outrageous news

Once in a while, news make me angry. This week, I got angry twice. First:

Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Just to protest, I might buy a kaffiyeh. But as they now mostly made in China, what remains of that symbol anyway ? Which make the whole Dunkin’ story even more moronic… Too bad there is no Nobel prize for stupidiy, because Michelle Malkin would be a wonderful contender.

And also that story:
High levels of bisphenol A prompted many consumers to toss water and baby bottles containing the controversial material. Now, tests conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV have found high levels of the estrogen-mimicking chemical in canned food sold in Canada.

Is there anything I can do anymore and not get cancer???

another ibs episode

What’s worse than dealing with IBS? Handling it with moronic behaviour. Two weekends ago, I buy some homemade style cookies with my grocery. I decide to eat the whole thing as a dessert. After, I don’t feel great and then the pain shows up at night for a few hours. Last weekend, I try some healthy chocolate cookies with high fibers and low sugar, but once again I eat the whole thing. And boom, another crisis. This weekend, what do I do? Buying the same homemade cookies I bought two weeks ago and eat them the same way… Now it’s past 4 am and my guts still hurt.

I gotta stop falling into cookie bags (and chips bags). I can eat them, but not the whole thing… Is it only a matter of will power??

What I don’t understand however is why no matter when I overeat through the day, I always suffer through the night. It makes sense if I overeat late, but not if I did it in the middle of the day.

I might buy this book pretty soon: IBS for Dummies. There are also a few receipe books about IBS but don’t know if it’s such a good deal… I see my problem as a matter of behaviour.

6 am wisdom

 

Night and dreams after eating too much pizza are weird.

intoxication

 

This week, I began to read The Darwin Awards book. I had to stop. Depressing, intoxicating, misanthropic, cynical.

what makes you really angry

(via Sulz)

1. Those who try to dominate me. Include control freaks.
2. Narrow minds. No, buddy, your way is not the only possible way.
3. Those who don’t care to ruin other lives with their stupidity.
4. Cowards.
5. Those who step repeatedly on a paradox without care, like a minister of environment talking and acting against environment. Even if we can say the minister of transport can’t give Quebec decent roads and public transit system, the minister of health decent health care system, the minister of education decently educated population… But at least they manage to look like they try.
6. Sadists. Or even a lack of empathy.
7. Those who don’t care about knowing someone before judging.
8. Those who try to hide they don’t like me.
9. Those who don’t give a first chance.
10. Monologuists. Communication shouldn’t be a fight.

I think we can sum up saying people lying to themselves make me angry, mostly when these lies hurt me and my will to have a nice day. Still, I try hard to not get angry about fear and ignorance. And give people a chance to face their inner truth.

Also, when I look at the list, I’m not surprised I don’t vote anymore…

please just shut up and take a nap

John Baird painted a distastrous economic picture Thursday if Canada were to meet its Kyoto promises on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but opposition parties accused the environment minister of not basing his forecast on facts.

Man, did I ever wanted more to slap a politician on the back of the head ?
What’s the point of having a ministry of environment then ?

give it to the kid

Who chose Mario Dumont to be responsible of Environment and suitable development ? Simon-Pierre Diamond (French article), the youngest politician Quebec ever had !
Mario ? Hello ? Seriously ?

festivodd

Another very odd event, the second one in 3 days. I was in a bus, around 7pm, pretty much in the back, near two grunge teens. They are kind of annoying the whole ride, keep on kicking the benches, making my seat vibrates, or putting their feet on the benches. I thought of telling them to stop doing that but I didn’t.

While I experienced their annoying behavior, I thought that the idea I had lately of becoming a full time poet living in the streets doesn’t worth much if it’s the kind of company I’ll have daily.

As they were about to get down the bus, one of them put his finger on my face, apparently covered with bus’s dust.

This immature and foolish move was the first assault I experienced in public transportation.

Odd things happen here and there in our life but two very uncommon events like that in a short period of time brings even more oddness…

 

So, in three days, I was the victim of a judgmental old man and two young renegades.

 

dumb surveys

I often hate surveys. You can make people say pretty much anything. Like if, for the exact same question, you ask before something like “How long convicted pedophiles should be incarcerated?” or like “What do you like the most about Christmas?”, you won’t get the same results.

I don’t know what I should think about this:

A little more than half of Canadians believe nuclear power is one way to have cleaner air and lower greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll commissioned by the government.

Should I get angry at the half who doesn’t understand that nuclear power can help global warming or at the one who thinks it’s a good idea? I don’t know what the question was. If they asked something as ambiguous as this result, well…

Fortunately, something better a little further:

81 per cent of Canadians polled said no plants should be built until a permanent solution to the problem of radioactive waste is found.

Doesn’t fit AT ALL with the previous result but this number is releaving. They don’t want to solve the problem by creating another.

If at least we could solve the dumb surveys problem.

it burned

I learned that Johnny Cash’s longtime lakeside home was destroyed by fire earlier today.

I fell in to a burning ring of fire

I went down, down, down

and the flames went higher.

And it burns, burns, burns

the ring of fire

the ring of fire.

Sorry about that, Johnny, wherever you are…

the theology of fergie

I may not have the type of voice you like, but I can sing. You can’t take that away from me, ’cause singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can’t sing, it’s kind of like insulting God.

Via Celibrity wit.

couldn’t stand it

This is why I couldn’t stand being a teacher.

the gin and tonic bandit

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A scofflaw who came to be known as the gin and tonic bandit went to the same restaurant each Wednesday, ordered two drinks and a rib-eye steak, then skipped out on his $25.96 bill.

His dining, drinking and dashing days may be over.

Police arrested the man on preliminary charges of theft and resisting law enforcement. He was being held early Friday at the Monroe County Jail on $2,000 bond, authorities said.

Each Wednesday night for four weeks running, the same man came into the same O’Charley’s restaurant and ordered the two drinks and the steak, restaurant manager Teresa Tolbert told police.

At the end of each meal, the wait staff would present him with his bill for $25.96, and he would excuse himself to use the restroom, then skip out without paying.

The man appeared a fifth time Wednesday night, but the restaurant was ready for him, police said.

Ok. So, it means I can eat for free in a restaurant FOUR TIMES without trouble ? Who are these morons who served him the second, third and fourth time he got there without asking first for what he stole or calling the police ?????

chat moment of the day

her: I received a toaster…

me: A toaster from your husband ?

her: Yeah, for Valentine’s day.

me: A toaster for Valentine’s day ????

good for the head

Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain.

Enhance, uh ?