As I was writing tonight’s blog, apparently there was an earthquake that struck the east coast of the United States and was felt up here in Canada. The earthquake measured 5.8 on the Richter scale. I personally didn’t feel any kind of tremors, but other people did. I pulled out my phone to check the reaction on Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook, it was your typical annoying overreaction from a few of my Facebook friends. But on Twitter, when I clicked on the “#earthquake” hash tag on the Trending Topics list, I saw people acting like it were the end of the world going on. There were also people not making a big deal of this and posting pictures of the devastation (see the picture above), but generally the media was making a bigger deal than it actually was.
Here’s my message to those making a massive deal about this earthquake. Stop being such a pussy about it and man the hell up. If you want to take precautions after the earthquake struck, then do so, but don’t go around acting like the world is going to end, or the rapture was coming, or some other stupid shit. The west coast is used to this, and they pass this off as nothing. Maybe the east coast should do the same.
There was also some sad news that came yesterday, where opposition leader Jack Layton has lost his battle with cancer and passed away. He was an extremely likable guy, who had the best interests of lower and middle class Canadians, as well as Canada as a whole. He will be missed.
I planned to write up a post yesterday about trying to understand the hate and abuse on football (soccer) officials by supporters, but I had difficulty trying to present my argument. The thing that sparked me to try to write that was when I went to see my cousin’s soccer game on Saturday. In my opinion, the referee called a fair game, apart from a couple questionable calls. But that didn’t stop the other parents taunting the referee and the linesman and hurling abuse at them for calls that didn’t go their way.
It’s always the same story whenever I go see any kind of footy match. The supporters don’t like a decision the ref has made, then they taunt the ref for the rest of the match. Sometimes it is justifiable, but other times the things these people say is just mean. You know what I would like to see, I would like to see a random supporter picked at random to ref a match. I bet that the person wouldn’t have a clue. Referees are trained to ref matches, supporters are not (unless the supporters are all trained referees), and although the referees don’t see everything that goes on in the match, the officials have a better judgment than the supporters. Nowadays there are the advancements in technology designed to help the referee make the correct decision, but the human element of football will always be there, no matter what.
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