- The Chicago Bears have been bad this season. At 3-6,
they’ve been consistently terrible enough to make fans want to fight them.
However, it should really be their own fans looking to brawl with the team, not
opposing fans. That doesn’t hold true for outspoken receiver Brandon Marshall,
whose Twitter pissing match has morphed into
a $25,000 challenge from the receiver to step into the ring. That Lions fan
reminded Marshall how the receiver referred to the Lions last November as the
Bears’ “little brother” and took an unprovoked run at Marshall’s mother. In
return, Marshall challenged the fan to step into the ring with him for $5,000,
later posting on Twitter that if he lost, he'd give up another $10,000. He
demanded that if and when he beat the fan down, the fan would have to serve 100
hours at an orphanage. At that point, the fan knew he’d hooked a professional
athlete into a social media showdown and decided to kick things up a notch by saying
that if Marshall made the bet $25,000, the two could fight in Detroit. That led
Marshall to agree to the terms and add, "And you have to apologize to my
mom." When the fan either a) had something better to do than have a
Twitter muscle match with an NFLer or b) his pay-as-you-go cell phone died and
he didn’t respond right away, Marshall tweeted: "Deal or no deal bro? This
is your chance to back up your talk and make 25k." This fool then said the
fight could take place if the 3-6 Bears won three more games and made his
account private briefly before making it public again. Marshall later suggested
that the exchange and possible fight had gotten blown out of proportion,
choosing to ignore that he is the reason why………
- Disaster is real, yo. People are scared, they are
paranoid and bad sh*t is happening often enough and within a semi-reasonable
distance (5,000 miles or less) of them to make them afraid for their lives on a
daily basis. What’s a person to do when the threat of imminent annihilation or
death in a gruesome manner lurks around every corner and inside the germ-laced
cough of every stranger on the street? Move to the Luxury Survival Condo in Concordia, Kan., that’s what. Concordia,
located more than three hours outside the city limits of Kansas City, is
snuggled within a rural prairie region and is home to a decommissioned missile
silo that developer Larry Hall has gone to town on. He has converted the inside
of the silo into doomsday condos for the paranoid so they can lead a fun,
non-dreary existence if the world goes to hell around them. There is a park
with a rock climbing wall, a fake lawn for pets to use to relieve themselves
complete with drainage into the septic season and a bitchin’ 50,000-gallon
swimming pool with a waterfall and slide. For the fitness-conscious, there
is a weight room with fitness equipment and a sauna to use post-workout. The
chronically lazy will also find a 17-seat movie theater with surround sound and
a large-screen TV to enjoy and they can get to the first floor of the silo on
the elevator in less than 30 seconds. The library and a classroom to infect the
minds of the next generation of doomsday preppers is on the second floor and levels
five through 11 are apartments. Those humble abodes are filled with modern
appliances, including electronic windows for a structure that is encased in nine
feet of concrete and dirt. "From looking at these windows, you know what
time of day it is, you can see what the weather is doing, see if birds,
activity or cars going," Hall said. Full and half-floor units went for a
totally reasonable $3 million each, but hell, there is a water purification
system and everything………
- Does anyone believe that 10 years away has whetted the
world’s appetite for more of a doddering, incoherent rock star and his
limelight-desperate family? VH1 clearly does because it has agreed to be ground
zero for the revival of “The Osbournes,” starring aged-out Black Sabbath frontman,
his wife Sharon and two why-are-they-famous-other-than-their-father children
Jack and Kelly. The original reality series aired on MTC from 2002-05 and
vaulted the entire family into the spotlight along with dear old dad. It ended
because…well, ratings nose-dived as the world grew tired of seeing Ozzy ramble
around muttering indecipherable crap and his kids acting like spoiled brats of
a world-famous metal frontman. VH1 and MTV are sister networks, so the show
isn’t going far, but it will be light years from the first incarnation in at
least one respect – allegedly. According to Sharon Osbourne, her old man has
stopped drinking and therefore, is ready for his return to reality TV. "Ozzy's
decided he wants to do another few episodes, about eight, of The
Osbournes," Sharon Osbourne said. "It's been 13 years since we first
did it. He said for the three years we did [the show] he was drunk the whole
time and he'd like to be sober." Eight? What a totally arbitrary number.
That gives it a puncher’s chance of ending before it’s canceled, which is
always nice. To stroke his ego before the show stared back up, Ozzy Osbourne
was honored with the Global Icon award at the MTV EMA Awards over the weekend
and as usual, looked like he had little clue where he was or why he was there…….
- France will surrender to damn near anyone – or anything.
It’s a minor miracle, then, that the nation whose flag should be all white and
waving perpetually hasn’t given up in its battle against a mysterious cat
roaming the countryside. A three-day search by police and the military for a wild animal roaming through French towns hasn’t yielded the
actual animal, but it has confirmed that the animal is not a tiger. The popular
theory is that it’s a lynx, which was reintroduced to France in the 1970s. The
search is going on around the oft-ignored attraction that is Disneyland Paris
and rumors are swirling about where the cat is and what it is. Officials last
spotted it near a grocery store in a Paris suburb on Thursday morning and did
not confirm that it bought five baguettes before sauntering arrogantly out into
the street wearing a beret (just kidding, France), but they have deemed the
animal a security threat. Several blurry photographs of the wild cat from the
town of Montevrain are the primary visual evidence of the threat, but those
photos haven't helped the 200 police and military forces in pursuit. Police
have admitted that the cat is not a normal creature to live in the area, but
will not say whether they believe it to be a lynx, which was once ubiquitous in
France but was hunted to near-extinction before being reintroduced in the
1970s, according to wildlife conservation group Ferus. According to a 2003 survey by the National Office for
Hunting and Wildlife, France's lynx population at about 170, located in
mountainous areas of eastern France and the Alps. However, the nearest-known
habitat for lynxes is in the Vosges Mountains, 215 miles away from where the
creature was spotted Thursday. How big has the search grown? Big enough that a
helicopter is involved and random spottings are being called in from all over
the region. The regional administration asked drivers to take "the
greatest precautions" on the highway in case this cat goes looking to
crash some cars and wreak havoc…….
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