What do you do when your car is snowed in?
Shovel the snow from beneath the wheels to make it easier to tow?
Nope.
This behavior is especially strange since at the 45 second mark in the video they almost rip the bumper off. You’d think they learned their lesson after that.
Nope.
Regards
-Simon
Can men and women just be friends?
No.
Watch this video.
I made a post about this previously.
Notice in the video above how every woman says yes and every guy says no.
That’s a lot of guys being put into the ‘friends zone’ by a lot of girls. This should be made socially unacceptable (the whole ‘leading the guy on’). However it is a result of guys not making their intentions clear (guy’s fault).
Here we have a lot of girls who are either naive enough to think the guy isn’t interested in them, or selfish enough to string them along.
The guy expects a relationship out of the deal (most likely sexual). He gives the girls his friendship and emotional support. The girl accepts this emotional support (a benefit to her) but denies the guy what would be of benefit to him.
Judging by the reactions to the girls in the above video, it seems that they know exactly how the guy feels about them.
The guy isn’t innocent in this whole situation either. Instead of just coming out and making his intentions clear, he’s trying to take the ‘back door’ (so to speak) into a relationship with the girl.
Using a friendship as a tool to try spark a relationship with a girl is pretty low. These guys are rightly punished.
Now a moment of clarification and advice.
Firstly, there is nothing wrong with having female friends in the context of a group. The only problem is if it’s a ‘one on one’ type friendship.
So if there is a group with 5 guys and 5 girls, you can still be friends and there is no real manipulation going on (or ‘leading the guy on’).
However if it’s: ‘let’s go for coffee, just you and me’, then that is where the problems begin (unless it is in the ‘girlfriend-boyfriend’ dynamic).
The best advice would be to avoid these relationships all together.
In the words of one youtube commenter:
Regards
-Simon
This is how not to make a marriage proposal.
Watch this video.
This top comment sums it up best.
There is nothing more romantic about a proposal in public than there is about a proposal in private. The only difference being that one is manipulative (using pressure from a crowd to make the ‘target’ say ‘yes’).
We have to realise that the above video may be fake. It may be 2 actors. However you can find, on youtube and other video sharing sites, other public proposal fails.
Regards
-Simon
Watch this video. It is a rather humorous look at why economic bubbles are created. The worst is yet to come unfortunately.
By the way, Peter Schiff (man giving the speech) is someone who you should want to follow. Here is his youtube channel. Will be getting his book ‘How an economy grows and why it crashes‘ soon enough.
Regards
-Simon
Watch this video:
For those of you who couldn’t be arsed watching this video, it relates a story of a man who was wrongfully convicted for rape. He was found to be innocent via DNA evidence, then given $4 million in compensation.
His now ex wife (wife at the time of conviction) is demanding a slice of that 4 million, despite divorcing him 3 years into his 25 years in jail.
Now if you’re like me, you may think this is ridiculous. After all, she didn’t stick buy him for all these years and therefore shouldn’t receive anything. However don’t be surprised if she ends up winning some money.
You see, over the years, the vows of marriage have been pissed on so often that very few people take marriage seriously anymore.
Marriage used to be a life time commitment. These days it is a commitment up until the point where it becomes inconvenient.
This is largely a cause of no fault divorce laws being introduced (allowing anyone to obtain a divorce even if there is no justifiable reason).
When she chose to marry him, she made a commitment to stand by him no matter what. She should have been there supporting him every one of those 25 years. But she wasn’t. She bailed when it got tough.
The classic vows:
For better or worse, in sickness and in health.
Should be changed to:
For better and in health… as long as it’s convenient for me.
There really is no point to taking these vows if you don’t plan on keeping them.
More on this sad joke of an institution later.
Regards
-Simon
Hilarious.
Regards
-Simon
This is exactly why I don’t believe in opposite-sex friendships.
Sure, I hang out with female friends in the context of a large group of friends. So a couple of guys and a couple of girls etc.
But if we’re talking one guy with one girl hanging out… no.
This should especially be true if one of them has a boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife.
All the disadvantages are outlined in the above video.
They include but are not limited to:
Opposite-sex friendships are usually created by the guy being a pussy beggar (see below video).
These friendships may work in the future. However until society evolves, these relationships will remain harmful.
Regards
-Simon
A friend showed me a link to the first ever motion picture.
Lasts 3 seconds. I guess film must have been expensive to make.
Anyways, while clicking through the related videos the following were found:
Probably the second oldest surviving film.
The oldest sound recording from 1860 (amazing).
A repeat of the oldest recording plus 2 others (one of them Edison).
Now take a look at some old photographs.
And finally…
We have the first ever recorded fail.
Hope you enjoyed.
Regards
-Simon
Just a few days ago, Australia were soundly beaten by the All Blacks in the semi-final of the world cup. The All Blacks deserved the win, wanted it more and will most likely win the world cup (unless France can pull yet another rabbit out of the hat).
I had a real problem with the tactics the wallabies used this entire tournament. I found 2 videos which highlight where it went wrong for the wallabies. I will go through them one at a time.
The video has commentary so will not delve into each play. However I will say this. The wallabies, against every opponent had potential line breaks and potential overlaps in every game they played this world cup.
For some reason they decided to discard these advantages in bring the ball back into already crowded rucks. They also had the habit of running into the opposition defense when they should have kicked the ball down field for territory or into touch. This often saw wallabies players being isolated (sometimes we would have one back running into 3 or 4 opposition forwards).
Let’s have a look at the second video…
We don’t have commentary here so I will explain a bit what is going on.
Towards the end of the game the All Blacks had a player sin binned. Australia needed to score a converted try in the next 3 and a half minutes and hope they could score another converted try off the kickoff. It was a long shot but something that needed to be tried as it was a semi final of a world cup.
This video shows that despite their one man advantage, they were not able to convert a golden attacking opportunity into a try. They had set up their backs for a run at the all blacks defense. However the ball (for some inconceivable reason) was kept in the forwards (where no further progress was being made).
Once the ball got into the backs it was just a matter of converting. The extra man saw a single defender facing 3 attackers. At 2:05 in the video Adam Ashley-Cooper needs to pass left to create a definite 2 on 1 or possible 3 on 1 in the left hand corner.
Instead he did what the wallabies had a habit of doing all world cup. Cutting back into the wall of opponent forwards. This turned a 99% chance of a try into a turn over for the all blacks.
Full credit to the All Blacks. They did what they had to do and deserved the win. They easily wanted it more (every loose ball was jumped on by an All Blacks player).
Having said that, the Wallabies didn’t perform at their best. There were at least 2 occasions (both shown in the videos above) where a extremely good chance of a try was blown.
There were also other points in the game where the Wallabies could have claimed the ascendancy but failed to capitalize on their strengths.
Regards
-Simon
Check this hilarious video out…
Apparently gold isn’t backed by anything.
Except for a 5000 year history of being used as money.
Or the fact that you cannot print gold. Gold is extremely hard and costly to extract out of the ground. Therefore it is an ideal store of value. I guess Bridget didn’t realize this.
I feel sorry for her though. She was probably spoon fed that sound bite by some other idiot. Either a producer with no real knowledge of money and finance, or someone in the know who couldn’t be arsed explaining to her how things work (and so just gave her that soundbite).
The US dollar being backed by the US government and Fed is little comfort since the government deficit in the US is over a trillion dollars a year and the Fed is constantly printing money (therefore diluting the value of every existing dollar).
Classic.
Regards
-Simon