So a 100 year old Brazilian Grandmother is going to do a parachute jump from 4,000 metres on Christmas Day -she’ll be the oldest parachutist in history.  WE URGE HER NOT TO DO THIS.

False teeth are expensive and I don’t believe they have healthcare provision in Rio. Look what happened to this Granny:

Granny feeling the G's

It's coming out. Not a pretty site

The force is too strong..whoosh and it's gone..

no teeth, no shape; all worrying..

Apparently her Grandson helped her to organise the jump… hmmm… how about that inheritance Granny? … I bet she actually asked for a nice jumper.

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Christmas is special,  obviously brings out special powers in people.  Check out this awesome Christmas StreetFighter Snowball:

SNOW-BALL-KEN (wait Ryu, that came out wrong..)

Photoshopped, anyone?

a woman found a fat python stuck on her bird cage. her pet parrot was no-where to be seen and the python had a very fat belly!

BUT… the python had made a critical miscalculation, the bird got its revenge!! you see, the python’s stomach was bulging so much after its meal that it couldn’t get back out of the cage!

indeed, the snake got its meal, but the bird got the last laugh~

There’s this crazy guy in China who teaches monkeys how to do Kung Fu. Anyway, one of his monkeys kicked him in the head whilst he wasn’t looking. Judging by the technique on the flying sidekick, the monkey in the pic appears to be a blackbelt. The rest of the monkeys joined in and gang-bashed him. One even beat him with a stick (apparently). According to an observer, he was pretty angry at the monkeys afterwards. but I think it’s his fault, for having monkeys as students!

perfectly executed flying side-kick

giant leap to knee trainer in the head!

Irresistible flying stick technique

Not beaten up enough?  Why not discuss the monkey’s killer techniques on the Earth forums?

When I was first reading the Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha would talk about his attendant Ananda in very homoerotic terms. Nobody had ever mentioned anything about this so I didn’t think much of it at the time. just seemed kind of weird… the way in which the Buddha would gossip to others about how hot his (MALE) personal attendant Ananda is.

the handsome anada reciting the buddha's teachings

Finally, I decided to conduct some search about this. and I found that there is actually evidence which shows homoerotic elements in the relationship between the Buddha and his attendant Ananda. The best example is in the Jataka – accounts of the Buddha’s former lives. In these texts, there are some steamy accounts of the Buddha and his male attendant Ananda. A common theme of the Jatakas is love and devotion between men. It glorifies the homosexual relationship (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). But think about it….. Two men who are always together….. Day and night….. Ananda is dedicated mind, body, and soul to the Buddha, and was known to be a very attractive boy. And lets face it, if the Buddha is starved of women, wouldn’t he not feel some attraction towards this handsome boy who is always by his side? In fact, it is the Buddha who chooses to have this handsome boy by his side at all times.

The reality is that in monastic life, there has been a certain laxity towards homosexuality. I mean, what do you get when you take a bunch of guys and starve them of women? It’s the same as what you get in prisons. Homosexuals. Monks are still human after all.

Further evidence points to the Dob dob in Tibetan Buddhism. A monastic fraternity who would fight over boys (for sexual relationships). In other words, they were openly paedophiles. Just as many of the ancient greek philosophers were.

This topic, of homoeroticism in Buddhism has been kept surprisingly quiet. Perhaps it’s time to bring the Buddha out of the closet?

I am now trying to analyse what makes a popular blog…. and then hopefully copy what they do to make this blog popular. it’s the way to success isn’t it? to model what the ‘successful’ do?

So lets see….. from my previous entry…. i found that huffington post is sooper dooper popular. right, so apparently politicians are cool. need plenty of them on the front page.

Arnuld, he's a politician too didn't you know?

gossip is popular.. as we can see from http://www.tmz.com/
it’s just a site which talks crap about celebrities. i can see stuff mainly about tiger and his mistresses, including pics (words are probably too sophisticated for many of their readers). anyway, quoting TMZ.. “and judging by her hair, skin color and liberal use of the tongue, she definitely seems to be Tiger’s type.”
hmmmmmm…….. i wonder if they’d have mentioned skin colour if he was a white guy? i highly doubt it.
ok, lesson learned. for a popular blog, we need plenty of trash including a dose of racism as well – but scripted in a really cowardly way, of course.

We're too lazy to write an article on mating Pandas so here's a picture

next we have http://www.perezhilton.com/
my first reaction is this “my god….. what a load of trash! who the hell is this perez loser anyway? it’s almost as though he changed his name to make it sound similar to paris hilton.”
i just went back to the site and read some more. i have changed my mind somewhat. it does contain some material of substance. i like the “Pandas Needed To Mate!” article. indeed, a popular blog should definitely contain an article about the mating habits of pandas.

there are a many “high tech” blogs which talk about iPhones and google Phones and crap. such as http://www.engadget.com/
this isn’t really high tech at all. any idiot can use these devices. but anyway, we need to keep the modern tech geek (who has no techical knowledge) happy. so yes, a popular blog needs to discuss the latest (h)iTech gadgets.

looking at BOINGBOING.com now. can’t really figure out what it’s about. “Papercraft Theo Jansen walker”???

i see a who bunch of various crap blogs which are sooper dooper popular. i am compelled to close the browser the moment i open them!! i have just realised, i don’t want a popular blog! i’m outta here! that’s all folks!!! (at least, for tonight!)

huffington post readers love to gaze at pollys

well i have been looking around the net. seeing which blogs are the most popular. i viewed the top 100 on technorati and saw the the most popular “blog” is actually www.huffingtonpost.com

it’s just a news website, i wouldn’t call it a proper blog. not only is it just a news website, it’s a pretty BORING one at that! For example the front page is just pictures of politicians!

Anyway, i should stop bitching about things and see whether i can write something interesting.  ”bitching and complaining” category is going to be a popular one for me

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A lot of work still needs to be done on this… getting there slowly!