What would be the most common activities for children at the playground and how to ask kids to do it together? Like the game of catch-up, or swinging together or hide’n’seek or else…
Ciao! I made a few videos about children's activities, you can find them on youtube (but also on this blog here, scroll down a little: you can find the English translation too. But I linked each post in the video description on youtube).
Not sure if these are all still very common among the kids, but it's worth a try!
You can ask kids:
Giochiamo a prenderci (let's play catch-up)?
Giochiamo a ruba bandiera (let's play steal the flag)?
Giochiamo a nascondino (let's play hide'n'seek)?
Giochiamo a "un due tre stella" (let's play red light green light)?
Andiamo insieme sull'altalena (let's go together on the swing)?
You'll find more named in the videos, together with their explanations. Generally we ask "Giochiamo a" (let's play....) or "(Bambini/Ragazzi*) Vi va di giocare a...?" ( (kids)would you like to play...?)
*(in general the plural masculine includes also the girls and the other genders, but ofc you can say "bambini e bambine" or "ragazzi, ragazze")
YT links:
0/6 intro
1/6 (ruba bandiera)
2/6 (un due tre stella/stai là)
3/6 (Sasso carta forbice = rock paper scissors; strega comanda colore)
4/6 (nascondino)
5/6 (guardie e ladri)
6/6 (palla prigioniera)
I’m an Alfred/Martha/Thomas truther. Like Alfred is a baddie in his 80s you all know he must have been a slice back in the day. And it is canon Martha and Thomas were smoke shows.
Like let hot people get it. Let hot men kiss while their wife turns mobsters kneecaps into flour with a baseball bat.
i just know that after this episode that EVERYONE will have grainy close up pictures of a poor random kid with black hair like imagine ur an extra with black hair in the pjo show and BAM everyone has photos of u thinking that ur some random emo kid lmao
It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.
People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.
And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.
If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.
This photo was taken in the early 1980s when people were fighting against the construction of a coal power plant in Gioia Tauro.
It was one of the first environmentalist battles of a popular nature fought on Italian and European territory, absolutely one of the most significant pages of democratic participation in the South.
i have little complaint about the scene with charon and cerberus in practicality because i understand it was a detail that can be sacrificed to give scenes like Hades’ room to breathe, but
(a) did we have to lose “we all drowned in a bathtub” that’s An Incredible Line and wouldve taken the same amt of time riordan pls the replacement line was funny but not iconic :(
(b) the point of this post: i am SO sad they cut percy bribing charon, because like, percy’s a manipulative little shit when he wants to be, and it ends up scaring people! i dont have it handy but that scene in HOO where the character POV (annabeth? hazel?) is like… “did percy just manipulate that guy into this choice? on purpose? that’s…disturbingly calculating” —THIS IS A BASIS OF THAT. percy manipulates charon into letting them into the underworld not by throwing a sack of gold at him; he realizes charon wants to bitch and uses that bitching as a doorway in. “you deserve time off [clink] better pay [clink]” (i dont have my book rip the full quote is so funny tho 😭)
like, first of all, the book stresses that percy gets how adults are with alcohol, guy time™️ (derogatory), and money. gabe wastes all their money on poker. he takes any change percy has on him the moment the kid walks in the door. but also, percy mentions throughout the series that he picked up a fair few unethical skills from his boarding schools, too. and this hinted at that, imo. even annabeth was impressed. and that charon ferried them across and then immediately was like “thx for the coin good luck w the dog” —the same couldve been accomplished with charon unlocking a gate for them and then cerberus is Right There. not much would’ve changed.
idk rip “it was a big bathtub” and rip the image of percy slowly stacking drachmas in front of a dude in an italian suit while the guy bitches abt his boss you will always be famous to me