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[philmophlegm]

40 Maps That Explain the Middle-East

What 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' would look like as a Lucasarts point-and-click adventure.

H.R. Giger has died.

Did you spot the Monty Python reference in Game of Thrones? What do you mean, you don't speak Low Valyrian?

I love this illustration of AD&D module G1 'Steading of the Hill Giant Chief'.

It looks like the end for Wrexham Swimming Baths and its ridiculous roof.

So why is 'Cornish' now officially a 'minority'?

I know a billionaire. He's actually quite a nice bloke too (and helped us a lot when we started You're Hired!).

The world's first scheduled passenger helicopter service went from Liverpool to Wrexham then Cardiff.

'The War on Boys'

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I couldn't watch the War on Boys because the embedded video wasn't showing up at all, but based on the comments, isn't the problem more in the assumption that boys will naturally grow up to despise a job if they see mostly women doing it, and men's assumption that raising and teaching them is mostly women's work, than in some war on boys? It's all part of the same system of normative gender discrimination either way.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

My comment was somewhat tangential to the points made in the video. The video's main thrust was that primary schools seem to be built around the sort of things that girls like to do and are good at doing:
Books read in class are girly books - 'Little Women' etc.
Written stories that are 'confessional' get marked higher than ones with lots of action and violence.
Boys are constantly subject to disapproval for liking the sort of things that boys like.
In American schools, outdoor free time has been reduced and boys need it more than girls to work off energy.
Boys are more generally competitive than girls and removing competitive elements takes away one key incentive for them to do things better.

That sort of thing.

[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

I feel slightly insulted at the video's insistence that girls are all delicate little flowers that don't want to run about, play tag or use their imaginations in story writing. I think most of the things listed in the video would benefit ALL children.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Whereas the world's longest-running passenger aeroplane service is on the Inverness - Kirkwall route.