The headmaster of a £28,000-a-year private school has indicated he is considering inviting a porn star to teach sex education to his pupils. Mark Slater, head of The Leys in Cambridge, said students at the historic school need to be aware of the unrealistic nature of the online material. It is vital that children are [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Education, England, Fark!, Funnies, Sexuality
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Tagged mark slater, prostitution, secondary education, sex education, the leys school
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I love Superhero-from-comics movies. Not every one of them, but the genre. With such examples as Christopher Nolan‘s amazing Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises trilogy, they include films which are at the peak of the film-maker’s art. I have never been much of a comic/graphic novel reader.* I believe I read most of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. Otherwise, [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Saturday chit-chat
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Tagged batman, Christopher Nolan, Coley, Comics, Dark Knight, Dark Phoenix, Darkseid, Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four, films, Galactus, genre, Heath Ledger, John Blackburn, Joker, Kingpin, Lex Luthor, Liam Neeson, Loki, Magneto, Patrick Fillion, Ra's Al Ghul, Sir Ian McKellen, Spider-Man, superhero, supervillain, The Avengers, The Bible, the dark knight rises, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, X-Men
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I have found that YouTube is something that can swallow lots of one’s time. Particularly given the “similar recommendations” column down the right-hand side. Recently, for example, I got sucked into the Sterek phenomena. The interest by fans in imagining that there is some budding (or actual) relationship between the characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale in [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Art, Blogging, Music, Saturday chit-chat, Sexuality
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Tagged Basketball Math Guy, Dylan O'Brien, films, James, music videos, Placebo, Sterek, Teen Wolf, The Boy Next Door, The Love Within, The Matrix, Tyler Hoechlin, Water, Wavey Davey, We Once Were Tide, YouTube
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April 22, 2013 – 10:46 pm
Chrissie Amphlett and the Divinyls provided a decent chunk of the soundtrack to my young life; reports of her early death (aged 53) hit me in the childhood memories, hard, much like the arrest of Rolf Harris, or pictures of Berliners crawling over the remains of the Wall. I have, by saying those things, disclosed [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Books, Fark!, Literature, science fiction
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Tagged Ayn Rand, Bleak House, Chrissie Amphlett, cultural capital, DC Comics, Dr Who, Ender's Game, geekiness, geeks, high culture, Jane Austen, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, literary criticism, National Organisation for Marriage, Orson Scott Card, Reason Foundation, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, the Divinyls, Tolstoy, Ursula Le Guin
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A seal has boarded a Royal Navy amphibious-assault ship as it was about to carry out military exercises near Carnoustie. HMS Bulwark was making preparations for the multinational training exercise Joint Warrior when the seal swam up the ship’s landing dock. The animal sat and watched the crew for about half an hour. It was [...]
The death of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), the longest serving and most controversial British Prime Minister of the C20th, has and will let loose a storm of picking over the bones of her Premiership and legacy. I would caution against examinations that look at British economic statistics alone, [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Cold War, margaret thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Rubbery Figures, soviet union, Spitting Image, Terrorism, Winter of Discontent
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Australian restaurant cuisine is sometimes described as mediterrasian, which is a pretty good description. The traditional Anglo-Celtic Oz dinner is meat and three veg. Steak and vegies is still our most popular meal, followed by roast chicken, spag bog, beef stew or curry and chicken stir-fry. Lots of grazing land makes the land Downunder the land [...]
The combination of the Melbourne heatwave, being very busy at work (having to get up a 5.30am in the morning to beat the traffic then doing a full day’s presentation teaching takes it out of me) and an obsessive writing project have meant I have not been around much. Apologies for that. When I have [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Blogging, History, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Saturday chit-chat
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day Lewis, Eastern Front, Lincoln the movie, slavery, spam, Thirteenth Amendment, US democrats, US republicans, WWII
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Legislation in the name of the lead singer of Aerosmith that seeks to protect celebrities’ privacy has been passed in Hawaii. The so-called Steven Tyler Act deems it a civil violation if people take unwanted photos or videos of others in their private moments. Tyler, who is from Massachusetts, on the other side of the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, Law, Media, Music, Politics, Privacy
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Tagged aerosmith, america, celebrity, First Amendment, freedom of the press, hawaii, Journalism, maui, national press photographers association, paparazzi, photography, senator kalani english, senator sam slom, society of professional journalists, steven tyler, the steven tyler act, US Constitution, USA
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