Post Count Glory
I'm on the road this week so I'm just gonna give you a quick rundown of what is currently going through my brain, aside from the duty free Johnny Walker of course.
A noun you verb
I read online the other day someone using marathon as a verb. The context was of someone spending the weekend watching entirely too much Battlestar Galactica and the quote was something like "I think I'll get a case of beer, a pizza and marathon some Battlestar". Brilliant. Fucking with our language is not just reserved for MBA paradigm breakers. Apparently using nouns as verbs like this is called Anthimeria. Betcha didn't know that.
Communism has its perks
As much as you may like democracy, there is something to be said for Communism, particularly in the way it let's the rulers do what ever the fuck they want, should the need arise. Beijing's pollution has been pretty legendary for years now and there has been a bit of concern about how this will affect the Olympics. The solution? Make people only be able to drive their cars on alternate days, effectively banning half the cars on the road. According to the BCC World News report I just watched the pollution in Beijing is now down below WHO acceptable levels. Try that one in California.
Fuck reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2020, China could do it tomorrow by introducing 'Turn on that gas heater and you lose your hand' day.
RIP Big Brother
I checked news.com.au this evening and my eye was caught by the headline "Nana nails Big Brother's final series." You can't make that shit up. Channel 10 have decided to let that abomination of a show finally die and there is no one more grateful than yours truly but to have it finish so nail-in-the-coffin-ly is, as Prince Paul would have put it, the sweetest victory of all.
I must admit though that I have watched more French Big Brother in the week I have been in Paris than I have ever seen of the Aussie version, but only because it is basically porn and the inane crap they are surely babbling is in French so I can substitute it in my head for in depth discussions of Chomsky's relevance in a post 9-11 world.
Here's the deal, eating a quick sandwich at your desk is most frowned upon. Most people head to the cafeteria where you select an entree, a main, a salad and a desert then a drink. The drinks fridge has water, juice, soft drink, beer, wine, cider and champagne in it! After a hearty lunch you'd think it would be back to work eh? No way, now it's off to the café for, well, café. These bastards do lunch in style.
If they could only start speaking English I think we could be best of friends.
A noun you verb
I read online the other day someone using marathon as a verb. The context was of someone spending the weekend watching entirely too much Battlestar Galactica and the quote was something like "I think I'll get a case of beer, a pizza and marathon some Battlestar". Brilliant. Fucking with our language is not just reserved for MBA paradigm breakers. Apparently using nouns as verbs like this is called Anthimeria. Betcha didn't know that.
Communism has its perks
As much as you may like democracy, there is something to be said for Communism, particularly in the way it let's the rulers do what ever the fuck they want, should the need arise. Beijing's pollution has been pretty legendary for years now and there has been a bit of concern about how this will affect the Olympics. The solution? Make people only be able to drive their cars on alternate days, effectively banning half the cars on the road. According to the BCC World News report I just watched the pollution in Beijing is now down below WHO acceptable levels. Try that one in California.
Fuck reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2020, China could do it tomorrow by introducing 'Turn on that gas heater and you lose your hand' day.
RIP Big Brother
I checked news.com.au this evening and my eye was caught by the headline "Nana nails Big Brother's final series." You can't make that shit up. Channel 10 have decided to let that abomination of a show finally die and there is no one more grateful than yours truly but to have it finish so nail-in-the-coffin-ly is, as Prince Paul would have put it, the sweetest victory of all.
I must admit though that I have watched more French Big Brother in the week I have been in Paris than I have ever seen of the Aussie version, but only because it is basically porn and the inane crap they are surely babbling is in French so I can substitute it in my head for in depth discussions of Chomsky's relevance in a post 9-11 world.
Eat, drink and miss meetings
I'm working in a French office at the moment and I just have to mention how they do lunch. God Damn, no wonder the Nazis just waltzed in here, the French army were probably all at lunch for most of 1940.Here's the deal, eating a quick sandwich at your desk is most frowned upon. Most people head to the cafeteria where you select an entree, a main, a salad and a desert then a drink. The drinks fridge has water, juice, soft drink, beer, wine, cider and champagne in it! After a hearty lunch you'd think it would be back to work eh? No way, now it's off to the café for, well, café. These bastards do lunch in style.
If they could only start speaking English I think we could be best of friends.
posted by Sam Cox at
07:23
7 Comments:
The sad thing is that a Pauline Hanson-loving granny won the final Big Brother. Going out in trashy, trashy, style.
I noticed you didn't insult any religions this week, Sam. But you did have a subtle dig at the French. That's almost sport, where I come from.
Those lunches sound good. You must be as happy as a Frenchman who's discovered a pair of self-removing trousers.
By
Tommy G, At
25 July 2008 00:04
Grog at lunch. If you could figure out what kind of claret goes with cereal you'd have it made.
By
Camborgy, At
26 July 2008 12:38
Sam only drinks vodka with his cornflakes.
By
Tommy G, At
26 July 2008 16:36
What is it called when you use a proper noun as a verb?
ie, I was pretty hungry after the beer so I "Hoover'd" down a kebab and some fries.
By
Camborgy, At
28 July 2008 13:53
i gotta say sam, i think democracy is completely over-rated. politicians end up doing things to get them re-elected rather than things that are right... and having little johnny fuck ass as a prime minister for 11 years (and he replaced keating!? wtf?) proves to me that most people are too stupid to vote...
and dictatorships must have the most efficient civil service ever. Hitler didn't have to worry about planning permission for his concentration camps did he? and you bet your life that no one messed up his pay. there's gotta be something in all that.
RIP BB. Let us pray that the UK follows suit.
By
Chani, At
28 July 2008 23:48
In fact Chani, an over-zealous German payroll clerk named Yosef Cohen is thought by some historians to have been the primary cause of the Holocaust.
Dictators rule of course (pardon the pun), but the trouble is choosing your Führer. The only one who fits the bill in my books is me.
Vote 1 Sam's 'Dissolve democracy and institute a new world order under me' party.
Vote now and avoid the purge.
By
Sam Cox, At
29 July 2008 06:17
midgets with no teeth
By
Anonymous, At
31 July 2008 15:58
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