Gah. Tired
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charliesmumFirst - Keanu Reeves describes John Constantine as a "world-weary" and "nihilistic guy with a heart of gold." Somehow I think John would disagree with the 'heart of gold' bit.
Went to "Super Bowl" Party with husband at his place of work. Well, in the clubhouse of the community his work built. Toll Brothers had much invested in the game, as one of their employees was on the Eagles team. Jeff Thompson, number 85. I think he tackled someone at one point.
In all my years, I've pretty much managed to avoid watching the super bowl, and pretty much football in general, except for the occasional homecoming game in High School. (wherein I wandered around and socialised more than paid attention to the game) I recall a High School boyfriend trying to explain the rules of football to me at one point, but it didn't stick.
So last night was the first time I was pretty much hostage to the game, and I came to this conclusion:
Football bores me.
Football is a boring game. There's one minute of running around until they jump on top of each other, then there's five minutes of standing around and getting back into position. It's all stops and starts, and it's mostly stops. As near as I can figure last night's game was exciting because both teams played well, but to me, dull. Dull, dull, dull. Give me Rugby any day.
And why do they have the Super Bowl on a Sunday night when people have to get up the next day? It's this big party day, and they have it on a week night. There's no sense to it.
The commercials were boring too. The only one that was even remotely interesting was Fedex. Pepsi's commercials always struck me as self-satisfied and too aware of their own cleverness. That hasn't changed.
And I thought it was funny that they were so worried about repeating last year's half-time trauma that they had a 64 year old man singing 40 year old songs. I mean, Paul was great, and is in amazing shape, and still sings wonderfully, and I like his music much more than whatshername and the guy from the boy band, but it was an interesting statement.
It also goes to show how times change. 40 years ago Paul McCartney (sorry, Sir Paul) and the Beatles would not have been considered 'safe' by the Establishment. 40 years ago Paul McCartney was the epitomeof all that is Wrong With America according to the same types of people that fretted over showing too much skin.
It's a laugh, innit?
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darkwitch666 posted a link on her journal today to a woman who had a very elegant diatribe on a hurtful word that her son was called. It made me think, once again, that the with all the 'political correctness' that is going on in the world today, all this worry about not offending, and trying be moral, whatever 'moral' actually means, the one thing that still doesn't get enough attention paid to it is compassion. It's easy to say 'don't say that because that word is offensive to some people' but no one seems to want to go the step further and explain why it is hurtful both to the person who it is said to and the person who is saying it. It's easy to say 'don't offend', but what about teaching children the skills so the idea of being offensive never comes up? I'm too tired to express myself well on this, so I'm going to leave it to HH the Dalai Lama, who knows a thing or two about compassion.
Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
Life's purpose of happiness can be gained only if people cultivate the basic human values of compassion, caring, and forgiveness.
Went to "Super Bowl" Party with husband at his place of work. Well, in the clubhouse of the community his work built. Toll Brothers had much invested in the game, as one of their employees was on the Eagles team. Jeff Thompson, number 85. I think he tackled someone at one point.
In all my years, I've pretty much managed to avoid watching the super bowl, and pretty much football in general, except for the occasional homecoming game in High School. (wherein I wandered around and socialised more than paid attention to the game) I recall a High School boyfriend trying to explain the rules of football to me at one point, but it didn't stick.
So last night was the first time I was pretty much hostage to the game, and I came to this conclusion:
Football bores me.
Football is a boring game. There's one minute of running around until they jump on top of each other, then there's five minutes of standing around and getting back into position. It's all stops and starts, and it's mostly stops. As near as I can figure last night's game was exciting because both teams played well, but to me, dull. Dull, dull, dull. Give me Rugby any day.
And why do they have the Super Bowl on a Sunday night when people have to get up the next day? It's this big party day, and they have it on a week night. There's no sense to it.
The commercials were boring too. The only one that was even remotely interesting was Fedex. Pepsi's commercials always struck me as self-satisfied and too aware of their own cleverness. That hasn't changed.
And I thought it was funny that they were so worried about repeating last year's half-time trauma that they had a 64 year old man singing 40 year old songs. I mean, Paul was great, and is in amazing shape, and still sings wonderfully, and I like his music much more than whatshername and the guy from the boy band, but it was an interesting statement.
It also goes to show how times change. 40 years ago Paul McCartney (sorry, Sir Paul) and the Beatles would not have been considered 'safe' by the Establishment. 40 years ago Paul McCartney was the epitomeof all that is Wrong With America according to the same types of people that fretted over showing too much skin.
It's a laugh, innit?
darkwitch666 posted a link on her journal today to a woman who had a very elegant diatribe on a hurtful word that her son was called. It made me think, once again, that the with all the 'political correctness' that is going on in the world today, all this worry about not offending, and trying be moral, whatever 'moral' actually means, the one thing that still doesn't get enough attention paid to it is compassion. It's easy to say 'don't say that because that word is offensive to some people' but no one seems to want to go the step further and explain why it is hurtful both to the person who it is said to and the person who is saying it. It's easy to say 'don't offend', but what about teaching children the skills so the idea of being offensive never comes up? I'm too tired to express myself well on this, so I'm going to leave it to HH the Dalai Lama, who knows a thing or two about compassion.Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
Life's purpose of happiness can be gained only if people cultivate the basic human values of compassion, caring, and forgiveness.
