Man up gentleman
I was reminded of an epidemic last night, one that puts chicken flu, Y2K bugs and GFC's in grave perspective. I speak of manning up, growing balls or bringing out your inner cave man instincts. The new age man is fast becoming a joke. Caring more about clothes and smelling like David Beckham than knowing how to fix things with your average array of shed tools. Does the modern man know how to change a spark plug in a lawn mower? Does the modern man even know what a lawn mower looks like or does Jim take care of that for him. In saying that I'm guessing 50:1 is probably telling the modern man about his xxxxx than an oil and fuel ratio.
I am disgusted at what I see when I venture to a hardware store. There are more men in the garden and homewards sections than in plumbing, electrical or timber. What happened to the dark workshop in the backyard, that sacred man shed where secret inventions were though up, beer was drunk and sometimes even brewed and general household items were mended. I know, they made way for Japanese yoga gardens and water features.
I see fully grown men wearing scarves on days where the mercury drops slightly below 15c. That's not arctic weather, thats called a stiff breeze and if you had chest hair and some general manliness about you then you would not feel the cold. A man would not care for a cut on his finger and wouldn't run for the Dettol and a bandaid, he would toughen up and let nature heal it. A man wouldn't even know his doctors name, because medical visits are not required. I feel let down by my fellow man populous, the ones I refer too know who they are. Your shopping for tissues and hiring the latest directors cut of the Notebook because you just love Ryan Goslings acting prowess.
Buy a hammer, some nails and a length of 4x2 and just make something. Even if it's a bird feeder, just get it done.
Choose football over Better Homes & Gardens on a Friday night. Because otherwise you better stock up on manpons.
Power Plant Protesters
Australia has an energy love affair with coal fired electricity generators and it seems to get on the nerves of every brain cell deprived hippie in the country. They want us to use overpriced and under powered wind turbines or expensive and space restricting solar panels. The problem for the hippies is they do not feel contempt with simply arguing until the cows come home with the government. They want to make waves and cause havoc for the rest of us innocent people. So they break into coal fired power plants and try to shut them down. Do these idiotic morons think its ok to put the rest of us into chaos for their un-educated cause? Wait a second, that's it they don't think.
How dare they shut down my electronic life for their pointless pursuit of Al Gorism. See while they are living out his little documentary, he is cashing in and swimming in champagne. The government will not shut down its coal generators while we are sitting on a huge supply, regardless of it's 'enviromental' effects.
Stay in your comunes and smoke the peace pipe, just don't shut down my 240 volts.
Smartarse’s – nobody likes them
Have you ever been telling a story and half way through somebody steps in with an annoying fact. The fact might be that one part of your story is factually false. Do you care? Well as long as it adds to the story, your factually false point is fine. But the brown nose idiot who interrupted you felt the urge to tell you anyway. And a punch in the face it probably the only method of appeasing the situation.
I have had one of these events, but in my favour, the brown noser was wrong. I am selling an electric scooter on Ebay and it is technically a four wheeler. However some brown noser sent in a question reading as follows:
"Can you confirm if it IS actually a FOUR wheeler or not"
And you can imagine I loved this question because its got four wheels, even though the front two are close together. so I responded... "It has FOUR wheels sunshine, two at the BACK and two at the FRONT, check the photo you hairy arsed tosser". Probably not a good response to a prospective buyer but it was required to keep sanity.
Brown nosers beware, I'm after you.