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[vicarz]

Crap! The PTO has, yet again, posted that job! It's even easier to apply - I guess I should check them out. I just started scanning real estate around where I work now: cheap, mixed neighborhoods (not too bitchy, not too ghetto - very Goldilocks), near the school and metro...If I do apply and get rejected as "not qualified" I would probably bend and file a friggin EEO because it's just not fathomable what reason they could have for making such a determination.

I can't find the video I saw on the news, but there was a video of a man holding up a convenience store. While the robber held a gun to the cashier's head yelling, a brave customer buying a 40oz walked up behind him and clocked him on the head with the 40oz - nailed him perfectly, just like in the movies. Unfortunately, this wasn't the movies - this was reality tv, and the criminal was not knocked out with the one perfect blow. Thuggy turned around and shot our hero 4 times, once in the head. The hero survived and was expected to make a full recovery, but it goes to show the funny influence of tv-movie culture on mainstream culture. If you watch tv and movies, you'd totally expect a huge blow to the back of the head to knock out the perp - nuh-uh in real life. Now, I don't want to take away from what the hero did - he was a friggin hero, he did the right thing, and I'm happy he survived. I hope I have the presence of mind to do the same thing in the same situation, or the courage. However, it's a good reminder that there is a huge gap between cartoon-movie-tv violence and what is likely to happen when applied to the physical world. Looked great on film...

This morning NPR did an article tearing apart the stupid and stupidly popular song OMG "oh my 'gosh' " noting how incredibly sterile it was. Wow. You're really a whore when NPR is ripping on your pop song for being too tepid! Written for the waiting room of every dentist office, U.S.A...

Comments

[doc-quixote.livejournal.com]

"Knocking someone out" via blunt head trauma is tricky at best.

And probably for the best the 40 didn't break like in the movies... decent chance of getting a hand packed full of broken glass. (Which, admittedly, is probably better than getting shot repeatedly. But still.)

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Mythbusters did a great full vs. empty bottle on the head analysis, testing the myth that an empty bottle hurt more than a full one. Busted.

They did find substantial trauma, concussion possible, and of course lacerations from the glass that always is missing in the movies.

[novaya-zemlya.livejournal.com]

Depending on what you're using, actually knocking someone out with a blow to the head as the Doc said, is tricky. On one end of the scale, you're more likely to kill someone than render them unconscious. On the other end, well, they get real mad.

I choose option B: mock them. From a safe distance. Preferably behind bullet proof glass.

[thesaucemonster.livejournal.com]

I saw the footage on the news last night. The event took place in Richmond is what I remember. Here's a video, using "man hits robber with bottle" in the search field.

http://www.wapt.com/video/23513535/index.html

[vicar.livejournal.com]

That's it! Thanks. Hmm, didn't say he was ok. Also, maybe not a 40oz. I'm a terrible eyewitness!

[cobwellac.livejournal.com]

Where do you see that job posted? It doesn't show up on USAJobs.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=88043293&GoBackURL=https%3a%2f%2fmy.usajobs.gov%2fJobFile%2fJobFile.aspx

[jgcr.livejournal.com]

The Usher song or the Ida Maria song? Because I'll defend the Ida Maria song to the death.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

The Usher Billboard #1 hit :)