Cool Runnings!

Do you think Bobsledding and the Luge were created by people living in arctic temperatures who were just jealous over the fact that all there warterslide park ventures had proven unsuccessful?
"Ok Sven, this whole 'Wet 'n' Wild' idea doesn't seem to be panning out"
"Hmm...what about 'Frostbitten and Disoriented'?"
"Sven, you're a genius!"

Haven't made a post in a few days because, well, there's been nothing to tell. At the moment the life of a corpse is more interesting than my own. At least if you're a corpse there's always the possibility of being raised from the dead and going on a very slow-paced brain-eating rampage. Man, the undead sure do have the life...actually I guess technically they don't.

I'm sure everyone knows about all the insanity surrounding that published cartoon that all the Muslim extremist are up in arms about. You'd have to be living under a rock to not know, and even in that case it wouldn't be long before that rock was picked up and thrown at a Danish embassy. The debates have been raging, and of course the generalisations have been made regarding all Muslims, rather than just the extremists that have been engaging in all the fun kidnapping and violent games. Honestly, why couldn't they just write an angry letter to the editor? Some people need to realise that every major religion in the world is always going to be a target of jokes (without religion I'm pretty sure a large portion of the stand-up comedy would die in the arse), so while everyone has the right to be offended and angry at something, a joke can never be grounds for violent attacks...though that definately would make stand-up clubs far more interesting.
But I digress. I was more bringing this up because i was reading today that - acting on the age-old foundation of 'but they started it' - one of the major Iranian newspapers has started up a competition encouraging people to send in their best Holocaust cartoons. Now if that's not a mature and level-headed way of handling things then I don't know what is. You'd think it would make more sense if they were encouraging cartoons based upon all the other major religious figures rather than the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II, but hey, the same article told me that Iran's president has also claimed that the Holocaust is actually just a 'myth' used to justify the creation of Israel, so logic doesn't seem to be high up on the list of priorities there. Plus jokes about Jesus have been done to the death...then resurrected 3 days later. Ooh, now that was just plain bad. I'm now expecting riots based purely on the quality of that joke.