Comments on: Things I Saved From a Skip: 1 – Jinty Annual 1981

By: I Must Obey You, Girl in the Mirror… - Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:04:02 +0000

[...] young Mia Blake – put-upon protagonist of Jinty's "Slave of the Mirror" (1974) – I recognise a kindred spirit. While slaving, skivvy-like, in [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:06:53 +0000

I think Jinty sounds rude.

Well, clearly it is rude, but I mean in the other way.

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:47:59 +0000

Lette, What do you mean you’ve never used them? Cutting them to bits “in the aid of [your] Art college needs” is a perfectly legitimate and creative use of “skippage” (to, possibly, coin a term). They were destined for landfill. You made them, in some broken down form, live again. Fair play.

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:04:26 +0000

Medbh, I’ll try and find out who the guilty parties were. They’ll probably never be brought to justice alas, and may in fact have already fled to South America like absconding Nazis. Bastards.

Ira, And a happy new year to you. “Jinty” is merely a (girl’s?) name, I think. Though given the content above we might well start using it to mean “cruel and judgmental”.

By: ira

ira — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:51:45 +0000

happy new year, Fustar

I had never heard of JINTY (what exactly does the adjective mean in Brit/Irish English ?)
I appreciated the cover illustration in the wiki link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jinty_cover_19_August_1978.jpg

The Human Zoo:
On The Planet of Two Suns, They Treat Girls Like Animals!

very scary stuff … not exactly the same tone as Star Wars (released around the same time for boys), where life on Luke Skywalker’s Tatooine (the planet of the two suns) stimulates curiosity about ecology and economics

see ya IRA

By: Medbh

Medbh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:59:53 +0000

Oh my.
The shitting on women begins so early, doesn’t it? I’m all for stringing up the assholes who wrote this.

By: Lette

Lette — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:20:47 +0000

haha brilliant, iv never saved anything from a skip but I did rescue an intire set of “DIY” encyclopedias…. iv never used them and are now cut to bits in the aid of my Art college needs!!

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:51:56 +0000

“Well I was. And with posture like that you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Now stop being self-conscious, you dreadful, awkward girl!�?

Har! Yes, it’s nasty shit alright. The cure for that (growing into one’s body) gangly, self-consciousness is obviously plenty of allegedly “helpful” criticism. It doesn’t matter if you are self-conscious, as long as you don’t look self-conscious.

The cool lookin’ “tom-boy” on the right is told (though she might think otherwise) that she doesn’t look “dashing”. Seriously – “dashing”. That’s the exact word they used.

What young girl in 1981 aspired to dashingness?

By: Fergal

Fergal — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:25:57 +0000

“Sara (centre) gets it in neck for being too lanky & self-conscious”

What a weird and sad mobius strip of cruelty and awkwardness:

“You girl! Yes you, the self conscious one!”

“Er, no, actually, this is just the way I sit. I didn’t even know you were looking at me, judging.”

“Well I was. And with posture like that you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Now stop being self-conscious, you dreadful, awkward girl!”