Idle Sparks .................. *

My brush (albeit small, maybe a toothbrush) with fame (albeit small, maybe the series Fame not the movie Fame) as my email to Adro is answered.

[E-mail to Adro]

Adro, it’s the morning after and I still cannot believe you did it. My wife and I were so happy for you, and despite not personally knowing you, we were proud of your transformation inside and out. Change seems to be something us humans rebel against don’t you think. It can take something major to give us that push. For you that major thing was a positive experience on a TV show. For others it could be a heart attack or cancer or a partners death etc. When I read that you were going to be setting up these weight-loss centres I thought back to this idea of change. I hope you can find a way to give those people an experience that will be the push for them to continue as well. I don’t think the Jenny Craig’s out there have been successful with this. We all need a foot up the backside once in a while, but how to do this en-masse? You can’t be everywhere at once. So what occurred to me was that you could be using the Biggest Loser format for your centres, by filming them when they join, having them make a video diary, have them go up on a stage (I like to think that despite the element of shame, this is a big defining moment for you guys and defining moments are what we remember) and be rewarded for being the biggest loser of the month etc. Then to go back and view their footage to see how they are progressing.

Dang im rabbiting on here, congratulations to you and you wife on the baby news, wow what a year! All the best, IdleSparks.

[e-mail from Adro]
hey IdleSparks
thanks for the idea sorry for the delay i have thought and decided on using most formats used on the show except the filming still just thought photos but i think that is a brilliant idea phsycologically as well.
thanks heaps for that.
keep in touch and thanks for your support
adro

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Keep in touch? Oh gosh i feel like one of those people who line up and wait for a spot on red carpet events.

Posted by Idle Sparks at 02:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Some twit was carrying on with that nonsense of queue jumping, it really got my goat. This is another of the posts that i really dont want to lose, i felt i had a point. I have this theory that you can view just about all situations as micro and macro. Most importantly i believe that by taking something related to an individual for example, can then be applied to a community, or all people.

[your blogministrator]
I would first reconsider the use of the term "refugee problem", it implies guilt, similar wording to people referring to the "black problem" in the past. It is not a problem, it is a fact of life, it is a common thread throughout history, do you think this is a new thing to happen, read your history books, read the Bible! It is the responsibility of all humans to ensure that we are all treated with respect and given basic rights, the same rights we expect without thought in this country. You speak of bigger issues however I am not interested in that in any way, what matters to me is that if these people make it here through whatever means because their basic human rights are not being met, it is up to us as humans to look out for them, to give them respect and to ensure they have a future no matter what that is. It is not enough to simply argue about the bigger issues for years, leaving these people in limbo, do you understand? This will never go away, so it is important for each generation to do what it can, as it is in these situations that we are judged as people, does that make sense? Get over this ridiculous argument of trying to catch us out because we dont know how to solve something that has been occuring since the dawn of mankind, thats simply foolish. Taken back to the human experience, we can then see that not only are they effected as people suffering a terrible wrong albeit not a new one, we as a country will also suffer as a collective, our soul will be tarnished. I respect the individual Jane as im sure you do, take that to a larger scale and understand that as a country, then as humans, we would hope that this simple respect will not disappear. http://www.safecom.org.au/refugees.htm

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This discussion got quite heated. It drove me batty hearing the comments made in there from your average person. People so readily accept behaviours because it was acceptable to their parent or community. I talk a lot about macro and micro as mentioned previously. Most people would agree that we are here to learn and to grow as individuals, so why do people find the jump to growing as a race so damn difficult to digest?

[Your blogerator]
As far as im concerned the fact that so many people in here have been smacked and think its ok shows us that average, well behaved kids are being spanked for no other reason than its a quick fix for the parent. The mantra of society is "i haven’t got time for this". Its is a bad reflection on they way we think as a people, we often look for the easy route and this just happens to be another example. I keep bringing up the concept of thinking beyond the square, because big things are just a collection of small things. For example a world war starts with one shot, one ill advised word. Therefore the fact that we spank our children so readily reflects in part who we are as a people. My hope is that this cycle will eventually end and the need for any kind of violence is the very last resort when no other options are available. A child learns that causing pain can be an effective means to get what you want but there is a line, the child grows up and discovers the line has started to fade- does that sound eerily like the world you are now living in?

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Some guy was carrying on about whether homosexuality was some kind of genetic abnormality. It (again) drove me nuts. And by the way the guy who posted that was indeed part owner of Harvey Norman, so i was right on the money. I lost a friend who used to join in the laughing over gay jokes and was gay himself. He ended up committing suicide because he did not think his friends would accept him.

[Your blogerator]
You know i would bet my left nut that the originator of this thread is white middle/upper class. Only these people would allocate/waste their time and brain resources on such a pointlessly intellectual thread. There has been some postings lately of a scientific nature that smack of one-upmanship and a desperate need to be acknowledged. This is not the way to discuss a topic that effects alot of people in some fairly fu*#en serious ways people. If you want to discuss scientific theories in a non-emotional way which is fine, take it to a seperate thread, ask the moderator to set it up. Dont sit there on your high horse saying its getting the subject out in the open or helping us to understand anything, nobody is learning anything from this thread and there are not enough people in here with scientific knowledge to contribute so QUIT it. ALL it does in these forums is make people feel stupid and worthless. Im a 32 year old man and reading this feel inadequate to be able to contribute because i dont have a science background, imagine how the younger ones feel. And just imagine how those in here who may be currently going through a very very emotionally confusing time as they explore their sexuality and what it means. On one side you have people who think being gay is wrong, then you have people like yourself wanting to theorise on the genetics of being gay. This is possibly someones life you are discussing in here so STOP IT. Go get your intellectual kicks elsewhere.Seing this thread is here now, maybe we can turn this into a positive for people who may be going through this at the moment, wondering if they are gay and what it will mean to them. Does anyone have some numbers, websites that help people through these times? This is all i could find -http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=304

Posted by Idle Sparks at 12:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Have a religiously inclined kid on the forum who was adamant that sex before marriage was just plain wrong in every way. I had some comments on that.

[Your blogerator]
"Sex complicates things. It can be addicting and become the reason two people are together, which is not a sustainable reason"Dave, a long term relationship aint the reason people always have sex. Being together with someone purely for sex isnt that bad as long as they both agree to it. You call it complication however getting close to someone emotionally can be more complicated. Sex b4 marriage can allow you to get over that fascination with physical sex and allow the relationship to focus on more important things. Getting to know person b4 sex is fine but what about if you are sexually incompatible and you marry the person, my parents are prime example, it goes both ways mate.Studies as small as 92 couples is no study, and often they focus on a single age group and socio economic/cultural circumstance. How old were these 35% people who are happier? If they are under 60 then forget it, you cant gauge happiness and 80% of people will tell people they are happy when they are not as they wont admit it to themselves, silly study! There is no such thing as normal happiness."Women in the ’90s were more likely than women in the ’80s to cohabit rather than marry in response to pregnancy. Together, these trends suggest that cohabitation is becoming more a substitute for marriage, rather than a form of engagement that culminates in marriage." Crap, more woman work in professional careers in 90's than 80's, marriage is not near as important as career. We are talking incredibly different times and a comparison is just silly without taking that into account. Divorce has nothing to do with sex, they are focussing on the wrong thing, women work more, their needs and desires have changed. Men have changed and women are finding less need for one to be around. Women are changing, men still are not, that’s why marriages often fail, again this focus on sex is low low down in reasons, the only people who think this much about sex as such a big thing are virgins!THIS IS IMPORTANT ------Remember this - the people who marry before their 30's today are more likely to be living by their parents generation of values, therefore comparing that to a more modern thinking is almost impossible, most of my friends couldn’t care less about marriage, couldn’t care less about kids. Where in all this is that mentioned and where is it mentioned that nobody is having children? That’s why we are having sex with various partners, cause if we wait for marriage or procreation then most people will be virgins till their 40's.

Posted by Idle Sparks at 12:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Idle Sparks - like a wet flint, like a old match, like a dying car. I can barely type for the effort.

Why dont you pull up a chaise lounge and sit a spell.

The porpoise of my Blog is to add reviews of books, movies and music. To have somewhere to post my rabid thoughts and rants. I will do some experiments on myself and others, post some of my incomplete or complete stories and lyrics and generally carry on like a pork chop for my own amusement. I have some brilliant links to the best music sites and venues around as well as a random photo gallery that will blow your mind.

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