Today's Questions

1.       What's a nickname only your family calls you?

Panda for my eyeliner (I may wear too much)

2.       What's a weird habit of yours?

Putting Oeros in peanut butter

3.       Do you have any weird phobias?

I don’t like sheep and cows

4.       What's a song you secretly love to blast and belt out when you're alone?

I’m not ok- My Chemical Romance

5.       What's one of your nervous habits?

Biting my hair

6.       What side of the bed do you sleep on?

Left side then I roll over to the right side

7.       What were your first stuffed animal and its name?

It was a brown coloured teddy bear named Lucy who I still have

8.       What's the drink you always order at Starbucks?

Caramel frappie

9.       What's a beauty rule you preach, but never actually practice?

Less is more

10.   Which way do you face in the shower?

With my back to the water!! Unless I’m not alone ;)

11.   Do you have any 'weird' body 'skills'?

Not sure

12.   What's your favourite comfort food that's 'bad' but you love to eat it anyways?

Chocolate

Good Morning Guys!

Well I thought I would star off the day by saying “hello, hope everyone had a good day and night last night”.

On today’s Blog I thought I would talk about topics that many people will not want to talk about.

First topic….

Throughout school everyone talks about whom they are sleeping with and expect everyone to be having sex with their partner, which I think is very hard for me to believe. I had this couple in my friendship circle (sounds like a child, I know!) were going out, but everyone wanted to know if they were having sex or if they did more than just kissing. But I guess everyone thinks about it at one point. For example if you see a couple kissing on the street you then think, are they? Aren’t they? But to say that is anything to do with the outside people is just pain rude. But when you turn 16 or on your 18^th birthday you, especially boys have a competition to see who can lose their virginity first. But I guess that it just what people fuss over, not GCSEs or A levels. Waiting for the first person doesn’t hurt you but that is just my opinion. (Not saying that I did, which was a massive mistake). But each to their own!

Second topic…

Do you think aliens exist? This is a debate that has been going on for a while. There are many films such as x-files that explore the possibility that there are aliens in our universe. I am one to believe that we are not alone in this universe and my prove is that yes films aren’t based on true events but explain how airplanes have gone missing or that many people have saw them. Plus how could I invent the Pyramids the stone blocks would still be extremely heavy for humans to carry and build up to what is now the biggest attraction in the world. Plus there is a secret airplane base in Mexico called area 51 that has been there for years and is being kept secret but why I may ask you? Could they be hiding the non-human being creatures from us?  But you can make the decision to believe or not? It is like believing in God.

Each topic I believe are important to me personal as I have seen first-hand what can happen.

 

 

Some famous paintings that some people may or may not have seen.

One of the most beautiful things, in the world is the night sky when it is cloudless and not raining. This photo I found on the laptop, shows you the beauty that is sadly lost on Humans.

More Questions

1.       When is your birthday?

       14/06/1996

2.       What kind of music do you like?

       Death metal, rock, metal etc.

3.       Do you like partying?

       Hell yeah!

4.       Which is the best vacation you have ever been on?

        Anything aboard

5.       What does your name mean?

       L is for life, that you live so well.

      I is for inspire, others seek your guidance.

     N is for noble, your regal bearing.

     D is for dream, your beacon ahead.

    S is for scholar, the brilliant in you.

    A is for absolute, for you know your mind.

    Y is for yearn, your innermost desires.

    The name “Lindsay” is of English origin and it means “From the lake settlement island”.

6.       Do you like reading? Who is your favourite author?

       House of night.

7.       Which was the scariest moment of your life?

              Having to call 999; when my grandmother was in pain.

8.       What subjects interest you the most?

        Health and social care

9.       Do you believe in God?

       No

10.    Which sport are you interested in?

       Fond of table tennis

11.    What are your hobbies?

        Anything Doctor Who

12.    If you were granted 3 wishes, what would you ask for, and why?

·         Bring my grandparents back because I miss them.

·         Meet the doctors from doctor who

·         Invent a tardis so I can spend time with people

13.    If you could only do one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?

       Be happy and be a Nurse.

14.    Is there someone you look up to? Why?

       My mam because she is my inspiration

15.    Do you think it’s okay to lie in certain circumstances?

       No, any lies can hurt someone even if you don’t mean too.

16.    What are the three things that you cannot live without?

·         My partner

·         My phone

·         My dog.

17.    Has any movie or book made a huge impact on you?

      The Anne Frank diaries, it showed me how it was like to be in her situation and how hard it       would have been to watch family and friends be taken away to the concentration camps and killed.

18.    Are you a light sleeper?

     No I am not.

19.    Which is the most dangerous/adventurous thing you have ever done?

        Not too sure.

20.    Are you an early riser?

       No not at all.

18 Questions answered

I thought after the serious few posts, I would make my Blog a little interesting with some questions, that I have personally answered.

1. What’s the coolest costume you’ve had for Halloween?

When I was about 12, I dressed up as a zombie scarecrow, the scarecrow mask I got out of my doctor who magazine. I covered myself in fake blood and carried around my doll’s hair salon head. I scared my best friend at the time. (She ran away from me, as I carried a kitchen knife too).

2. What was the last nice thing you did for your mum?

I made her a cup of coffee for her and say that “I love you”.

3. Which celebrity would you most like to get to know?

Mmm, there are so many but it I had a time machine I would meet all the actors and actresses that were involved in making doctor who special for me.

4. If you ruled the world, what would you change?

I would change the rules about benefits and make it so people who need it more gets it and half footballers pay to buy things for third world countries.

5. Who was your first crush?

       My first crush was my best friend and doctor who buddy Joss.

6. What was your favourite movie as a kid?

I’m not sure, didn’t really watch TV.

7. Describe your favourite place to go on holidays?

I like going all over as I enjoyed, Scotland, wales, Plymouth, Spain, Turkey, Crete, France and etc.

8. What would you do on a perfect day?

       Spending my time in bed watching doctor who with cuddles.

9. What’s the cheesiest song you know off by heart?

I listen to anything from death metal to rock/pop.

10. If you could have been a child prodigy, what would have been your skill?

       Be able to play a guitar and sing.

11. What’s the one thing you’d be really disappointed if you never got a chance to do it?

Driving from Scotland to the bottom of France/ Spain; or going to Germany.

12. What was the last book you really loved?

The last book I read which was a few days ago was the book thief and I loved it.

13. What fictional character do you have the biggest crush on?

The doctor from doctor who, not for his looks but his personality is amazing and he is everything you need.

14. What would your parents be surprised to learn about you?

That I am not innocent ;)

15. What’s the one thing you’ll never do again?

Be anyone’s second choice.

16. What’s the most awkward to explain thing you’ve ever been caught doing?

Having sex with my boyfriend; sister’s boyfriend walked in

17. What music do you like listening to the most?

Death metal or screamo.

18. Describe your fighting style: drunken master or angry monkey?

Angry monkey or if I’m drunk the drunken master.

Tom & Jerry

I have grew up watching Tom&Jerry, but I find this story a little shocking. As a child you don't care about the colour of the skin of the character, for heaven's sake the Simpson's are YELLOW. Next they will be saying is sexist to not show the female characters. But the only characters you fully see are the animals in the episodes. But it is about a cat chasing a mouse, like sisters and brothers fighting against each other apart from you don't want to eat your siblings.

 

Tom and Jerry cartoons on television are being accompanied by a warning that they may depict scenes of "racial prejudice".

The classic cat and mouse cartoons, some made more than 70 years ago, carry a warning for subscribers to Amazon Prime Instant Video. There have been claims of racist stereotyping in the depiction of a black maid in the cartoon series. Amazon's warning says such prejudice was once "commonplace" in US society.

Tom and Jerry, once a staple of children's television on British television, is being presented with a cautionary note about "ethnic and racial prejudices". Amazon's streaming subscription service, formerly branded as LoveFilm, includes the cartoons in its comedy collection.

But Tom and Jerry: The Complete Second Volume is accompanied by the caution: "Tom and Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today." The wording is similar to disclaimers accompanying some collections of the cartoons on DVD.

The warning was attacked as "empty-headed" by cultural commentator and professor of sociology, Frank Furedi, who said it was a form of a "false piousness" and a type of censorship which "seems to be sweeping cultural life". "We're reading history backwards, judging people in the past by our values," said Prof Furedi from the University of Kent.

Tom and Jerry was first produced by the MGM film studio in 1940. The cartoons, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby, ran until 1957, with carefully choreographed chase scenes set in the homes and gardens of suburban America. There were more than a hundred short films made in this original series, winning seven academy awards. These included the Cat Concerto in 1946, the Two Mouseketeers in 1951 and Johann Mouse in 1952.

In the subsequent decades there have been numerous re-launched television versions of the series, with varying styles and varying degrees of critical approval. The claims of racism are longstanding. When the original versions were shown on US television in the 1960s some scenes were edited.

There have also been complaints about the characters smoking cigarettes, with changes made to recent screenings. Steve Abrahart, senior lecturer in animation at De Montfort University, said the quality of animation in the early Tom and Jerry films was "superb". The cartoons are still seen as being among the best made, he said. But Mr Abrahart said the attention to detail of the early versions was lost in some of the later re-makes.

On the question of the portrayals of race and ethnicity, he said today's animation students were not shocked by what they saw in old cartoons. He said they understood how attitudes changed over time.

As well as racial stereotypes, he said there were questions about the representation of women and other nationalities in animations from the 1940s. The idea of running warnings ahead of potentially upsetting moments in films or books has become a controversial topic in US universities.

There have been calls for the use of "trigger warnings" which could flag up to students that they are about to come across descriptions of physical brutality, aggressive language or sexual violence. The suggestion that these should be inserted into lessons about classic texts has angered some academics.

Prof Furedi said calls for such trigger warnings were a form of "narcissism", with the concerns not really being about the content of a book or work of art but about individual students asserting their own importance. "A tolerant society needs to discuss disturbing art," he said.