Z Muerte De La Ganja's blog: "Smokin Room"

10 thing to point and laugh at 10. Midget Cowboys 9. White guys wearing Roca Wear. 8. Dana Carvey's cinematic career. 7. The clerk in the movie store that recommends "Click". 6. People standing in line for tickets to the next Brooke Hogan concert. 5. Hookers. 4. Tree Huggers using posterboard signs attached to wooden sticks at a protest. 3. the 14 cop cars parked at the local Denny's. 2. anybody wearing an official NHL jersey. 1. People who sing along with Wham!

HERE IS WHY TEENAGERS SUCK. When i was little, and my brother was a teenager, i wanted to do everything he did. I realized that to be "cool" i had to conform and do what all the other kids were doing at a very young age. This is why i hate teenagers. You youngsters out there set the path of the children behind you and you don't even realize it. When my brother was a teen in the early 90's, the fads were you were either a redneck, or into that early 90's kick ass music called "grunge". nothing really bad came out of this except wrangler jeans and bad hair cuts. the next trend that was set was when i was a teen and it was cool to be ghetto. it was actually cool to walk around with your underwear hanging out of your pants and your belt around your knees. sadly this is when guns started coming into schools and kids started shooting instead of punching. Now there is this new trend called "emo" where it seems like it's cool to be gay. they don't cut their hair, they wear impossibly tight pants, the wear ties with t-shirts and some enormous belt, they dye their hair black and the boys wear make-up. Not only do they dress stupid they go around talking about how the world hates them, and they write crappy poems about mommy and daddy and then they cruise off on thier little skateboards with mascara running down their cheeks...THIS IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT I'VE EVER SEEN!!!! THE WORLD DOESN'T HATE YOU GUYS, YOU HATE YOURSELVES, AND LIKE A TYPICAL TEEN YOU BLAME EVERYBODY ELSE.

i got this in a bulletin and found some of these things interesting, except the daddy long legs things is a wives tale... 1. The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosy" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..." these, sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so that they would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"). 2. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?. All invented by women. 3. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? He was allergic to carrots. 4. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's". 5. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. 6. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 7. The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. 8. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 9. There are more chickens than people in the world. 10. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. 11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." 14. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. 15. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 16. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough. 17. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. 18. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting. 19. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don t die throughout the movie. 20. The U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research in 2003. 21. There is more lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade! 22. Dueling in Paraguay is legal, as long as both parties are registered blood donors! 23. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can. 24. Cannibalism is NOT illegal in Germany! 25. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour! 26. When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too! 27. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes. 28. 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married. 29. Drew Carry once worked at a Denny's! 30. In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts! 31. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously. 32. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas. 33. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. 34. Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum! 35. The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon! 36. Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult! 37. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies! 38. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts! 39. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ! 40. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 41. The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964! 42. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 43. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. 44. It is illegal to purchase Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced! 45. Only seven percent of the population are lefties. 46. The word "fuck" is actually an acronym. It dates back to the Good Old Days, when England was severely underpopulated due to the usual combination of fire/war/plague, and the King issued an official order to… well, fuck, to replenish the population. Hence the phrase "Fornicate Under Command of the King" passed into everyday language.

How Would the Buddha Date? By Lama Surya Das Certainly primary among life's lessons is how to love and to love well, and to BE love, as well to give and receive it. I believe love is central to happiness, growth and fulfillment. How would Buddha love? By seeing every single being, human and otherwise, as fundamentally like himself, and thus able to treat them and love them in the way he would be treated. We call this infinitely benevolent, selfless love, Bodhicitta or the Awakened Heart, the very spirit of enlightenment. Each relationship and every single encounter can be a vehicle for meaningful spiritual connection, through the transformative magic of Bodhicitta, or spiritual love. This is how we love, Buddha-style: impartial to all, free from excessive attachment or false hope and expectation; accepting, tolerant, and forgiving. Buddhist nonattachment doesn't imply complacence or indifference, or not having committed relationships or being passionately engaged with society, but rather has to do with our effort to defy change and resist the fact of impermanence and our mortality. By holding on to that which in any case is forever slipping through our fingers, we just get rope burn. Buddhist love is based on recognizing our fundamental interconnectedness and knowing that all beings are like ourselves in wanting and needing happiness, safety, fulfillment, and not wanting suffering and misery. The Dalai Lama says, "If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others." All the happiness and virtue in this world comes from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed. Four Boundless Attitudes Every single encounter can be a vehicle for meaningful spiritual connection. The immaculate image of Buddhist love is the four-armed Avalokitsevara, known as Chenrayzig in Tibet and Kuan Yin in China. Each of his/her four arms represent one of the Four Boundless Attitudes, and each one of her four radiant faces or aspects - peaceful, magnetizing, powerful, and fierce-express one of the four styles or modes of active compassion. The first arm of Buddhist love is maitri or lovingkindness, a boundless feeling of friendliness and wishing well for others. Maitri, or metta in the Pali language, implies friendliness: befriending and accepting yourself, your body and mind, and the world. The second is karuna, or compassion, empathy, being moved by feeling what others feel. The third arm is upeksha, equanimity, recognizing the equality of all that lives. This recognition leads to the wisdom of detachment but not indifference or complacence, which are its near enemies. The fourth arm is mudita, spiritual joy and satisfaction. This includes rejoicing in the virtue and success of others, -- the antidote to envy and jealousy. Cultivate the cling-free relationship The essence of Buddhist relationship is to cultivate the cling-free relationship, enriched with caring and equanimity. It is helpful in intimate relationships to communicate honestly, stay present, tell the truth of your experience using I-statements rather than accusations and judgments, and honor the other enough to show up with an open heart and mind and really listen. Passion becomes compassion when we bring it into the path, when we recognize every moment in life as a possibility of awakening. Human love and sexual consummation can be like the tip of the iceberg of divine love, an ecstatic intimation of eternity, a portal to infinite depths of the groundlessness and boundarylessness that transports us beyond our limited, ego selves. People often ask me how to find their Soul Mate, or even if I believe in such a concept. I think that rather than focusing on past lives or on finding the perfect mate in this world, we would generally do better to work on improving and developing ourselves. Make yourself the "perfect" mate, without being too perfectionistic about it, and you will be a good mate with almost anyone. When your heart is pure, your life and the entire world is pure. We all feel the desire to possess and be possessed, to love and be loved, to connect and be embraced and to belong. However, I think that the most important thing in being together is the tenderness of a good heart. If our relationships aren't nurturing the growth and development of goodness of heart, openness, generosity, authenticity and intimate connection, they are not serving us or furthering a better world. I notice that children let go of anger and would rather be happy than right, unlike so many of us adults. Like them, my dog reminds me that love is a verb, not a noun. Staying present in this very moment, through mindful awareness and paying attention to what is -- rather than dwelling on the past or the future, or on who I think I am and who I imagine others are -- helps free me from excess baggage, anxiety and neurosis - and opens me to love.