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10 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling With Mal... · 0 replies · +23 points

I thought the title explained the reason why Rey didn't need training - an Awakening being separate from the regular way someone became a Jedi.

Also, she's lived a life of solitude and self-abnegation, the opposite of Luke. She's readier than Yoda for the Force.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Believe To Be... · 0 replies · +45 points

It was an heckuva power move. She got her current beau to read the guy's own terrible love poetry to him before she'd deign to see him again. I'm kind of in awe.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread · 0 replies · +2 points

Predictably enough - and this may be part of the reason for She Who Must Not Be Named's style - there's been snide media commentary over here in Australia about Dusk's (aka Abbie Cornish) recent tour and upcoming EP, a lot of it about how she raps with her native accent.

We've seen this cultural cringe before in the 90s when Frente dared to sing pop in an Australian accent, but while that has mostly passed (see: Sarah Blasko, Lucie Thorne, et al) our hip hop scene is contstantly blasted with this judgement that rap shouldn't sound Australian.

Dusk's pretty darn good and I hope she does well - http://www.dusk1.com/

11 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread · 2 replies · +2 points

Has anyone else been watching the Katering show?

Favourites:

We Quit Sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cAfzUPpeE

"Day One of going sugar free was worse than weddings"

Thermomix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr_etbfZtQ

"Hot wet rice!"

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Ah, dang, paywell.

Here's another (and less sympathetic) -

"Last weekend, the deaths of British sci-fi and general fiction writer Iain Banks and of The Australian commentator Christopher Pearson were announced. Yes, gone is a man who created a series of fantasy worlds — and Iain Banks is also no longer with us. But it’s Pearson I want to talk about."
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/rundle-vale-c...

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +2 points

Here you go:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/christoph...

11 years ago @ The Toast - A Bit Of Fry and Lauri... · 1 reply · +2 points

Some 1950s Australian-accented tykes for y'all (way back when g'day was goo'day).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHHwCtBXZnY

11 years ago @ The Toast - Reasons I Would Make A... · 0 replies · +23 points

Odin? Freyja has the other half of the dead warriors + all the shieldmaidens over in Fólkvangr. They get a hall AND a garden, and I hear she's a bit more relaxed about the bar.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About Our W... · 0 replies · +2 points

I grew up on a beautiful farm in Tasmania. It looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/p811O1R.jpg

Once I dreamed that I was walking in the exact spot above. I met two people, a couple, walking in the other direction. They were lovely, in their mid-twenties (I was about 10 at the time). We had a pleasant chat, which was odd in itself as I was very shy at that age around adults, then I remembered: "I'm not in Tasmania at the moment. I'm over on mainland Australia on a holiday."

(This was true)

I then thought, for the first time ever or since: "This is not real. I am dreaming this". The instant I thought this (I didn't say it, just thought it) their faces *changed* to something inhuman, filled with rage. One shrieked: "He knows he's dreaming - get him before he wakes up." The sky turned black, and they stepped towards me in unison.

I woke up.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

I'd add to that "The English Year" by Steve Roud. From the introduction:

"The real danger is from a far more virulent virus - the idea that all customs, indeed all superstitions, nursery rhymes, and anything that smacks of 'folkiness', are direct survivals of ancient pagan fertility rites, and are concerned with the appeasement of gods and spirits. Although the suggestion of an ancient origin for our folklore was the central tenet of the Victorian and Edwardian pioneers of folklore collection, this notion has only become generally known in the last forty years or so, and has taken hold with astonishing rapidity; the majority of the population now carry the virus in one form or another, while some are very badly infected. The problem here is not simply that these theories are unsupported by any evidence, but that their blanket similarity destroys any individuality. All customs will soon end up with the same story."

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