The children’s TV series Peppa Pig ran an episode in 2012 that incited an Australian viewer complaint; the viewer said that the episode’s content was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.
/o Didn’t mean for you to get given such a hard time for a poster.
I mean, sure, it smells like smoke, but it comes by it honestly. All Australian eucalyptus burnt in my fireplace, not from toking up.
Oh god, no, it’s not your fault. They do this to me with every package I get, regardless of what it is. It didn’t smell at all! I was just like, this is a poster tube, what the FUCK do you think is inside?
Also, way too light to be packed with anything actually solid.
Hope you like it, anyway. It’s a print of an actual poster, not a mock-up. The guy who financed the mine that found that nugget went into patent medicine, and every time they reprinted the ads/posters they added a bunch more it supposedly cured. Apparently the main ingredient was actually valerian, so, not completely bogus and useful for some minor things, but certainly not the cure-all it was marketed as. Even then, people knew it was rubbish – when he tried his hand at politics, he was openly mocked for it by his peers. The State Library has an article and a picture of one of the original posters from their collection HERE.
The NT Intervention is a policy that sees 94% of people income managed to be Indigenous. Despite these discrepancies 75% of people who are moved off the income management scheme are non-indigenous. In 2011/12 the income management scheme cost $76 million to implement and resulted in over $88 million being spent on bureaucrats just to control Aboriginal welfare. This is a government that spends $80 million on the surveillance of Indigenous people. It is a system where Aboriginals make up 3% of the population but yet a third of the children taken away from their homes are Aboriginals. Racist policies towards out First Nations people did not end with the Stolen Generation and is alive and well today. (X)(X)
Reblog if you grew up hotter, gayer, and sadder than you ever imagined
I wasn’t about to reblog, because I was like “IDK about hotter” but then I remembered it was 41C yesterday and it’s going to be 38C today and I thought “well, I guess I assumed when I was a kid that when I was grown-up I’d be able to afford an air conditioner”, so…
Well today he revealed that (as a comment on sexism in the media) he has been wearing the same suit on air every day for a year with nobody noticing. He started doing it deliberately after seeing the backlash that his female co-hosts would constantly get over their appearances.
“No one has noticed; no one gives a shit. But women, they wear the wrong colour and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there’s thousands of tweets written about them. Women are judged much more harshly and keenly for what they do, what they say and what they wear… I’ve worn the same suit on air for a year – except for a couple of times because of circumstance – to make a point. I’m judged on my interviews, my appalling sense of humour – on how I do my job, basically. Whereas women are quite often judged on what they’re wearing on how their hair is.” -Karl Stefanovic
This is so damn important. Thank you, Karl, for proving sexism is real.
This is Phryne Fisher. She’s a daring forty-something woman living in Australia during the 1920s with enough money to live it up and a wardrobe that’ll make you cry.
She decides she’s going to become a private detective, so she does. She has a pearl handled pistol in her handbag and a dagger in her garter.
Her adventures sometimes require undercover work. Such as circus performer.
And if she’s not in an adorable hat, she has a sparkly headband. Of course.
And every now and then her lesbian bestie visits in the greatest tweeds and brogues.
Did I mention the clothes?
She prefers younger men
Plural.
But you’ll totally ship these two.
She knows how to fly planes,
and teaches young girls self defense on top of table manners.
But these two are the cutest most innocent couple you’ll ever see. Seriously cute.
There’s so much more, but you’ll just have to watch it. The first season is on Netflix streaming in the U.S. so I hope you enjoy this kick-ass lady. She’s seriously cool.
Seriously, this is one of the best things to come out of my country in years. It’s great quality, it’s visually and aurally rich and delicious, and it’s a fun romp from start to finish. But also? It’s female gaze. It’s about women living to the hilt. It’s about unashamed sexuality and decadence. It also tackles serious subject matter of the times that often specifically relates to women – education, medicine, media, birth control and abortion, the temperance movement, sex work, class issues, race issues, gay and lesbian issues, religion, war and family. The second season even has an episode with an female autistic academic that it manages to depict better than most contemporary shows. It’s a joy, and you need it in your life. And it’s been signed for a third season to begin filming next year. So what are you waiting for?
Guy wears Deadpool costume to work to raise money for a children’s hospice, he catches the train to work & the cops get called about a guy in a mask with guns & swords >_
knitting in the dark 