In the US there is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra than Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2020, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
Via Erotic blog
It’s funny how the deaths of strangers affect me (or not) Princess Di died – so what. Katharine Hepburn leaves this mortal coil – big deal. I haven’t felt a single flicker of emotion over the death of anyone famous that I didn’t know.
Yesterday, however, came the news that one of Wellington’s homeless people had died. I’ve seen this guy on the streets of our city for as long as I can remember and have always known him as “The Bucket Man” due to his habit of carrying his possessions in a bucket. He was also well known for having a huge growth on his forehead. The paper gave up almost half of it’s front page to him yesterday – amazing respect for a homeless person and something that I doubt very much would happen in any other capital city in the world.
What really bought a lump to my throat was the first few paragraphs of this story:
Rob, the man with the growth on his forehead and bedroll under the arm, walked out of his bush hideaway with his birth certificate, bank statement and will, knelt down in the gutter and died.
Thorndon resident Bernadette Munn came across the familiar Wellingtonian, wet and cold, near his bush campsite close to the intersection of Grant and Park streets about 9am on Monday.
He had asked a woman parking her car to call an ambulance, accepted a blanket with a polite “thank you, thank you very much” and then died soon after an ambulance arrived, Ms Munn said.
“It was just so so sad, I could not believe that here was this human being kneeling in the gutter in the pouring rain.”
Why did his death affect me so much or at all for that matter? I have absolutely no idea – maybe it’s just age, maybe it’s the sad but politely dignified way that he went, maybe it’s the fact that Vic and I sat across from him in McDonald’s just a few weeks ago – I really don’t know.
All I can say is that I’m glad I now know his name.
RIP Robert Jones
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I want that camera!
Well it’s July 1st and the list for 26 things is up and here they are:
love ? you ? food ? new ? animal ? scape ? sound ? construction ? home ? time ? transport ? light ? water ? colour ? signage ? numbers ? authority ? symmetry ? empty ? a sunset ? weather ? communication ? little things ? footwear ? money ? monument
I’ve also set up a new site/blog to put them on. As you can see there are no entries yet ‘cos I’ve decided to not use any of my old photos for the project.
I finished Harry Potter – Order of the phoenix at 12:48am this morning **yawn**
What did I think? Typical HP really – the story brings the main characters along in life a bit, Voldemort’s up to no good, you spend a while figuring out who the bad guys are, someone dies (very disappointing!) and there’s a big battle at the end.
I enjoyed reading it and I wanted to get to the end so it must have been above average……..
Can’t talk – doing test the nation live.
Update: Who new – I tested in at an IQ of 135 which is in the top 2% of the population!
