Jingo Day, and other rants
So yesterday was Jingo Day: everything was as Aussie as, and the bushfires triply so. The news was basically "It's Jingo day, and many people had barbeques, and some angry Abos burned a flag, and several towns are at immediate risk from these photogenic infernos, how Aussie is that?!, here's a live cross to the Aussie Bushfires," on all the channels I saw.
Yes, I know that the bushfires are serious and important news, and that Kinglake is in trouble (hopefully the current showers will help...), but couldn't they have at least tried to disguise their glee at Aussie Bushfires featuring on Aussie Day, so they could alternate the Aussie Flag with shots of Aussie bushfires on the Aussie newsroom backdrop. Aussie.
*sigh*
We spent the morning chasing Abbi through the Aquarium. The fishbowl in the basement is very impressive, and so is the Architeuthis Dux on ice. There were lots of people. The entry cost was exhorbitant, even if the girls got in free. The corned beef bagel was nice. Abbi held a starfish. There were lots of fish.
*drinks more coffee*
So, Palestine. The Democratic Process is a wonderful thing, if you vote for the people you are supposed to, it seems. Palestine has not voted for the people it was supposed to. It seems Hamas has won. Everyone is pulling out unfeasably large testicles and uttering (voce basso) manly declamations of How It's Gonna Be. Israel won't negotiate with any government with Hamas in it. Neither will the US. Other Manly Men like Howard and Blair have said that Hamas must renounce terrorism before they will talk to them.
( What pompous, simplistic twaddle. )
Do I like Hamas? Actually, no I don't. I would far prefer that someone else had won the elections. But for that to have happened, there would have to have been somebody else. The reaction of the right is sadly predictable: force them into a corner, leave them only one option, then punish them for taking it. Fucking grow up, you Calvinist hypocrits. And stop comparing me to Chamberlain.
Toy ads.Slutz Bratz are bad enough, but at least they are presented as of-age vapid whores. Bratz Babyz, above and beyond their crimes against the English Language, are simply abominable, and I use that word advisedly. They are an abomination against childhood and innocence.
They are sexualised Goddess-damned TODDLERS. The ads feature the four of them, with bottles and the proportions of a three-year-old, in nappy-bikinis, with wide hips, canted and tilted towards the viewer. And these 'toys' are aimed at six-year-old girls. As rôle-models: "This is what you should aspire to be, forget 'princess', or 'nurse', or godforbid, 'policewoman' or 'astronaut', your life-goals should include fishnets and miniskirts, shopping and getting drunk and advertising your sexual availability -- even if you don't know what that means."
For Fuck's Sake.
And then you have The Teen Trends dolls, which are at least more vapid than slutty (No sign of fishnets, micro-mini-skirts and CFM boots, for example), and are meant to be teenagers. Still. I wonder how much of a coincidence it is that the ad is punctuated with the cry "Ho's!".
"Teen Trends, the girls know what to do (HO's!), Teen Trends, Teen Trends..."
I was so much happier before Abbi reintroduced us to early morning cartoons. What happened to Transformers, Battle of the Planets, or the Mysterious Cities of Gold? Even theMattel/Cadburies Chocobot hour Machine Men would be preferable to this.
Quote just heard on JJJ from a -- dare I say -- White Supremacist:
Idiot.
If I don't respond to emails in a hurry, it's because I'm on holiday for a fortnight, and Mim doesn't like me looking sideways at the computer. If you have to get in touch, phone me. If you don't have my number, email and I'll give it to you when I next log on. And I'll try and stay connected when I can.
Yes, I know that the bushfires are serious and important news, and that Kinglake is in trouble (hopefully the current showers will help...), but couldn't they have at least tried to disguise their glee at Aussie Bushfires featuring on Aussie Day, so they could alternate the Aussie Flag with shots of Aussie bushfires on the Aussie newsroom backdrop. Aussie.
*sigh*
We spent the morning chasing Abbi through the Aquarium. The fishbowl in the basement is very impressive, and so is the Architeuthis Dux on ice. There were lots of people. The entry cost was exhorbitant, even if the girls got in free. The corned beef bagel was nice. Abbi held a starfish. There were lots of fish.
*drinks more coffee*
So, Palestine. The Democratic Process is a wonderful thing, if you vote for the people you are supposed to, it seems. Palestine has not voted for the people it was supposed to. It seems Hamas has won. Everyone is pulling out unfeasably large testicles and uttering (voce basso) manly declamations of How It's Gonna Be. Israel won't negotiate with any government with Hamas in it. Neither will the US. Other Manly Men like Howard and Blair have said that Hamas must renounce terrorism before they will talk to them.
( What pompous, simplistic twaddle. )
Do I like Hamas? Actually, no I don't. I would far prefer that someone else had won the elections. But for that to have happened, there would have to have been somebody else. The reaction of the right is sadly predictable: force them into a corner, leave them only one option, then punish them for taking it. Fucking grow up, you Calvinist hypocrits. And stop comparing me to Chamberlain.
Toy ads.
They are sexualised Goddess-damned TODDLERS. The ads feature the four of them, with bottles and the proportions of a three-year-old, in nappy-bikinis, with wide hips, canted and tilted towards the viewer. And these 'toys' are aimed at six-year-old girls. As rôle-models: "This is what you should aspire to be, forget 'princess', or 'nurse', or godforbid, 'policewoman' or 'astronaut', your life-goals should include fishnets and miniskirts, shopping and getting drunk and advertising your sexual availability -- even if you don't know what that means."
For Fuck's Sake.
And then you have The Teen Trends dolls, which are at least more vapid than slutty (No sign of fishnets, micro-mini-skirts and CFM boots, for example), and are meant to be teenagers. Still. I wonder how much of a coincidence it is that the ad is punctuated with the cry "Ho's!".
"Teen Trends, the girls know what to do (HO's!), Teen Trends, Teen Trends..."
I was so much happier before Abbi reintroduced us to early morning cartoons. What happened to Transformers, Battle of the Planets, or the Mysterious Cities of Gold? Even the
Quote just heard on JJJ from a -- dare I say -- White Supremacist:
"Racism" is just a word used by the Left to confuse the Right.
Idiot.
If I don't respond to emails in a hurry, it's because I'm on holiday for a fortnight, and Mim doesn't like me looking sideways at the computer. If you have to get in touch, phone me. If you don't have my number, email and I'll give it to you when I next log on. And I'll try and stay connected when I can.