Hope everyone had a nice weekend, or *is* having a nice weekend. I suppose it’s not over for another 10 hours as it stands.
So with that said, there really isn’t anything going on this weekend that doesn’t have something to do with “Twilight” or “New Moon”. Granted I’ve never seen any of the movies, or even read any of the books for that matter. The fact that they can take over the world of viewers such as this weekend has, is a statement in its self. For all the disgruntled people out there who chose to hate the films instead of simply ignore them (yeah whats up with that?), you are clearly another part of the problem with this planet. Anyways, check it out for yourself if you don’t believe me. It made slightly more than my average salary this weekend at the box-office. Those figures all being unofficial of course.
In other news, I’m not sure if anyone if following along with the Curb Your Enthusiasm season, but if you are – you’ll know that it is by far the best season yet. Not only that, but they are producing an episode of Seinfeld that I feel would be very successful if they aired the show in reality for a one night special on NBC. Just a thought.
I also have an idea brewing somewhere in this brain of mine, but I’m not really sure where the best place to mention it is. I think i’ll have to write a whole blog post dedicated to it instead of slipping it in at the end of one like this. Either way, it’ll be great, I promise. I promise! Instead though, I’ll slip in with some of the most famous sports cheaters in history.
….that the game isn’t very exciting for the most part. I am a soccer fan, and sure enough when there is a major tournament on, you can usually find me glued to the television if England is on the field (old people long ago gave birth there to someone who contributed to my existence). It is arguable one of the worlds most coveted sports (just don’t argue with Americans about it.) Anyways, there was a match between Ireland and France recently and France came out the victor.
This actually has merit, it’s not your typical “oh man we lost so let’s try and find a reason to blame the other team!” incident. I mean the Prime Minister of Ireland even had a comment about it. Hell, even Thierry Henry acknowledged that he used his hand to stop the ball from going out-of-bounds.
So the question becomes: at what point, if ever, should the performance of the ref’s be put in question?
As it stands, there is no overturning any decision in major sports that isn’t overturned directly after the mistake is made while the game is in play. The NHL blames the amount of camera’s and that they didn’t exist years ago, so now you get to see the “wrong call” from 10 different angles while the ref’s have to make the call on the fly and only have one view. Thats fair, I totally understand that. But does that mean that we have to live with incorrect calls because of that?
Today is nothing more than a pile of ass outside. Seriously this weather makes me regret having to walk to school.
Ok?
/end rant.
I’m learning though, which is a good thing because I never want to stop. However, I have to be careful of who I learn from. For example: Ninja’s probably aren’t the best people to learn from. Actually let me re-phrase. People who “think” they are ninja’s probably aren’t the best people to learn from.
I also feel compelled to ask a question about reality television. I made a promise to myself when I started this blog to never mention any of the super intelligent programs they have on MTV these days, but I couldn’t resist this.
So last night I’m watching a hockey game, commercial, I start flipping through the dial and happen upon the hills. Or the city? Or Laguna beach. I’m not certain what any of them are called. Anyways I’m instantly drawn to the fact that the show has subtitles. Um. The show is in English with English subtitles? Oh okay it must be because the scene is in a place that might be difficult to hear? Nope, it was pretty clear that they were saying “oh my god, what is *she* doing here”. So my question to you is, WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO? Nah, but in all seriousness, I understand these shows are popular and that they attract the majority of mindless teenagers out there. But subtitles? Are they implying that a majority of their viewers are incompetent on listening and watching at the same time? Those shows make me cringe. I’m physically not able to describe in words how much shows like these seriously slow down evolution and progress of the human race in the universe.
Well this isn’t necessarily *new*, but it is new to me. So therefor it becomes interesting by default. Apparently Youtube has finally managed to tap into some real comedy and has teamed up with Monty Python cast and created a channel.
Can you say, awesome? Seriously these guys are my hero’s when it comes to comedy and John Cleese is simply a legend. Fawlty Towers was one of my favourite shows when I was younger and once I pick up the DVD’s, I’m sure it will be again.
To top it all off, The BBC has added a channel which has clips of all your favourite British Comedy’s from the past. I really have to admit that this is a great decision on their behalf.
That’s probably a question that run’s across most police officers minds when put into a situation that they really didn’t want to be in. I mean, from people being killed in Vancouver by getting tasered, you have to admit that while yes it is a non-leathal weapon, there is always the risk of someone having heart issues and it becoming a leathal weapon. So the real question is “when” to use the taser I suppose.
I’m guessing in the case of arriving at a home with a 10 year old girl throwing a temper tantrum (no way!) and her mother freaking out, clearly the answer is:
Yup, you got it. 10 year old little girl being a problem? No fear parents, simply apply a taser to them for a “brief” period of time and you’ll see instant results.
Well NO SHIT! Considering they’re designed to bring down full grown men. Arkansas wins again!
Ok, perhaps you’ll never win that arguement. But at least you could comprimise with the Mrs?
Check this cake out.
Seriously, these days with all of the cake shows being put on The Food Network and even one appearing on TLC, it suprises me that we don’t see more awesome cakes such as a DEATH STAR cake on any of them. Commence drooling.
(image: fortcloudy)
Edit: Was just informed about this other, awesome cake. All I can say are three words: Zombies, Chainsaw, Awesome.
Well I started looking tonight for something that would be very original and unique to my weekly endevour. However this was the first thing I stumbled across. So infact, France win’s the award this week, honestly, simply because they banned someone for wearing pants. If that doesn’t qualify as a genius move, well I don’t know what does!
So.
oh. I should also mention Mr.T. Why? Well besides the simply reason of “Why Not?” – I looked it up and you actually don’t need a reason for talking about Mr.T, the same thing goes for Chuck Norris. Anyways, Mr.T successfuly infiltrated World of Warcraft and you have to watch the youtube clip or else you might actually lose a limb. (don’t say I didn’t warn you!)
Appologies for the false promises of new content last week, however I didn’t have the energy to even read the internet. That’s how you know your sick, when you don’t have enough energy to use the internet. Anyways, lots of new stuff coming later on tonight. Can’t wait.
They will both be updated today. I’ve recently fallen ill with what can only be described as a congested chest cold that reminds me of sounding like Barry White and Shaft put together.
Can you dig it?
(image: reuters)
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