USA beat England!!!!

The Sun quotes from several American papers today and what a funny story they are quoting! It seems as though the American nation believe that they won the match against England on Saturday! Was I watching a different match? I had a wee bet on the Americans to actually win so I was especially dissappointed with their performance but by no means did their lucky goal or eventual draw (not "tie" as they put it!) prove any point about their football prowess! Let's face it, if it wasn't for Robert Green they would have lost that match. They are a much better side than they used to be with a lot more fantastic talent but they lack experience. England on the other hand have lots of experience and lots of ego too! On paper they are the winning team but ego stops them playing as the team they should be! I love the way the americans can turn things around but best not to be too deluded!

Check out the article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3013091/USA-beats-England-1-1.html

It does really bother me when americans try to change the language of an instituation such as football! It is football, match and draw! Rant over!

The Lion Massager!

Check out this link! This guy is actually massaging a Lion's foot! Crazy Man! But how cute is the Lion, loving that rub!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3003606/Alex-Larenty-calms-lions-with-gentle-foot-rubs.html

Size DOES matter! Proof!

For Condom sizes that is! Poor Indian women!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6161691.stm

Weed! - In my street!

Yesterday was an odd day! Spotted some police heading into the house at the bottom of the street at about 10am. The house is always oddly quiet since it was sold a while ago. We saw some Asian people, possibly Chinese, at one point but haven't seen them since so thought they had moved out!

When we returned home at 11.30 there were over 10 people standing outside the house, police, official looking types and I thought some paramedics. I immediately thought someone had been found dead or they had discovered prostitution or illegal immigrants squatting.

About an hour or 2 later the skips started arriving and the police started dumping everything out of the house. They must of filled 4 skips full of stuff. All the neighbours started chatting in the street and some mentioned that the house always had closed curtains and condensation on the windows. Then one of the older ladies in the street mentioned cannabis and we all knew that that was the closest explanation of what could be the reason for the situation.

The police wouldn't tell us anything and told one of the neighbours to watch the news at 6pm but there was no news about it at all. There was a small picture and some information in the News Letter this morning that they had found 400 cannabis plants of varying stages of growth in different rooms in the house!!! We don't know who is responsible or if they caught anyone but they did take a lot of stuff out of the house. I heard that they were paying £1600 a month for rent but I am sure they were making much more with the weed! I am sure they are sickened that they have lost it!

Turns out that an Asian family near a friend of mine was caught for the same thing! I'm guessing that there is some mental Asian Weed Ring in Belfast at the moment...lol

Celebrity Big Brother and Collusion

Strange mix eh? Well that's the news over here in the UK.

The Race issue in Big Brother has been a national and even international headline over the last few weeks. One of the Celebs is an Indian (Bollywood) Star and she was bullied and racial abused by some other less talented, insecure, nasty, ignorant Z-listers. It was very uncomfortable viewing! The good thing that has come out of it and one of the reasons I love Big Brother as a concept, is that it has been the ultimate social experiment and has brought a few serious issues to the public who have been able to speak out against issues that have needed attention and have gone nationally unvoiced for years. Often bullying and rascism are issues that are objective by nature and it is a he said/she said kind of situation. Often the bad guy of the piece escapes justice for whatever reason. Big Brother lets us see both sides of the story and the beginnings and endings. It also lets us have a say in the consequences. A similar thing happened in last summer’s BB with Grace being vilified as the “Bitch”. Let’s hope bully Jade isn’t able to recover from the nasty things she did which have murdered her pathetic career. I personally have boycotted her and her cronies.

The second big News Story is the Police Ombudsman Report into the Collusion between the Police in Northern Ireland (now called PSNI) and the Informers/Terrorists they were handling in the 90’s. It is an ugly issue and a problem that has been talked about for years but not totally proven. The report says collusion is a fact but further investigation is needed before anything will be done in terms of prosecution. Basically details and names are being withheld until investigations start into murder investigations, which have been hampered or affected by the police. I think it is despicable that we had/have a police force full of dirty cops. It is unfortunate and something the Nationalist community have talked about for years. It is something, which comes at a bad time for local politics. An election in March is the chance for us to move forward and have our own government and our own rights but in light of these findings I fear we will be thrown into the past again and will be locked into bigot wars. The past is the past and I wish we could all try to look past it and think about the positives like the investment coming from the Republic of Ireland, which could benefit us all. Lets hope extremist politics don’t last forever and the bigots will stay in the past where they belong.

Fingers Crossed!