"Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy"
“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Time to relax for the weekend.
Here are a few funny animal fotos to help.
Some are natural shots, others have been helped a little with human input but I hope you find most of them amusing.
Enjoy.
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Foreclosure!
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yesterday’s post was a bit heavy going. So today, a little bit of light relief for you.
I’ve mentioned a few times before that I am very fond of dogs. They are great loyal companions and usually very protective of their family.
I have a strong preference for German Shepherds which are well known as being courageous, intelligent, watchful, confident and alert. I would argue that they not only have these attributes, but are also highly intelligent AND also look quite elegant as well.
But there are a multitude of different breeds out there and they all have their followers.
I wonder can the owners of these breeds say the same thing?
Enjoy.
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german Shepherd, puppy, puppies, “Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Today Part Thirteen of our look at the Classified Ads that turned out a little bit differently than originally planned.
Verification in print that stupidity is alive and well.
Enjoy!
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Hi everyone, yes it’s Monday again and time for another selection of stupid quiz show answers.
Are you depressed at the horrendous level of stupidity out there in the big wide world, or just happy that you are a lot smarter then these guys? I mean, who could ever forget “Smelly Kelly”?
Either way I hope you enjoy today’s bunch.
Q: Name a time when people wake up
A: Morning
Q: Name a sport people play by themselves
A: Video games
Q: The state with the best beaches
A: Los Angeles
Q: Name something a husband asks his wife to carry in her purse
A: Condoms
Q: Name something a woman likes a man to have that begins with the letter M
A: Makeup
Q: Name a Southern city
A: Georgia
Q: Name a subject people discuss on their first date
A: Sex
Q: Name something an airline passenger might be holding during a bumpy flight
A: A lucky rabbit’s foot
Q: Name something about Dr. Phil that comedians make fun of
A: His contestants
Q: Name a famous Kelly
A: Kelly “Ripka”
A: “Smelly Kelly”
Q: Name a sure cure for a hangover
A: Making love
Q: Name a famous Christina
A: Christina the car
Q: Name a food with an edible skin
A: Banana
Q: The night with the worst TV programs
A: UPN
Q: Name something you put in tea
A: Tea bag
Q: Name a place where you might see a dead body
A: Your house
Q: Name a job around the house that has to be done every fall
A: Spring cleaning
Q: An occupation considered to be un-masculine
A: Truck driver
Q: Name something dogs can do better than people
A: Pee
Q: The longest amount of time you have spent without talking to your spouse
A: 20 minutes
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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No, I’m not tilting at windmills, not just yet anyhow. And despite the play on words in the title, nor am I referring to Cervantes character Don Quixote. This post actually does concern a donkey, though. In fact animals in general.
It is a little known fact that donkeys kill more people than plane crashes. And at the end of August I read about a small town Texas mayor who was killed in an attack by his own donkey. He was Bill Bohlke and he was Mayor of Hollywood Park in Atascosa County, Texas.
That unfortunate event set me thinking of a number of things.
First I asked myself how the heck you pronounced his surname.
Then I wondered if Mayor Bohlke was a Republican or Democrat and how macabre it would have been if the donkey had done away with his elephant man rival.
And then I thought about the amazing and different ways people find to leave the mortal coil. I bet, like most of us, the last thing Mayor Bohlke thought was that some day he would meet his end from an attack from a randy donkey!
And then I marveled at how so many people, for no logical reason, have a romantic fantasy notion that animals are not inherently dangerous. They are.
And this is true for people who work with them every day and should know better.
For example, when I was growing up I would spend time at my uncle’s farm. He had a herd of one hundred or more dairy cows and every evening when I was there my cousin and myself would be sent out to the fields to bring the cows in for milking.
We had a couple of great little collie dogs to help us, not that much help was needed because the cows had a routine and once they heard us calling for them they made their way to the field gate and up the lane to the milking parlor, glad no doubt that they were about to be relieved of their burden once more.
With them came the bull. A huge brute of an animal and unbelievably strong. But he was docile enough, walked up with his herd of ‘wives’ and while they made their way into the queue for the milking machines he would usually lie down in the hayshed and munch on some of the hay.
As innocent (dumb) kids we would sometimes sit down beside him, even using him as a prop to lean against. He didn’t seem to mind a bit, we thought he was glad of the company perhaps.
Then one day as the herd was being ushered back out to the fields Mr Bull totally out of the blue decided he would like to kill my uncle.
Luckily us kids had our chore done in bringing the herd in to get milked. When the time came to take them back out again we were engaged on other vital business, I can’t remember exactly what but I’m sure it involved football, playing cowboys and Indians, fending off some galactic foe who was attacking earth that day, or some such vital stuff. But we could hear the commotion in the distance.
Furious about something, only he knew what, the bull roared angrily and ran towards my uncle who had been leading the way. With his head lowered he hit my uncle between his lower back and his knees and threw him up into the air like a rag doll – and my uncle was a BIG man. Very fortunately the bull tossed him into the air with such force that he went clean over the raised fence and hedge on the right hand side of the lane and ended up in one of the fields.
The crazy bull then tried to go after him but couldn’t get up the steep embankment on which the fence had been constructed. Another cousin, quite a bit older than us, saw the attack. He was in a tractor and he immediately had the presence of mind to use that to take the bull’s attention away from my uncle. The distraction seemed to work, because as suddenly as it had started it was over and things were back to normal.
But my uncle had learned a valuable lesson. Animals can be dangerous.
So had I, even though I wasn’t there at the time, but from then on I haven’t been a fan of bulls – not in Chicago or Wall Street either come to think of it.
Unfortunately Mayor Bohlke wasn’t so lucky with his donkey.
I wonder if it happened something like this???
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Here are a few more examples of what I like to call awkward moments. Things that happen that are, by and large, beyond our control. Sometimes they make you laugh and sometimes they make you feel stupid.
Mostly, though, I laugh, that’s better!
Hope you do too.
Enjoy.
That awkward moment when it’s quiet and you’re eating something crunchy.
(I take pride in this one.)
That awkward moment when you can’t tell if someone is a boy or a girl.
(The older I get, the more difficult it seems to be.)
That awkward moment when you start to cross your legs during a phone call because you’re busting to go to the loo.
(Hmmmm, been there, crossed that…er, those.)
That awkward moment when she looks at you and smiles. And then her boyfriend glares at you.
(Boy, the stories I could tell….)
That awkward moment when you change your Facebook status to “single” and your ex ‘Likes’ it.
(Facebook, yuk!)
That awkward moment when you type your ex’s name into your Facebook status instead of the ‘Search’ bar.
(Make that a double yuk!!)
That awkward moment when your Facebook friend tags a photo of you as a kid.
(Strike three, yuk!!!)
That awkward moment when you are in an important meeting and someone farting unexpectedly starts you to laugh.
(Most awkward if you are the culprit. )
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That awkward moment when you’ve accidentally sent a text to the friend you were gossiping about.
(Guilty as charged.)
That awkward moment when you say “I love you” and he says “Okay”.
(Not me, pal.)
That awkward moment when someone you don’t want to date asks you out.
(I’m washing my hair. Helps if you have some though.)
That awkward moment when you are introducing someone and get their name wrong.
(Never been good with names.)
That awkward moment when you are in a class where you don’t speak to anyone, and your teacher says go find a partner.
(One of the drawbacks of being a loner, I guess.)
That awkward moment when someone mistakes you for the shop assistant.
(Happened to me in Walmart, they didn’t seem to think it unusual that I was no help at all.)
That awkward moment when you step out of the shower and then realize there is no towel.
(Very difficult to put your clothes on when you’re soaking wet.)
That awkward moment when you are gossiping about someone and they walk up behind you.
(Whoops, caught out again!)
That awkward moment when you push on the toilet door thinking no one was inside.
(I feel an airport toilet story coming on.)
That awkward moment when a man walks into the ladies toilets
(Haven’t managed that one yet.)
That awkward moment when you pick up the remote control to answer the phone.
(Or worse, see video.)
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Did you ever wonder where some of the every day terms we use actually came from? Well, even if you haven’t, I have and I’ve put this post together to highlight some of the most interesting and unusual.
One of the most peculiar categories are units of measurement. For example, with regard to ‘time’ we often say things like “I’ll be back in a jiffy,” or, “Just a moment.”
Here’s the list.
Jiffy
Although used frequently by many people to denote a short but unspecified period of time, a jiffy is actually a real unit of time measurement. It is 0.10 seconds.
Shake
Another fairly commonly used term, again for an unspecified period of time, for example, “I’ll be with you in two shakes”, a shake is also a real specific measurement, namely, 10 nanoseconds.
Both Shakes and Jiffies are used for convenience in nuclear engineering and computing respectively.
Moment
How long is a moment? It is 90 seconds long.
Beard-second
A beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in nuclear physics. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second, which apparently is exactly 100 angstroms (or 10 nanometers). However, the Google calculator uses the beard-second for unit conversions of the value of 5 nanometers. It would be splitting hairs to say who is right and who is wrong.
beard-second
Barn, shed, outhouse
A barn is a serious unit of area used by nuclear physicists to quantify the scattering or absorption cross-section of very small particles, such as atomic nuclei.It is one of the very few units which are accepted to be used with SI units, and one of the most recent units to have been established. One barn is equal to 1.0×10−28 m2. The name derives from the folk expression “Couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn”, and is used by CERN-type particle accelerator physicists to refer to the difficulty of achieving a collision between particles.
An outhouse is 1.0×10−6 barns and a shed 1.0×10−24 barns.
barn
Barn-megaparsec
This unit is similar in concept to the attoparsec, combining very large and small scales. When a barn is multiplied by a megaparsec (Mpc) – a very large unit of length used for measuring the distances between galaxies – the result is a human-scaled unit of volume approximately equal to 2⁄3 of a teaspoon (about 3 ml).
Hubble-barn
Similar to the Barn-megaparsec, the Hubble-barn uses the Barn mentioned above with Hubble Length, which is the length of the visible Universe as derived by using the Hubble Constant and the Speed of Light. This amounts to around 3.45 Gallons (13.1 L).
Donkeypower
Everyone is familiar with the term “horsepower” particular with regard to vehicle engines. Donkeypower is a facetious engineering unit is defined as 250 watts, or about a third of a horsepower.
donkey power
Rictus Scale
Earthquake intensity is normally measured on the Richter scale. However, a guy named Tom Weller has suggested a humorous alternative, the Rictus scale, which is a measure of earyhquake intensity linked to later media coverage of the event.
Rictus Scale #1 (Richter Scale Equivalent 0-3) Media Coverage Small articles in local papers
Rictus Scale #2 (Richter Scale Equivalent 3-5) Media Coverage Lead story on local news; mentioned on network news
Rictus Scale #3 (Richter Scale Equivalent 5-6.5) Media Coverage Lead story on network news; wire-service photos appear in newspapers nationally; governor visits scene
Rictus Scale #4 (Richter Scale Equivalent 6.5-7.5) Media Coverage Network correspondents sent to scene; president visits area; commemorative T-shirts appear papers
Rictus Scale #5 (Richter Scale Equivalent 7.5+) Media Coverage Small Covers of weekly news magazines; network specials; “instant books” appear.
Helen
First used by author Isaac Asimov, Helen is now a measurement. It is named after Helen of Troy who apparently had a face so beautiful that a thousand ships were launched to rescue her.
Thus 1 Helen is equal to this number.
A face that could only launch one ship would therefore be a milliHelen.
A face that would sink ships would have a value of -1 milliHelen!
Helen of Troy: The face that launched a thousand ships
MegaFonzie
The MegaFonzie is a fictional unit of measurement of an object’s coolness.
It was invented by Professor Farnsworth in the Futurama episode, “Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV”. A ‘Fonzie’ is about the amount of coolness inherent in the Happy Days character Fonzie.
The Fonz – So cool
Wheaton
The celebrity Wil Wheaton is a keen user of Twitter, and when he attained half a million followers this number was deemed to be ‘1 Wheaton’. As few Twitter users have millions of followers, the milliwheaton (500 followers) and microWheaton are more commonly used.
Wil Wheaton – Wesley Crusher, Star Trek The Next Generation
Mickey
A ‘Mickey’, named after Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, is the smallest computer mouse movement that a computer can detect, less than 0.1mm.
Mickey Mouse Mouse
Nibble
Still with computers, a Nibble is half a Byte.
Garn
NASA is well acquainted with a problem called ‘space adaption syndrome’, more commonly called space sickness. It is the result of some astronauts finding it difficult to acclimatize to unusual gravities or pressures. One astronaut who was particularly prone to this type of sickness was named Jake Garn, who apparently vomited ‘explosively’ on an orbital flight. 1 Garn means a person as sick as Mr Garn was, with a corresponding scale for those less afflicted.
Jake Garn, the sickest astronaut in the universe!
Warhol
A ‘Warhol’ is a unit of fame or hype, that is derived from Andy Warhol’s famous pronouncement that “everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes”. Thus
1 kilowarhol — famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric “nine-day wonder”.
1 megawarhol — famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years.
Andy Warhol’s infamous Campbell Soup
Jolie
A ‘Jolie’ is unit that denotes the amount of international aid a country receives when it becomes the cause celebre of a prominent celebrity. In 2005, International Rescue Committee calculated that Darfur received $300 per capita in aid, while DRC received $11 per capita. Hence, a Jolie can be thought of as a 27x increase in aid receipt.
Angelina Jolie
Kardashian
The ‘Kardashian’ is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day.
The mind-numbingly boring Kim Kardashian
Horse
Horses are used to measure distances in horse racing – a horse length (shortened to merely a length when the context makes it obvious) equals roughly 8 feet or 2.4 metres. Shorter distances are measured in fractions of a horse length; also common are measurements of a full or fraction of a head, a neck, or a nose.
Horsey
Nanocentury
A ‘Nanocentury’ is a unit of time measurement sometimes used in computing. The term is believed to have been coined by IBM in 1969 from the design objective “never to let the user wait more than a few nanocenturies for a response”. A nanocentury is approximately 3.155 seconds although Tom Duff is frequently cited as saying that, to within half a percent, a nanocentury is pi seconds.
Dog year
A ‘Dog Year’ is a unit of measurement equal to one seventh of a year, or approximately 52 days. It is primarily used to approximate the equivalent age of dogs and other animals with similar life spans. It is based upon a popular myth regarding the aging of dogs that states that a dog ages seven years in the time it takes a human to age one year. (In fact, the aging of a dog varies by breed; dogs also develop faster and have longer adulthoods relative to their total life span than humans.)
pluto
Stoddard
The Stoddard is a measurement used by political campaigns to determine the density of a canvassing area. It is measured in doors per acre.
Mac Index: purchasing power parity
The Economist’s ‘Big Mac Index’compares the purchasing power parity of countries in terms of the cost of a Big Mac hamburger.This was felt to bea good measure of the prices of a basket of commodities in the local economy including labour, rent, meat, bread, cardboard, advertising, lettuce, etc.
A similar system used in the UK is the ‘Mars Bar’ (US readers think ‘Milky Way’). Tables of prices in Mars Bars have intermittently appeared in newspapers over the last 20 years, usually to illustrate changes in wages or prices over time without the confusion caused by inflation.
The Big Mac Index
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On 1st April 2001, in New York, a literary agent, named Frank, found himself dazed and patting out flames shortly after arriving at a two-alarm house fire equipped with a sandwich, a bullhorn, whiskey and a lawnchair.
The trouble started when Frank climbed on to the roof of a nearby house, perched on his lawnchair, and proceeded to lecture the startled emergency crew while enjoying his drink.
Three firemen had just finished clearing the house, locating the residents’ young golden retriever in the process, when they heard Frank’s imperious command.
“Drop the dog and open the hydrant this instant!”
They turned in surprise and in fact did drop the unfortunate yelping puppy, which fell through the burning timbers and burst into flames.
Outraged onlookers then mobbed the base of heckler Frank’s house and threw cans and shrubbery at the obstreperous critic, who batted the projectiles aside with his bullhorn while continuing to drink whiskey and issue commands, including…
“The north side is engaged!”
“Position the hose along the azalea bushes!”
“Stop picking your nose!”
Sorely provoked, the senior fireman, currently on administrative leave, picked up the dead (but still burning) dog and flung it onto the roof where Frank was barking out his commands.
The flaming animal landed in Frank’s lap, igniting his spilled whiskey and severely burning his man-part area.
Frank heaved the dog off himself, but neglected to brace his feet on the slanted roof. He and the lawnchair toppled and fell from the house, miraculously avoiding onlookers, who watched aghast while the prostrate man suffered further injuries from falling embers and his own roof-top accoutrements.
The house fire was eventually subdued, and paramedics transported the injured man and his loudspeaker to the hospital. Although he is recovering from his injuries, the prognosis is that he will never again be able to procreate with quite the same gusto, which is probably a blessing for the rest of humanity.
Neighbors have set up a Memorial Fund for the golden retriever. Apparently photographs of the man-shaped depression in the lawn are available upon request.
Sometimes being frank can lead to trouble!
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