DiscoNinja

Long Time Gone

Sorry my fans, or fan, I have been gone from the computer for a while so no typey bloggy.  So here is some rules for everyone

1.  Don’t ask when people are going to get married(or if they are married, when they are going to have kids).  This should give me permission to snap back with something totally distateful, but I was a a wedding with my special lady and we got asked that multiple times(not my people so I did not want to land the lil lady in hot water w/ her peeps.) so I always just looked away and thought, what sucks so bad in your life that you are so concerned with our relationship status.  If you are a guy and you ask this in front of my lady then I have the right to thump you.

2.  No one (except grandparents) want to talk to little kids on the phone.  It is a waste of time and just frustrates the person because the converstation tends to be unitelligible and hard to hear leading to the person just randomly saying uh huh, until it stops.  Then they have a drink. 

3.  Don’t make such a big deal out of the vuvuzaylas (plastic horns).  Is the news that slow that this is an important topic, for 1 it’s soccer so not that important, #B those things have been around for a while(have you not been to the St. Patricks Day Parade?) they have even been portrayed in an old episode of the Simpson’s where Bart gets one and beer gets poured in it and he becomes drunk(and Homer becomes The Beer Baron).  So guess what soccer and early morning news/talkshow fans, fucking deal with it or die mad!

Oh and Movies to watch: The Road (viggo mortenson) the earth is dying and he and his son are trekking along, it is friggin awesome, should have been best pic or should be, but it is a bit of a downer.  On the lighter side see Bruno, it is friggin off the chain.  Straight Dave’s Man Slammin Max Out was just awesome, and the shit he pulled in the middle east, he has some nuts to do that.

Soccer fans

This is what I love about soccer.  There are so many fakers that they penalize people for dying!  http://deadspin.com/5531751/soccer-player-gets-carded-for-fatal-heart-attack

Rules!

OK, so I have decided that every once in a while some rules need to be made aware, some apply just to men, others to everybody.  But too many people are not learning them, so I got to get them out there.

If you plan on being a man learn to shake hands.  A firm grip, whole hand, no limp wrist just the fingers.  I went to shake a boys hand today and he gave me his left and didn’t know what to do.  he was probably a 2nd or 3rd grader(oh he’s too young) Bullshit!  I knew how to shake hands(general concept) and was excited when an adult would want to shake my hand it made me feel like they weren’t going to treat me like a child.  And to the “shop teachers” out there it is a firm handshake not trying to crush it to show how strong your grip is, and if you grab at the fingers and squeeze so they can’t squeeze back they have the right to punch you!

Don’t wear the bands shirt to a concert.  I know there are a lot of people going to be pissed at me because that is how they pick out the tools, and the tools are like, “hey, I really like the band so I want to show my support”.  They know you like them hence buying a $20 ticket with a $25 “convinience fee”. 

Thank the people who bring/cook your meal, I don’t care if it’s your mom, husband, waiter, guy at the firehouse, say thank you.  nutrition is very important and a lot goes into meal making/planning so thank them for the food.

SouthPark

OK, I have been a SouthPark fan since it started, sure there are some episodes I didn’t care for and such, but hey they can’t all be winners.  It is a show that works on many levels from fart jokes to serious social commentary.  Sometimes it is great just to sit back and laugh as they make fun of the character named Seaman and other times I want to hear them battle hot issues.  the recent episodes 200 and 201 were great in this aspect.  They were talking about our right to free speech and censorship and sure enough it was censored.  They have dealt with this topic before, but this one dealt with Muhammed of the Muslim faith.  A person who cannot be depicted and definitely not made fun of according to their faith.   Well he has been depicted and people have been killed by extremists because of it.  So in fear of reprisals comedy central censored this episode.  Even though he had been on a previous episode and nothing happened.  Comedy Central gave in to the demands of insane extremists threatening lives.  I salute Matt and Trey for trying to create discussion about this topic.  At the end of the episode Kyle does his closing speech where the moral is learned and the whole thing is bleeped out.  I guess Muhammed’s name isn’t even mentioned at all, it however is about overcoming threats and intimidation from terrorists.  I sure would like to hear it.  Then of course a couple guys I work with talk about how we need to censor the speech of radical islamic speakers.  I don’t think this is right either.  Our founding fathers thought that was important enough to make the 1st amendment to the constitution.  They then went on to state that “well, they are willing to kill people” I said they always talk about fighting for what they believe in.  Maybe we should have some willing to fight for our side in the same way.  I think that if I had some kind of terminal illness that I might take a few people with me, no innocent victims, just bad dudes.  Let’s hope it doesn’t come down to that.

Mary Jane

Ok, so I don’t know how isolated my life has been, but today while doing fire inspections I came across a building full of Marijuana plants.  It was kinda like “guh?”  So I guess these places are all over my area.  Every time a building comes up vacant a pot grower moves in.  I guess they have to meet the demand for medicine with a supply of the sticky icky.  Now I stay away from drugs so it is kinda weird thinking I am in a place that the feds could bust but is legal in our state(kinda like the confederacy wanted in an earlier post).  The people were very nice and had their shit in order, unlike a lot of the businesses we come across.  So I should expect to see more of these places, and hope one catches on fire so I can know what it is like to be high, and then call the red cross truck with all their munchies.  Happy 4:20 my hippy friends(wait I don’t have hippie friends, I hate hippies, and Nazis so I won’t wish them a happy b-day for you know who, fuckin kippie-nazis!)

movie time

OK, watched some critically acclaimed movies theat friggin blew.  first I tried to watch Brazil which two of my enlightened film buddies told me to watch, because it is incredible.  I understood the humor it was going for but it was like, ok, I get it, but it is not that funny or clever.  My other Sack O’ Shit I watched was castaway, one of the old timers had it on during dinner.  Pretty lame, luckily my commentary made it a little more funny.  Hope that guy got laid after he got off the island.  i wonder if he and Wilson did it.  Then I watched I Sell the Dead, an awesome movie I never heard of till a couple weeks ago, it’s about a grave robber about to be executed and a monk is getting the stories of his life and all the crazy things he has seen(zombies, vampires, aliens).  It was a great one though, funny and it kept me interested.Hope that helps ya.

Unions

So I got angry the other day listening to a couple people talking about Unions.  One person was mad because by not being in the union he was had no one to fight for him when he did not get the raise he was promissed.  The other man made a statement about how nobody likes union and went on to say some more harsh words.  While I do understand that unions do have their problems, with power can sometimes come corruption, but on the whole Unions do great things to protect workers.  Despite what you think your boss does not want to pay you what you want, and would like to cut costs anywhere they can.  Working in fields as a laborer the only way to fight the power that the owner has with the $$ is by uniting to fight together.  Many of these fat cats spend so much money fighting unions instead of just providing safe working conditions and fair wages to the people whose work provides him all that money.  Look at our buddy Don Blankenship CEO of Massey Energy.  If he had spent the money to ensure that the safety regulations were followed instead of spending the money to bash unions and pay for his mansion, then maybe so many sons and daughters would have their father coming home from work today.  Our Union does a lot to ensure that we have the best technology, training, and staffing so that we can make it home to our families and provide a living for them.  It doesn’t stop there.  We help out many charities for the widows, people burned, fellow firefighters, children with medical complications(like Jerry’s Kids).  So I know it is easy to bash the Union, “they only look after themselves”, “they prevent the firings of bad people”, “I have to have dues ‘taken’ from my paycheck”.  Just remember all the good they do to protect you, your family, and your co-workers before you start bad mouthing them, especially around a union steward!

Get Your History Right.

So I got frustrated when I saw the gov of Virginia got in trouble for having a month to honor the confederacy.  Now i know that we all like to think that Slavery was what the civil war was about, but despite what your 3rd grade teacher told you there were actually issues that at that time seemed more important to the people who control governments.  I know that slavery is wrong and that it affected a large amount of people terribly, but the people in charge were arguing over matters more important to them.  There were many political disagreements an unfair tariifs imposed from the North, but one of the biggest being states rights and the ability for goverment to work from the bottom up not come down from Washington.  In all the movies and TV shows it always portrays the Union soldiers as being brave, infallible heroes.  But guess what, it is a war against your own people so many are going to be men who do terrible things.  The South is always portrayed as stupid evil conniving villains, where many were fighting for what they considered to be their rights, similar to our rebels in the colonies fighting the British.  It is not until The Outlaw Josie Wales that we see any of this side.  So I am stating again, slavery is wrong! But there are many things that were wrong during the Civil War on both sides.  So before we start bashing a man for celebrating the history of his state and the men and women who stood up against their government to fight for their perceived rights.  I am glad that we are still a United States, and celebrate the fact that we can oppose our government.  When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.   Some Jefferson fellow wrote that. 

Need a computer???

So I decided I need a computer at home because I come up with these great ideas and philosphies when I am drinking, however at work and the rest of the world, sobriety is the killer of many dreams.  People look at me funny whenever I tell them I don’t have a computer or the “interweb” at home, but F them in the A with a Dirty C.  I won’t get one for the obvious reasons of 1. it costs a lot of money Money, B. I would have to do work to keep the viruses out of it. III. The man would have access to everything I have(I know your watching me the man), and finally when Skynet becomes self aware I don’t want it in my house.  For those who didn’t get my email party on the first, contact me for details.

Injured

So i have been gone from the computer for a long time, i was injured and sitting down effing sucks, it can be very painful, I have a bulging disk, sounds sexier than it really is.  Finally have an answer to the problem and how to help it out.  Hope it heals soon.  I have been spending my time building new brewing supplies and you can expect some good beer coming from me.  Oh and Gail I added the link to the lepprechaun clip.