the hot and the shitty

Just happened to see 2 hip and happening women in the newspaper today...

Shakira... definitely has it going for her.
A message for Shakira - you're hot! Haven't heard any of your music which I remember, but damn you make a fine photograph!

Scarlett Johansson... her shitty lips and gums and wierd face are certainly not doing her any favours!
A message for Scarlett - your name is hot, but you're shitty... you should stop coming in front of the camera and ruining perfectly good film or memory sticks!

Ban smacking of children!

What the title of this post suggests, is not what I intend to convey in this post.
Just read in the metro newspaper today that Britain's 4 child commissioners (hell, I didn't know they made them commissioners that young ;)) demanded that smacking young people (namely, children) should be banned in toto. That is to say treat children with the same respect for their human dignity as adults.
Ahhhhh.... compelling argument. Anybody else see the flaw in it?
Let's face it, you want to raise kids, not prima-donnas. A lot of times I have seen really irritating kids, and with more irritating parents. The kid just bawls out and the parents are scrambling over themselves to satisfy it's every whim! In no time, these young humans, in the peak of their learning abilities learn how to precisely wrap these stupid grown-ups around their little little fingers! That's precisely what spoilt little brats need... more power over adults!
And what these commissioners now expect is for parents to deal with kids psychologically, I suppose.... treat them like royalty when they deserve to be given 2 sound smacks. Maybe not... maybe they expect physical punishment to be replaced by some sort of shitty psychological punishment like grounding the youngster, so he/she can go to their room and play their X-Box by themself instead of going out and playing with their friends. Harsh!!
I am getting the distinct feeling that Britain is not the place to have kids. Discipline your kid by a spanking and you could get arrested, and your kid given up for adoption (I'm thinking that the result of this stupid law will be that many parents will start finding the second part rather appealing).
But seriously, spare the rod and spoil the child. If the kid does not respond to reason or disrespects its elder, it should be smack-city!!
I can see how people might get concerned over smacking kids in the face and all. Perhaps parents should be given lessons on how to smack kids so it smarts (like on their bottoms), but doesn't hurt (or in case of those over-zealous or abusive alcolohics amongst us... cause permanent damage) the child. The idea is the child needs to know there's punishment that matches the offence.
Anyway... that's my two cents. God sod this misled British sense of correctness! And have mercy on this society in 60 years time, when all these well-respected children are adults and maybe even raising children of their own!

Some reasons to be a Vegetarian

As if you really needed any more reasons.
As a follow up to one of my early posts...

At this point, I have to say that vegetarianism is not for heroes... because you don't really need to be a hero to be a vegetarian. There are so many compelling reasons for being a vegetarian, that anybody who's normal will be one. However, you do need a special mean streak, a special inbuilt cruelty to actually continue eating meat even when you realize how wrong it is.

A link to PETA's clip on more reasons - here - in case you really needed more reasons...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=PETA+Chew+On+This

Japan - a country full of arseholes

Sometime back, I was smitten with Japan and her people... full of culture, courage, honour, intelligence, I thought. Not to mention the fact that I thought Japanese women had so much style and so many other things going for them.
But what I had forgotten was the thing that struck me on new year's eve while reading a newspaper article. Whaling.
Japan is the main culprit still responsible for the despicable and reprehensible act of hunting such magnificant creatures. Not only hunting, but hunting many to extinction or pushing them down the inevitable path towards extinction.
You see... whales are big. But they're mere drops in the vast oceans that they dwell in. Whales need a certain minimum population to be able to find each other in the vast emptiness of the oceans, so that they produce enough calves to at least maintain their population. Excessive killing of these gentle giants has messed it all up.
Most whalers start cutting up the whale while it's still alive. The gentle creature is harpooned and slowly reeled up the side of the whaler where saws cut into it's living flesh, providing agonizing pain to accompany the suffocation that results from the creature's massive weight crushing it's internal organs and lungs, without the pressure of the ocean to provide the necessary support.
I can comfortably state as a fact that a people who are capable of enacting such heinous crimes against such beautiful, gentle harmless animals are no better than the skidmarks that sometimes adorn public toilet bowls.
So if you're Japanese, and you're not picketing your government everyday to stop your shit for brains whaling, you're nothing but a ass-wipe skidmark, you dumb idiot excuse for a human being! I hope you choke on the shit you must naturally be swimming in, you piss drinking filthy maggots!