Thanks to John Michael of the USA for finding this one.  Viva Colonia! 

 

I want a kringle...

 

It's true, see for yourself...

It's a healthy thing really to express your emotions in productive manners.  In other words, it is not healthy to chronically supress a certain emotion, for a long period of time.  Why?  It'll bite you back in the butt.  Think about it, if someone chronically denies that they feel a certain way, that person will undoubtedly undergo a lot more stress than someone who is open and expresses his/her feelings.  It's been physiologically and psychologically proven.

 

On the bus today, a couple was necking in front of me.  Says George from Seinfeld, "People like that should be arrested..."  Go figure.

Hey, we made the front page...

In 1960, if you were to order a bag of medium popcorn at the movie theatre, you'd get a bag holding 3 cups of popcorn.  If you were to order that medium popcorn today, you'd get a bag holding 16 cups of popcorn!

 

Go watch the slideshow for yourself, and see how portion sizes have morphed into gigantic quantities since the past.

 

I just found out that Subway is discontinuing their stamp club.  And I have like three full cards worth three free subs...

 

You have until the end of this year to use them!

So, Xmas is just around the corner.  Although I believe that the true meaning of Xmas has been totally lost, we can still enjoy the spirit that accompanies it each season.  As usual, people are figuring out what others will want for Xmas.  Well, Santa, if there is a Santa, here's my wish list.

 

I wish for:

This is a cool place.  I visitied it in Cologne.  Now, with the magic of the internet, you can too!  http://www.e-werk-koeln.de/

Okay, not to lose my cool or anything, but for crying out loud, if you're away, then make yourself Away!  If you're Online, and you're really not there, it's like you're standing right in front of me and not saying a thing!  Would you do that in real life?  Would you?  And if you're online, then don't put Away!  What, you don't want people to talk to you?  You gone anti-social???  What is wrong with you!?!

 

Do as I say, not as I do.

Use an exercise ball.  Seriously, they're perfect for making your abs burn, and I just found this out today at the gym.  Just do a few proper crunches on an exercise ball and you'll see what I mean.

 

If you ever wanted to see an English language test that a German would have to write to prove his/her English proficiency, then go here http://www.wortwelten-brandes.de/sprachtest.htm and click where it says "test your business English here."  Seems like an easy test for us.  Now imagine testing your own proficiency in another language.  Yeah, good luck!

So I heard that people were waiting outside the Best Buy here overnight wanting to be the first ones to get their fat fingers on a $500+ X-Box 360.  What gives?!

When I'm a senior, I wouldn't want to live the remainder of my life in a nursing home.  I volunteer at one, and it always amazes me at how people can bear to live at such a place.  Some residents compare it to being in jail, since there is barely anything to do there to keep your mind sufficiently active.  All they do, for the most part, is sit around and wait.  Wait.  Wait.  It's boring, and it's terrible for mental health.  "What am I going to do today?" is a constant question I hear there.  Well, what is there to do?  You're in an environment where people do almost everything for you - they feed you, clothe you, bathe you, and so on.  The resident no longer has control of his or her own life!  Now, not all of them are like that, but the one's that are, it can be difficult to fathom sometimes.

 

Lesson here: enjoy your health while you still have it, and don't take it for granted.

So I went to pick up my sister from a place in a rough part of the city.  It was 10 p.m. and very dark out.  So I pull up to the building, and honked.  Out of nowhere, this scantily clad woman comes prancing to my door.  Wow a real hooker is approaching!  Cool for some people, yes, but not for me.  I started waving my hands and yelling "go away!" as she got to my car door.  It was like shooing away a fly.

 

That was fun.

...I don't actually remember.

 

What's in one of their chocolate milkshakes?

 

 

Yum... you know, an extra large one of these has 1160 calories!  That's about half of what you need in a day, all in one drink!  Unless you're currently racing the Tour de France, there's no sane reason for wanting to consume that many calories in one go.  Ever wonder why North Americans are so fat?  (In Europe, you'll never find such huge portion sizes.)   I'll have a Tim Horton's coffee instead - zero calories.

 

 

 

 

When WW2 Germany and Ronald McDonald join forces...

Jarhead.  I saw it recently.  It's a war movie with no combat.  There's lots of vulgarity.  Lots of waiting.  No real plot with any denouement.  It's an okay movie.  If you still insist on seeing it, wait for it to come to the cheap theatres.

From a Freudian psychoanalytic perspective, this guy is stuck in an early stage of development.  At the same time, he certainly has no problem letting his id run wild.  Well, go visit his site, and see what I mean.  (Corny music plays when you visit his site, so turn your speakers off first.)

 

...shoveling snow.  That's right.  Normally I burn about 1000 calories doing an hour of cycling or running.  Tonight, I wore my heart rate monitor while shoveling for an hour and a half, to see just how much energy I was expending.  Wow.

 

What's the lesson here?  Shoveling is a great workout.