Posts from the “Argument” Category

I owe, I owe…Whew, no I don’t

Posted on November 14, 2014

Last night, Hub took a message for me. It was ‘Cathy’ calling. Okay, I know a few Cathys but I haven’t heard from any of them for a while. No biggie. Oh, you said it was Cathy from the Canada Revenue Agency. Canada Revenue Agency Collections. Aw geez. I’d just come in from having my hair cut so I couldn’t even tear any of that out because once again, the hairdresser got so excited watching TV over her shoulder and going on about Doctor Oz and miracle health cures that she lost track of the fact that she was working on my head and I’d asked her for a ‘light trim’ and not a summer cut but she clipped too close on one side…

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Categories: Argument, What I'm Doing

Tagged: money

Butt wait…

Posted on November 13, 2014

Goodness, what a plethora of news items to comment on today. First the good news. A satellite launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency (Esa) carried a robot probe called Philae on a mission to learn about the origins of our Solar System. Esa’s Rosetta satellite took 10-years to travel 6.4 billion-km (4bn-mile) to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. That in itself is mind-boggling. All of those scientists biting their nails, waiting for news. They deserved their tears of joy. Can you remember what you were doing ten years ago? Philae – I keep wanting to call it Phyllis – has already sent back images of the craggy surface. The concern is that the landing was awkward – including a 1 km. bounce back into space…

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Categories: Argument

Tagged: bad, good, ugly

Flat Earthers vs. bowling ball & feathers fall

Posted on November 7, 2014

How many of you remember the Flat Earth Society? Not many, I’ll wager. Well, despite decades of space travel and the work of astronauts such as Commander Chris Hadfield, the organization still exists. They have Instagram and Flickr accounts, too, which strikes me as oddly too modern. Here is a blurb from their website: The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham’s Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its ‘southern’ edge by a wall of ice, with the sun,…

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Categories: Argument, Did you know

Tagged: can you believe that?

Dumb down day

Posted on November 4, 2014

For no other reason than that I can call Tuesday whatever I want. I stumbled across a website called ‘Dump a Day Funny Pictures’. I don’t know about you, but ‘dump’ has a meaning that does not apply only to trucks. And yes, some of the so-called humour is shitty. The links were in one of the too numerous messages I get from Pinterest but I was waiting for a meeting to start and cruised on over. It’s a bit of a hodge-podge but there were some cartoons and general silliness that caught my eye and made me laugh. They feature weird de-motivational posters, funny signs, rage comics and a lot of other stupid visual gags that I don’t understand. They probably appeal to…

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Categories: Argument, What I'm Doing

Recollections of Everyday sexism: Laura Bates’ and Mine

Posted on October 30, 2014

It’s odd how a scent or the first few bars of a song heard on the radio can bring back a flood of memories of good times or bad. A random Facebook post did that for me today. It was about a much-hyped experiment carried out in New York in which a young woman strolled for ten hours down streets in New York City. A collaboration between an anti-street harassment organization (who knew there was such as thing?) and a marketing agency, the video makers claim she was verbally harassed more than 100 times. She was also followed and catcalled. Part of the controversy is that although the filmmakers admit that there were white men who said egregious things to her, those particular audio…

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Categories: Argument, love yourself, Remembrances