Shooting Pool with Paddy

Quote of the moment:
"They're all going to taste oblivion... which tastes just like Red Bull."

"I'm a pacifist, I don't carry a gun."
"You're a what?"
"He's something comforting for little children to suck."
"No dude, that's a paedophile!"

- Red vs Blue.

I failed to blog yesterday (how tragic!) because Paddy summoned me to his house at 2am, just as I was about to. Halo 2 on Xbox Live followed, as well as some snooker on his new snooker table. It's pretty vast. It takes up most of the ground floor of the extension. :D

I got home about 7am, slept until 1pm, then phoned Paddy sporadically until he woke up and came over for about 2.30pm. Looked for wallet in amazingly similar way to that desrcibed by Emma. Hit Freeport Pizza Hut, stuffed ours crusts stomachs. Staggered around Freeport, looking for anything travel-related Paddy might need. Both bought Vans. Mine are a comforting shade of black and were a handy £29. (I am now one of the official fans of Timmy B and his Vans. Score!)

Went to Paddy's house again. Played more Halo 2 and snooker. Lost consistently at snooker, but won all subsequent games of pool. Watched Red vs Blue seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. Ate popcorn. Shot some more frames. Got whipped at Dead or Alive 3. Strategy of picking fighters on basis of girth deemed foolish. Returned home at a very reasonable 3am. Scanned blogs with very bleary eyes.

What I was going to write about yesterday:

An Italian female journalist was bought free from her captors in Baghdad. As the Italian secret service agents rushed her from the exchange point, they hit a mobile US Army roadblock. They drove straight at it and were promptly riddled with lead.

Morons. The woman has actually claimed the US was targeting her because she writes for an anti-war newspaper.

1. The troops were not aware of the Italian operation. Probably because Italian security is so lax they couldn't let their own people know.
   
2. The car drove at the roadblock. Just like suicide bombers do.
   
3. The US troops should get commendations for good shooting. 3 out of 4 passengers were hit, 1 fatally, 1 seriously, one slightly(the woman). The car, needless to say, was stopped.
   
4. The Italians should never have given in to the terrorists in the first place. There are talks with terrorists to end the violence(as Rob has mentioned the US doing). Then there are morons who by paying up cause more kidnappings.
   
5. The Italians haven't conducted a succesful operation since the invasion of Abyssinia.
   

A seperate story: 'Black boys are failing! Put them in special classes quick!'.

Incorrect. Inner-city children fail because inner-city schools suck. The pupils are mostly black in these areas. Black boys need special treatment = wrong. Inner-city schools need the money wasted on regional planning authorities and bureaucrats planning government targets = right. Another point raised was the lack of a proper father figure in many black households. Ditto, a problem in sink estates, race = irrelevant. Moral of the story: living in the country applies a strong force via a leg-shaped pendulum to any buttocks in the vicinity.