Deadly Sins

I've always thought that one of the more deadlier sins was to take badly composed photos of your friends.


Like this one:
There's clearly way to much going on in the photo. And even though the guy's probably thinking "here I am in my best 'I'm really serrious' pose", the photagrapher makes nothing of it. The picture is cluttred with people and goings-on.








Compare the above to this one:
A real classic photo of Malcolm X. Note that the 'I'm really serrious' pose' is the same. But this photo captures everything interesting and doesn't distract the viewer with any other stuff.

How to go about dividing the world!

Like Moses, when he divided the sea I'd like to share my best tool for dividing people of the world. It says allot more than most other common tools (sex, age, ethnicity etc.)

There are Coca-Cola people.
There are Pepsi people.
One is not better than the other, it's just a matter of taste.

Good luck with dividing the world

Potatoes

Friday night:

I went to the store and bought chips, I thought I'd just go home and watch a movie.
There where lots of people in the store, slightly drunk and on their way party.
I on the other hand where going home all by my lonesome self. With some potatoes.

As I paid the clerk asked me if I wanted a bag for my things.
- Yes I might as well... otherwise everyone will know that I'm only going home with a bag of chips tonight.
- Oh and we wouldn't want that, said the clerk.

Isn't it strange how it would be more normal to go home really drunk, than with a bag of chips. And if you go home with a bag of chips you're somthing of a looser. Or that's what you think that people might think, if they knew... Anyway, I spent a lovely evening with a bag of chips and a german movie.


Note: I just wanted to say that all the recent comments from readers make me really happy. If you where here. I'd let you all in on my bag of chips.

Sitting Ducks!

Two of my dearest friends are about to have babies. But right now they're like baloons and they walk like ducks.

Makes one think of that saying:

If it walks like a duck,
and talks like a duck,
it probably is a duck!

Here's a couple of other words of wisdom:

I'm Just A Giga... Girl!

I've been reading a feminist book the last couple of weeks. It came out about 10 years ago and feels a bit of out of date. Very harsh.

Don't get me wrong. I am a very proud feminist. But that doesn't mean that you still can't be femenine.
It's the values, that reguardless of if men and women are different or not, one thing isn't better than the other.

Sometimes I think that the descrimination against women is bigger than racism. Because it's been such a backbone of our culture for such a long time. Long before we even knew there where these black, yellow or purple people we could abuse.

[experiment]
Today I thought about my chances for equal pay according to:
If I were a woman (?) compared to if I where a arabian man called Mohammed Idih?
My guess is that the chance for Mohammed to earn as much as your regular bloke would be about 70-80%, while for a woman somewhere around 30-40%.

But this is only my guess, and I might be dead-wrong.
After all I'm just a woman.

R.O.C.K!

When I grow up I want to be a rock star.

It'll give me lots of guys - good looking guys with big muscles and great manhoods. I'll pick them myself from those hundreds of adoring fans. And then I'll screw them, use them and leave 'em.

And all my girlfriends will get jelous and want to be just like me.

I also want the guys to carry me around, feeding me grapes and champagne. Lots and lots!

And I want everyone to want me, to yell: "Birgitta, I love you, marry me, have my children!", and then they'll throw me their underwear, while I'm rocking on stage.

Perhaps that'll make me really feel loved.

The adventures of Hilda

Hilda is a different kind of Pin-up, painted by Duane Bryers.

I love most pin-up girls, but Hilda stands out and holds a very special place in my heart.
She's voluptuous - a vibrant red-head who's always up to something. In short she's a true role-model and perhaps the answer to the question of what happened to Pippi Longstockings when she finally grew up? She got renamed to Hilda Longstockings!

Lesson 1: Swedish - English - Being really sheep

I buy pink sheet.


This is hillarious if your 9 years old (when my mother had her first english lesson with me).

Some swedish words to explain the "joke":
I [Ai] = Ouch
Bajs [Bays] = Poop
Pinka [Pinka] = Pee
Skita [Skii(/a)ta] = (to) Shit

Translation:
Ouch poop, pee shit.


... and speaking of sheep jokes, this is the best commercial in years:

For Johan

Usually he's quite grumpy about all the stupidity in the world.

Today he couldn't stop smiling, even though he'd been up all night thinking about this great idea for our project-work in school.
He shined like a sun, enjoyed his coffee and talked about the old greeks.

Therefor Johan, this is your new self-image. Keep it with you at all times.

Let's Barack 'em!

Obama says that he's going to close Guantanamo Bay.

- The united states of america is not a country which practises torture.

Thank you.



I wonder what it's like for George W Bush to know that he's going down in history as one of the most violent, dumbest and meanest presidents ever.


Yesterday I thanked my lucky star that he wasn't president during the Cuba-crisis. He'd gone: "Let's nuke 'em!" and I or you wouldn't be here.

Note: In Swedish Barack is a house which contains many people. We usually use barack as a substitute for our ordinary buildings. They're practical, everyone fits and are able to satisfy their basic needs.

Bird-watching

I guess everyone at one point or another did something really strange in order to attract a mate.

• Being funny


• Having a cool car


• Big boobs


• Being intelligent

We might say that "I don't do what I do to impress anyone", but I'm a firm believer that everything starts there. With trying to impress.

If the result of what impresses people gives you satisfaction in other ways, that's merely a plus.

That's why birds mating rituals sums it all up so nicely.
The bird doesn't have a very abstract plan when he does what he does, he just wants to survive as best he can.
He's not that different from us. It's just that we have more means of methods.

However this bird is really creative about strutting his stuff.




(Now, doesn't he remind you of Usher, Michael or Justin?)

Shameless self-promotion!

Must is a must!

We have a very tasty Swedish drink called "Must" and it really is a must for christmas and easter.

The strange thing about this drink however is that it's only sold in stores during this time, and under the names "JulMust" (Christmas Must) and "PåskMust" (Easter Must).

Another thin is that Must completly deminish Coca Cola's sales. To such and extent that Coca Cola decided to buy the biggest Must-brand, threating to withdraw the Must. All hell broke loose and Coca Cola had to surrender.

Conclusion: Don't ever mess with a Swede regarding our Must!

Things on B: babes and birds

Current youtube favorites:

Nadal's search is over!

Nadal finaly found his aquiptment after endless searching his pants.
According to Mail Online he's dating a spanish beauty from his hometown.

And the sexual inuendos don't end here...

Let me present Nadals most potent weapon (according to BBC sport):

Drugs are really cool!

It's just as hard to kick the habit of smoking as it is to quit heroine.
Still, you never hear somebody tell a heroine-addict to just lay off it.

I've never touched a drug besides cigarettes, alcohol and that one time at 13 when I wrapped as chewing gum around a fag and smoked it (which landed me a one-minute high).
Other than that I've never even craved it, in the back of my mind I've known that I'd probably like it too much.

At the same time all the contact I've ever had with drugs have been bad:

• I dated a guy who suffered server psychological damages from drug-use (among other things). He was completely messed up and someday he couldn’t leave his home. Sometimes I was scared to be around him.
  
• I dated another guy who did drugs. I remember how he called me - being really sexually offensive and I went "ehh... what?" later he told me that it was a due to him taking coke. I really didn't know how to react. Should I just dump him straight of just cause he did drugs?
• I've been with friends while they've been smoking marijuana and seen them get bad kicks when I didn't know what to do.
• I also dated another guy who told me that he was a fairly well adjusted former-addict. He told me the heart-gripping story about how he gave up the shit when he arrived to the place that he shared with a couple of friends and found his childhood friend dead from OD-ing.
• One of my classmates got killed. He had been an addict for many years and the reason was money he owed for drugs.
• My friends brother is an addict and he steels from his own family and is completely untrustworthy. I've seen the disappointment and hurt he's cost my friend.
  

No, I do not think drugs are cool.

Reklamen!

Efterlysning!

HJÄLP!

Jag har fått en uppgift på min universitetskurs om att analysera en reklam med kommunikationsproblem.

Därför letar jag förbrilt efter någon reklam som inte fungerar. Om någon av mina tre läsare vill hjälpa mig så skulle jag tycka att det var kul.

I gengäld lovar jag givetsvis att publicera min fantabulösa analys här.

Dear USA - Kipling and butterflies

Dear USA,

A note from me to you as you are about to change. Remember that if nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
Or in the words of Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Love Birgitta

Safina and other cozy-factors in early November

One of the worlds greatest fighters is playing Venus Williams i Doha today - I'd say that qualifys her for the title Player of the day:

I'd also like to mention, as I'm also a big fan of her brother Marat, that although he's great Dinara by far passed him this year.
Inerestingly enough she used to have the same temprament problem hindering her to play the great tennis she has in her. As he but by some magic blow of the wind, she just overcame it. I really hope she'll be able to win her first Grand Slam next year.
First and formost I wish her victory in Doha.








Stockholm was cold today.
These to items keep me warm:

A pair of gloves bought at indiska for 79,90
Cozy-factor:









A movie called "Brisby & the secret of Nimh". It's about a couple of mice who wants to move their house to the lay of the stone.
Cozy-factor:

Election-time

Finally it's election-time, should I chose to watch TV or just finnish the Buster Keaton box?

No, serriously... Tonight's the night Obama will be voted president of USA.

I've been somewhat hessitive towards the democratic system in the US for quite some time.
One of the reasons is that a political system can be more or less promoting of ones democratic right to vote. The more people who vote equals the democratic strenght of a political system (corrolating with the number of political parties/candidates you can choose beteen).

Hindrens to a more democratical US

- You have to register to vote!
- Elections are held on a Tuesday (and people have to take time off from work to vote)
- The system is not organized so that it's nececcerily the candidate who gets the most votes who win, there's something called elector-states which can screw up the hole thing.

Dessa dumma grejer vi gör...

Fingret:
Det anses fint att när man dricker kaffe så ska lillfingret så rätt ut.
Det anses fint eftersom det var så man gjorde på hovet i frankrike på 1700-talet. På den tiden var frankrike det ballaste som fanns.
Men anledningen till att hovdamerna och herrarna drack kaffe med lillfingret sådär visste man egentligen inte.
Och anledningen var att hovet var ett syndens näste. Resultatet blev därmed att att syfilis var vanligt.
Syfilis gör att lederna stelnar... Därav lillfingret som sticker ut.


Östermalms-dialekten:
Jag har också fått reda på att anledningen till att östermalmarna låter så fåniga är att det tydligen var en väldigt häftig kille som kom till stockholms socitet. Han hade ett talfel som gjorde att han pratade lite konstigt, men snubben var ju cool och därför började man i dom finare salongerna prata precis som honom.

Som den afrikanska ritualdansen i "Cant buy me love"

Hot Stuff!

Yesterday I read this article about two brilliantly sharp girls who started a hot line for females on their way home after a late night.
The idea was a hot-line number that we could call and talk to someone while walking on misty roads.

I am not a fan of female self defence courses as they're merely a response to a problem not the solution ("An eye for an eye will make the entire world blind" - Gandhi). as long as we promote these kinds of courses as a solution females will continue being scared late at night., and it will only further feed the inequality between men and women.

On the other end of the scale is these two females solution to the problem of females being scared. Having a friendly voice on the other end of the line.
In fact this line should not only be for females, it should be something for men too, as they're just as much a possible target for being knocked down on their way home.


Take care of yourself
and each other!

(In the words of the great Jerry Springer)