Open Thread

dibs – I can give you tons of ivy cuttings. Not sure how hardy my excess spiders are but you’re welcome to them.

DIBS — I’m a government employee (of sorts) and I have to agree with you.

You can grow spider plants outside? I am drowning in them.

OH, CANADA! POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS RUN TOTALLY
AMUCK!:

And now for a bit of humor on this
rather humorless day, one has to take Canada’s
political correctness with a very large grain of salt for it has indeed become a land where political correctness
trumps all else. But even for Canada the following
seems to take PC to a new and unique and truly
frightening… even idiotic… level. According to reports,
the Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league
has had a “mercy” win rule in effect that never allowed
a winning team to win by more than 5 goals, apparently
in an attempt to save poor soccer playing children from
the ignominy of being beaten to the proverbial pulp.
We at TGL have never understood the PC rules
regarding “mercy” rule, but then again we were born in
the 50’s, long before political correctness reared its
pathetic head.
Now, however, the GDRS has gone one step beyond
the “mercy” rule and has said that any team winning six
goals or more shall actually lose the game. At first we
thought, “We’ll that settles that: The team with 5 goals
will simply sit back, empty the goal, and let the team
that is behind score a goal or two quickly so that play…
real play … can begin.” We were wrong, for it quickly
dawned on us here that the losing team would instead
swiftly move to kick another goal against themselves
and for the team that is ahead, putting the ball into their
own goal in order to be down by 6 goals and thus win
by losing.
But then we thought, wait, things will become even
worse, for the team then up by 6 goals will go on
“offense” and kick the ball as swiftly as it can into its
goal, scoring for the other team, hoping to bring the
score back to 5 goals so that they actually win the
game, which would then mean that they would go on to
defend their opponents goal from their opponents who
would want to kick the ball into their own goal, with the
team that is leading defending against a goal that
would count in their favor.
This is the politically correct world run amuck, and we
ask simply, can someone not stop these people and
save them from themselves?