That two girls entered into a suicide pact is SO wrong.
Sad and wrong. Suicide is ultimately so futile and destructive. There’s no honour in it. ¬†None at all. ¬†Speak to someone, cry out for help, don’t end it.
Boris Yeltsin, former President of the USSR (and the man who broke it up into the CIS), died suddenly just this morning/evening.
This would be no doubt one of the first blogs to post on his death, so I’d better say something profound about it.
Boris Yeltsin is dead. Maybe of a heart attack. Possibly because he was dancing whilst drunk, like in this video:
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VALE BORIS YELTSIN. I just wish Bill Clinton would stop laughing about it, it’s not funny.
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For this. ¬†It’s a shame the original article ever got a run. ¬†I’m glad they ran Kerin’s piece.
A few years ago – well, it was on the evening of the first game of Euro2004, Italy were playing very poorly with Francesco Totti in central midfield, behind the strikers. He was playing like the girl that he is. A mate of mine sent a message then, which is equally relevant to Totti after they got SMASHED by Manchester United 7-1 in the Champions League today.
The message on that cold night in 2002 was, “Totti – you don’t send a boy to do a man’s job”.
Totti went into today’s match saying it was “a more important game than the World Cup final”. He was one of the worst performers on the pitch. AS Roma, the team he captains (and own 5% of) got pumped. Now he’s said it was the “saddest” night in his career. Totti is nothing but a big girl.
1. Because I enjoy the discipline of observing & writing.
2. Because I enjoy a rant (even if it’s to very few people) about issues which I’m passionate about.
3. Because some friends are amused by it.
4. Because I can see the stats of what people read, search for and discuss on the blog, thereby gauging the zetgeist.
5. Because … I like to keep track of my thoughts over time, and I don’t like handwriting – blogs are far better at storing thoughts than books.
Janet Albrechtsen has written a really interesting article – that the hard work, great policy, diligence and ultimate success of the Howard Government has created a generation of complacent people. We’ve already forgotten about how difficult it is to manage an economy so that it is roaring, with the beneficial social and political outcomes this implies. And how the paradox is that John Howard is paving the way for Kevin Rudd to tell everyone how it’s easy.
The inverse – Rudd is saying, and most likely will say until election day: “It’s so simple to run the economy, because we (the ALP) are simpletons, even we won’t stuff it up”.
At the moment… is voicemail messages. I’ve hated them for a while without realising it, but I’m increasingly annoyed with them.
If you don’t answer, you can see who called anyway, thereby giving you enough info to return their call. If they then leave a message it’s both a waste of time and money for the both of you – unless of course there’s a deliberate reason for leaving the message – “Hey, I coudn’t get through to you, my phone is going to cut out soon I’ll meet you on the corner of such and such…”
But to leave a chain of messages within five minutes like “Hey, pick up your phone”, followed by “Hey, where are you, not picking up?”, followed by “Hey I can’t seem to get through”, is just dumb.
The problem is, I’m getting more and more “chain” voicemails. And I’m beginning to hate them, just like a friend who has never had voicemail diversion on his phone. His attitude is: “They’ll ring back, or if it’s urgent, they’ll SMS me”.
That’s far more sensible. ¬†I can see it’s getting ridiculous – and reminds me of a lyric from the Living Colour song: “Information Overload”.
I get the feeling emails will be the next subject in this series of whingey posts.
A couple of years after “Eric Conveys An Emotion” invented Web 2.0, all of these other n00bs jumped on board, like “Ask A Ninja” and “Ask A Gay Man”.
I’ve decided I’m starting “Ask A Liberal-Voting Collingwood Supporter”.
Whatever questions, thoughts or philosophical dilemmas you might have, fire away. I’m ready to answer.
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