Mel Gibson...Better him than me

Many of us have embarassed ourselves after having a few too many drinks.

Sometimes its dancing with a lampshade on your head or telling your bosses wife she has nice tits...
More seriously it can involve drinking and driving, getting arrested at a bar or getting into a sexual liason that you may regret more than your hangover.

Poor Mel is a troubled individual, talented, insanely rich but troubled.

1. An alcohol high starts off innocently enough as slight relaxation, relief of stress and worry.
2. After a couple of drinks inhibitions are lowered and you can have a laugh and a good time with friends.
3. A couple more drinks you may start acting silly and be seriously buzzed with impaired functioning.
4. After the serious buzz, the higher brain functions start to shut down and all is left is lower brain functions such as sex drive, aggression, anger, which includes lashing out at whatever is on your mind at the time.
5. After this is the blackout. You may still be walking and talking, fighting and cussing but have no conscious recollection of anything said or done in this state.

Mel Gibson had finished at least 1/3 bottle of Cazador tequila and was probably hovering between 4 and 5 when he was pulled over for going about 90 in a 45.

A drunken tirade about Jews, him owning Malibu, with a fuck da Poh-Leece thrown in for good measure.
Not too much to write home about if it's Joe Sixpack coming home from a bar on a Friday night......

Mel Gibson who came under scrutiny for Passion of the Christ being anti semitic was drunk and mouthy at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The guy can probably kiss his career goodbye for the next few years.

But before you judge Mel too harshly think back to that time in the broom closet at the office Christmas party or the dorm where you got caught with the inflatable sheep or when you woke up face down in your yard with no idea how you got there.

Mel should have got his wild drinking done 20 years ago.

I do indeed feel a bit sorry for him.

Big Dig disaster...When will they learn?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2232100

More loose bolts? People getting crushed by falling ceiling panels? When you use epoxy to hold up a 3 ton block of concrete you sure as hell better test, inspect and test again. What kind of irresponsible nincompoop doesn't keep up on these things.

When you let high profile politically motivated morons run one of the biggest
construction projects in world history it is a recipe for disaster.

Now everyone is pointing fingers and trying to do public relations damage control.

I don't see myself driving to Boston anytime soon

What's wrong with TV?

I swear everytime I walk into the bedroom and my wife is watching TV there is something on the screen that makes me turn around and walk right back out.

This is regular TV, HBO 8pm or BBC America or PBS. I am no prude and I can safely say I've seen it all BUT... Walking in and seeing some guy giving another guy a BJ on six feet under just doesn't make me want to pull up a chair and watch the rest.

I was watching Barney with my 5 year old one morning...Actually she was watching and I was trying to sleep through his high pitched idiocy and the phone rings....So I'm on the phone and Barney ends and I look up and there is a lady in a bathtub with her hootenanny spread wide open titties flopping around with a baby squirting out. This is 9 frigging AM public television.

I drop the phone, dive for the remote like it was the last bag of chips at a grateful dead concert.
My 5 year old is sitting there mouth gaping open, eyes as wide as dinner plates as I frantically turn the channel. She goes "DAD what was happening with that lady?" I said uhh that's what happens to you when you tell lies and don't clean your room.

I mean its frigging scary the crap they put on TV. You got little girls quoting gangsta rap videos, wearing Tshirts that say "easy" and "slut" and 14 year old boys that think the ideal woman is Paris Hilton.

Nowadays my TV is on educational, cartoons or off.

Restaurants, tipping and stupid lazy incompetent food servers.

You would think if someone had a job that paid primarily in tips they would try to make their customers happy, content and satisfied.

Working in a restaurant or bar is a hard and sometimes thankless job. Jesus people !Don't be a damn food server if you have no manners, short term memory or are some kind of freaking miscreant.

My family and I go out to eat fairly often. We have come to expect mediocre service.

Sad. If the food is decent, comes out correctly and I get at least one or two drink refills I'll tip 15 to 20 percent. This in my opinion is not excellent service but adequate.

There is one Chinese place I go to that has one waitress for the whole restaurant. She also buses the tables. Even during the lunch rush, my iced tea and water never dips more than an inch from the rim of the glass. Anything I ask for is done right the first time every time. This lady barely speaks English but works her boney ass off . She gets 25 to 30 percent for excellent service.

Lazy, surly incompetent, excuse making, spoiled turds that work as servers in the TGI fridays and Chilis type establishments make you get up and find the pimply 22 year old stoner assistant manager to get a fricken refill of tea or a bottle of mustard to drown the tasteless gruel they pass off as food. Even then the manager can't get anything right becuse he is too busy thinking about his next doobie or getting into the hostesses pants after his shift.


Don't you hate it when you are seated in an establishment and then nobody comes? .....ever.

I used to look for a manager to find a server but then I figure he or she should be out here anyway making sure their waiters are doing their stinkin jobs. Now I just walk out muttering loudly about how much everyone sucks and can burn in hell.

I'm not a a hard ass by any means... I'm a pretty frigging nice guy, maybe thats my problem. If a waitress screws up I don't want farging excuses. I want it fixed and maybe "I'm so sorry "

What the hell is wrong with the service industry these days?

They are acting like they don't want my money.