Sorry, this is political today. I’ve prepared a video showing the REAL reason we’re having yet ANOTHER damned Federal election.
Do me a favour. We’ve been spinning our damned wheels for over half a decade with a hog-tied minority government. Just give the conservatives those extra 3 seats they need for a majority, let them do the job of pulling the country back right from the too-far-left we are now, then vote them out in 5 years when they become complacent. Ok?
So this youtube sensation, Rebecca Black Friday. What the hell is this crap? It’s got to be the worst song I’ve ever heard in my entire life. It’s made Justin Bieber acceptable to me. Well.
For those few who actually like it, and don’t understand where the naysayers are coming from, I’ve prepared a vid for you, just so you understand what it sounds like to us adults.
My mother, who is still alive for some reason (she’s 58, don’t humans only live until 45 or so?) insists that I eat healthy. Unlike my father, whom she can monitor and track and make spreadsheets of what he eats and when (except when he sneaks off to the fry truck), I have lived on my own since I was 18. So instead of the spreadsheets, she just nags the fuck out of me every chance she gets.
She got me a small rice cooker, similar to this one. It actually works really well, makes just enough rice for a meal, is easy to clean up blah blah blah. But she told me it would ONLY cook brown rice.
“MICHAEL! This is a HEALTHY rice cooker. It will only cook BROWN RICE, do you HEAR ME?”
I’m 33 years old, not 5. I don’t believe in fairy tales anymore, like Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, god, things like that.
So I put white rice in the fucking thing.
And my house blew up. Blew me across the street and I landed in my neighbors hot tub where him and his 63 year old wife were NOT wearing clothes. Gross.
My point being, never trust a crazy Jewish mother. She WILL find a way to booby trap a rice cooker so it can only cook ‘healthy’ brown rice.
Her words on the incident? “I told you so. Maybe next time you’ll listen to your mother”.
Humans are apparently social creatures, needing the company of other humans. Family can’t be chosen, you got what you got (and in my case family is few and precious). But there is the social aspect of people who you CAN choose.
Thinking about it, there are several types of friends. There are the friends you have just for the sake of not being lonely. Acquaintances, friends of friends. These people are just there, not there for you. If you’re a nice guy like me, they will be around when they need something from you and disappear when they no longer need you. Sometimes those things are physical, like needing help with plumbing or with moving a couch. Sometimes they are emotional, like if they need an ear to bawl to or you are the only person who picks up the phone that night, or they need a laugh and you can tell a joke. They disappear and come back when they want something from you again.
Out of all my ‘friends’, I have two which I can say are the other type of friend. This is a real friend. These friends are there for you as much as you are there for them. They help you not for getting something in return, but because they truly want to help you. They want what is best for you and will go out of their way for you, and you for them. And it’s been this way for years.
J and T, thank you for being there for me for all these years. It’s true friends like you that make life worth living. And to all those others who are acquaintances, fair weather friends or just drop off the face of the earth when you are no longer useful to them, well, you know who you are and what you are. I’ll always be around for you because that’s the type of sucker I am. I just hope one day you might truly appreciate those that help you, think of people other than yourself, and become a true friend one day. Because true friends are rare and if you find one, hold on to them forever.
