Jedi School and laughing at the sick

[sqbr]

My brain is utterly befuddled today. But two links before I forget:

A jedi uni course has opened in the UK

An interesting post about the way talk shows prey on the mentally ill Nothing new, really, but I hadn't quite thought of it that way.

Reading Across the Porn divide and the links on the side from an ex-radical-feminist got me thinking about the way all groups turn into dogmatic orthodoxy, and the difficulty of being someone who is in that group but doesn't want to 100% fit the mould. (Which is me with every group I join ever) Something she doesn't mention is the glee with which some people from the "other side" will embrace you only to reel back in horror when they realise no, you still disagree with/are not one of them, just not in the same rigid way as everyone else in your group. But I guess she was trying to be nice and build bridges, not take potshots at both sides :)

Comments

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

... is that really the right "mould"? I was going to say it wasn't, but now I actually don't know, maybe I'm the one who's wrong ._.

[alias_sqbr]

According the ever-reliable wikipedia, both are correct (and both are correct for the fungus, too). But I think "mould" is the aussie spelling.

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting. To me mould is the fungus and mold is the thing you pour into.

[alias_sqbr]

Well, you're WRONG.

Hmm, maybe one of them has switched to the american spelling and other not or something. Spelling is sometimes funny like that.