"My goal that night was to beat up the biggest tourist I could find," said Nate Hawn, 20.
He picked a marine, he said, and beat him in the crowded streets. A stranger approached, and the Hawns wondered if he wanted some, too.
The man said that he worked with a promoter of cage fighting and that the guys should come to Sioux Falls in a few weeks. "He said, 'You guys are exactly what we're looking for,' " the brother with the mohawk, Ryan Hawn, recalled. - nytimes.com
Shockingly Egalitarian
MANCHESTER - The Taser stun gun was put to the test when Britain's second most senior policeman agreed to be a guinea pig.
Michael Todd, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, volunteered to be a "victim" to show how its 50,000 volts could be used to tackle crime.
"It hurt like hell," he told the Mail on Sunday. "I felt the full surge of the shock from my fingertips to my toes. I wanted to fall forward but was absolutely unable to move. It was incredibly painful." - nzherald.co.nz
I Wonder How Big The Market Is
Coming soon: the drug company that brought us Viagra has set its sights on solving a rather less notorious sexual problem - the premature female orgasm. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has patented drugs to make it harder for women to climax during sex.
Pfizer believes couples do not complain about the condition "partly because male partners often choose to take rapid orgasm as positive feedback on their skill as a lover". - guardian.co.uk
Finally, a cure.
Keep Digging
A chick who lives in the same flats that I do got her car stuck in the mudbath mockingly referred to as a "lawn" yesterday. We managed between the two of us to get the car free, because she hadn't kept wildly spinning her wheels when she realised she was stuck, so it wasn't dug down too deep.
Ouch
Talk about biting the hands that feed you:
"He said he had lived on the streets during the day, getting what food he could. Then his parents managed to send him to Britain." - nzherald.co.nz
It doesn't mention how old he was at the time, but what we do know is that he decided to blow up part of the land that took him in. This was Yassin Omar, who tried to blow himself up on the tube last week. (I'm skipping the "allegedly-s", you can put in as much reasonable doubt between the facts as you wish).
Maybe we shouldn't be so hurried to help those 5,000 World Vision kids who want sponsors. Surely this is merely clasping thine enemy to thy breast and feeding it on your blood and guilt, so that it may grow strong and secretive, tucked away, until one day little X'tach*click*mgrx decides to take your sponsorship money and spend it on a plane ticket and some dynamite.
Shouldn't Muslims be good at accepting their lot in life? They always seem to say "If Allah wills it" about everything, which seems a very relaxed attitude to life. Maybe Allah willed them to be born in a sucky country with more sand than fashion sense. Maybe Allah is happy to watch children in carpet factories, and very unhappy to see them in day-care. Perhaps he wills that the infidels will die and he really, truly does need mortal help. The tsunami was his best effort, but he missed the Christians and took out the Muslims, which seems to show a sporting attitude on his behalf.
My invisible friend is so much better than yours. Go Yaweh!
Nuts to that! God the Father gave us his Son, and somewhat schizophrenically, we got a Holy Spirit too. Go the Trinity!
Wait a sec. I thought there was only one god?
Yeah, there is. That's why it's schizo, see - there are three in one, three distinct personalities in the whole God thing.
Well that just makes no sense.
What do you mean? Not having meat and milk is a weird thing.
Not if you live 2,500 years ago, in a desert without a refrigerator it's not.
The best friend is my friend, Muhummad, prophet of God. And I'd just like to briefly take a break from trying to obliterate them and thank your Jewish friend here for pointing out the hideous blasphemy of the Trinity in Christianity. There is only one God, and his name is Allah.
Have you never used a 3-in-one shampoo?
Shampoo? What is this "shampoo"? Infidels! With your hot running water and endless canned goods!
Actually, I don't have hot water, it's too expensive.
*hah!* Where's your messiah now, schizo-boy?!
... and so offensively on. If your ears feel sore, perhaps stop reading. This is definitely in the "chewing off" section of rambling.
I have big probs with World Vision. I don't agree that aid should be faith based, or that out of 4 starving siblings you'd only pick 1.
Personally, I think the bigger problem is that we live in a society that says it's ok for people one one side of the division of cash to die of obesity whilst the other side dies of starvation (that's very simplified).
Posted by: Emba at July 29, 2005 07:50 PMAnd most starkly demonstrated in Niger at the moment. They're letting their own countrymen die of hunger in a time when they do actually have enough food to go around. And yet still the charities beg us to give, give, guilt, guilt.