Thought for the Day No. 3, With the Rabbi Anders Weiss

Latest addition to the growing roster of occasional contributors to the Puumaja crew: the Rabbi Anders Weiss. This is an affectionate nod towards BBC radio 4's "thought for the day" which was broadcast every weekday morning, oftentimes with the delightfully named Rabbi Lionel Blue at the helm. Don't know if it still is, although I never got to hear it really anyway as it was the signal that I had to go and catch the bus to school...

"Hit 'em. Hit 'em hard. Hit 'em where it hurts. And when you're through with that, hit 'em again"
Walt Gleeson, personal motivator and success guru extraordinaire (quo vadis on this blog).

Thought for the Day No. 2, With the Rabbi Anders Weiss

Latest addition to the growing roster of occasional contributors to the Puumaja crew: the Rabbi Anders Weiss. This is an affectionate nod towards BBC radio 4's "thought for the day" which was broadcast every weekday morning, oftentimes with the delightfully named Rabbi Lionel Blue at the helm. Don't know if it still is, although I never got to hear it really anyway as it was the signal that I had to go and catch the bus to school...

"All anger comes from weakness"
John Jack Rousseau

Thought for the Day Part 1

Latest addition to the growing roster of occasional contributors to the Puumaja crew: the Rabbi Anders Weiss. This is an affectionate nod towards BBC radio 4's "thought for the day" which was broadcast every weekday morning, oftentimes with the delightfully named Rabbi Lionel Blue at the helm. Don't know if it still is, although I never got to hear it really anyway as it was the signal that I had to go and catch the bus to school...

"When you pursue bodily pleasures and live only to pamper them, then inevitably you lose the ability to feel pleasure"
Lyev Tal-STOY

Don't you just!...

Someone Nabbed My Parking Space and I Didn't Go Ape Crazy on All Fours

I guess I must be integrating well here in Estonia. Earlier on today I was in a multi-storey in one of the big shopping centres in Tallinn, which is undergoing some kind of refurbishment so spaces are at a premium. That coupled with the fact that it's cold out and seems to have snowed perpetually for the last month and everyone really wants to be undercover.
Having spotted a space I did my usual of overshooting it, indicating, and backing in. Of course the person sitting right on my arse wasn't about to roll over and let me take it, and nipped in there front-ways (presumably I'd have got the blame if I'd reversed into them).
Now, time was I'd have flipped. I mean, window down, out of the car, screaming and f-ing and blinding etc. Not a good idea, especially in England, I'm thinking of various knifing incidents. I even met someone once who managed to break his own leg kicking someone who'd done more or less the same thing!
It's a bit different here though. The poker-faced, I'm-never-wrong way people go about things in the baltics means that you might as well shout at the wall. You'd only come off second best. I can see it now, main headline on ETV news, mad Englishman screams at driver in car park. The tag would probably stick.
So I left it. Hardly even felt angry. And I found another space just round the corner!
Hardly worth reporting but I'm pleased with the outcome!

Unnecessary Plug for Unnecessary Quotes Blog

Finally I had a post up on the blog of  unnecessary quote marks. In short, this is a blog in which users send in photos of signs and so forth which, in a twisted variant of the grocer's apostrophe (as in CD's and Vegetable's for sale etc.), words are in speech marks when they clearly don't need to be.
Mine wasn't anything special, just from an ad on a car detailing website for cotton towels, but there are some real gems there...not sure if the rules confine this to the English speaking world; non-native speakers of English should probably be exempt from such ridicule (but in any case, check out engrish.com!) but I'll look out for signs advertising things like 'hot' coffee or 'friendly' service whilst out and about in Tallinn's old town in any case.

Don't Believe the Hype - Seth's Blog (think this title`s been used before but what, ho).

Good post and food for thought from my big bro´ today regarding fearmongering, you know the type of thing, everyone with a turban´s about to explode, the polar ice cap will melt this summer and you´ll drown, politicians work 24/7 on ways to fleece everybody except their close circle , that type of thing.
Check it out here.

Who Invented the Flamethrower?

A new fave comedian of mine, the late George Carlin, on one of my favourite weapons, just for the sheer sick mindedness of those who came up with it. Still, they could do with it in those caves in Afghanistan (despite what Carlin says the US apparently got rid of them shortly after Vietnam)...

The First 1000 Followers..Seth's Blog

According to my  big brother's blog, the critical number of fans, customers, subscribers, and presumably followers, is 1000! If you keep those 1000 happy, everything will take care of itself. So, just another 999 followers to go, who will be next!!!