- Grow a sense of humor, IKEA. The Swedish home furnishings
titan isn't typically known as a super-fun place to hang out – unless your idea
of a good time is unnecessarily-complicated-to-assemble furniture – but all of
that was changing thanks to a phenomenon originating in the Netherlands and
radiating outward into Scandinavia. The buzz is simply over giant games of hide and seek organized inside IKEA outlets by
social media users. It’s grown so much in its original home base that an
incredible 19,000 people signed up for a Facebook group promoting a game at the
largest IKEA store in Amsterdam. Sadly, IKEA can't just roll with its chance to
be cool and instead, it is putting the kibosh on events like the one in
Amsterdam and another that drew 13,000 respondents for a similar game at an
IKEA store in the city of Utrecht. So take it away, IKEA squares and your
damned wet blanket tendencies. "We have contacted these pages on social
media and humbly asked them to have their hide and seek games somewhere
else," Ikea spokeswoman Martina Smedberg said. "In general we are
happy that our customers are playful and want to have fun together with friends
and family. "But unfortunately this hide and seek phenomenon has reached
proportions where we can no longer guarantee the security of those who are
playing or our customers and employees." Security? It’s hide and seek, not
Russian roulette. Amp down a notch, IKEA. Hell, this all started in Holland and
it’s easy and legal to get decent dank there, so grab some rolling paper and a
few ounces of the good stuff and smoke it out to calm yourself down. Either
that or go hang with all of the schools that have outlawed dodgeball because it’s
too dangerous for the fat, slow kids who can't defend themselves………
- Would less players on the ice produce more interest in
hockey? The NHL may be willing to give the idea a try by introducing 3-on-3 play during overtime as well as the availability of a
coach's challenge as early as next season. Both potential changes gained
support during this week's general managers meetings and oft-inept commissioner
Gary Bettman confirmed both changes have the potential to be implemented for
the start of the 2015-16 season if they are approved by the league’s
competition committee. The league plans to present two different formats for
the overtime change, one of which would feature 4-on-4 for the first three minutes and then -- following the
first whistle thereafter -- go to 3-on-3 for the remainder of the seven-minute
period. Under the second option, teams would play 3-on-3 for an entire
five-minute period. "That's something we're going to discuss with the
competition committee because, obviously, we want the players' association
input on how we're going to approach it," Bettman said. "So we're
going to look at both variables and figure out which one, collectively with the
competition committee, we think makes the most sense.” Playing 3-on-3 would
obviously mean more open space and freedom of movement on the ice, but would
also put a huge emphasis on conditioning as well. Both proposals have the end
goal of reducing the number of games decided by the shootout. Detroit Red Wings
general manager Ken Holland spearheaded the push for change in the overtime
rules and said he supports either potential change. "I'm good with
both," Holland said. "I think in both cases, what we're trying to
accomplish is take where 40 percent of our games are decided in overtime and 60
percent in shootouts -- ideally we'd like to switch those numbers.” The
(over)times, they are a-changin’…………
- Penn State. Sex-related scandals. We’ve been here before,
right? Except this time, no pervy, child-molesting football coaches are involved
and instead, it’s a bunch of cheap-beer-chugging frat bros creating trouble for
a school that could probably use a break from scandals for a decade or two.
Enter the dudes of Kappa Delta Rho, whose fraternity has been suspended for a year after a
police investigation into its members using a private, invitation-only Facebook
page to post photos of nude and partly nude women, some apparently asleep or
passed out. It’s not the first time a fraternity has done something similarly
scumbaggish, but when that evidence is posted online for the world to find,
there will be repercussions. The page came to light when a former member of the
fraternity tipped police off to the page, telling them that members used the
page to share photos of "unsuspecting victims, drug sales and hazing,"
according to a copy of a police warrant. Kappa Delta Rho national executive
director Joe Rosenberg informed the Penn State chapter in a letter that it
would be banned from most activities for the near future and must reorganize
due to “r the most serious misconduct, most serious disregard of fraternity
rules." University officials moved quickly to denounced the fraternity’s
actions and said the school would find those responsible for the page and dole
out the appropriate justice. According to police, anyone who posted photos on
the page could face misdemeanor charges of harassment or invasion of privacy. The
snitch was able to provide information on two victims whose cases “would rise
to the level of criminal action," State College police Lt. Keith Robb said.
As would be expected in this sort of case, some of the photos involved nude
women in "sexual or embarrassing positions," the warrant states.
Making matters worse, this is actually the second incarnation of the page because
the first one was shuttered when a woman visiting the frat house saw the page
on her male friend’s computer and noted a topless photo of her had been
uploaded. A second page dubbed "2.0" was started about a year ago,
proving that it’s difficult to kill d-baggery whether it’s physical, digital or
both……..
- 50 Cent has undergone some dramatic changes and
transformations over the course of his career. He’s lost extreme amounts of
weight for movie roles, gone from dude who was famous for getting shot nine
times but surviving to a guy who is as much of a pop culture brand and he is a
rapper and now, he’s on the verge of becoming the hack musical sellout who
actually hitches his hip-hop wagon to a wannabe rapper/man-bander who has as
much street cred as a bottle of Flintstones vitamins. Sadly, the man born
Curtis Jackson has offered to sign One Direction man-bander Zayn Malik to his record label if Malik
follows through with his threats, er, interest in pursuing a rap career.
Apparently Malik has considered rapping on his man band's tracks in the past
and Jackson is of the completely erroneous opinion that with the right support,
the pop-and-locker could become a legit hip-hop act. "If Zayn wants a rap
career, just because of who he is, he is going to sell records," Jackson
said. "But if he wants to be credible he has to be with the right people. I'd
happily sign him up to my label, mentor him and have him working with the
biggest rappers on the planet." This idea fits squarely in with One
Direction
manager/too-tight-t-shirt-wearer/man-who-murdered-music-with-lame-ass-reality-karaoke-shows
Simon Cowell’s belief that all five One Direction hacks should pursue their own
solo careers while staying with the group. “We've said to the boys 'All of you
should do other things'," Cowell said. "'If you want to work with me,
do some stuff on your own.' They should be allowed to do whatever they
want." Sure, as long as whatever they want involves them staying far, far
away from studios, microphones, cameras and stages……….
- Grow a sense of humor, IKEA. The Swedish home furnishings
titan isn't typically known as a super-fun place to hang out – unless your idea
of a good time is unnecessarily-complicated-to-assemble furniture – but all of
that was changing thanks to a phenomenon originating in the Netherlands and
radiating outward into Scandinavia. The buzz is simply over giant games of hide and seek organized inside IKEA outlets by
social media users. It’s grown so much in its original home base that an
incredible 19,000 people signed up for a Facebook group promoting a game at the
largest IKEA store in Amsterdam. Sadly, IKEA can't just roll with its chance to
be cool and instead, it is putting the kibosh on events like the one in
Amsterdam and another that drew 13,000 respondents for a similar game at an
IKEA store in the city of Utrecht. So take it away, IKEA squares and your
damned wet blanket tendencies. "We have contacted these pages on social
media and humbly asked them to have their hide and seek games somewhere
else," Ikea spokeswoman Martina Smedberg said. "In general we are
happy that our customers are playful and want to have fun together with friends
and family. "But unfortunately this hide and seek phenomenon has reached
proportions where we can no longer guarantee the security of those who are
playing or our customers and employees." Security? It’s hide and seek, not
Russian roulette. Amp down a notch, IKEA. Hell, this all started in Holland and
it’s easy and legal to get decent dank there, so grab some rolling paper and a
few ounces of the good stuff and smoke it out to calm yourself down. Either
that or go hang with all of the schools that have outlawed dodgeball because it’s
too dangerous for the fat, slow kids who can't defend themselves………
- Would less players on the ice produce more interest in
hockey? The NHL may be willing to give the idea a try by introducing 3-on-3 play during overtime as well as the availability of a
coach's challenge as early as next season. Both potential changes gained
support during this week's general managers meetings and oft-inept commissioner
Gary Bettman confirmed both changes have the potential to be implemented for
the start of the 2015-16 season if they are approved by the league’s
competition committee. The league plans to present two different formats for
the overtime change, one of which would feature 4-on-4 for the first three minutes and then -- following the
first whistle thereafter -- go to 3-on-3 for the remainder of the seven-minute
period. Under the second option, teams would play 3-on-3 for an entire
five-minute period. "That's something we're going to discuss with the
competition committee because, obviously, we want the players' association
input on how we're going to approach it," Bettman said. "So we're
going to look at both variables and figure out which one, collectively with the
competition committee, we think makes the most sense.” Playing 3-on-3 would
obviously mean more open space and freedom of movement on the ice, but would
also put a huge emphasis on conditioning as well. Both proposals have the end
goal of reducing the number of games decided by the shootout. Detroit Red Wings
general manager Ken Holland spearheaded the push for change in the overtime
rules and said he supports either potential change. "I'm good with
both," Holland said. "I think in both cases, what we're trying to
accomplish is take where 40 percent of our games are decided in overtime and 60
percent in shootouts -- ideally we'd like to switch those numbers.” The
(over)times, they are a-changin’…………
- Penn State. Sex-related scandals. We’ve been here before,
right? Except this time, no pervy, child-molesting football coaches are involved
and instead, it’s a bunch of cheap-beer-chugging frat bros creating trouble for
a school that could probably use a break from scandals for a decade or two.
Enter the dudes of Kappa Delta Rho, whose fraternity has been suspended for a year after a
police investigation into its members using a private, invitation-only Facebook
page to post photos of nude and partly nude women, some apparently asleep or
passed out. It’s not the first time a fraternity has done something similarly
scumbaggish, but when that evidence is posted online for the world to find,
there will be repercussions. The page came to light when a former member of the
fraternity tipped police off to the page, telling them that members used the
page to share photos of "unsuspecting victims, drug sales and hazing,"
according to a copy of a police warrant. Kappa Delta Rho national executive
director Joe Rosenberg informed the Penn State chapter in a letter that it
would be banned from most activities for the near future and must reorganize
due to “r the most serious misconduct, most serious disregard of fraternity
rules." University officials moved quickly to denounced the fraternity’s
actions and said the school would find those responsible for the page and dole
out the appropriate justice. According to police, anyone who posted photos on
the page could face misdemeanor charges of harassment or invasion of privacy. The
snitch was able to provide information on two victims whose cases “would rise
to the level of criminal action," State College police Lt. Keith Robb said.
As would be expected in this sort of case, some of the photos involved nude
women in "sexual or embarrassing positions," the warrant states.
Making matters worse, this is actually the second incarnation of the page because
the first one was shuttered when a woman visiting the frat house saw the page
on her male friend’s computer and noted a topless photo of her had been
uploaded. A second page dubbed "2.0" was started about a year ago,
proving that it’s difficult to kill d-baggery whether it’s physical, digital or
both……..
- 50 Cent has undergone some dramatic changes and
transformations over the course of his career. He’s lost extreme amounts of
weight for movie roles, gone from dude who was famous for getting shot nine
times but surviving to a guy who is as much of a pop culture brand and he is a
rapper and now, he’s on the verge of becoming the hack musical sellout who
actually hitches his hip-hop wagon to a wannabe rapper/man-bander who has as
much street cred as a bottle of Flintstones vitamins. Sadly, the man born
Curtis Jackson has offered to sign One Direction man-bander Zayn Malik to his record label if Malik
follows through with his threats, er, interest in pursuing a rap career.
Apparently Malik has considered rapping on his man band's tracks in the past
and Jackson is of the completely erroneous opinion that with the right support,
the pop-and-locker could become a legit hip-hop act. "If Zayn wants a rap
career, just because of who he is, he is going to sell records," Jackson
said. "But if he wants to be credible he has to be with the right people. I'd
happily sign him up to my label, mentor him and have him working with the
biggest rappers on the planet." This idea fits squarely in with One
Direction
manager/too-tight-t-shirt-wearer/man-who-murdered-music-with-lame-ass-reality-karaoke-shows
Simon Cowell’s belief that all five One Direction hacks should pursue their own
solo careers while staying with the group. “We've said to the boys 'All of you
should do other things'," Cowell said. "'If you want to work with me,
do some stuff on your own.' They should be allowed to do whatever they
want." Sure, as long as whatever they want involves them staying far, far
away from studios, microphones, cameras and stages……….
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