This final play of a US College Football game looks suspiciously like Rugby to me. 
This type of play seems very unusual in football and I really don’t understand why, if you look at the amount of easy space that can be created!
I know, I know! She got it from her mother, who has now decided to write a book on parenting!
I have to wonder what she knows about parenting… Did she ever try it?
Sheila and I walked this morning, it was a lovely 5 miles (just under, actually) north of Lincoln Park.
We did manage to raise a bit of money. If anyone wants to donate, you can here.
The best part, for me, was a guy infront of us who was wearing a t-shirt saying: “If you don’t check them - I will!”
This is a very interesting blog post detailing a recent series of interviews carried out with Israeli soldiers, where they admit to liking violence and chaos, where they admit killing innocent people, where they admit abuse of prisoners… Like the person who wrote the blog post, I’ll leave it to you to read it.
It’s days like this I realise how absolutely ‘anal’ I am when it comes to signing paperwork. I will not sign anything I haven’t thoroughly read and understood.
It’s really awful seeing anyone cry. Deep down I find it hard to say anything but “Give it back!” until I regain my senses, then I have to wonder just how some people live in this day and age…
“I guess I signed a piece of paper…”
So, you didn’t read the contact then? Why not? Too busy? Ah…
I saw a news item this lunchtime on FOX about mortgage rates increasing and they interviewed a man who said that he had told the agent he wanted a fixed-rate mortgage. The agent printed his contract - he signed it - then now, years later, he is complaining because his mortgage rates have increased and he is going to lose his home.
So, you didn’t read the contract either then? Why not? Too busy? Ah. FOX News may be blaming the ‘nasty agent’ for not giving the customer what he asked for, but I’m not. I’m blaming the idiot who didn’t read his contract… If you were letting someone else take money directly out of your hands, would you be so much of a pushover as you were signing that piece of paper that allowed them to take money from your bank account? If the agent knew exactly what he was doing - so did you - you knew you were meant to read it. Make the agent sit there and wait, twiddling his thumbs, you are the customer, not him, he’s being paid (by you) for his time!
It happens all-too-often and people have to learn that their lack of action also has consequences. You DO NOT sign what you have not read - never, ever, never, ever. We live in time of digital communication and fast-paced living. You cannot walk through the city of Chicago for more than five minutes without hearing a hoard of impatient car horns and everything in life is about getting it done quicker. Chase Bank has advertisements up in Bus Shelters about how you can personalise your ATM menu, because - I assume - pressing more than one button is a real issue for their customers.
Anyway, back to Ellen… Not everyone has a TV show. I am sure this type of thing happens every day and if it makes you feel bad, Ellen, then I’m sorry. You were oh-so willing to lay out the cash to try to do everything you could for that dog, you are willing to cry on your TV show for the sake of the children, why weren’t you willing to read the ‘piece of paper’ for the sake of all of them in the first place?
I love this, absolutely love it. Two SPAMMERS in the USA got jail time for their part in sending millions of pornographic SPAM emails.
The more people who know about this, the better. There has been a reduction in SPAM (apparently) since prosecutions began, so let’s help to get those SPAMMERS scared…
You know, I’ve wondered something for a few years now… Don’t laugh, but I wonder: What was the first person who discovered humans could drink Cow’s Milk actually trying to do? I assume that as drinking milk is now considered ‘normal’ nobody thinks about it - but I do…
That sick individual must have seen a Cow standing there, saw a calf feeding and decided to give it a go! How sick is that!?
My second query - and an extension to the query above - is this: Did this same individual attempt to milk a Bull, too?
Makes you think, huh? All these things we do today, if we were around when they were first done, would we think they were disgusting? Or those first magician’s, would we think they were just people capable of tricks, or witches? Come to think of it, I think I just figured the whole Bible thing out.
So, we live in the new Condo’s just across the street from (what now remains) of the ‘under demolition’ Cabrini Green and today I got an insight into why the Gang Violence happened here…
An Ice Cream truck was parked outside one of the fifteen storey towers of Cabrini Green, for two hours, playing the tune of ‘Rudolph - The Red-Nosed Reindeer’… So, how could this cause violence?
Annoyance… After about thirty minutes of the tune I was ready to go over and push the guys loudspeaker down his neck.
The first few times I came across to the United States, I noticed something…
I noticed that on my return each time when people asked about the United States, one of the queries was whether “everybody was overweight?”
My answer in 2005 when I visited New York and Boston, in 2006 when I visited Chicago, Boston and various areas of California and in 2006-2007 after spending 11 of the last 13 months here in Chicago, was (and is) that there are a lot of overweight people, but generally not in large cities…
Something that may surprise some is what I would also say in addition to the above: “When I came back to the UK (especially in Grimsby - my home town at the time), a greater amount of people looked fat and those who were not, look like a Chav or (if Female) dressed like a prostitute. There seems to be a lot more visible ‘normal people’ in American society.”
I’ve said for a few years now that the stereotype in the UK of negativity at ‘Overweight America’ may be quite true in some places, but that Britain is well on it’s way to catching up and unlike America, where from my experience people in the suburbs who get everywhere using their car - and are overweight because of a lack of exercise in that respect - Britain seems to have the problem everywhere, and in noticable numbers.
This isn’t an attack on either Britain or the U.S., it’s an observation based on actual experience and actually going to places to learn about them. McDonald’s (who by the way, now have an extremely healthy menu - if you choose to eat the healthy items from it) may have originated here in the USA, but they have spread worldwide, so will fat people - but not because of McDonald’s…
I’m just over 6ft tall and I weigh about 162lbs, I eat burgers quite a lot (even McDonald’s ones) , but I also walk this city endlessly. At least once a month I’ll even have a day where I walk my wife to work, walk the city for nine hours (taking photos), then walk her home again. There are ‘illnesses’ that cause people to be overweight and a lot of people choose to blame someone/thing else (like McDonald’s or an ‘illness’) for their problem, rather than accepting they are the ones who walked through the door (or in most cases - drove through the drive-through) in the first place.
You hear the occasional news story where a man who was 600+lbs had to be pulled through a demolished wall by firemen and taken into hospital for his life to be saved. Why aren’t people strong enough to save their own life at say, 240lbs? I’ve been through a lot in my life and as I get older and reflect on things I have experienced - and pulled through - I start to wonder why some people don’t… Perhaps someone may reply and educate me a little because although I understand the technicalities of Mental Illness (brain chemicals and the like) and have felt pretty damn low at certain times of my life, I don’t understand why blame of a ‘Medical reason’ seems so prevalent in this day and age when in the past it seemed people just dealt with whatever life threw at them.
Maybe that’s the answer, if life throws food at you that you shouldn’t be eating - throw it back? Anyway… I think that before long the stereotype of ‘Overweight America’ shall seem oddly misplaced in a world of obesity.
I’m just joking.
I don’t have a problem with the way America has ‘renamed’ certain things like Soccer and Fall, but I do sometimes wonder why and how certain ones came about. Fall seems obvious (If I am right); It’s the time of year when leaves ‘fall’ from the trees.
I don’t actually understand what was wrong with Autumn though? Maybe I should start a petition to change the months from ‘Spring’, ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ to ‘Unfurl’, ‘Bake’ and ‘Vanish Entirely’…
I am glad that things will start to cool down around here though as we go through ‘Fall’ - it’s been a long, hard, hot ‘Bake’. I don’t mind ‘Vanish Entirely’ either, but ‘Unfurl’ is unbearably cold.