ARRRGH I was / still am steaming. *&^%ing hockey gets top billing.. unbelievable…

Anyway, I was minding my own last night, left work, went home, pootling around, collected my post from the postbox (yes, my life is really that exciting)…and what do I find? A full-colour leaflet on bl**dy swine flu.

How can the government justify spending I-dread-to-think-how-much printing out full-colour leaflets to go into every household to tell us not to sneeze or cough on people?!

I’d consider being speechless but it’s against my religion.

I mean, honestly. Ok, so as with ALL illness, there are those that will be more susceptible than others. But my god, the way they’re going on about it here you’d think the Black Plague had returned.

Anyway, just realised I haven’t commented on the Pearl Harbour scenario above – that was funny as hell although so gross – I too will never eat anything from bars that other people can have had their hands all over. I fear a few men feel they don’t need to wash their hands after shaking their best friend the meat weasel as they don’t consider it to be necessary…but then when I have frequented the occasional bar / club etc (oh, ok, when I go out all night dancing around like an idiot) I also see girls that come out of the bathroom, run their hands through their hair, and then go back onto the dancefloor. Talk about gross.

As I commented above to James, I’ve had enough of this country and this world. I’m returning to my planet. We have soap & know how to use it (and do use it!).

PMW

Because there are SO many (just like lawyers) they are all DESPERATE for stories. And they are like RABID dogs scrambling to be the FIRST to “BREAK” a story. Then when somebody does “break” a story, all the other desperadoes cling to it by adding some of their own “spice” – whether it be true or not. They do this to get another “ANGLE.” And so on it goes. It’s crap!

Er, lawyers… there are SO many of them now and that is why you can sue anybody for ANY thing! You will ALWAYS find a money-grubbing lawyer willing to take on any MORONIC case. That is why we now have warnings about every Goddam thing – like “Do NOT iron this shirt while wearing it!” Yes. That is for real.

When there are too many of any occupation scrambling for notice and money then things get ridiculously competitive. Your comments about the negativity of some athletes and the reporting thereof kinda support what I just said.

Regarding “Pearl Harbor” – UGH! I was horrified at what I saw that guy do. I felt like going up to those who he was shaking hands with and saying something like, “Hey, do you guys wanna know that this dirty, filthy creep has just wiped his ass then NOT washed his hands and now he is shaking hands with all you guys? Oh, and, by the way – I wouldn’t eat from that faecal-infested peanut bowl either.”

How do you reckon that would have gone over?

Thanks for stopping by Jeff. I appreciate your comments.

Gary

A Bad News Whore!

WOW! What a rant.

My blood pressure has risen after reading your post and Nikki’s comment. Of course it took me an hour to read both. lol! Now I have to scroll down and read the rest of the comments.

I don’t watch the news anymore. In fact, I haven’t watched any news on TV in years. It’s too depressing. I always just called it “The Bad News”, I wasn’t quite as strong as you in calling the Media a whore, although I couldn’t agree more.

Nikki I love your comment on how TV (and the computer I might add) has become nothing more than a convenient babysitter. I also went awhile before I had heard about the swine flu. My wife told me about it after she heard it on “The Bad News”. Now my poor mother, which by the way turned 86 today, is afraid to leave her house. The freakin Media has got her so scared to go near people she won’t go to the doctor’s office without wearing a mask.

Now I said that I don’t watch “The Bad News” anymore but I didn’t say I don’t watch TV. I do, and probably way too much. I like to watch movies so I rent the ones I want to watch and not ones that someone is forcing me to watch. I must admit, I do watch violent movies but I like action. My wife will walk by the TV and say, “How in the world can you watch such violence”. My reply to her is always the same. What you are watching on the news is way more violent than anything I’m watching. And besides, what I watch is not real.

Where I know I definitely spend too much time in front of the boob toob is watching sports. I can’t help it, I’m a sports fanatic. Now this is where I am really starting to get p**sed off. They are slowly taking my relaxtion time away from me. It’s constant. Every time I turn on the sports channel
the first thing I hear about is who’s taking sterioids this week. I know who these athletes are because I’m reminded every single day. It’s the same old crap over and over again. Give it a freakin rest will you. Now this week it’s about some clown that wrote a controversial book and there are claims in it about cheating in ways other than taking steriods. I know these athletes aren’t angels but I just want to watch a good competetive game. I don’t need to know every time one of them farts.

I’m starting to lose it now so I have to change the subject. I need to read a few more comments.

Gary, you make mention about the Y2K bug that was going to end the world. I actually had a good laugh at that one as I was a computer programmer during that time. I spent two years working nearly seven days a week re-writing code that had been written thirty years ago. All this just to add two digits to the year. You can’t imagine what it was like for us programmers for two years prior to and a month or so after Y2K had come and gone. I never got any sleep. That time actually fried my brain and I got away from programming for a living and now I just do it for the fun of it and for my online business.

Gary, I have tears running down my cheeks from laughing so hard. I just finished reading your piece about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As disgusting as it was I couldn’t help myself from laughing my ass off in the way you described what happened.

I think I’ve spent enough time here so off to another blog I go.

Thanks for the post Gary. I was feeling a little low but now my blood is pumping through my veins at a rate my doctor would not care for.

Later,
Jeff Sargent