- Assault
by soup. It’s one of the hazards every young restaurateur needs to know about
before he or she opens their first eatery because at some point, an irate
customer is going to become so upset by the offensive food they’ve been served
and come at the proprietor looking to even the score. For God’s sake, soup is
not a f*cking meal, after all, so stop pretending it is. It’s a harsh reality,
but one that the owner of Pine Garden on West
Sunshine Street in Springfield, Missouri knows all too well. The owner, a
one-name artist along the lines of Prince and Bono, is a woman named Po. Po’s
restaurant sold a customer a container of hot and sour soup and the customer
was soon unhappy with the purchase. According to a server at Pine Garden, the
customer first called the restaurant to complain about the size of her soup. The
customer insisted that she bought a larger container of soup and claimed she
received a smaller container. When the customer later came back to the restaurant,
she was reportedly aggressive from the outset. Lacking a receipt but insisting
her story was true, she advanced toward Po and in an act no one saw coming but
probably should have, the woman threw a cup of hot soup at the owner. The customer
is unrecognizable in the security camera footage because she’s wearing a
baseball cap, but what is clear is that the soup splashed onto the register,
floor and Po’s arm. After that, the customer stormed out, but not before
employees were able to get her license plate number to give to the police. Police
say the customer could be charged with simple assault, while Po maintains that
her eatery offers only one size of soup on its menu. It’s reassuring to know
that in a time when violence is such a major problem in America, there are
still people out there who know how to make their point without a gun………
- For
anyone who has missed baseball and softball as part of the Summer Olympics -
all 15 of you - Japan has your back. Both sports were bumped from the Games
after their 2008 edition because, well, Olympics, and there have been various
grassroots efforts to get them back on the program for future Olympics. Enter
Japan, which included both sports alongside surfing
and skateboarding in its recommended five additional sports with 18 events for
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Under the "Olympic Agenda 2020" program
adopted by the IOC last December, host cities are allowed to propose one or
more additional sports for their games and Tokyo zeroed in on karate and sports
climbing as well, while bowling, squash and wushu failed to make the cut from
among eight finalists. The recommendation will be submitted to the International
Olympic Committee and that thoroughly corrupt group of rich, arrogant
bureaucrats will make a final decision
in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016. There are 28 sports already on the program
and most expected Japan to nominate one
or two. Instead, the Japanese elected to go big by choosing five sports,
allowing them to include those important to Japan -- baseball and karate -- as
well as adhere to the IOC's call that additional sports have a strong youth
appeal. "It was quite a difficult task," said Toshiyuki Akiyama, vice
governor of Tokyo and a member of the additional event program panel.
"Baseball, softball and karate were proposed and supported by the Tokyo
metropolitan assembly. As for skateboarding, sports climbing, surfing, the key
word is youth." With the five added sports, 474 more athletes would join
the Games, injecting 474 more athletes to sex it up in the athletes’ village
and as they always do, exhaust the supply of condoms organizers provide for
them………
- Hey
Moldovan government, remember that $1.5 billion that disappeared from three of
your banks last year? Your people definitely do and they still want to know
where the hell all that cash went. This isn't a new topic mostly because
protestors have been raging against the machine for months, clashing with
police and the military and demanding a probe into
the missing money and for those responsible to be prosecuted. Maybe the
government was naïve enough to believe that it could hunker down, ignore the
rage and allow the controversy to just go away, but that school of thought has
been sorely off-point based on what has happened in recent weeks and this past
weekend especially. It was an inspiring scene as 10,000 angry Moldovans staged
an anti-government protest, demanding a probe into the $1.5 billion that
disappeared from three Moldovan banks last year and showing a willingness to
throw hands with The Man to make their point. The rioters scuffled with police
and tried to push their way into Parliament following a gathering in a main
square in the capital, Chisinau, for the fourth consecutive Sunday of
anti-government demonstrations, which began on Sept. 6. The government might
feel that because the losses were covered by state reserves, it’s not such a
big deal for one of Europe's poorest countries and the men and women behind
that theory are the target for groups calling for early elections and for the
president, the prime minister and others to resign. Unless the
government wants this string of consecutive weekends with violent protests to
stretch into double digits before year’s end, now would be an optimal time to
accept the unpalatable, admit that this problem still exists and conduct an
actual, legit investigation into the missing money before Moldova boils over
and explodes……..
- He’s
part of one of this fall’s biggest movies, but “The Martian” star and rapper Childish Gambino (real name Donald Glover) is stuck in
outer space if he believes that he’s making things better in regards to his
über-disappointing recent show in Newcastle, Australia. Glover, also a member
of NBC’s cult favorite sitcom “Community,” pissed off a whole lot of people
with his performance as part of an "ensemble DJ set" at the Cambridge
Hotel in Newcastle, New South Wales. Fans were angry because they showed up
expecting a full Childish Gambino show and became increasingly angry during the
night as Glover fell into a supporting role alongside the multiple other
artists on stage. That led to a social media sh*t storm in which some fans
claimed Glover played songs from a relatively unknown mixtape that most in the
audience had never heard, while others alleged that he really only did one song
in full and performed that same song twice. The venue took to social media to
side with fans and in the aftermath, Glover sent out a mass email to all who
bought tickets for the show, offering them free ducats to the Sydney's Listen
Out Festival for his performance Saturday night. The email apologized for "a miscommunication about Thursday
night's show” and a corresponding statement released by the rapper said in
part, "Regardless of whose error in communication that was, Gambino’s team
takes it very seriously when fans are disappointed.” Yes, because after being
duped by you once, people are going to happily drive two hours to see you perform
again in the hopes that this time, you don’t totally f*ck them over. My man,
you’re Childish Gambino, not N.W.A., so odds are you’re not getting the benefit
of the doubt here……….
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