When visiting MAD KANE recently, I read this article about how Brits smell WORSE when they aren’t smoking.  Seriously.  She wrote a limerick about it that shouldn’t be missed.

Artificial scents are set to be pumped into British pubs to mask the smell of stale beer, sweat and other odours previously camouflaged by cigarette smoke, a newspaper reports.

Mitchells and Butlers, which runs about 2,000 pubs across Britain, is testing leather, freshly cut grass, and ocean breeze fragrances in its premises since a ban on smoking in enclosed public space began in England on July 1, The Sunday Times reports.

From: ABC

Am I the only one that finds this utterly repulsive?  Folks, go home and take a bath.  Bar owners, invest in some Domestos.  Or just some bleach for christ’s sake.

So the big plan is to cover up the smell.  Isn’t this just indicitive of everything that’s wrong with us?  When we have a blemish, we buy concealer, when we get a wrinkle, we buy some deminishing cream, when we get sweaty, we wear deoderant…. and on goes the list.

What is it about us that prevents us from tackling the SOURCE of all this, rather than just trying to pretend it isn’t happening (or at the very least preventing other people from knowing it’s happening)?  Oh yeah.. we’re freaking lazy.

Leather and mown grass indeed.

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All I have to say about this article is that the guy was a total freaking moron.  The fact that he responds by wanting to sue (read:blame) someone else, just shows that he deserves what he’s getting.

A Texas man is suing 1-800-Flowers for $1 million, saying the company is to blame for his pending divorce.

After Leroy Greer’s wife filed for divorce in January 2006, he began seeing another woman and sent his new girlfriend a dozen long-stemmed roses. But a few months after the flowers were sent, Greer reconciled with his wife, and she moved back in to his Missouri City home, according to Greer’s lawyer, Kennitra Foote.

That was, until his wife received a thank-you note from 1-800-Flowers.

From Court TV

I have no patience for people who cheat.  Not that it’s immoral, more that it’s STUPID.  And LAZY.  (Morality is for the judgement of people more wholesome than I.  Stupidity and laziness though… that is just wrong.)

His wife’s reply: Be a man.

My reply: Own up.  Shut up.  And pay the Dumbass Tax.

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There’s some times when you’ve just had enough.  I’m not a violent person, and I don’t like people who say things like “just blow the #$!&(% off the map!” as a way of dealing with the complex issues we face in the world, but sometimes, we’ve all just been pushed to the limit.

Aug. 10, 2007, 7:22PM
Woman ‘went crazy’ in attack on karaoke singer

Associated Press

SEATTLE — A woman attacked a karaoke singer belting out Coldplay on Thursday night, telling him he “sucked” before she pushed and punched him to get him to stop singing, bar staff said.

The man was singing “Yellow” when it happened.

“It took three or four of us to hold her down,” bartender Robert Willmette said.

When she was escorted outside, the 21-year-old woman “went crazy,” Willmette said, throwing punches at him and others, including an off-duty police officer.

Patrol officers and detectives then arrived at the neighborhood bar and blocked off the street, which inflamed the woman’s rage even more, a police report said. Before police could handcuff the woman, she headbutted the off-duty officer at least twice.

The off-duty officer was treated for cuts, scrapes and bruises.

After treatment for injuries, the woman was booked into the King County jail for investigation of assault. She was also held on a warrant issued for a previous theft charge.

According to bartender notes, she had only a single shot of Jägermeister.

Although I can’t see inviting someone with such a volitile temper over to my house, I have to say, I do believe the defense could make a pretty good case that she was provoked.

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I truly do enjoy politics… news, political humour, current events conversations… love it love it.  BUT… the internet brings out the crazy in us all.  Of course this isn’t news to you.

 I can’t stand blogs about politics.  Seriously.  I want to love them.  I’m politically active, and it’s kinda my thing.  I love feeling like I know what’s going on in the world.  But have you visited these places?

Ugly, hostile, and polarised.  It’s probably a reflection of how we’re actually thinking these days, but when I meet up with friends and we discuss politics, no one gets nasty and calls me names and tracks my IP address.  But it’s not just blogs… someone mentions politics in a chat room of any sort, and I quickly avert my eyes.

It’s sad to feel drummed out of town simply because I want to avoid nastiness.  I do wonder why we can’t talk about things that matter without all the vitriol.  Especially when the truth of the matter is, most of us are feeling hard-done-by by ALL politicians.  You know, those people we elect that are supposed to look out for our interests?

I’m not saying “can’t we all get along”, even though it would be nice if we could sometimes, or at least be less obnoxious, I’m more saying “can’t we all focus our vicious zeal on those who really have it coming, i.e. the lying bastards from all parties who screw us over whenever they have the good fortune to get into power”?

Is it too much to ask?

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Whilst cruising past the really big news: TomKat’s bride’s new haircut (same barbershop, maybe?), Paris’ Potty Problems, and Angelina’s lawyer falling on his sword for Queen BigLips and Country—quite desperate to get the sweet taste out of my mouth—I encountered an ongoing debate on BlogHer.com raising the question of whether the nomination of a female as President of India is, indeed, empowerment or tokenism. Whether that’s the case or not—ground broken is ground broken.

Pressing on, I can’t help but reflect on the ongoing similar (however different) discussion about American Democratic front-runner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton—who, if you’ve just arrived on the planet, is a female, a Democrat and no matter what New-Yorkers say, is from Arkansas. That discussion cannot be separated from the same (but different) discussion about Sen. Barack Obama—whose name initially scared the shit out of (more…)

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