Albertinho

May 26

bewaremongering replied to your photo: Yeah I am kinda infatuated with Cyprus’ Eurovision…

hnnnng, dem genetics. All the cousins I met over there were HOT is that weird
hnnnng, dem génétique. Tous les cousins que j’ai rencontrés là-bas étaient HOT, c’est que bizarre

It’s only weird if you don’t introduce them to me.

C’est seulement bizarre si vous n’avez pas de me les présenter.

May 25

Yeah I am kinda infatuated with Cyprus’ Eurovision entry okay? Ouais, je suis un peu entiché de l’entrée Eurovision de Chypre d’accord?

Yeah I am kinda infatuated with Cyprus’ Eurovision entry okay?

Ouais, je suis un peu entiché de l’entrée Eurovision de Chypre d’accord?

lordwoldemort asked: Ex-squeeze me, the photossss?

LET ME HAVE DINNER!

Laissez-moi DINER!

pirateking74 replied to your photo: Suddenly, going to a maybe-horrible musical for…

Tell me what it’s like. I’m burning with curiosity, but I can’t bring myself to see it… it just feels wrong.
Dites-moi ce que c’est. Je brûle de curiosité, mais je ne peux pas me résoudre à le voir… il se sent juste mal. 

If I wasn’t going for free I probably would have made snide comments about it until it left Sydney.

Si je n’allais pas gratuitement, j’aurais probablement fait des commentaires sarcastiquesà son sujet jusqu’à ce qu’il quitte Sydney.

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nuditea:

iron man gets really into a children’s cartoon about horses and friendship and starts a blog dedicated to jokes about it under the pseudonym “pony snark”

(via marrowandfluff)

Suddenly, going to a maybe-horrible musical for free?

Suddenly, going to a maybe-horrible musical for free?

buddyblanc replied to your photo: THIS IS THE FINAL PRODUCTION RUN OF THE “DRIVE’…

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THIS IS THE FINAL PRODUCTION RUN OF THE “DRIVE’ JACKET

THE LAST DAY FOR PURCHASE OF THIS ITEM IS 6/30/12.

THIS IS THE FINAL PRODUCTION RUN OF THE “DRIVE’ JACKET

THE LAST DAY FOR PURCHASE OF THIS ITEM IS 6/30/12.

THIS IS THE FINAL PRODUCTION RUN OF THE “DRIVE’ JACKET

THE LAST DAY FOR PURCHASE OF THIS ITEM IS 6/30/12.

Who wants to give me $200 so I can get myself a Drive jacket I need it now.

lacigreen: yamino: toysofthe80s: Vintage Lego Ad - Sociological Images The link is worth a look for more vintage gender-neutral toy advertisements.   back before Lego decided to be shitty You know, in the constant revolving door that is my Internet Crushes, Laci Green is more often than not in there. In fact right now she is probably it. But I will have to object to this. Because I was a boy that had boxes and boxes of action figures* with whom I engaged with in similar fashions to dolls and saw little interest in Lego until I was about 12. And maybe we need to discuss why making “male” Avengers, Star Wars and LOTR Lego is okay but making Lego in a femme setting is “shitty”? Or why “traditional” Lego is seen as a superior toy to dolls, which is what the above Lego seems to be emulating? Alas, it’s good to bring up this amazing post again: I still find most commentary on the sexist division of girl toys and boy toys to be rather lacking. Of course if is terrible that girls and boys are given toys that encourage them to enact stereotypical gender roles so young; this type of socialization might prime them to fill specific roles later on in life. But people are still undervaluing “girls toys,” equating them with passive frivolousness. And how sexist is that? The sentiment is that “gender neutral” toys, always verging towards “boys toys,” are constructive, educational, and worthwhile. Dolls aren’t. This is the kind of sentiment that dismisses the value of “women’s work” of care-giving later on in life. “Boys toys” tend to be physically complex. “Girls toys” tend to be socially complex.  The complexity of the imaginary play that children often engage in with dolls is intangible and made invisible early on—because you aren’t looking.  It is so much easier for a child to say “look what I made” and get a pat on the back than to say “watch me engage.” I played with lots of different types of toys. Sure, I liked to build things with legos. But I much preferred my dolls. And guess what? All forty or so of my beanie babies had individual personalities. They had roles, romances, they interacted with each other in complex ways. There were smaller subgroups of birds or bears. I used them to create a complete micro-society. But an adult passerby would see that pile of critters as a rather useless and excessive collection. Understanding social complexities, the kind of play which “girls toys” encourage, is undervalued from an early age. Let’s please stop with the “dolls are dumb” rhetoric. It isn’t helpful. It’s still sexist. The problem of gendered children’s toys won’t be fixed by allowing free access to “boys toys” for all, but by seeing the value in diverse types of play, and encouraging all children to engage in them. EDIT: And let’s not forget that in her crusade to make a toy that didn’t degrade girls like her talking Malibu Stacey did, Lisa Simpson spent an entire episode of the Simpsons advocating the power of the doll as a tool for intense social learning during childhood. In fact, the devaluing of Lisa Simpson’s engagement with her Malibu Stacey’s as her way of learning about social complexieties and building her own thoughts and behaviours about society is a constant running satirical gag during the seasons I can remember. *That said, there really a whole can of worms on how “dolls” are the acceptable feminine, but for the same product to be marketed to men you call in an “action figure” and overstate its points of articulation and give it loads of useless “manly” things (more often than not different variations of a gun). RANDOM (RELATED) FACT! Did you know that due to US import tariffs being higher on what is deemed a “doll” (Dolls are officially just any human figure toy) as compared to a toy, the official stance of Marvel Enterprises is that the X-Men are not humans and never will be. Those of you familiar with the comics will know this goes completely against everything they have ever said about the X-Men.

lacigreen:

yamino:

toysofthe80s:

Vintage Lego Ad - Sociological Images

The link is worth a look for more vintage gender-neutral toy advertisements.  

back before Lego decided to be shitty

You know, in the constant revolving door that is my Internet Crushes, Laci Green is more often than not in there. In fact right now she is probably it. But I will have to object to this. Because I was a boy that had boxes and boxes of action figures* with whom I engaged with in similar fashions to dolls and saw little interest in Lego until I was about 12. And maybe we need to discuss why making “male” Avengers, Star Wars and LOTR Lego is okay but making Lego in a femme setting is “shitty”? Or why “traditional” Lego is seen as a superior toy to dolls, which is what the above Lego seems to be emulating?

Alas, it’s good to bring up this amazing post again:

I still find most commentary on the sexist division of girl toys and boy toys to be rather lacking. Of course if is terrible that girls and boys are given toys that encourage them to enact stereotypical gender roles so young; this type of socialization might prime them to fill specific roles later on in life. But people are still undervaluing “girls toys,” equating them with passive frivolousness. And how sexist is that? The sentiment is that “gender neutral” toys, always verging towards “boys toys,” are constructive, educational, and worthwhile. Dolls aren’t. This is the kind of sentiment that dismisses the value of “women’s work” of care-giving later on in life.

“Boys toys” tend to be physically complex. “Girls toys” tend to be socially complex.  The complexity of the imaginary play that children often engage in with dolls is intangible and made invisible early on—because you aren’t looking.  It is so much easier for a child to say “look what I made” and get a pat on the back than to say “watch me engage.”

I played with lots of different types of toys. Sure, I liked to build things with legos. But I much preferred my dolls. And guess what? All forty or so of my beanie babies had individual personalities. They had roles, romances, they interacted with each other in complex ways. There were smaller subgroups of birds or bears. I used them to create a complete micro-society. But an adult passerby would see that pile of critters as a rather useless and excessive collection.

Understanding social complexities, the kind of play which “girls toys” encourage, is undervalued from an early age.

Let’s please stop with the “dolls are dumb” rhetoric. It isn’t helpful. It’s still sexist. The problem of gendered children’s toys won’t be fixed by allowing free access to “boys toys” for all, but by seeing the value in diverse types of play, and encouraging all children to engage in them.

EDIT: And let’s not forget that in her crusade to make a toy that didn’t degrade girls like her talking Malibu Stacey did, Lisa Simpson spent an entire episode of the Simpsons advocating the power of the doll as a tool for intense social learning during childhood. In fact, the devaluing of Lisa Simpson’s engagement with her Malibu Stacey’s as her way of learning about social complexieties and building her own thoughts and behaviours about society is a constant running satirical gag during the seasons I can remember.

*That said, there really a whole can of worms on how “dolls” are the acceptable feminine, but for the same product to be marketed to men you call in an “action figure” and overstate its points of articulation and give it loads of useless “manly” things (more often than not different variations of a gun).

RANDOM (RELATED) FACT! Did you know that due to US import tariffs being higher on what is deemed a “doll” (Dolls are officially just any human figure toy) as compared to a toy, the official stance of Marvel Enterprises is that the X-Men are not humans and never will be. Those of you familiar with the comics will know this goes completely against everything they have ever said about the X-Men.

najalater: gqgqqt: charlatte-love: a young coulson with captain amurica merchandise IDK orz fjdskgalkfhgklafjdsk fJKLFLSHGALFDLGHAKJFLKDJFSHGALJFDSFSD AJGKLHGKALFHLKAFJLSDJELKAFHLSFJKSDJFLAHGLKJFDSFSDFS I think what’s hilarious about this is that Coulson is ~50 years old and this is a presumably teenage character (so 70s-80s era) with a mobile phone. Now I feel old for actually remembering that mobiles have only been around for the past decade. COULSON: DOES HE TIME TRAVEL? MAYBE HE REALLY IS THE VISION. It could have been a cordless phone, but then I saw the cell accessory. So that phone needs to be at least five times its size and why would a teenager in the 80’s even have one? Make more sense if he had a stars-and-stripes coloured Walkman. Constantly playing this. Because of course that’s the only cassette he would have in his Walkman.

najalater:

gqgqqt:

charlatte-love:

a young coulson with captain amurica merchandise

IDK orz

fjdskgalkfhgklafjdsk

fJKLFLSHGALFDLGHAKJFLKDJFSHGALJFDSFSD

AJGKLHGKALFHLKAFJLSDJELKAFHLSFJKSDJFLAHGLKJFDSFSDFS

I think what’s hilarious about this is that Coulson is ~50 years old and this is a presumably teenage character (so 70s-80s era) with a mobile phone. Now I feel old for actually remembering that mobiles have only been around for the past decade.

COULSON: DOES HE TIME TRAVEL? MAYBE HE REALLY IS THE VISION.

It could have been a cordless phone, but then I saw the cell accessory. So that phone needs to be at least five times its size and why would a teenager in the 80’s even have one? Make more sense if he had a stars-and-stripes coloured Walkman.

Constantly playing this.

Because of course that’s the only cassette he would have in his Walkman.

Inquiry into IT Pricing: House of Representatives Committees – Parliament of Australia -

25th of May is International Geek Pride Day, also known as New Hope Day, Towel Day and Discworld’s Glorious 25th May. So celebrate this great day in geek-dom by doing something awesome: The Australian Federal Government are taking public submissions as to why IT stuff costs so much. In other words, the Government also wants to know why we pay upwards of $90 for new release AAA games, double the international RRP for new Apple products and almost 5 times the international RRP for Adobe Professional Suite. This is definitely worth your time. Click. Share. Submit.

I don’t care what anyone says, e-readers are the shit.

golden-notebook:

I haven’t really been reading books a ton because in Korea the English bookstore that had a real selection was three hours away. Back in the States, it can be hard getting a lot of paperbacks because then I have to justify keeping them around during a move. I got rid of a lot of coursepacks from Penn because of space issues and deeply regret it because a lot of the women’s studies lit was actually new to 21st-century print.

With the Kindle? Download it in a few seconds, start reading. Don’t have to waste gas driving to a store to pick out books that I may or may not keep with me when switching apartments. No writing down the name of a book to maybe buy later - if you hear about a book and you’re interested in checking it out, you can immediately do it.

And free Project Gutenberg on a nice screen (reading those books on a laptop is tedious and eye-strainy.)

The “feel” of paper books is definitely nice, and I’d buy nice first editions for really treasured, beloved books.  But the Kindle has me reading seriously again in a way that it just wasn’t happening before in our ADD world. And I’ve always been a big reader, so it’s not like it took me from “lack of interest in reading” to “reading at all” - it just resparked a love that was always there.

A thousand times this

queenrickon:

petition for kanye to join one direction 

(via okayjokesover)

mylittlesanctuary: One of these days, I’m going to make this. I wonder if it’s really that hot… Hmmm… Saving this for future reference.

mylittlesanctuary:

One of these days, I’m going to make this. I wonder if it’s really that hot… Hmmm…

Saving this for future reference.

(via pirateking74)