I am actually enjoying myself these days. A LOT! Maybe a little bit too much, being unattached, unemployed and unsupervised by any authority figure, be they work boss, home boss or societal boss. And it's one of the two best times of year sporting-wise. So I can be up at 3 AM watching a World Jr. hockey game and say to myself, "Would it be okay to have a beer right now whilst watching my countrymen play our favourite national sport?" Then I can look at the calendar, look at the clock, look around my apartment, and see no reason why not. Then after that I can watch an NHL game, or, like this morning, a PLAY-OFF NFL game, and say to myself, "Self, is there any reason why I shouldn't drink a few MORE beers?" And my Self will reply, (being unattached, unemployed and unsupervised necessitates soliloquizing), "Again, bruvvuh, if I'm honest, I'm no' bovvahed if you crack on wid it! 'Undred percent, jnowu'amean?"
My conscience isn't Jiminy Cricket, he's a cheeky chappy from Essex. 'Owevvuh, 'ang on a tic, wha if it's a fit bird in me 'head? Literally a bi' o me! On papuh we'd genuinely 'ave grea ban 'uh, (great banter), jnowu'amean? (do you know what I mean?) It ain't bein' muggy to 'ave a few mugs then innit?
Being unattached, unsupervised and unemployed, I can also watch reality TV shows to bone up on my Estuary English, jnowu'amean? I don't see anyone around my apartment to judge me if I watch the most embarrassingly trashy TV show ever, like, Love Island and watch some full on fit birds and some well gorge blokes trying their best to stick it on each uvvuh. And all with delightfully fast-but-rewindable cockney accents. I'm no' bovvuhed.
It's the proverbial car accident. I know I shouldn't watch. Not only is it not improving my life or intellect in any way, it's probably damaging it, but I can't look away! It's tedious because the relationship issues are mostly manufactured drama that I struggled through blabbedy-blah years ago, but it's still kinda fun to watch.
I mean, really, what's not to like? Beautiful, young people enjoying fun, sun and social drama in Mallorca, Spain. Or is it Majorca? Mayorka? Anyhoo, it's not just the drama that living in close quarters creates in this group, but the show's producers really stir things up. One episode had five boys going to a villa just around the corner from the original one for some "male bonding." Little did they know, five new girls would meet them there. Meanwhile, back at the original villa five new BOYS were crashing the girls' fun without their men. And by this time there were some pretty close couples, so what do they do? Why, they have a competition that includes boys and girls naughtily snogging, French snogging, skinny dipping and such. All the while, the villas are so close together that the teams could actually hear each other! THEN picture postcards of the shenanigans in which committed boys and girls were sleeping with and kissing others, for the competition of course, were shown to their jealous mates. Fun times!
One of the solid couples was Jess and Dom. Or so we all thought. Somehow Jess got voted off the island along with a new boy named Mike. Dom stayed without Jess but he was "gutted" and swore to remain unattached and faithful to Jess. And he DID. But, rumours of the outside world found their way into the villa that Jess and Mike immediately hooked up after being voted off. No way Dom could know! And they didn't show the viewing audience either. It's still a mystery to me.
That's Dom on the left on Love Island and Mike and Jess on the right looking all couply and cozy off the island. Poor Dom. I think he got his grass cut.
Maybe my favourite relationship on the show so far isn't a romance, but a bromance between Chris and Kem. Look at these guys, they even dress the same!
It's as much a sport as hockey and football, really. Boys being boys and girls trying to regulate them. Keep them from becoming ME! Don't judge me. >:-(
So what is it that has inspired me to blog today? What is the more serious matter I promised to blog on about? It seems to me that I am getting more negative in my old (er) age. I am sure a few of you are chuckling or saying something like, "You think?" or "Nice one, Captain Obvious!" but I do have my positive side. I just don't blog much about it. For instance, sport. I have been a huge sports fan my entire life. But more and more I find myself questioning whether or not it remains untouched by the corporate virus that is infecting everything else on our planet. I didn't GET up today, I STAYED up all night and watched the Saturday afternoon hockey games AND the NFL wild card games. It was pretty tough to do, but I managed to get to half time in the second football game before crashing. The FIRST football game, however, is one that has me wondering if I was watching the NFL or the NFEL. You know how the WWF changed to the WWE, (world wrestling federation to world wrestling entertainment)? Even though it was some copyright violation rather than a change separating the sport of wrestling from the fraudulent entertainment of the WWE, I always thought of it in that way. I have to admit, I've been noticing more and more games that smack of the WWE fakery and it is upsetting. How does Kansas City completely dominate the first half and then look like a college team in the second half? Was it football or football entertainment? The announcers were saying the coach of Tennessee gave some kind of moving speech at halftime. They were also mentioning that the loss of Travis Kelce to a concussion, (of course I had picked him in my playoff football pool), made a big difference. But I'm inclined more to skepticism as I age. I think that possibly the more meaningful halftime speech might have taken place in the Chiefs' dressing room and it was delivered by an anonymous, no-necked, cigar smoking guy wearing black on black and it probably went something like this, "Youse guys had a good time dat half. But me, and a lotta my close friends, didn't expect youse to have so much fun. We actually BET youse wouldn't have so much fun, capiche? So why donchu go out dere and have a little bit less fun? As a favour to me. And my friends. Who know where you live. And how many kids youse have. And what schools dey go to. Den, maybe someday I can do YOUSE a favour. Okay? Okay."
And last year's Super Bowl. I STILL don't believe THAT shit happened!
I told you last post what I thought of that stupid publicity stunt at the World Jrs. Canada won eventually, even though they were outplayed in the final by Sweden and maybe THAT is another example of what I'm lamenting here, but isn't it just the most dramatic, (i.e. attention and paying viewer attracting), story that could have happened? Last year Canada loses a heartbreaker in a shootout to the Americans. This year, they lose another heartbreaker in a shootout to the Americans in the outdoor game. There are many calling it a "classic" already. It just seems a bit scripted to me. Maybe NEXT year they'll have an American/Canadian re-re-match and CANADA will get revenge at home in a shootout. It won't be outdoors though because it'll be in Vancouver and Victoria so the weather won't be cold enough. All this stuff kinda makes me feel a bit like Bubbles, the smartest Trailer Park Boy,
And as for the sports that are more social, again, maybe I'm a bit of a jaded, over skeptical dude, but I can't believe half of the crap that was happening on Love Island either. My biggest head-shaker was Camilla. Just take a look at this picture. This is the fuckiness me and Bubbles feel.
You look at that picture and you see a STUNNING girl who looks like she'd be a laugh. XXX Survey said: EEENNNNGGHHHTTT! She either IS or is acting like the biggest prude in England. The question I've asked 100 times during my soliloquies is what the hell she was even doing on the show. I mean, did she not know that people are supposed to hook up there? She spent the whole show tee-hee-heeing at anything remotely sexual sending out coquettish vibes to poor suckers who, when they acted on them got friend zoned like she was a nun. Is she? Do we KNOW she's not?
Maybe it was the, fact?, (is it a fact?), that she once dated, then friend zoned Prince Harry. So how could any of the blokes on the island be good enough for her? Then there was the convo with Jonny in which he pointed out that he was completely FOR sexual equality and Camilla, (falsely), agreed that that was what she wanted. Then she said it just wasn't the case in England. Jonny pointed out the female PM's of England, and the idea that a lot of feminists don't want equality, but they want to run the show for a while to make up for years of men doing the same, and THAT is what translates into equality for them. He didn't word it quite as well, but somehow, even though he genuinely wanted equality, and Camshaft agreed, somehow even the ANNOUNCER was labelling him a sexist and everything they had to that point came to a grinding halt. And the drama that ensued! Tears, face in hands bawling about how all men are pigs. Consoling from the other girls in the villa. It was a Korean soap opera! I had faith that the English public was smart enough to see through it, after all, one of the best things about almost everyone from England I've ever met, is that they really put a high social value on intelligence. Their comedy is absolutely awesome in my opinion because it's smart. Their country has spawned many a great intellectual and they are very proud of them. But, no! Camilla was the darling of everyone in the villa and all the voting viewers in England! It just struck me as very fucky.
Then, inconceivably, Jonny was forgiven! So she lead him on for a little while longer making him think he had a shot. I think it was also so she could stay on the island. THEN during the five for five swap with the new villa, she met a sweet-talker named Craig. To be fair, "sweet-talker" is only four letters and a dash away from "stalker." This guy had seen the show from the outside, and like all of England, loved Camilla. So he comes on just spouting effusive compliments to her and making her tee-hee-hee in narcissistic glee. Enough for her to completely abandon Jonny and keep Craig around by coupling up with him. And even though she dumped Jonny so unceremoniously, and Jonny wisely coupled up with another girl, (to get to a THIRD girl, (the show is complicated(but in a good way(much like this bouquet of parenthesis)))), Craig was given the cold shoulder because somehow Camilla hadn't completely forgotten about Jonny. So more tears and heartfelt, emotional support for her manipulative games ensued. But I was SURE the intellect of England wouldn't let me down and they'd vote her ass off the island. After all, it's not Friend Island is it? But NO! If anything she got MORE love! Just plain fucky if you ask me.
Is it possible that even more serious things than sports, be they athletic or social, are as Orwellian as these examples I've listed? Is it possible that everything is not naturally occurring, but scripted by people for the purposes of creating a world environment maximally conducive to consumer spending? Is everything fraudulent? Am I going to be sedated and stopped from writing this blog by some men in white suits who bust down my door? Has it already happened and I can't remember? Dang! This requires a beer. Anyone here in my apartment object? "Nao too right mate! Go on then!" I thought not.
If it's not obvious to you by now, you haven't been following my bloggage. The "sport" to which I think as much, and most likely even more fuckery can be applied is politics. Where are we there? Well, let's move from England to America. The hottest selling book right now is one in which the main point is basically that the POTUS, probably the most powerful politician on the planet, but nothing compared to the corporate script writers who are the puppet masters yanking his strings, is an idiot. If you go to the end of this article about the book, there is a short list of famous, powerful people who have basically said this. With all due respect, if you haven't figured this out by now, maybe YOU are an idiot. But I hope it will carry more weight being in book form and once and for all spark a movement toward getting this bozo out of the White House.
But, I don't know if that's in the script. There is nobody who can genuinely entertain the idea that his presidency isn't a UGE conflict of interest. Not even Trumpbot Sarah Huckabee Sanders could entertain - well, okay, maybe Sarah Huckabee Sanders could believe that but most of us aren't sucking Trump's dick like she is. He owns golf courses. Golfs WAAAY too often on them. And wouldn't you know it, there's a tax loophole in his vaunted tax reform that gives a really nice break to golf course owners. There is absolutely NO doubt that this presidency has been in direct contravention of conflict of interest rules, if they weren't so wishy washy. We have all heard of people being forced to step down from business positions to take on the presidency. Hell even the Bushes did so! Didn't they?
Here's what Bubbles and I are talking about. It turns out that there really is no solid law against this kind of fuckery and, of course, Trump is jumping right in there to fully take advantage of that. Before anyone like Elizabeth Warren, just for example, can pass a bill ACTUALLY telling the president, (and VP), of the U.S. not to pass all kinds of bills into laws that will benefit him and his financial fuck-buddies into law. A lot too little and a lot too late. And, oh, yeah, by the way, President Trump would have to pass this bill to limit conflicts of interest for him and the VP. I just don't think he'll find the time to do that.
Is this really going unnoticed? Is this OBVIOUS corruption being allowed to slide? Oh wait, there's more! You see, as it turns out, Trump has been a bad boy in business for many years. It's rumoured that he has been dealing directly or indirectly with the Prince of Darkness himself, Vlad Putin and/or Russia. I don't think there's much doubt at all. Just the details and the extent remain in question. And how long will they remain in question? Well, I'm glad I asked that question. How much longer is Trump's term? Another 3 years or so? Yeah, THAT'S how long.
Robert Mueller seems to be conducting the longest investigation of anyone EVER folks. Hey, if you or I cheat on our taxes, how long will it take an investigator to bust us and get that money? Well Trump has already eclipsed that time limit. And there is doubt about this perhaps ONLY to one man on this planet, special investigator Robert Mueller. Trump's ties to Russia are public knowledge, unlike his taxes. The rumours about them I have shared here before. "The Don of a New Era."
Oh, and by the way, just in case you have ANY doubt about the fuckery being perpetrated on the U.S. and the world here, Robert Mueller, the guy investigating Donald Trump, can be FIRED by Donald Trump. Of course, it's not that simple because every one of the most misleading things in our world have booby traps in place to create doubt about our doubt about them. And when it comes down to it, they win because the average person hasn't got the time to negotiate all the booby traps. So we have to believe someone who we think might. Trust. A dangerous thing in a corrupt world. The fact is, Trump would have to direct deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller. Failing that, he could repeal laws that give Rosenstein the power to fire Mueller, then fire him. Or, and keep an eye out for this, he could promote one of his flunkies, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or an equally sycophantic henchman who has no experience whatsoever in law, to be the attorney general and then direct HIM/HER to fire Mueller. See if THAT doesn't happen in the next three years of Trump's reign of terror.
And you know where things are even worse? Business! I'm sure this little break from the harsh, cruel, screw your brother world of business is a welcome break for Heir Schtrumphmeister. I am getting a good taste of business shenanigans over here in China where they use population as an excuse for it. In America and Canada, (lest we think, as we are wont to do, we are any better), it's just business. And with huge, evil corporations acquiring other huge, evil corporations, and politicians and lawmakers continuously paving the way for corruption by enforcing crooked laws, it won't be long till even in business they no longer have to lie to us to hide the corruption.
Bayer is merging with Monsanto. Big pharma and GMO/Roundup poison. Why does this seem like a terrible match? I was grievously disappointed with the news that Tim Hortons's, a beloved franchise in Canada, is going to purchase Popeye's Chicken. That news wasn't the bad news. It was just that not long ago I heard that they'd bought Burger King. And now Popeye's. And, hmmmm, wait a moment, when I go into my local Timmy's and ask employees their salaries and/or if they have any benefits, what is their general answer. I NEVER thought I'd say this but fuck Tim Horton's. Unless they start paying decent wages, fuck them. I will never roll up the rim to win again and NOW that I know the kind of scumbaggery that goes on at this franchise, I'm questioning whether I EVER legitimately had a shot rolling up the rim. It appears even Tim Horton's is in on this global orgy of deceit. Is not even coffee and donuts sacred any more?
What I'm NOT questioning is the idea that companies, especially massively rich ones, can make money AND still be socially responsible to their employees.
But what chance does that have of happening so long as even politics is conducted as a fraudulent business? It's encouraging to see some countries in the world where business sometimes has to take a back seat to people. Like Denmark or Iceland or Sweden or Norway. What is the Scandinavian cure for corporatism? Why is their model ignored?
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