The Amazing World of Podcasts

I am getting so into Podcasts.

What got me hooked on this phenomena:

Sexy Lala at TikiBar TV (oh, it is hilarious too)

It's educational too. You get entertained and learn how to make cocktails all in one. And even better it's free. If its not free and educational, I'm not subscribing. I guess that makes me an intellectual tightwad or something. Screw you.

Anyway, after enjoying nonstop TikiTV for 3.4 hours, I needed more. What else does iTunes offer for free subscrition? Can't go past a bit of man's man How To directives straight from French Maid TV (you can't tell me that's not educational! - there is even saftey warnings).

For true educational goodness I can go to Nature's podcast, which must be clever, it's hosted by a guy with a really annoying British accent. Nevertheless, the interviews and inside science goss is pretty good. Though it does get hard to actually concentrate on other activities when you are actually trying to listen to your background noise I've found.

Another true educational (and free!) find was TalkSushi, it may not instantly make me a magnificent Japanese speaker. But, I can feel more confident knowing that i understand pretty much the whole lesson on ordering food, and of course the one on rude Japanese slang, downright. YOSH！

Japanese, British, French, and ... errr... Tiki... these are all foreign podcasts - but Asutralians are in on this gig too.

You no longer have to stay up late, at home, till about 10pm-ish to catch Chaser's War on Everything. If you are American (or anywhereelsian) and want to learn about modern Asutralia, jump on board. I'd call it Australia's answer to The Daily Show (can't get that on podcast, Comedy Central tightwads), but don't hold me on that claim. These satirists are willing to get themselves arrested in the name of good humour.

John Safran himself has acknowledged that over 2 hours of him talking about politics, news and miscellaneous crap with aged Catholic priest Father Bob could be construed torture minus the songs, nonetheless JJJ still has Sunday Safran available (and its educational too!), and i am still subscribed to it. Safran is way better suited to TV (or at least commercially broken up radio). Editing helps some people piss you off less.

Lastly I just subscribed (like as I am typing these words...) to JTV, which apparently I can download on to my PSP if I'm game for it. However I need to delete all that porn I "accidentally" downloaded into my memory card and can't get out (sadly this true). JTV better have some good Fisting to make up for it.

I just found two more podcasts that are looking good: Ask A Ninja and SciFri (which one looks more serious?)

Fallacious Logic: Boobs Cause Rape

Breast Ironing

The ideas some people think are smart.

Apparently, in certain African communities (including cities), in order to try and stop people raping their daughters or stealing for people trade, concerned mothers are mutilating their daughter's chests with hot rocks in an attempt to make them less attractive.

This is dangerous. Literally. It increases breast cancer, can stuff with hormones, and probably doesn't feel to comfortable either.

Body mutilation in order to escape slavery and abuse isn't anything new. It happened in Africa, Asia and the Americas. I wouldn't be to surprised if ancient Celts used something similar to make their women less comely to Saxons and other Viking invaders (but then again Vikings have been alleged to have a go at anything).

It also gives a credible argument FOR Muslim hijab. Muslim hijab isn't a health hazard. You might cry about women's rights and oppression - but the simple fact is that if something works, you might as well use it until you find something better that works. Educating males is an obvious alternative, but it doesn't necessarily work any better than hijab either (women wearing hijab certainly get raped too). A lot of people also forget is that a lot of people choose hijab, its not always thrust upon them.

Education of females is also an important part of abuse prevention. If you don't work on educating potential victims - you treat everyone as a potential predator and make victims feel less powerful because "there was nothing you could do". It's not blame, it's sensibility. Being female makes you a potential victim of violence against women. Being alive makes you a potential victim of murder. Having stuff makes you a potential victim of theft - that's why you learn you should lock your shit up.

"Stop Israeli Terrorism"

You see by using quotation marks, it dissassociates me from the statement, while still making it seen... or some other bullshit.

Seriously. Israeli Terrorism does need to be stopped.
But Israel does have a right to do something while it's being attacked itself.
BUT this doesn't save them from being prosecuted for war-crimes after the fact (we HOPE!).

So far on top wonton targetting of civillian targets (apartments), trade targets (ports, highways) and industry targets (power plants, oil refineries), Israel has been confirmed responsible for 4 UN observer deaths - what's unconfirmed is how deliberate Israel's role was in the unfortunate incident. And now debate is surfacing as to whether the IDF might be using ILLEGAL chemical weapons. (quote from here). At least now we know where Saddam was hiding them (how sneaky, offloading it to a US Ally).

The current middle east crisis sucks. Most of all, it sucks because its not really too contemporary. Thanks to Levites and other Jewish historians, we can see that the Middle East has been in a perpetual state of full out war, revolutionary war, or just plain ol' tribal skirmish since Moses led his people back in from Egypt (and we can't even be too sure he took them back to the right place).

Anyway this particualr episode sucks because the villains aren't the Israeli Zionists in command, no - they aren't even Hizbollah (no?) - they certainly aren't the Lebanese (off course not) - and I'm gonna be nice and say it's not even Iran (no - nobody looking at viable alternative energies like Nuclear Power could be bad) - the villains here are fucken Syria.
And what sucks second to most is that everybody is acknowledging this. The Israeli government says Syria funds Hizbollah. The Lebanese government agrees that the major reason for Hizbollah still fighting the good fight is Syrian funding. The fascist Zionist arm of Israel is driving against Lebanon only because Syria is involved and is just using this as an attempt to get Syria to stop all it's bullshit. Why?
It's like the US bombing the shit out of Afghansitan to show those Saudi 9/11 terrorist scumbags whatfor. It doesn't make sense. Afghanistan's Taliban was a pawn. Lebanon's Hizbollah is a pawn. And as we learnt from Magneto in X3 - nobody gives a fuck what happens to pawns, so its not really going to help your cause to blow them to shits, it just makes a lot more people ready to be pawns. Go straight for the jugular. If your gonna bomb some country like crazy, let it be Syria, ok.

That's what we need an anti-terrorism cure that will genetically manipulate them into happy little democracy loving peaceniks.
Hey, I'm writing something with the vain hope of making sense of the Middle East and getting world peace, its as realistic as it gets, ok.