So if this isn’t one of the scariest things I have ever seen….
Clowns scare me. I have always said, "Clowns are evil, monkeys are evil and Nazis are evil. If the Antichrist existed, he would be a Nazi clown with a pet monkey." If you don’t believe me about the monkey part, just watch The Family Guy someday.
I bet the creators of these pots just didn’t think it through. They never imagined a bunch of schoolchildren innocently planting cactii in the trousers of evil clowns. They never imagined these evil clowns then standing around together playing pocket pool.
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Have you ever caught yourself going about your business, doing something the way it has always been done, and wonder if it is the right way? "That’s just the way things are," some would say. "We must have been doing it that way all these years for a reason."
Saskboy has put out a challenge to all of us to do some thinking. "What sort of views have the rest of you inherited from your area that are unproductive?"
Deep stuff. This might take at least two beer to get started on.
Here’s my first one, from Alberta, Canada. We joke about the alcohol on this site, but it is a real problem for some people and it isn’t funny. We need more action to help those with drinking problems. We need to recognize as a society that drinking and driving, drinking and working, and especially drinking while looking after your kids is wrong. Teaching kids to parent drunk, or do other things drunk, perpetuates the problem. If you have kids, do your best to be responsible.
We need to pull the plank out of our own eye before we call the kettle black. If we are worrying about the environment, we need to take actions in our own lives as well as yell at the governments and businesses. Don’t replace your vehicle every year needlessly, recycle, reduce your power bill, and then you have some ground to stand on.
We need to clean up this spousal abuse going on in Alberta. So much of it wouldn’t be happening unless deep down people didn’t think it was okay. There should be zero tolerance. And that goes for women abusing men,too. I know this is a big joke to tough Alberta men. And I have met a few guys who have had the crap kicked out of them by the significant other. Not much seems to be done about these women. Why? The guy is too ashamed to report it, and he won’t fight back against a girl.
We need to carpool or something. I realize we all live out in the sticks, and you have to get in to civilization. So organize it to go as a group. Try to save up your errands and go in once instead of three times a week. Put some thought into it.
These are some of the things that have been bugging me about my area. Your turn. What’s going on in your corner of the world?
I heard on the news today that there is a group of about twenty Alberta farmers and businessmen, lead by Glen Metzler, who are looking into the feasibility of growing poppies here in Canada. Apparently, the south-western prairies are an ideal climate for the plant. The government is observing Australia, where the poppy farmers are making up to seven times as much money as wheat farmers. The reason the poppies are so lucrative is because the opium derived from them is widely used in painkillers such as morphine. Each year Canada imports $100 million worth of refined painkillers from places like Australia and France. Metzler and his group feel this would be a huge opportunity for Canada. Naturally, the government is convinced that more poppies will only lead to more heroin and as a result will not grant any licenses to grow the flowers.
However there are a couple of things that no one seems to be taking into account. On the plus side, when November rolls around, maybe we could have fresh, real poppies to pin on our lapels instead of those cheap plastic ones. On the negative side though, if we have vast fields of poppies in the country they will have to be very carefully maintained. I read in some book (and I believe that it was "inspired by actual events") that if people breathe in poppy dust it will cause them to fall asleep. So how can you operate machinery or drive a vehicle when you’re on poppies.
To sum up how the government thinks: medicinal marijuana – good; medicinal opium – bad.
I bet someone feels like a real ass in this picture, and it probably isn’t the poor, frightened donkey. Overloading is a problem in every culture, it seems. And in either case, how do you get your ass safely down from there?Someone call the fire department. " Quick, get down here! I need you to high angle rescue my ass!" After the laughing quit, they might check it out. 