Crikey ! I'm rooted !

I was reading Meg's blog recently when my mind had to do a double take on the following comments.

I'm rooting for little F...
My mum is rooting for you..

I mentionned it to Vee who said that apparently Eric left a similar comment on her blog once, I vaguely remember seeing it but I thought that he was joking..

Vee tells me that it has a different meaning in the american language ....yeah I bet ! ...

root vi. 1. To cheer for a sports team. Root is an offensive Australian slang verb meaning ``have sexual intercourse with''. Announcing to an Australian that you ``are a cheerleader, so you don't see many football games because you are in the stands rooting'' will give a misleading impression about your devotion to the team.

# root – to have sex. Also a noun, as in "I'm dyin' for a root". This can inadvertently cause embarrassment for Americans visiting Australia, if they declare that they "root" for a particular sports team.
# rooted – broken or tired.

Odd

This week the following email arrived in my inbox at work.


"Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Hello everyone,

I'm organising a donut drive to raise funds for JDRF and have attached a colour brochure. I will put brochures and posters in the lifts within the building with my contact details for placing orders. Also will have brochures and ordering sheets placed around the building....
... The donuts are as nice if not better than Krispy Kremes, I'm certain everyone will enjoy them.

It's not until you start speaking to people that we find out, at least one person within our families, friends etc have to face day to day life with Diabetes.

A big thankyou to everyone for supporting this worthwhile charity and I look forward to bringing lots of donuts into the building.

Kind regards,

xxxxxxxxxx "


I don't know about you but I found this money raising promotion somewhat odd. My understanding of Diabetes is that you are more at risk if you stuff your face with fatty sugary foods such as donuts !!!!


In the same line of thought, we could:

Sell cigarettes to raise money for lung cancer ?
Sell alcohol to raise awareness about the dangers of drink driving ?
Sell guns in order to raise money so that more peaceful protest can take place ?

Full Moon

I'm afraid I didn't have as much of a successful week as the last one in regards to my weight loss but I still managed to loose 200g ..I have to admit that I went on a bit of a food rampage last Sunday, it was a family celebration with lots of great food in the form of a free for all buffet.

I was planning on being relatively good but one thing led to another and before I knew it I'd had seconds and was considering going for my third "Portuguese tart" ( type of small custard filled tart ) just to break the taste of the low fat plum cake Vee had made....

Women can usually blame their hormones when they have a bad week however for us males it is somewhat more difficult, nonetheless I shall blame the full moon for my sudden feeding frenzy.
When the full moon arrives, I grow some hair and become an overweight infertile werewolf who goes sugar crazy. My senses sharpen greatly to the point where I can hear someone taking a lolly out of its wrapping paper over a 100 metre radius !

One thing I don't really like at weight watchers are the meetings. Honestly I don't care what anyone else says but a carrot will never (NEVER) replace a chocolate bar !

They try too hard to convince me that we can replace some yummy naughty foods with healthy snacks such as raw veggies....I'd rather that they promote the goodness of veggies rather than making them sound like second best.
I love veggies and I'm happy to munch on a carrot or have a salad but it will never be replacement for anything else. Actually I made a stir fry for dinner and since I was hungry, I munched on some raw cabbage while cooking and it was quite alright, I just hope raw cabbage is not one of those primary methane producing food...

Irreverent or Irrelevant?: The United Nations and Gay Rights - Opinion

I found this very interesting essay on the dynamics of political and cultural issues surrounding gay rights and the United Nations written by Sami Zeidan a lebanese diplomat at the UN.

"...in drafting human rights instruments, it is common to avoid controversial language if it is not previously agreed upon. Sexual orientation is an excellent example of such language. For example, the draft final statement of the 1993 Vienna Conference on human rights had a paragraph on equality that condemned discrimination on listed grounds. When Canada proposed adding "sexual orientation" to the list, a heated debate ensued, resulting in a general, open-ended prohibition of discrimination, without a list. The advantage of this course of action is that consensus is achieved. However, upon implementation of such a general paragraph, several interpretations inevitably arise on the question of whether sexual orientation is implicitly included as a right protected from discrimination..."

Irreverent or Irrelevant?: The United Nations and Gay Rights - Opinion

Drivers of the storm

something weird happened to me tonight. I'd just stepped off the bus, it was dark and pissing down rain, as I was walking home, I felt a car pull beside me. I looked and saw that the car was occupied by two women, on the front seat I recognised one of them as being a passenger on the bus I'd just got off from, another, more mature woman, was driving, she'd pulled her window down and asked me if I wanted a lift. As I didn't have much further to walk to get home, I politely declined.

Now had something like this happened 25 years ago I wouldn't think twice about it but the world being what it is today, I am somewhat surprised that two women would be willing to give a lift to a man that they have never met, on a dark stormy night..


Those women may have been a couple of lonely nymphomaniacs on the prowl said my other half teasing...to which I replied ....Damn! I missed an opportunity !