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Post by PurplySparkleyJoey on Jan 3, 2003 21:36:23 GMT -5
TIGGER!!!!
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Post by Funky-Fran on Jan 4, 2003 10:51:30 GMT -5
surprizing that vu voted tigger, jo
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Post by freewheeler on Jan 4, 2003 20:54:04 GMT -5
Other.......I'm not really into any of them much coz I think they're a bit sickly sweet. I think they rely on stereotypes too much, and therefore re-inforce them.
Dunno, maybe they've changed, I haven't had a good look at Disney for quite a few years now.
Stories and characters like Roald Dahl's The Twit's, or Danny Champion of the World are more my thing. Or stories like Anansie (sp.) the Spider.
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Post by Funky-Fran on Jan 5, 2003 10:38:56 GMT -5
fair enough
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Post by freewheeler on Jan 5, 2003 15:32:29 GMT -5
mmmmmmn, well at the age of 18 I decided I'd had enough of London and took off for Amsterdam with only a giro (government cheque for people who r unemployed/sick/disabled etc,) in my hand and a few notes from a guide book or two.
It was a bit risky but I was lucky and landed on my feet.
Back then I wasn't chronically ill or disabled so it wasn't so difficult to do such a thing. I spent the next 4 or 5 years living in Amsterdam and London, going back and forth when I'd had enuff of one or the other. At about 20 I came out and returned to the 'dam and this time started to squat (live in abandoned buildings coz you're homeless).
The squatters changed my life by introducing me to new ideas (anti-capitalism, anti-globablisation, pro civil liberties etc.). I began to think differently about the world we live in, and the way it's run (to keep the rich rich and the poor poor I reckon).
We built our own little community in an old hospital in the east of Amsterdam (Onze Lievre Vrie Gasthuis in Oosterpark for those that know the 'dam). This community was not ased on consumerism as is the modern Western world. And I believe it was a better plac for it.
Not to say it was all good.
I had the best and the worst time of my life in that squat. One of us died there, one of us was born there, and a couple of us tried to end our livs there. Some of us got clean, some of us became addicts......BUT ALL OF US had our eyes opened to a different way of living, the way things could be if people who had common ground and similar beliefs got together, got off their arses and built something.
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Post by PurplySparkleyJoey on Jan 10, 2003 9:45:33 GMT -5
G, it would be really good, if you didnt mind, if you could write a little bit about your history & becoming ill .. there is a story section on here & on the main site, if you would be happy to post it??
Love always xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Post by phoenix on Jan 27, 2003 11:03:28 GMT -5
Joey how could u forget piglet?  ?  He's sweet! That was amazzing story!! i just hope that sumthing changes my life like that. cos i try and not just go with wot others think and think for myself but it's sumtime hard! we can get stuck in ur own lives and not see the bigger picture and alwsy stay in our comforty zone. love everyone liz xxxx |
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Post by Fraggle on Jan 28, 2003 22:54:14 GMT -5
I love eyore ;D
Yay another left winger! I was raised by socialist former hippies so I've always been around anti capitalism stuff and what's really going on in the world, rather than just the western view. I'd LOVE to go and live in a commune/kabutz, it's one of my ambitions, that and getting myself arrested at a protest after chaining myself to something 
The Twits scared me so much when I was little. My favourite Roald Dahl was Matilda 'cause I like reading 
www.amnesty.org is a great charity. It's a human rights charity, the causes they support include gay rights and disability rights. There are online petitions as well as the campaigns in magazines
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Post by Fraggle on Jan 28, 2003 22:55:25 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever been so political in a conversation about disney before ;D
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