Nov 14 2007
Remember my comments on Bee Movie? Well, looks other people agree.
Tags: Bee Movie, gender confusionOct 30 2007
Week 247
I’m late for this week’s association fun but you know, weekend in Sligo, Bank Holiday weekend, all that malarky. Plus I’m often late, you really should have gotten used to it by now.
And I’m about to delay it even more by rambling about other stuff. First Damien’s fluffy links bring news of NowILiveHere.com. It is a wiki where you[1] can tell the world what there is to do in the place that you live.
Second, I so agree with this post, so I’m I crazy that the first thought that popped into my head when I saw the trailer for Bee Movie was but he’s a male bee. Their only real role in bee society is to mate with the queen.
Drones never exhibit typical worker bee behaviors such as nectar and pollen gathering, nursing, or hive construction.
I’m sure ya’ll remember the issues I have with male cows so really, you shouldn’t be surprised by this annoyance.
I’m also thinking I just might purchase the box set of My So-Called Life. It probably won’t be as fun as I remember, but what the hell, nostalgia deserves to be indulged, don’t you think?
- And finally I get around to copying and pasting in this week’s words
- Inaugural ::
- Pledge ::
- String ::
- Trot ::
- Fitness ::
- Cinder ::
- Edge ::
- 31 ::
- Blue ::
- Leather ::
Linknotes:
Tags: Bank Holiday, Bee Movie, cows are not male!, gender confusion, Ireland, links, Luna Nina, NowILiveHere, Sligo- if you live in Ireland ↩
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Mar 23 2007
Does anyone know where I get my drugs?
We’ll begin with the vague; this morning, or possibly last night[1] there was an ad on the radio. This of course is not a rare occurrence. There are many radios in the world, and usually they have ads. Every 15 minutes or so seems to be standard. But, getting specific here, I’m referring to a particular ad that I heard. It was a Cadbury ad.[2] but I’m not sure exactly what it was for[3] although it did mention Creme Eggs[4] and something else. Cow related[5] so possibly[6] Dairymilk related. Then again, possibly not.
Whatever the products mentioned, they were advertising some product of some description, but that isn’t important. What is important is the method of advertising. See they were going on about the love affair between the Creme Egg producing chicken and the the creamy milk producing cow. Fair enough, I have nothing against inter-species love affairs. However I am concerned that they managed to produce an offspring.[7] Let us call this offspring, cowick-egg, purely because I don’t think that that works as a snappy product name. So Creme Egg Chicken is female, cause only hens lay eggs right? And creamy-milk cow is female, on account of male cattle being bulls and producing a different sorta milk
Now this doesn’t mean they can’t get it together and fall madly in love. God no! Fair play to inter-species gay romances. The do tend to liven up farmyards and make them more entertaining places. So, fair play[8] to those two crazy kids for getting it together. But the fact that their love resulted in this new product, well colour me disturbed. Either one of them has secretly been infected with frog DNA[9] and so has gained the ability to swap sex and so has turned male, or, and to my mind[10] much more likely, one of them has had an affair with a male animal. Now whether this was a rooster or a bull I can’t say, the ad didn’t go into detail about which produced the wonderful new creamy-milk-chocolatey-eggy-goodness that makes up the new product. But either way, for Cadbury to be promoting this is wrong. Wrong, wrong wrong! After all radio is just like telly, only without pictures and different, and we all know how influential The Television is on everyday lives. We all live our lives according to the high moral standards of The Television[11] and the characters that live in that little box. Now, okay, radio isn’t quite a great as The Television, but still, with this example of non-monogamous behaviour, before you know it the world will be gone mad in an orgy of sex and partner swapping. And then it’ll be a short skip, hop or jump before we’re all murdering each other in our beds, for once you begin to step off the moral path, it is a slippery step slope all the way to the bottom.
Cadbury! I blame you for the moral decline of the world!
Either that or the cow or chicken have used some sort of genetic experimentation to produce their cowick-egg. And while, obviously not as bad as moral decline, messing about with the Natural World is never a good thing, and science is evil, and no doubt anyone eating this new chocolate goodness will die of some horrible, long-term, painful disease.
Or maybe the ad-makers are just stupid?
Linknotes:
Tags: adverts, Cadbury, chickens, chocolate, cows, cows are not male!, Creme Egg, gender, gender confusion, radio, wrong wrong wrong- time-travel makes this whole linear thing difficult ↩
- still specific ↩
- reverting to vague ↩
- who were only mentioned here recently, imagine that ↩
- vague and specific at the same time, lucky you ↩
- and now speculation enters the race, isnt this exciting ↩
- that being the new product being advertised. ↩
- in a Ronán Keating Gift Grub style ↩
- Films ARE fact remember ↩
- my soap-watching mind that is ↩
- you probably should be making some sort of bow down and worship gesture here ↩
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Aug 16 2005
Who’s stupid now, eh?
Noticing an intriguing headline[1] on Newsnow, I clicked on the link. And learned that lions in a safari park in England have been paying particular attention to Smart cars. Well, that meant I had to go google[2] cause I hadn’t a clue what the smart car was. Turns out there are this really small two-seater thingymebob car. And because they are so small they look very different than regular cars.
So the lions, no doubt thinking A’right, a’right, wats dis den?[3] , have been investigating this new addition to their home. Seems reasonable to me. The Daily Mail however think this makes them stupid. And post a little picture to illustrate their caption
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Lionesses are confusing Smart cars with prey
Nuff said
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Tags: gender confusion, lions, Smart carsRelated posts
Jul 20 2004
Monstrous Regiment
Author: Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552149411 DDC: 823.914
A Discworld novel.
By my count this is the 28th Discworld novel, although if you include the “Younger Readers’” discworld books then you get 30. So take your pick, I don’t think it really makes much of a difference what number it is.
The Discworld books are, in my opinion, among the greatest novels ever written. Not just the greatest fantasy, or humour novels, but the greatest books of all. Sure the earlier ones lack the complexity of the later ones, they are more simply comedic in nature. But the later books use humour and a fantasy setting to explore the modern world. And always (well okay, mostly) in entertaining stories, with fascinatng characters.
Monstrous Regiment is the story of Polly, a girl who dressed up as a boy in order to join the army, find and bring home her brother. Her country, Borogravia, always seems to be at war. The border with the neighbouring country is fixed by the river’s course, which unfortunatly changes course, so border conflicts are more than a little common.
And then there is the religous issue. Nuggan,their god is rather fond of updating the Book of Nuggan, and mainly with Abominations, that is things that are forbidden; chocoate, garlic, cats, dwarfs, blue, oysters, babies and many many more.
When I first read it I have to say I was a little disapointed. It lacked the humour (and the footnotes seem to have been reduced in quantity) of other books, and wasn’t as engaging. Despite this I did enjoy it, Polly and her fellow soldiers did keep my interest, and of course the few appearances of Vimes brightened up the book. Still I finished it without ever laughing out loud, and wasn’t all that impressed. But afterwards parts of the book kept coming back to me.
As is usual with books, the back of my copy has quotes on how great Monstrous Regiment is. Among them is one from the Daily Express comparing it to Evelyn Waugh’s Officers and Gentlemen, and Jonathon Swift. And the anti-war parts were the parts of the book that stuck in my mind. The absolute absurdity of the war that Borogravia had gotten involved in, and the reasons why. And that fact means I have to rate it higher than I did at first. Maybe it is missing part of the humour, but maybe it was the mood I was in while reading it. I’ll reread it in a while and know for sure about that. What I do know now is that it really does point out the ridiculous ease with which wars start;
Tags: 823.914, 9 Stars, anti-war, Discworld 'verse, gender confusion, humour, Monstrous Regiment, sff, soldier, Terry Pratchett“We are a proud country.”
“What are you proud of?”
It came swiftly, like a blow, and Polly realized how wars happened. You took that shock that had run through her, and let it boil.
…it may be corrupt, benighted and stupid, but it’s ours…
Polly stayed silent. She was still trying to cope with the anger. It made it worse to know that he was right. We have our pride. And that’s what we’re proud of. We’re proud of being proud…
