Chuck Wepner

In the ninth round Wepner knocked Ali down, though Ali later contended that Wepner had stepped on his foot, a claim confirmed by photos.^[8] Wepner went to his corner and said to his manager, "Al, start the car. We're going to the bank. We are millionaires." To which Wepner's manager replied, "You better turn around. He's getting up and he looks pissed off."^[

Zachary's "Naughty" Word

You're a door handle head. 

TFTD, Capitalism.

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." 

Boredom.

Lean in to boredom, not your smart phone screen. You'll learn more about yourself and the world around you than you think

Confessing to boredom is confessing to a character-flaw. Popular culture is littered with advice on how to shake it off: find like-minded people,take up a hobby, find a cause and work for it, take up an instrument, read a book, clean your house And certainly don't let your kids be bored: enroll them in swimming, soccer, dance, church groups – anything to keep them from assuaging their boredom by gravitating toward sex and drugs. To do otherwise is to admit that we're not engaging with the world around us. Or that your cellphone has died.

But boredom is not tragic. Properly understood, boredom helps us understand time, and ourselves. Unlike fun or work, boredom is not about anything; it is our encounter with pure time as form and content. With ads and screens and handheld devices ubiquitous, we don't get to have that experience that much anymore. We should teach the young people to feel comfortable with time.

I live and teach in small-town Pennsylvania, and some of my students from bigger cities tell me that they always go home on Fridays because they are bored here.

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You know the best antidote to boredom, I asked them? They looked at me expectantly, smartphones dangling from their hands. Think, I told them. Thinking is the best antidote to boredom. I am not kidding, kids. Thinking is the best antidote to boredom. Tell yourself, I am bored. Think about that. Isn't that interesting? They looked at me incredulously. Thinking is not how they were brought up to handle boredom.

When you're bored, time moves slowly. The German word for "boredom" expresses this: langeweile, a compound made of "lange," which means "long," and "weile" meaning "a while". And slow-moving time can feel torturous for people who can't feel peaceful alone with their minds. Learning to do so is why learning to be bored is so crucial. It is a great privilege if you can do this without going to the psychiatrist.

So lean in to boredom, into that intense experience of time untouched by beauty, pleasure, comfort and all other temporal salubrious sensations. Observe it, how your mind responds to boredom, what you feel and think when you get bored. This form of metathinking can help you overcome your boredom, and learn about yourself and the world in the process. If meditating on nothing is too hard at the outset, at the very least you can imitate William Wordsworth and let that host of golden daffodils flash upon your inward eye: emotions recollected in tranquility – that is, reflection – can fill empty hours while teaching you, slowly, how to sit and just be in the present.

Don't replace boredom with work or fun or habits. Don't pull out a screen at every idle moment. Boredom is the last privilege of a free mind. The currency with which you barter with folks who will sell you their "habit," "fun" or "work" is your clear right to practice judgment, discernment and taste. In other words, always trust when boredom speaks to you. Instead of avoiding it, heed its messages, because they'll keep you true to yourself.

It might be beneficial to think through why something bores you. You will get a whole new angle on things. Hold on to your boredom; you won't notice how quickly time goes by once you start thinking about the things that bore you.

TFTD.

"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer." - Ken Kesey.  

Optical Aleutian.

I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 

 

Foot Candles.

You can also use the light meter in your automatic camera: set the film speed to 100 and the shutter speed to f4. Place a matt white card where the plants will be. With the lens focused on the card only, note the shutter speed. If it indicates 1/250, you have about 250 footcandles, 1/500 equals about 500 footcandles, and so on.

 

Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes

Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes 

 

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On Narcissism.

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

Today.

The brutish 30.9C heat gave way to a 17C evening of beautiful cool summer breeze, carrying to us the sweet fragrance of summer and a feeling of great relief. Like a beast had been broken.

 

A wonderful day. x

 

Johan Cruyff Ajax Snub Anecdote

But perhaps the greatest example of a player risking his reputation by taking on a late-career challenge came when Johan Cruyff signed for Feyenoord, aged 36. Having returned to Ajax after a jaunt around the US in which he appeared to be happy seeing out his career in his slippers, he won the title with the club where he made his name two seasons on the bounce. But in May 1983 Ajax chose not to renew his contract. How could Cruyff show them how angry he was? By signing for the club they most hate. And how could he make them regret that decision more than any other? By winning the league and cup double and being voted Dutch footballer of the year, that’s how. Bravo Johan, you brilliant, antagonistic swine you.

 

Six years ago today....

.... my life changed forever. :D x 

TFTD

Shadows from the past are simply shadows. Look up at the life around you now. Our shadow will always follow us but as long as we're walking toward light, we won't be aware of it so much. x 

 

Mike Selvey "King Pair" Anecdote

"Mine occurred when Middlesex played the Pakistan tourists in 1974. I never could play leg-spin, an unfathomable mystery, so it was no surprise in the first innings I was lbw to Intikhab Alam. Second time around, it was a different leg-spinner Mushtaq Mohammad bowling from the Pavilion end, so as I passed him I asked him what he would bowl. “I will bowl you a googly,” he said. It is possible to over-intellectualise these things: I played for the leg break, the ball spun back in instead, through a gate the team bus could have got through and I was bowled. Mushie, a wonderful fellow, chortled away. “I told you I would bowl you a googly.” “Yeah, thanks a bunch Mushie,” I muttered as I went back past. “I thought at least I could trust you to be fucking devious.”

TFTD

"...Isis has used their scholarship to cloak its savagery in ideological legitimacy, to gain recruits and justify its battle with al-Qaida and its affiliates. “Isis took all our religious works,” Maqdisi said. “They took it from us – it’s all our writings, they are all our books, our thoughts.” Now, Abu Qatada said, “they don’t respect anyone”. 

 

Napoleon Bonaparte QOTD

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

Carl Sagan QOTD

 

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan

Thomas Jefferson QOTD

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." -Thomas Jefferson 

 

Disclaimer: I may not have any idea what I'm talking about.

 

 

Richard Dawkins QOTD

"For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria." 

 

Religion

Religion:- “An organised licence to be acceptably stupid.”

 

I feel like no one gives a fuck about me

This message is me feeling really cross and angry and pissed off at myself for not caring about myself enough. SELF CARE. Stop bulldozing through. Your damage won't damage them, your lack of self care will. Teach the boys that we need to take time for ourselves to care for ourselves and rest. x

 

 

Break The Cycle With Honesty.

 

 

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QOTD

"One person's bitch, can be an other persons shaman. I have you somewhere in the shaman class, and please, save the false modesty. I have enough of my own to deal with."

 

Sensitivity

My extremely sensitive nature was abused. When she wanted soothing, I was the go to guy. When that sensitivity was directed elsewhere or toward myself, in opposition of her or her ideas, she would smash down on that with enthusiastic and caustic accusations of selfishness and sneering superiority. 

 

2015 UK Election

100 years worth of social progress is at risk. NHS, the welfare state, public services, emergency services etc. Look at what they've done over the past five years. Look at how the banks have gotten away with it all. Look at their attitude towards banker's bonuses. Their attitude towards corporation tax avoidance. That's where all the money's gone. They've taken our money (by avoiding tax) and put it in their own pockets. That money should be for the benefit of society. Public services. Public improvements. We are being shafted. Since 1986, Rupert Murdoch has paid an average of 7% tax on his profit. Since 1986. If the Tories get 5 more years, we're fucked.

 

God is Omnihypocritical

 

 

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Act 1 Scene 1, In The Can

What a great day! We spent our first afternoon shooting for our first stop motion film. The boys are really enthusiastic and we're going to do it as our Sunday project, as and when we feel like working on it. A lovely day. 

 

Gidiot.

If I could have gotten access to 11 Downing Street this afternoon, I would have thrown a mouldy, maggot infested, putrifying, pigs head at George Osborne. 

 

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Thatcher and Pinochet.

No wonder she liked him. She was the UK version of him. 

 

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Reincarnation.

What a hateful fucking idea. 70 miserable years on this planet is surely enough for even the most masochistic?

 

Generation X? Wow, Haven't We Been Royally Shafted.

 

 

She Relived Her Childhood Through Donna.

 

 

I Live In My Very Own, Personal, Bob Ross.

 

 

When I don't feel like my soul's been rent in two, I find it hilarious.

 

 

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My Mother And Her Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I feel like everything I've ever felt has been false. Reality is biting me with all the ferocity of an Antarctic storm. Jagged icicles of anger and sadness pierce my soul. My mother, the narcissistic bitch. The controlling and selfish cunt. Trying to drag me back into her web of entanglement and sorrow. Her "softness" tugs at me, the soft, warmhearted person that I am is pulled back towards her. She is demanding attention from me. And she's playing the long game. She knows. She fucking knows. The atmosphere at her house. The toxic draining of my energy. The half looks, the complete deniability of her actions. Cold. Stiff. 

 

I KNOW I'VE HURT YOU AND MADE YOU FEEL BAD BUT IT'S MADE ME FEEL BETTER. 

 

How dare your wife cut me off. How dare you not bring her under control, you disloyal curr. She made it all about me. She's using Jen's situation to try to drag me closer to her. She wants loyalty from me and is trying her damndest to get it through her manipulation of my feelings and emotions. Her behaviours fucking repel me. I hate them.