Current Mood: Consolation prize
Wow! Someone submitted a broken. One of these days I’ll get around to reposting some of the old ones. Until then, here’s an ENTIRELY NEW ONE. Trent saw it on a company computer at work, it’s chock full of irony.
Current Mood: Pantomiming Stylus
Current Mood: Slide Rule
I usually hate to just blog about other sites I read, assuming that other people probably already read those sites already and this would simply be redundant to them. Nobody has ever sent me a link from this website though, so maybe I’m the only one of us who read it so maybe I’m safe.
In any event it’s worth reading again even if you’ve already seen it.
Also, what good is the “links et cetera” category if I NEVER USE IT?
Best Week Ever » Googling A Phrase = Deepest Music Video Ever
Current Mood: Exposed
Those of you who have me on their IM contact list will notice my avatar changed today. I decided to post the source (well a scan of the source) since it’s pretty awesome.
"Blowhard"
Current Mood: Flaming
Current Mood: Turds
Let’s take a moment to just sit and think about how awesome our lives are.
Current Mood: Pissed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023481/
We can’t have black stars
The Streets is about dancing
Then it rained outside
Current Mood: Concentrated
While driving by a school the other day, Kigs noted that the slide seemed to be missing from their play equipment. Really? Are slides dangerous too now? I can remember when I was a kid and they removed the ‘merry go round’ from our local park. It was that big circle of metal with bars on it that went from the outside to about halfway in. One kid would grab a bar and start running to make it spin, and everyone else would ride for as long as they could. Nobody ever got hurt that I knew of.
They also have apparently banned most fun playground games at school. I had to teach my nephew and his friends “Red Rover” at his birthday party. Not one kid there had ever heard of it, let alone play it. Nobody got hurt.
Schools nationwide are now deciding that recess needs to take a back seat to class time. Why not? Since they’ve taken away any actual ability for the kids to have fun or be active. It’s no wonder classes no longer just have the one kid who’s fat who everyone knows as “the fat kid”. Instead most of the class is fat. Now we have “the skinny kid” in class.
You know what I remember growing up? Nobody ever got hurt on the playground except for one time. They got hurt on the monkey bars, which is something every ‘jungle gym’ still has (do we still use that term or is it somehow unsafe because there are dangerous things in the jungle I don’t know it could be unsafe!). In fact of all the people who I’ve talked to who remember a playground injury when they were little, it was on either the jungle gym, or some other ’solitary’ task.
Well no more. I’m going to start a new playground. It’s going to be called “The Real Playground.” The only games allowed are ones where there is a fear that kids will get hurt. In fact, parents have to sign a consent form saying they *expect* their kids to get hurt. There will even be a $1 refund (yes there will be an admission fee, smart parents will pay money to let their kids be real kids and my commercials will convince them of this) if their kid doesn’t get hurt as an apology. There will be no monkey bars.
Here are some games suggested for my new playground:
- Merit ball (tennis ball version, no soft foam balls)
- Fly Up (with real football)
- Tag
- Crack the whip
- Smear the queer (I’ll probably allow a disclaimer that queer is a mean word if you call a gay person it but sorry that’s what the game’s called that’s what we’re calling it).
- That game where everyone climbs on the metal ‘buckyball’ dome thing and someone stands in the middle and tries to knock them off.
Here are some games which will not be allowed:
- “Solo” games not involving at least one other person (what are you a queer?)
- Games lacking actual physical contact with another human being or hard object (like a ball)
- Catch (let’s be honest this game is not a game it’s what professionals call “practice” and we don’t practice here we DO).
- Jump rope (unless it’s a group game like where a line of people have to jump in and out of a constantly spinning rope without making the rope stop … no wait that’s queer. No jump rope at all).
You get the idea. “Fun” games that are now apparently too ‘dangerous’ to play but aren’t really dangerous it’s just that parents I guess want their kids to be fat queers.
This kid probably never played fly up.
Notice there are no fat kids in this statue
Current Mood: 3 Fingers
This one is for Kramer.
http://www.eontarionow.com/health/2008/07/14/prostate-cancer-drug-can-prevent-bone-loss/