughing up all that salt water, and then begging Daddy-dog to do it again!!!! PLUS there’s the towelling off afterwards AND the drive home!

Moo Boo with the Daddy Dog... I wanna go NOWWWWWW!

Missy Swims back from China

A Man and His Dog and a Pretty Pink Dog Toy

Moo Boo with her Daddy-Dog

Your Laugh for the week!!!

This is a must see video!

Try these:

• smokes with
• drinks with
• blasts
• sings with
• tickles
• is shot by
• is scared by
• sleeps with
• bakes with
• plays football with
• tipp-ex
• fights with
• kisses

Captain Slow? No, it’s a Slow Loris

Must see video of the week 😀

Friday Laughs: More Jon Lajoie

Just needed to include these coz they made me laugh and laugh.

The hottest song I’ve heard in years.

This song is amazing. it reminds me so much of music from the The Big Chill era and detroit soul music blended with some 60s, but mixed in the Naughties. I honestly don’t think it could possibly ever get any better this this, ooo ooo oooo!

First we have the “Radio Friendly Version” – Forget You. (released October 2010) (no swear words: no fuck, shit or nigga in this version).

and then the original song (released Aug 2010)

I like both!

The sentiment is there (even if the technology wasn’t)

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!!

“And we never had a whole Mars bar (American friends substitute Hershy bar) until 1993”!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. (Also from taps in the street) Some houses had no running water.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald’s , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn’t open on the weekends, somehow we didn’t starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because……

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,

no video/dvd films,

no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time…

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like ‘Kiora’ and ‘Blade’ and ‘Ridge’ and ‘Vanilla’

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.