Friday, June 30, 2006
almost useless
Cheers - its a respect thing
Did you know, it shows a lack of trust to actually clink glasses when saying cheers... the practice came from drinking halls in days of old when gangs of men gathered, drank and plotted and planned.
Now I'm sorry to say it but not all these fellas were all that honest so, to prove everyone could trust that no one was trying to poison anyone's drinks it became the custom to smack their tankards of ale together, causing beer to spill from mug to mug, so meaning what one man drank everyone drank, quite clever really!
A slight addition to this is the showing respect bit. If someone in the group was beyond doubt his glass would be raised highest, or rather, everyone would clink their drinks below the top of his therefore stopping anyone’s beer spilling into his. He could then poison anyone but be poisoned by no one.
i.e. to click the top of someone's glass is a bit of a cuss, but to clink the bottom .... good form (unless they're trying to kill you!)
Did you know, it shows a lack of trust to actually clink glasses when saying cheers... the practice came from drinking halls in days of old when gangs of men gathered, drank and plotted and planned.
Now I'm sorry to say it but not all these fellas were all that honest so, to prove everyone could trust that no one was trying to poison anyone's drinks it became the custom to smack their tankards of ale together, causing beer to spill from mug to mug, so meaning what one man drank everyone drank, quite clever really!
A slight addition to this is the showing respect bit. If someone in the group was beyond doubt his glass would be raised highest, or rather, everyone would clink their drinks below the top of his therefore stopping anyone’s beer spilling into his. He could then poison anyone but be poisoned by no one.
i.e. to click the top of someone's glass is a bit of a cuss, but to clink the bottom .... good form (unless they're trying to kill you!)
Thursday, June 29, 2006
a take on tomorrow
Pissing blood stinks, I don't mean literally (to be honest I didn't stick my head down the toilet to check) but really, it stinks. You worry, you go to A&E, you wait for hours, you have blood tests, you wait for hours maybe worry a bit more, make a few lists, wait a bit more and eventually they tell you you're ok but until then you just don't know, you think and hope you’ll be ok but....
However, the up (ish) side of all this is that having pissed blood and then been diagnosed with mild heat stroke/ serious heat exhaustion I was told to take a day off, a sicky. Now I'd never had one before (really, I'm a bit weird - see tagged!) so this was quite novel, vegging on my sofa with no one about and watching daytime TV, great!
Unfortunately HK daytime TV is as bad as pissing blood so I soon switched to the movie channel, unfortunately daytime movies aren't a lot better, however I heard a line that I really liked and sort of rung true for me, it went along the lines of...
"Tell your life what it should be and you limit what can happen to you, let your life just happen and it'll open doors you didn't even know existed."
I liked it so thought I'd share, don't worry if you're life isn't going to plan, worry if you've got a plan, its a big old world out there.....
Should I worry that I'm taking life philosophies from crap TV when I'm officially 'not well'?
Hell no.
Cheers!
However, the up (ish) side of all this is that having pissed blood and then been diagnosed with mild heat stroke/ serious heat exhaustion I was told to take a day off, a sicky. Now I'd never had one before (really, I'm a bit weird - see tagged!) so this was quite novel, vegging on my sofa with no one about and watching daytime TV, great!
Unfortunately HK daytime TV is as bad as pissing blood so I soon switched to the movie channel, unfortunately daytime movies aren't a lot better, however I heard a line that I really liked and sort of rung true for me, it went along the lines of...
"Tell your life what it should be and you limit what can happen to you, let your life just happen and it'll open doors you didn't even know existed."
I liked it so thought I'd share, don't worry if you're life isn't going to plan, worry if you've got a plan, its a big old world out there.....
Should I worry that I'm taking life philosophies from crap TV when I'm officially 'not well'?
Hell no.
Cheers!
