- Bitter down, English national team soccer coach Roy Hodgson. You
might be the manager for a nation that was once a world power but doesn’t
compete for much of anything that matters these days, but even you aren't
bigger than the global corporate titan that is the NFL. Hodgson has his
knickers in a bunch over his nation's Football Association allowing an NFL game
to take place just a few days before his team plays Slovenia. Hodgson is
b*tching about Wembley Stadium hosting an NFL game on Sunday when the Jacksonville
Jaguars play the Dallas Cowboys, marking the third such contest at the iconic
venue this season. London is filled with promotional posters in the city centre
and big team banners stretch across the walls down Wembley Way and Hodgson is
pissy because he worries the game could ruin the grass just six days before
England plays Slovenia in their Euro 2016 qualifier. His whining mirrors
complaints by his predecessor, Fabio Capello, but since Capello registered his
complaints the association laid down a new 250,000-pound Desso pitch four years
ago. The field has held up well, but Hodgson claims it has deteriorated of late
and will get worse with another NFL game. "I can't pretend that is
something that makes me leap for joy," Hodgson said. "If I was asked
if it was a good thing or not, I would have to say not. I don't really think
you could expect me to say 'excellent, delighted, well done'. The pitch,
unfortunately, is not in the best of nick anyway, which we're all a bit unhappy
with." He added that the grounds crew will have to "work their socks
off" to ensure the grass is in optimum condition by the time the game
against Slovenia kicks off and wants the FA board to prevent England from
playing on an uneven surface because of the NFL games in the future……….
- The concept of online privacy clearly has not dawned on
many in this digital world of ours and in spite of constant warnings and
reminders that anything a person puts online is both impossible to erase and almost
as impossible to protect, fools keep on having personal photos and video
exposed for the world and acting shocked. Count the Thomas family of Chester
County, Pa. in that number. The family posted a photo on their blog and didn’t think
much about it…until they saw their unmistakable likeness showing up on
advertisers and direct mail pieces around the world. “We had photos online and never thought
anything like this would happen,” Kristen Thomas said. That’s because you and
your clan are naïve fools, K.T. Thomas first learned about the problem when
someone told her that her family’s photo was on a David Kessler campaign ad
that was mailed to voters. That seemed odd because she did not know Kessler, a
candidate for state representative in Pennsylvania’s 130th district, nor did
anyone in her family give him permission to use their photo. Kessler claimed
that his campaign got the photo from the free stock photo website imgion.com,
but Thomas countered that neither she nor the photographer who took the shot submitted
the photo to the website or gave it permission to use the photo. She believes
imgion.com stole the 2009 photo from her blog, but there is much more to the
story. The photo has also appeared in a wide range of advertisements selling
everything from Microsoft products to Italian pet tracking devices and Egyptian
sunscreen, “Who knew we were in the sunscreen and infertility business?” Bryan
Thomas. Imgion.com could be in deep sh*t here, as the site does not post any
terms and conditions or restrictions and doesn’t make any claims that it has
any rights to the photos it posts………
- Uruguayan President Jose Mujica is a bona fide
baller, but even ballers have to scale down their game at certain times. In the
spirit of, you know, not looking like a self-important douche living high on
the hog while many of his people reside in poverty, Mujica has magnanimously
put his blue 1987 Volkswagen Beetle on the auction block. According to el
presidente, he has received a million-dollar offer to buy his ride and thereby
expunge what has become a symbol of the his ostentatious lifestyle. Once nicknamed
"the poorest president in the world," Mujica is reportedly staring
down a $1 million offer from an Arab sheik, but is pretending to be indifferent
about it all. "That's what they said to me, but I didn't give it any
importance,” he said. The potential for selling the car reportedly came during
an informal conversation in which Mexico's ambassador to Uruguay suggested to
Mujica that he auction the Beetle in Mexico and predicted he could get 10
four-wheel-drive trucks for it. The former leftist Tupamaro guerrilla leader
then said if he received $1 million for the car, he would donate the money to a
program he supports that gives housing to the homeless. If the offer of trucks
came through, he proposed giving them to Uruguay's public health office or his
campaign workers. Ever the politician, Mujica claimed he would gladly auction
the Beetle because he has "no commitment to cars" and he joked that
he didn't sell it because of his dog Manuela, famous for only having three
legs. "Human beings have a bit of fetishism; we need certain material
symbols,” Mujica said of his whip. "They are little things to the world,
but are worth a lot to you." The world came to know Mujica when he assumed
Uruguay's presidency in 2010 and declared that his entire wealth amounted to
the 1987 Beetle. That proved to be a campaign lie when official declarations of
his wealth showed that he puts his total wealth at $322,883, with a flower farm
he owns reportedly worth $108,000. A politician lying about his net worth is so
rare that all of this has to be terrible shocking to Uruguayans……..
- Insert your AC/DC song-based joke of choice here and we
can then get going on the iconic rock band issuing a statement regarding the arrest of
drummer Phil Rudd on murder plot charges. The 60-year-old
Rudd had been charged with attempting to procure murder, which basically means
dude tried to hire a hitman to make someone go away on a permament basis. He is
als charged with possession of the drugs methamphetamine and cannabis and aside
from the bizarreness of a world-famous rock star being so angry or so troubled
by something that he felt the need to try to off someone, the entire scenario
is diffuclt to fathom on any level. Yet here the band are, trying to figure out
how this happened and what theyr’e going to do after losing their second member
in a matter of months. "We've only become aware of Phil's arrest as the
news was breaking. We have no further comment. Phil’s absence will not affect
the release of our new album ‘Rock or Bust’ and upcoming tour next year,” the
band said in a statement. Rudd has been released on bail after his appearance
at Tauranga district court, but the band seems to be moving on without him
already. He was taken into custody arrested after police received information
that led them to raid his home. Police reportedly received an anonymous tip and
went from there. Amazingly, Rudd is facing only a a jail sentence of up to 10
years if found guilty. Court documents detail how Rudd tried to hire one person
to kill two other men and perhaps the band’s relative indifference to his
plight comes from the fact that they already kicked him out once, back in 1983.
He rejoined AC/DC in 1994 and has been with them ever since. This all comes
after guitarist Malcolm Young left the band due to medical issues, removing one
of its original members from the mix………
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