This is the world that we live in,
I can't take blame for two,
This is the world that we live in,
And maybe we'll make it through ..
I can't take blame for two,
This is the world that we live in,
And maybe we'll make it through ..
I guess the title of this post is kind of two-fold. I suppose I'm a day late, but it's worth mentioning how odd it feels to be reminded of the events of yesterday 9 years ago. 9 years! I try and avoid bringing it up when these anniversaries come round, but the time thats passed really kinda struck me this year. I avoid talking about it because of the crappy 'terror-tourism' thats so often associated with it now.
Maybe it was brought on by something I saw on facebook earlier; at the click of a button, you can have the US flag and the words 'Never Forget' posted on your wall and the newsfeed of your friends. To me, bullshit like that is just sickening. Tasteless, number boosting crap. In the case that I saw: "I am the 866,633rd person to fly the flag in remembrance of 9/11. I hope at least 1 million will join me!"
Oh, and "No app install required". Brilliant; reminiscence is so easy these days.
I mentioned today on my year abroad blog some questionable cheese I bought yesterday which is kinda spoiling my sandwich. Normally, I'm not too fussy about budgety foods, but this one is among the worst. Still, I seem to have taken it better than this man from a trailer park in Kentucky - "A US man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast."
The gist seems to be that his eggs weren't hot enough. In my 3 years as a waiter, I've met some grumpy bastards. I had a woman who sent her meal back 3 times. But never have I met someone, nor have I myself felt the urge, if presented with bad food, to kill everyone vaguely associated with that mealtime.
My curiosity was piqued mainly by the headline. "Six dead after US breakfast killing spree in Kentucky". A breakfast killing spree? It would take a lot for me to be reduced to that. Dinnertime perhaps, when I was more awake and gave more of a shit about what I was eating, but in the morning? I can barely form a sentence in English at breakfast time, let alone aim well enough to kill 6 people. What a fuckhead.
Writing about that has got me thinking about the aforementioned woman who sent her meal back 3 times. Once, fair enough, twice just about acceptable, but three times? Thats placing a vast amount of trust in whoevers doing your cooking. Its a fair assumption that if you've fucked up the first two times, its not going to drastically improve after another shot at it. Thank god she didn't have a gun.
Maybe it was brought on by something I saw on facebook earlier; at the click of a button, you can have the US flag and the words 'Never Forget' posted on your wall and the newsfeed of your friends. To me, bullshit like that is just sickening. Tasteless, number boosting crap. In the case that I saw: "I am the 866,633rd person to fly the flag in remembrance of 9/11. I hope at least 1 million will join me!"
Oh, and "No app install required". Brilliant; reminiscence is so easy these days.
I mentioned today on my year abroad blog some questionable cheese I bought yesterday which is kinda spoiling my sandwich. Normally, I'm not too fussy about budgety foods, but this one is among the worst. Still, I seem to have taken it better than this man from a trailer park in Kentucky - "A US man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast."
The gist seems to be that his eggs weren't hot enough. In my 3 years as a waiter, I've met some grumpy bastards. I had a woman who sent her meal back 3 times. But never have I met someone, nor have I myself felt the urge, if presented with bad food, to kill everyone vaguely associated with that mealtime.
My curiosity was piqued mainly by the headline. "Six dead after US breakfast killing spree in Kentucky". A breakfast killing spree? It would take a lot for me to be reduced to that. Dinnertime perhaps, when I was more awake and gave more of a shit about what I was eating, but in the morning? I can barely form a sentence in English at breakfast time, let alone aim well enough to kill 6 people. What a fuckhead.
Writing about that has got me thinking about the aforementioned woman who sent her meal back 3 times. Once, fair enough, twice just about acceptable, but three times? Thats placing a vast amount of trust in whoevers doing your cooking. Its a fair assumption that if you've fucked up the first two times, its not going to drastically improve after another shot at it. Thank god she didn't have a gun.
