listen I know I can’t stop talking about The Shining but I’m really stuck on the fact that if a modern remake were made (and it didn’t take place in the 60s or 80s) “here’s Johnny” would be a pretty irrelevant line unless it were purely referential to the predecessor and it would either have to be cut altogether or a new irreverent pop culture reference would have to be made
“I feel like the Angry Birds movie is gonna be a right-wing allegory about the refugee crisis”
Gregory Hood, in this openly racist review that I’m not going to link to:
“The moral lesson of the movie isn’t that we should tolerate other cultures or that we are all the same under the skin. Instead, it’s that we should be suspicious of Ausländers and that some groups are simply enemies, full stop…
It’s hard to avoid the idea the movie is simply a giant metaphor for the European refugee crisis. A spoiled island of happy birds doesn’t recognize the threat of interlopers. The island (Europe) is supposedly protected by a giant eagle (America), but the eagle is fat, lazy, and disconnected from what’s going on. The pigs (perhaps a deliberate insult to Muslims?) are lecherous, seem to be all male, and also arrive with tons of explosives. And King Mudbeard is sporting a very Arab looking beard.
Red, the suspicious right winger, is persecuted by his own leaders and told “no one cares about your opinion” by the other birds, who are eager to welcome the refugees and party with them. The pigs lounge around the birds’ island, even breaking into people’s houses and using their stuff. No one in charge seems upset.
But though they arrive asking for mercy and tolerance, the pigs end up using terrorism and mockingly thank the birds for their ‘hospitality’ as they flee with the eggs. The West, uh, the birds and the eagle, only reclaim their future through militant action, reclaiming their identity through combat. In a “blink and you miss it” moment, there’s even a Coexist sticker on the van one of the birds drives, with the peace sign turned into a pig’s nose and the Star of David rendered as a knife and fork. And this is the van a bird has to drive into Piggy Island to save some of his friends.”
me: anyway —– at my house rn
me: i should talk 2 her lol
me: someday ill tell you about my adventures today lol. it involved a whoooole load of bullshit and ended in buying her panties
me: sadly nothing sexy was involved
callan: Hahahaha its not over yet
me: 😉
Callan: Ganbatte
me: i think this is a dead end
me: a Straight Road actually lmao
Callan: A wrong turn?
me: LOL
me: three dinger
Callan: Ends with three … you stole my line
me: i typod it tho kkdjdj
Callan: It made it funnier
me: ok im like dying irl
me: and i cant exllain this joke
It’s time again!! The 2016 Australian federal election will be on Saturday July 2nd! If you haven’t enrolled already, you need to do that before 8pm Monday May 23rd or you can’t vote! wHY should you?? Because we’re lucky enough to live in a neat lil country that gives us the option to choose our leader, and the stats for young people enrolled to vote here are p. embarrassing – 1 in 5 people aged 18-24 aren’t enrolled come on ppl no wonder tony abbott was elected lmao. If you vote, you at least have the right to complain about the government like the rest of us instead of not doing anything 🙂
ONE TINY UPDATE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL COMIC THOUGH: The rules have changed this year so that you don’t have to number EVERY SINGLE BOX below the line, you just have to number 12 or more. this is so that weird random parties like The Australians Against Partying Party don’t get seats in the senate when people only vote for them for the lols (I think?idk i need confirmation on that, maybe i made it up. I definitely made up the name of that party anyway). this is GREAT NEWS for mE because I won’t look like the idiot young person in the polling booth taking forever, like last time.
Hey, American people? Please reblog this. We see so much of your election info here and elsewhere for so long that there are an increasing number of young Australians who do not know how our own system works and assume that it works just like yours.
Your way is so much better. I’ve known since I watched that youtube video by that Grey man.
Reblogging for down under followers (I’ve sold a couple of books to Australians, so I’m sure I have a few).
my conclusions:
australia’s system is not like america’s
america’s should be more like australia’s
Ah man, thanks for the reblog. This makes the system make sense to me. Which is important as it’s the one I need to follow.
OH HEY IT’S THE ELECTION KOALA AGAIN I LOVE THIS GUY.
I’m trying to avoid getting involved in a lot of the conversations that have followed CA:CW but this is one I really feel strongly about so, sorry about that.
AUNT MAY.
Please. Please stop saying Marisa Tomei is too young to be playing Aunt May. She is 51. She is the same age as RDJ.
Here we have a 51-year-old woman who is both more than old enough to have a 15-year-old nephew AND flirt her heart out with Tony Stark. It’s GLORIOUS. And, depressingly, revolutionary.
callanswall 