I LOVE English news. Cause for panic and alarm: an "unusually aggressive" squirrel. I can't stop laughing at all this pearl clutching over a 5 ounce, barking rodent in a tree. Won't someone think of the children?
If they mentioned a concern for rabies or something, I think I'd give them a pass. But no, it sounds like they just really got worried about an angry squirrel...
It's a called a .22 rifle or pellet gun, or hell, a paintball gun as a deterrent or a live trap or get someone out with a falconry hawk to catch and eat the little fucker.
It's most likely fake, but part of me holds out hope. It's on a legitimate news outlet too. There's a bird in some small town that divebombs people in hats. Frequent goose attacks abound. The country has seen stranger things than a raving squirrel.
First day of summer here and the forecast is for a high of 12ºC (52f). Sigh. This city is amazing when it's nice, but getting a day where it's not overcast and/or really windy feels exceedingly rare. Hopefully the couple of days I actually get off around Christmas are golf/beach worthy.
Yeah, but summer. I like summer when I get it. I guess if complaining about the weather is all I got, things can't be too bad.
Speaking of weddings, k, do whatever you and your girlfriend want to do when the time comes. Fuck everyone else. Everyone has an opinion or some piece of advice about what you should do regarding a ceremony, your spouse, your marriage, your finances, your family planning, your name change, your living situation, blah fucking blah. Even when you do what YOU want to do, it's a little stressful. Let everything else go in one ear and out the other. That's what I do with my in-laws. I have a glass of wine and let everything they say fly over my head because I honestly don't care. I don't have anything to prove or anyone to impress. I love my husband, and I'm a good wife to him. That's all that really matters. One thing that I found humorous about the whole wedding stuff was the presents/well wishes. Some people who are on disabilility or who have very little were extremely generous. Others were not. My boss went around my wedding introducing herself as my boss. During the father/daughter dance my dad was like, "I met A. She's the most insecure person I've ever met. She's introducing herself to everyone as your boss." She is several years older and her husband is old enough to be my dad and wealthy. I invited them to be polite, and they didn't give us so much as a card. I didn't expect any presents from our wedding guests. But I definitely thought a card saying, "Good luck, suckas!" was enough. Some people are so tacky that they didn't even think of that. In short: do what makes y'all happy and can afford. Whatever that entails. Forget everything else.
I just got back from Ireland, beautiful countryside and fantastic people. But what generally struck me was how more informed they are then your average American. I think that everybody I encountered (from the self proclaimed unemployed bum at the pub to the guy checking tickets at the airport) brought up something relevant about where I lived (MO - so stuff going on in Ferguson, the Royals in the World Series, etc) and a bigger knowledge of american politics than most americans I know. I need to either spend much more time reading news from sources outside the US or more time chatting people up at the local pubs.
Obama's daughters apparently not being classy is currently the main story on one of the main news websites here (in NZ). US news seems to get the biggest coverage outside of local news in other English speaking countries, but I guess it's probably because they're taking half their stuff from US heavy wire services. I actually only clicked today that Ferguson was a suburb of St Louis. I just thought it was a little hick town somewhere.
Half the time the rest of the world is more interested in what's going on in America than most Americans. In the same vein, Brits I've worked with looked genuinely shocked whenever any of us 'Mericans spoke glowingly or intelligently about a British themed topic. Especially British television shows. Its as if they cannot fathom why anyone outside the UK would watch Dr. Who, Top Gear, or any other British television show.
Its a REALLY easy way to endear yourself with any British coworkers. I was into some BBC programming, EPL soccer, and the British music scene since before I started working with a pair of Brits, but its kicked into overdrive based on their recommendations and the fact that they are pumped to chat about it with me