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Fourth July
Jul. 4th, 2017 05:28 pmI hope people who celebrate 4th July have had a good weekend/are having a good time
It's wimbledon time again and of course we have rain again Heh. Fingers crossed for the Murrays (like mainly Jamie, but Andy is cool too) and the GBR ladies. Also hoping that they show some of the wheelchair games on main channels again......
John Mcenroe has been a dick again, and I am never no frustrated whenever the debates of who is better at sport gender wise...and the fact there is the tendancy for them to always say men are better. Like to be honest, British sports? Most of our women's teams perform SO MUCH BETTER than our men. But almost no one talks about them.
( gendered sport commentary )
There's a lot of disturbing news around - the latest UK news, is about girls and body image again, and it's so close to FGM that it's all the more disturbing, and I have no idea what it says that between my age group and teenagers today this has become a thing. (And, surprise, the person defending it, and saying it helps girls self confidence, is a male plastic surgeon....)
Messed up.
Urgh.
On less meh front - the funny thing, after watching wonder woman, was the friend I went to see it with, didn't think Diana's armour could be practical in real life. Which actually, nope, it's practical. And I get to be a 'ancient history' geek (Ancient Warfare at Uni, heh, the fire pan helmet roman will never fade from my memory, crazy dude).
It's entirely based around the shield mind - because generally armour style was influenced by the shape of your shield, and the way that you tended to fight. Like the Roman turtle almost everyone knows.
Mid arm and mid leg armour was never really a thing, partly because it can impair movement, and partly because if you were using your shield right, you didn't need it.
Diana's armour is pretty much hoplite armour, without the stupid helmet. So yup practical and realistic. The lack of helmet, to be honest, isn't much of a downside, as it didn't really protect much (these were people who fought with a spear and a sword. A thrown spear that clips your helmet, helmet will mostly protect from injury, spear hits? Your helmet kills you....) and gave limited sight lines.
So yeah - that was the one major downside of the film my friend had - and actually it was because of modern POV on armour needing to be full body....
It's wimbledon time again and of course we have rain again Heh. Fingers crossed for the Murrays (like mainly Jamie, but Andy is cool too) and the GBR ladies. Also hoping that they show some of the wheelchair games on main channels again......
John Mcenroe has been a dick again, and I am never no frustrated whenever the debates of who is better at sport gender wise...and the fact there is the tendancy for them to always say men are better. Like to be honest, British sports? Most of our women's teams perform SO MUCH BETTER than our men. But almost no one talks about them.
( gendered sport commentary )
There's a lot of disturbing news around - the latest UK news, is about girls and body image again, and it's so close to FGM that it's all the more disturbing, and I have no idea what it says that between my age group and teenagers today this has become a thing. (And, surprise, the person defending it, and saying it helps girls self confidence, is a male plastic surgeon....)
Messed up.
Urgh.
On less meh front - the funny thing, after watching wonder woman, was the friend I went to see it with, didn't think Diana's armour could be practical in real life. Which actually, nope, it's practical. And I get to be a 'ancient history' geek (Ancient Warfare at Uni, heh, the fire pan helmet roman will never fade from my memory, crazy dude).
It's entirely based around the shield mind - because generally armour style was influenced by the shape of your shield, and the way that you tended to fight. Like the Roman turtle almost everyone knows.
Mid arm and mid leg armour was never really a thing, partly because it can impair movement, and partly because if you were using your shield right, you didn't need it.
Diana's armour is pretty much hoplite armour, without the stupid helmet. So yup practical and realistic. The lack of helmet, to be honest, isn't much of a downside, as it didn't really protect much (these were people who fought with a spear and a sword. A thrown spear that clips your helmet, helmet will mostly protect from injury, spear hits? Your helmet kills you....) and gave limited sight lines.
So yeah - that was the one major downside of the film my friend had - and actually it was because of modern POV on armour needing to be full body....
