Day 5 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas

So Day 5 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas is now up on YouTube and this one is a talky blog as I would usually do on Saturdays. This can be viewed below.

This blog is about the proposed internet censorship plan by the Australian Government, and specifically about "pro anorexia" or "pro-ana" or "thinspiration" websites which are under consideration for censorship under this proposal.

I've recently signed a petition to try to stop this proposal from going through parliament. If you are from Australia and would also like to sign this petition then please follow this link: GetUp Save The Net Campaign

Day 5 // Thinspiration / Pro Ana / Pro Anorexia

5 Cent Coins

Here is an Australian 5 cent coin:

The Australian 5 cent coin is pretty worthless. It is worth only a little more than a penny, and apparently it is starting to get close to being worth less than the metal it is made from. Australia stopped production of 1 and 2 cent coins almost twenty years ago for exactly that reason.

So here's the story. I regularly go to this convenience store near my work for snacks or drinks or the like, and recently they've decided to stop giving 5 cent coins in the change. It's not an official signposted policy of the convenience store, but it's happened a number of times, so I figure that it must be some sort of trend.

Have any other Australians experienced this?

Is this a wide spread phenomenon?

Is the 5 cent coin being phased out by the public?

Is this sort of thing happening elsewhere around the world? Do North Americans round things to the nickel? Do the British round things to 5 pence? Do Europeans round things to 5 euro cents?

Getting back into blogging

So I'm getting back into the robmuch stuff (YouTube, Twitter, etc.) and figured I should get back into blogging as well!

YouTube News!

I've just been accepted as the new Thursday on the5guys channel, and I'm really excited about that, hopefully it will be great fun to be involved!

Posted a new robmuch video, just updating YouTube with what's going on in my life and why I've been absent for a couple of weeks. Check out that video below.

Also, a few days ago I posted a new robnscotty video, check that out below.

Men's Fashion

So I am in the library at Uni, and I really should be studying for my two quizzes tomorrow worth 15% and 20% respectively, but I thought I would distract myself by writing a blog entry!

So there has been quite a bit of media hype recently over the controversial use of traditionally feminine influenced items in men's fashion. Things such as skinny jeans, cardigans, jewellery and feminine colours (e.g. pink and purple) have been deemed acceptable in men's fashion and have been included under the headings of metrosexual or indie. But other developments in men's fashion haven't quite received the same approval. Such items include men's skirts, tights (mantyhose), corsets, long tees (labelled as dresses by some), eye-liner (guy-liner) and other make-up, and fake eye-lashes.



As I have previously stated in my "Breaking Down Stereotypes" blog on YouTube, I believe these developments in men's fashion are fantastic. They force people to question what it means to be masculine, and also points out that gender roles, gender identity and sexual identity can and often are mutually exclusive. A heterosexual male can wear feminine influenced clothing, and that does not make him any less masculine. A HOMOSEXUAL male can wear feminine influenced clothing, and that does not make him any less masculine, or any less of a "man".

Once these stereotypes, linking particular gender roles with particular gender identities and particular sexual identities, are broken down, then one's sexuality will cease to matter (other than for dating) and there will be much less intolerance in the world.



So I'll get off my soapbox now and get back to studying...

Please comment!!!

Happy Halloween!

So I've been preparing my blog for next weekend, and I realised tonight that I will completely miss Halloween (in terms of posting videos). Not that Halloween is a very big deal here in Australia, but thought that I would wish all those Americans celebrating a very happy Halloween and not to eat TOO much candy (just enough).

I don't know if anyone reads this blog yet, so it's a little weird thinking that I may be talking to nobody... It actually feels like when I first started video blogging on YouTube, and realising that very few people were actually watching. So if anyone is reading this, please leave me comments saying what sort of things you would like to see here, I'll be posting topical things and my comments on them, and my everyday happenings, and random thoughts, and recommended videos and channels on YouTube, and extra stuff not included in my posted videos... but let me know if there is anything in particular you think I might be able to comment on, or anything you would like to know about me... I feel I'm rambling, so will leave it at that.

Have to do an assignment now... Wish me luck.

"About me" video extras

Here were some things that didn't make it into the "About me" video:

In my family I have Mum and Dad and three sisters, two of which are older, one younger, and everyone in my immediate family still lives in Canberra.

I only really keep in touch with a small handful of people in Canberra, really just my closest friends from school, most of my friends now aren't from Canberra.

I recently changed to using iMovie on my MacBook to film my blogs, and I truly don’t know how I survived using a camera and windows movie maker before that.


I often follow the crowd.

I’m a bit of a kid most of the time

Walking along a footpath I can only step on cracks with my left foot, and can only step on straight joins with my right foot.

Some would say that I can be a bit naive at times, but I like to say that I'm idealistic

"Is Pride Redundant?" Blog

This was one of my first talky blogs (to use a phrase coined by wickydkewl aka Davey Wavey) and is still one of my favourite topics that I've talked about. The philosophy behind this blog has driven me to talk about many of the other topics that have been in my blogs, so I guess that's probably why it's one of my favourites.