Making Money is not the best Discworld novel I’ve ever read. But it is good. better than most novels out there. Until you get to this bit:
“Yes, I suppose all he can do is ogle the young ladies.” There was some sniggering from the students.
“So? They’re paid to be ogled at,” said [...]
Archive for September, 2008
New Memo To The World:
Posted in cliches, movies, tagged cliches, movies on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Using some sort of rip off of the slowed down action scene first exhibited in the Matrix is crap.
Stop it.
Don’t do it anymore. Ever. For any reason whatsoever.
I will not watch your movie if you do this. It means you have no original thoughts and don’t know how to write a comedy. [...]
Boyfriend announcements
Posted in Nigel, personal, tagged random thoughts on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve noticed in every conversation I have with new people, I find a way of saying ‘my partner’ or ‘my boyfriend’ within the first few sentences. I don’t feel like I belong to Nigel, however I am well aware of the differences in the way I am treated when others believe I am “owned”. [...]
General State of Being and Nigel Update
Posted in Giant Babies, Nigel, personal on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I feel fantastic. The other night, I felt content. It has been so long since I’ve felt this good, I’m not sure I trust it to last. Problems and mishaps are being kept in perspective and not bothering me as much. I am overall feeling a hundred times better than I [...]
Erratic Posts
Posted in personal on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My schedule for the next week and a half is hectic, to say the least. I have two assignments due on the 12th, an on campus day on the 6th, preparation for my on campus day on the 6th, a cousin’s 18th on the 6th at night, baking to do for the 18th, dinner [...]
More from smh
Posted in feminism, smh, tagged smh on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m glad she was acquitted. I wish they hadn’t identified her as a ‘mother of six’ before anything else. Our media has a long way to go to realise that mothers are also humans, and that if they’re not going to identify men by their kids in the first sentence, women shouldn’t be either. This [...]
Childcare
Posted in smh, tagged smh on September 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is crap.
“I don’t know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work,” she said.
Really Mem Fox? You have no idea why this might happen? REALLY??? You are so wrapped up in your privileged world that you have NO IDEA why some people [...]
“Protectionism”
Posted in birth control, feminism, idiots, tagged birth control, idiots, in-laws on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently had a conversation with Nigel’s older sister about being childfree. This headed quite swiftly into the territory of tubal ligation as I pointed out that women under a certain age without children are not able to get this done easily. She seemed to think it was perfectly ok for this to be the [...]
