Wood Woes Continue

Poor Tiger it looks like there is no end in sight  to his problems his daily humiliations continue with a succession of porn stars now crawling out of the woodwork to claim affairs, to date no denials to any of these women’s story’s have come from the Woods camp.

Tigers sponsors look to be turning their backs on him to with Pepsi co dropping the range of Tiger Focus energy drinks, this was worth a reported  six million dollars a year to the golfer, Pepsi Co are the first but they wont be the last, with other sponsors frantically looking at the small print esp the Morality clauses, expect more contracts cancelled sooner rather than later.

A recent poll also found an 80% negative feedback on tigers personal popularity with the public, his standing with black Americans also falls with some pointing out that all Tigers mistress’s are white, quite what the women in questions colour  has to do with anything I’m not sure but that’s one more nail in Tigers advertising coffin.

As I said in an earlier piece I think Tiger will struggle to come back from this, reports on the USA are saying that he has already attempted suicide once on the night of the crash swallowing  handfuls of prescription pills and washing them down with alcohol, the paramedic report on the night had Woods down as an OD (overdose) patient.

I will be amazed if we see Tiger playing competitive golf again.

Pop goes the Student

A chemistry student in the Ukraine had  his face blown off by what is believed to be exploding chewing gum, The 25-year-olds disfigured remains were discovered at his parent's home in the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop.

The young man, who studied at Kiev Polytechnic Institute, was working at his  computer late on Saturday when the alleged explosion happened." A loud pop was heard from the student's room," the ukranews.com Web site said, quoting  the city's police chief.

When his relatives entered the room, they saw that the lower part of the young man's face had been blown off. A forensic examination established that the chewing gum was covered with an unidentified chemical substance, thought to be some type of explosive material.

The student apparently had a bizarre habit of chewing gum after dipping it into citric acid.

Officers found both citric acid packets and a similar-looking unidentified substance, believed to be some kind of explosive material, on a table near the body. Investigators suspect that the student simply confused the packets and put gum covered with explosive material into his mouth.

It is a common mistake to make if you leave your chewing and bomb making equipment side by side on a table, odds of blowing your face of rise dramatically if you dip said chewing gum in explosive acids before chewing, its difficult to feel sorry for this idiot, but it made for a interesting story.

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Tiger Will Retire

The stories about Tigers private life just keep coming and coming, and they are sounding worse and worse, the latest woman to come forward is a hard core porn star. Holly Sampson is the “star” of some pretty hardcore material including Bondage movies.

Friends close to the couple  say Tigers wife has packed her stuff and moved out, and who can blame her it must be humiliating beyond belief for her as each new allegation is aired, if it wasn’t enough that he has been cheating , but to find out while she was pregnant as well through two pregnancies.

Over the years Woods has cultivated this image of a focused individual with tremendous mental strength but sadly that may not be enough, a proud man like Woods being exposed like this will take it badly, from being held in almost reverence by adoring fans to suddenly become the butt of every ones jokes.

He is currently the number one article googled on the net, most of them jokes.

In America the late night talk show hosts like Letterman and Jay Leno are ripping Tiger into shreds.

And that’s where I see the problem, whenever and wherever Tiger plays from now on some sections of the crowd will shout abuse at him he will be ridiculed, even if its just one or two people shouting comments it will always bring to everybody’s mind what Tiger had been up to.

Tigers sponsors have so far stayed quiet but expect contacts to be cancelled and soon, there will be clauses in the contracts referring to of field behaviour I believe they are called “morality Clause’s”. I am sure Tiger is in breach of those.

With £600 million pounds in the bank Tiger does not need to put himself through that. I personally don’t believe he will compete again, I hope I am wrong a talent like his comes around once in  a lifetime.

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Boy-Chester Utd

Manchester Utd face Wolfsburg tonight with 15 players out through injury, they are so desperate for players to make up the 11 starters that they have called up the Chief Executives son.

Oliver Gill is the son of David Gill who has been in charge at Utd for a number of years, even seasoned Utd fans will struggle with the names of some of the players out there tonight.

Bookies have Utd at 12/5 to get a result there and finish top of the group.  I still fancy them to win.

Come on the Reds.

Iranian Leadership Desperate

Iranian authorities have slowed internet connections to a crawl or choked them of completely before expected student protests today to deny the opposition vital means of communications.

In another tactic Journalists have been banned from leaving their offices.

It could be an explosive day as Iran’s Chief of police has promised to crush any dissent

This smacks of the desperation of a doomed regime, lets hope these protesters can keep the momentum going and maybe force a regime change themselves before the maniac in charge involves them in a war with the West.

Last weeks announcement that they would be constructing ten more nuclear sites has hardly endeared them to the rest of the world, least of all to Israel who are itching to destroy their existing sites.

Because no foreign media will be allowed to report on today’s events it may be a while before information leaks out, we are after all now used to watching news as it happens, but I’m sure by tonight mobile phone footage and eye witness accounts will be available.

This could be the beginning of the end of Ahmadinejad’s rule, lets hope so.

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Violent Video Games

I cant believe I am still getting chastised for daring to suggest that prolonged playing of violent  video games can have an adverse affect on youngsters who seem to spend all their time locked away in their rooms playing these types of games.

Its been said to me that its easy to pick holes in something and highlight a problem, but not very helpful when you don’t offer a solution.

I’m not sure there is a solution to this after all these games make billions and they are not going away, putting an 18 certificate on them does not stop teens getting their hands on them, but what about this for an  idea, with technology where it is I am sure it would not be to difficult for manufacturers to slip a kind of safety device on them, centred around the amount of time you can play these games in one sitting, or say a 24 hour period, for example every six hours something activates within the game that does not allow it to be played for at least 12 hours, forcing the player to have a break from it.

So every time a new game is released you will have two versions on sale,  the adult version, and the “safety”version that responsible parents can buy for their children.

I realise  that critics of the idea will say, what’s to stop the teen taking that game out and replacing it with others until the 12 hours are up, well  there is nothing to stop that, but this is a start in trying to tackle the problem.

When the idea of no smoking indoors at any public building was first mooted, that was called unworkable, but  now its accepted and people go outside to smoke.

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Lee Ryan

Who says pop stars are thick, this quote is from Ex Blue star Lee Ryan.

"What about whales? They are ignoring animals that are more important. Animals need saving and that's more important. This New York thing (9/11) is being blown out of all proportion. Who gives as F**k about New York when elephants are being Killed”.

 

IDIOT.