The weeks episode of the humour packed funny podcast - Hosks Half Hour is released and it's time to get in the mood for Christmas.
I know you have been fighting it so far but it's now time to get some of the Christmas feeling in you and what better way to start than listening to the first of the Christmas episodes on Hosks Half Hour
Hosks Half Hour - Episode 54 - Christmas Comedy and laughing at Santa's bulging sack
The contents of the episode are
Xmas Warnings
jealous of the box
don't go shopping after a pint on xmas eve
don't believe her when she says don't spend much
What Christmas is
don't make a snowmen make a snow....
reith lectures
Cliff Richard is Mr Xmas
Christmas Standup
people becoming eating machines
santa is watching you
Christmas to xmas
poor person has his birthday on Xmas
xmas sounds like a fungal disease
Xmas stories
Hosks dad versus the icicle
Xmas thoughts
I hate wrapping presents
Chickens versus turkeys
cheese
the Xmas Film
Xmas stuff
The worst Christmas presents ever given
sketches
Business man - xmas party
Fat kid - mums got funny head
Don't forget there are plenty of other non Xmas related episodes also available at Hosks Half Hour
Merry Hoskmas
Friday, December 12, 2008
Friday, December 05, 2008
Laughing in the face of Armageddon
This week Hosks Half Hour, which is Episode 52 - Laughing in the face of Armageddon
It is will have you laughing like a drain utilising the power of laughter of other people and turning it on you like a laser beam on a bond film
here is the contents of this weeks funny episode of the comedy podcast Hosks Half Hour
I have mixed laughing internet clips with funny Hosk stuff and some toilet humour.
my favourite clips are Armageddon, which is a story to put you off felching if you were weren't already and then we have someone trying to conduct an interview with ridiculously squeaky voiced man
Hosk Stories
I made a new naughty word
Hosk Fact
Penguins can jump six feet
Hosk Standup
the English language
hosk toilet airfreshner
what does pulling your finger out mean?
laughing clips
legover, boggy marsh and the Charlotte Green Today Show March 28 2008 are brought back because I wanted to the hear them again
Armageddon - odd hamster felching thing
squeaky voice man - this is brilliant very very funny
A weather women who bursts into laughter
other bits
a laughing montage collection, very funny
Mucks up
It is will have you laughing like a drain utilising the power of laughter of other people and turning it on you like a laser beam on a bond film
here is the contents of this weeks funny episode of the comedy podcast Hosks Half Hour
I have mixed laughing internet clips with funny Hosk stuff and some toilet humour.
my favourite clips are Armageddon, which is a story to put you off felching if you were weren't already and then we have someone trying to conduct an interview with ridiculously squeaky voiced man
Hosk Stories
I made a new naughty word
Hosk Fact
Penguins can jump six feet
Hosk Standup
the English language
hosk toilet airfreshner
what does pulling your finger out mean?
laughing clips
legover, boggy marsh and the Charlotte Green Today Show March 28 2008 are brought back because I wanted to the hear them again
Armageddon - odd hamster felching thing
squeaky voice man - this is brilliant very very funny
A weather women who bursts into laughter
other bits
a laughing montage collection, very funny
Mucks up
Monday, December 01, 2008
The Demise of Woolworths - you should laugh but you do
Here is some comedy from the funny comedy podcast Hosks Half Hour so if you like the clip which you can listen to here
then you should try listening to the whole episode it features lots of laughing, literally clips of people laughing whilst trying to read the news, commentate on cricket and other serious moments when you really shouldn't be laughing but can't help yourself
Hosks Half Hour - Episode 52 - Warning Laughter contained inside
then you should try listening to the whole episode it features lots of laughing, literally clips of people laughing whilst trying to read the news, commentate on cricket and other serious moments when you really shouldn't be laughing but can't help yourself
Hosks Half Hour - Episode 52 - Warning Laughter contained inside
Hosks Half Hour - the laughing episode
Episode 52 of Hosks Half Hour the funny podcast for comedy lovers everywhere
So in this weeks podcast we have lots of clips of people trying to do something serious like read the news and then laughing and then not being able to stop laughing
Hosk Stories
etc tomatos in my sandwich
Hosk falls asleep whilst watching Rocky six
Hosk Standup
Hosk interview Hosk over penis talk
cybersex the worst of all the versions of sex
Hosk odds and sods
gummi bears
clare distored singing
muffin top
swearathon
feckingham way
News Nuggets
fat bread
woolworths is closing
the terror attacks in india
moustaches are making a comeback!
Laughing clips
Legover - cricket commentators
Charlotte Green Today Show March 28 2008
news women cant speak without laughing
The Hosk laughing
boggy marsh
News reporter gets a laughing attack
So in this weeks podcast we have lots of clips of people trying to do something serious like read the news and then laughing and then not being able to stop laughing
Hosk Stories
etc tomatos in my sandwich
Hosk falls asleep whilst watching Rocky six
Hosk Standup
Hosk interview Hosk over penis talk
cybersex the worst of all the versions of sex
Hosk odds and sods
gummi bears
clare distored singing
muffin top
swearathon
feckingham way
News Nuggets
fat bread
woolworths is closing
the terror attacks in india
moustaches are making a comeback!
Laughing clips
Legover - cricket commentators
Charlotte Green Today Show March 28 2008
news women cant speak without laughing
The Hosk laughing
boggy marsh
News reporter gets a laughing attack
Thursday, November 27, 2008
What is a merkin?
Here is some funny standup about Merkins and talking about the private part wigs
http://ia310834.us.archive.org/1/items/WhatUseIsAMerkin/Standup-Murkins_64kb.mp3
This is a clip from Hosks Half Hour the comedy podcast that everyone is listening to but no one has heard of
http://ia310834.us.archive.org/1/items/WhatUseIsAMerkin/Standup-Murkins_64kb.mp3
This is a clip from Hosks Half Hour the comedy podcast that everyone is listening to but no one has heard of
Could National thought day solve all our problems?
I was thinking about thinking today, a dangerous never ending loop of thought if ever there was one. I was thinking of the vagaries and fortune that often assisted people with new theories, the holistic knowledge needed to create and then develop theories and ideas.
Knowledge in the human species is a cumulative knowledge, most and probably all the new thinking today is built upon the foundations of our ancestor’s knowledge. So you could say we our better informed thanks to the thoughts, ideas and studies of the previous generations. I would say the current ideas have evolved in a Darwinian manner; leading ideas are improved and developed whilst other disproved or unpopular ideas are left to whither and die.
Even with the cumulative knowledge we still need flashes of insight because although in the long term knowledge on different topics is a smooth progression; a close look at the graph will show sudden explosions of knowledge followed by some rapid growth and then a tailing off to only small increases until we have another spike. The spike and sudden leap in the graph or in knowledge of a subject is caused by someone thinking about the topic or problem in a different way than the previous thoughts on the subject.
The spikes often seemed to be arrived at by people bringing in ideas and knowledge from different areas such as music, experiences and more often or not luck.
Let’s first think about penicillin, this discovery came about because a Petri dish had been left out because Alexander Fleming was a messy lab technician, which makes me feel better whilst I type this at my messy desk, it his described in more detail by wikipedia
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer," Fleming would later say, "But I guess that was exactly what I did."
By 1928, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but quite a careless lab technician; he often forgot cultures that he worked on, and his lab in general was usually in chaos. After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus, and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But subsequently, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the unsubmerged dishes that he would have otherwise discarded. He then noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mould, correctly identified it as being from the Penicillium genus, and therefore named the agent penicillin.”
There is also Isaac Newton who was inspired by being struck by an apple and then suddenly coming up with the idea for the Universal Law of Gravitation. I’m not sure whether it’s bad luck which has prevented a similar apple from hitting me on the head or perhaps a similar apple or another sort of fruit or object has struck me on the head but I didn’t have the other knowledge for it to cultivate a world changing theory.
My favourite story is Archimedes who whilst thinking about how to measure the weight of the kings gold ring whilst in the bath realised an object plunged into liquid, in this case his dirty body becomes lighter by an amount equal to the weight of liquid it displaces, according to folklore Archimedes then leapt out of the bath naked and ran around the streets shouting “Eureka!”.
We have all taken baths and I am sure many of us have had inspiration to solve problems but Archimedes found the solution to his problem of finding the weight and quality of the kings gold rings by bringing in knowledge or thoughts from everyday life and his personal hygiene to help him solve a problem he was having. Would Archimedes come to this solution without thinking about it in the bath, who knows but it was a mixture of fortune and intelligence which lead him to the solution. The inspiration for his new thought came from mixing his knowledge of two different areas, well not knowledge but usage of the bath in this case.
I remember reading about a discovery but have forgotten what it was and who it was but the person was trying to understand a pattern he could see in there results. This person was also a musician and he realised the pattern he saw was the same as the music scale he was practising whilst learning to play the piano. His musical knowledge helped him find the pattern and come up with a new analysis of his results, although I can’t remember it and this last paragraph seem a bit useless, what I am trying to emphasis is it’s often the patterns and knowledge of other areas that help us organise and understand items in other unrelated areas.
Knowing musical scales, mathematical theories, the double helix structure, business selling strategies, having a bath or being hit on the head by some fruit, it’s often having the unrelated knowledge which prompts some people to view problems in a different way to someone who doesn't have that knowledge. The problem occurs that you might the unrelated knowledge without using it on a problem where that knowledge would be insightful.
It is with this idea in mind that I think we should have a national thought day, where many people turn their thoughts to a problem or theory and write down their ideas on the subject. This in many ways is what happens today but the different thoughts come through people writing essays, books, TV and radio shows and then the people who read these ideas have ideas of their own but based on the new knowledge and their own individual thoughts based and influenced on the holistic knowledge of their brain.
Writing books, publishing essays and presenting ideas in other formats can take a long time because people spend extra time on the presentation of such ideas rather than the content. New ideas are often worth a lot of money, especially if you are trying to sell a book with your new idea in. Sometimes people don't want to collaborate with someone because it would dilute the monetary value of the idea.
Forgetting about the money or the prestige of having an idea first, in terms of creating new ideas or views on subjects then I think we should have a national thought day, what if we told the whole of the UK for today think about solutions for Global warming. Or is the mind linked to consciousness, how can improve education in England,
In general the usefulness of people’s ideas will be influenced by the depth of the knowledge they have on the subject, more informed people on a topic will be able to give a more in-depth thoughts and ideas. Yet it could be the people with different backgrounds and mixture of experience and knowledge that come up with the spike idea, the new thought on the subject which leads to the graph of knowledge spiking up.
It might need someone with a knowledge of the optimal soil configuration for mushroom growth to shed light on how to increase learning capacity of the brain or a guitar playing marine biologist studying sea horses (if they study sea horses) who comes up with the idea of how to cure aids.
I say put up the problems and let everyone put a thought towards it because I think somewhere there will be someone who has an individual collection of experiences and knowledge which will lead that person to come up with an idea the rest of us wouldn’t.
I also have a comedy podcast which needs listening to - Hosks Half Hour
Knowledge in the human species is a cumulative knowledge, most and probably all the new thinking today is built upon the foundations of our ancestor’s knowledge. So you could say we our better informed thanks to the thoughts, ideas and studies of the previous generations. I would say the current ideas have evolved in a Darwinian manner; leading ideas are improved and developed whilst other disproved or unpopular ideas are left to whither and die.
Even with the cumulative knowledge we still need flashes of insight because although in the long term knowledge on different topics is a smooth progression; a close look at the graph will show sudden explosions of knowledge followed by some rapid growth and then a tailing off to only small increases until we have another spike. The spike and sudden leap in the graph or in knowledge of a subject is caused by someone thinking about the topic or problem in a different way than the previous thoughts on the subject.
The spikes often seemed to be arrived at by people bringing in ideas and knowledge from different areas such as music, experiences and more often or not luck.
Let’s first think about penicillin, this discovery came about because a Petri dish had been left out because Alexander Fleming was a messy lab technician, which makes me feel better whilst I type this at my messy desk, it his described in more detail by wikipedia
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer," Fleming would later say, "But I guess that was exactly what I did."
By 1928, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but quite a careless lab technician; he often forgot cultures that he worked on, and his lab in general was usually in chaos. After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus, and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But subsequently, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the unsubmerged dishes that he would have otherwise discarded. He then noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mould, correctly identified it as being from the Penicillium genus, and therefore named the agent penicillin.”
There is also Isaac Newton who was inspired by being struck by an apple and then suddenly coming up with the idea for the Universal Law of Gravitation. I’m not sure whether it’s bad luck which has prevented a similar apple from hitting me on the head or perhaps a similar apple or another sort of fruit or object has struck me on the head but I didn’t have the other knowledge for it to cultivate a world changing theory.
My favourite story is Archimedes who whilst thinking about how to measure the weight of the kings gold ring whilst in the bath realised an object plunged into liquid, in this case his dirty body becomes lighter by an amount equal to the weight of liquid it displaces, according to folklore Archimedes then leapt out of the bath naked and ran around the streets shouting “Eureka!”.
We have all taken baths and I am sure many of us have had inspiration to solve problems but Archimedes found the solution to his problem of finding the weight and quality of the kings gold rings by bringing in knowledge or thoughts from everyday life and his personal hygiene to help him solve a problem he was having. Would Archimedes come to this solution without thinking about it in the bath, who knows but it was a mixture of fortune and intelligence which lead him to the solution. The inspiration for his new thought came from mixing his knowledge of two different areas, well not knowledge but usage of the bath in this case.
I remember reading about a discovery but have forgotten what it was and who it was but the person was trying to understand a pattern he could see in there results. This person was also a musician and he realised the pattern he saw was the same as the music scale he was practising whilst learning to play the piano. His musical knowledge helped him find the pattern and come up with a new analysis of his results, although I can’t remember it and this last paragraph seem a bit useless, what I am trying to emphasis is it’s often the patterns and knowledge of other areas that help us organise and understand items in other unrelated areas.
Knowing musical scales, mathematical theories, the double helix structure, business selling strategies, having a bath or being hit on the head by some fruit, it’s often having the unrelated knowledge which prompts some people to view problems in a different way to someone who doesn't have that knowledge. The problem occurs that you might the unrelated knowledge without using it on a problem where that knowledge would be insightful.
It is with this idea in mind that I think we should have a national thought day, where many people turn their thoughts to a problem or theory and write down their ideas on the subject. This in many ways is what happens today but the different thoughts come through people writing essays, books, TV and radio shows and then the people who read these ideas have ideas of their own but based on the new knowledge and their own individual thoughts based and influenced on the holistic knowledge of their brain.
Writing books, publishing essays and presenting ideas in other formats can take a long time because people spend extra time on the presentation of such ideas rather than the content. New ideas are often worth a lot of money, especially if you are trying to sell a book with your new idea in. Sometimes people don't want to collaborate with someone because it would dilute the monetary value of the idea.
Forgetting about the money or the prestige of having an idea first, in terms of creating new ideas or views on subjects then I think we should have a national thought day, what if we told the whole of the UK for today think about solutions for Global warming. Or is the mind linked to consciousness, how can improve education in England,
In general the usefulness of people’s ideas will be influenced by the depth of the knowledge they have on the subject, more informed people on a topic will be able to give a more in-depth thoughts and ideas. Yet it could be the people with different backgrounds and mixture of experience and knowledge that come up with the spike idea, the new thought on the subject which leads to the graph of knowledge spiking up.
It might need someone with a knowledge of the optimal soil configuration for mushroom growth to shed light on how to increase learning capacity of the brain or a guitar playing marine biologist studying sea horses (if they study sea horses) who comes up with the idea of how to cure aids.
I say put up the problems and let everyone put a thought towards it because I think somewhere there will be someone who has an individual collection of experiences and knowledge which will lead that person to come up with an idea the rest of us wouldn’t.
I also have a comedy podcast which needs listening to - Hosks Half Hour
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Why is laughter contagious?
I was thinking about laughing today, I have noticed that when I am recording contents for my comedy podcast I am often laughing at the daft stuff I am or have just said.
The reason I was thinking about laughing because I was thinking about the funny clip of two BBC cricket commentators Brian Johnson and Jonathan Agnew laughing when commentating at the oval. The commentators start cracking up with laughter and go all high pitched. You can find the clip here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/audio/legover.mp3
I find it impossible not to start laughing when I hear this clip, despite knowing exactly what is going to happen, once they say he couldn’t get his leg over, that’s it they can’t go on, struggle for a bit and then start laughing and once one of them starts the other can't stop himself. It makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Ricky Gervais often does this on his podcasts and interviews, the sound of Gervais’s high pitched laughing often makes me laugh regardless if what he is actually saying is funny.
When you think about this, it is in some ways disturbing, it seems laughing is contagious. I have heard this theory mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in his book the Tipping point. This lead me to think about my own podcast, Ricky Gervais and the excellent cricket commentary clip.
What this contagious laughing indicates is a couple of points
1. Laughing is contagious; if someone else laughs you might too.
2. you don’t even have to hear or know what they are laughing at to join in
3. laughing isn’t always a response of hearing, reading or seeing something funny
The above points may explain why people enjoy watching comedians perform live. I have often been to a comedian and then the next day someone asked me if it was good, Yes I would say but then I couldn’t recall anything funny the comedian said. The of course could be due to my poor memory but maybe it wasn’t all that funny but the fact everyone else was laughing caused me to laugh as well.
I am not saying that comedians just rely on a few people laughing to start a laughing wave and then they don’t have to worry about saying anything else funny but I am saying having lots of people laughing will definitely encourage other people to laugh regardless of the quality of the material.
The mirror has included a list of TV and radio stars who couldn’t stop laughing, if only they included the links to the clips
So what is laughing and is it any good for us, this is one of those topics I wonder how humans would explain laughter to aliens, perhaps they already beamed down to earth and found a bunch of humans laughing and got back in their space ships thinking we aren’t ready to meet them yet, anyway I found a description of laughing here
“When we laugh, the brain pressures us to simultaneously make gestures and sounds. Fifteen facial muscles contract, the larynx becomes half-closed so that we breathe irregularly, which can makes us gasp for air, and sometimes, the tear ducts become activated (1). Nerves sent to the brain trigger electrical impulses to set off chemical reactions. These reactions release natural tranquilizers, pain relievers and endorphins (2). “
I have to admit it doesn’t sound as much when you see it written down in such a clinical manner. This article has some interesting facts, like 80% of laughter isn’t based on humour. It also states speakers laugh 46% more than listeners, although this is 97.5% false when you investigate the laughter speaker to listener level of my podcast, which I have selfishness not mentioned for a few paragraphs, although writing that did make me laugh and probably not you.
I love statistics and this article is chock full of odd and intriguing statistics. Humans laugh on average 17 times a day! And some researchers who presumable are avoiding doing any real work, theorise laughing 100 times a day is the equivalent of doing a 15 minutes of exercise.
The baffling figures they pluck out of the air is impressive for the definitive numbers which I would multiply with a uselessness factor of 3.5 to come to the conclusion I would also like to be someone who spent his time coming up with such statistics.
So scientists think laughter is contagious, I think laughter is contagious so all is good in the world. Laughter it seems is also good for you and is like doing a workout, well bring on the laughter diet.
The amazing fact these ideas seem to indicate is all we need to do is just laugh more, we don’t have to be funny or read funny things or even see anything funny. The only thing we have to do to laugh more is decide to laugh, by laughing you will trigger someone else laughing whose laughter will bounce back making you laugh and none of you will know why. If anyone else comes into your laughter zone they will then start laughing as well.
The results of this will be increased happiness, healthy body, positive feelings, endorphins released and you will all feel a whole lot better with the only downside is your face might ache a bit but when you are all laughing your aching face will probably seem funny.
So get laughing and if you need any help, did I mention I have a funny podcast full of laughing and you know what listening to laughing does to you
Hosks Half Hour - http://hoskshalfhour.blogspot.com/
The reason I was thinking about laughing because I was thinking about the funny clip of two BBC cricket commentators Brian Johnson and Jonathan Agnew laughing when commentating at the oval. The commentators start cracking up with laughter and go all high pitched. You can find the clip here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/audio/legover.mp3
I find it impossible not to start laughing when I hear this clip, despite knowing exactly what is going to happen, once they say he couldn’t get his leg over, that’s it they can’t go on, struggle for a bit and then start laughing and once one of them starts the other can't stop himself. It makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Ricky Gervais often does this on his podcasts and interviews, the sound of Gervais’s high pitched laughing often makes me laugh regardless if what he is actually saying is funny.
When you think about this, it is in some ways disturbing, it seems laughing is contagious. I have heard this theory mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in his book the Tipping point. This lead me to think about my own podcast, Ricky Gervais and the excellent cricket commentary clip.
What this contagious laughing indicates is a couple of points
1. Laughing is contagious; if someone else laughs you might too.
2. you don’t even have to hear or know what they are laughing at to join in
3. laughing isn’t always a response of hearing, reading or seeing something funny
The above points may explain why people enjoy watching comedians perform live. I have often been to a comedian and then the next day someone asked me if it was good, Yes I would say but then I couldn’t recall anything funny the comedian said. The of course could be due to my poor memory but maybe it wasn’t all that funny but the fact everyone else was laughing caused me to laugh as well.
I am not saying that comedians just rely on a few people laughing to start a laughing wave and then they don’t have to worry about saying anything else funny but I am saying having lots of people laughing will definitely encourage other people to laugh regardless of the quality of the material.
The mirror has included a list of TV and radio stars who couldn’t stop laughing, if only they included the links to the clips
So what is laughing and is it any good for us, this is one of those topics I wonder how humans would explain laughter to aliens, perhaps they already beamed down to earth and found a bunch of humans laughing and got back in their space ships thinking we aren’t ready to meet them yet, anyway I found a description of laughing here
“When we laugh, the brain pressures us to simultaneously make gestures and sounds. Fifteen facial muscles contract, the larynx becomes half-closed so that we breathe irregularly, which can makes us gasp for air, and sometimes, the tear ducts become activated (1). Nerves sent to the brain trigger electrical impulses to set off chemical reactions. These reactions release natural tranquilizers, pain relievers and endorphins (2). “
I have to admit it doesn’t sound as much when you see it written down in such a clinical manner. This article has some interesting facts, like 80% of laughter isn’t based on humour. It also states speakers laugh 46% more than listeners, although this is 97.5% false when you investigate the laughter speaker to listener level of my podcast, which I have selfishness not mentioned for a few paragraphs, although writing that did make me laugh and probably not you.
I love statistics and this article is chock full of odd and intriguing statistics. Humans laugh on average 17 times a day! And some researchers who presumable are avoiding doing any real work, theorise laughing 100 times a day is the equivalent of doing a 15 minutes of exercise.
The baffling figures they pluck out of the air is impressive for the definitive numbers which I would multiply with a uselessness factor of 3.5 to come to the conclusion I would also like to be someone who spent his time coming up with such statistics.
So scientists think laughter is contagious, I think laughter is contagious so all is good in the world. Laughter it seems is also good for you and is like doing a workout, well bring on the laughter diet.
The amazing fact these ideas seem to indicate is all we need to do is just laugh more, we don’t have to be funny or read funny things or even see anything funny. The only thing we have to do to laugh more is decide to laugh, by laughing you will trigger someone else laughing whose laughter will bounce back making you laugh and none of you will know why. If anyone else comes into your laughter zone they will then start laughing as well.
The results of this will be increased happiness, healthy body, positive feelings, endorphins released and you will all feel a whole lot better with the only downside is your face might ache a bit but when you are all laughing your aching face will probably seem funny.
So get laughing and if you need any help, did I mention I have a funny podcast full of laughing and you know what listening to laughing does to you
Hosks Half Hour - http://hoskshalfhour.blogspot.com/
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Hosks Half Hour - Episode 51 - Explaining why you should never laugh in public toilets
The Hosks Half hour is back, so get ready to laugh you pants clean off
Episode 51 - why you shouldn't laugh at people in the toilet
Hosk Story
BT stands for Bastards and Twats
BT - Hazaar I'm back baby
SKY - Screwed me big time
Hosk turns light out in toilet
hosk laughing - bus man pissing in bushes
Hosk Standup
The Hosk almost died of a heart attack!
morning time
pinball wizard
Hosk Thought
McGoogan
rubbish breast joke
News nuggets
krypton factor is back!
man trapped in toilet
man punched in face in urinal
songs
green field
this is bass
The Hosk singing to Bon Jovi
Episode 51 - why you shouldn't laugh at people in the toilet
Hosk Story
BT stands for Bastards and Twats
BT - Hazaar I'm back baby
SKY - Screwed me big time
Hosk turns light out in toilet
hosk laughing - bus man pissing in bushes
Hosk Standup
The Hosk almost died of a heart attack!
morning time
pinball wizard
Hosk Thought
McGoogan
rubbish breast joke
News nuggets
krypton factor is back!
man trapped in toilet
man punched in face in urinal
songs
green field
this is bass
The Hosk singing to Bon Jovi
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monotheism - going from one god to no god in one easy belief
I have been reading some interesting articles today, one leading me onto another. I first started reading about an article by Richard Dawkins after the September 11th attack in 2001, with the title
Stop respecting religion and start submitting it to the same scrutiny as any other idea or argument
actually the first part of the article starts with this
Stop respecting religion and start submitting it to the same scrutiny as any other idea or argument, says Richard Dawkins. And September 11th 2001 makes this scrutiny more urgent than ever...
In the article Dawkins mentions the religion has been the cause of many violent atrocities and conflicts in the world, which always strikes me as incredible odd and something which I can never really understand. Why religion is so intolerant of other religions, in fact why is religion so intolerant of many things and peoples ideas. It always strikes me that religious people I would expect to be the most tolerant and forgiving but always seem to be in the media complaining about things. My comment is probably an inferior rehashing of Dawkins and Gore Vidal and I would recommend you read those articles for a more intelligent discussion of the subjects of religion and Monotheism, read the rest below if you want my thoughts on it.
In the article Dawkins quotes Gore Vidal and his essay - The Great Unmentionable) Monotheism and its Discontents –
This essay by Gore Vidal goes into a good deal of depth about not being able to discuss religion and is well worth reading.
I didn’t know what Monotheism meant so I had to look it up
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monotheism
Monotheism
mon⋅o⋅the⋅ism
[mon-uh-thee-iz-uh m]
–noun
the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
________________________________________
Origin:
1650–60; MONO- + (poly)theism
The idea of one god always brings a forth intrigue from me, intrigue in what religious people make of this. If there was one religion and everyone believed the same religion with the same god, although I would think this foolish to believe in a god, you would at least give it a bit more credence being based on the fact everyone who believes in god is believing in the same one, some strength in numbers or at least consistency. Basically if everyone who believes in a god all believed in the same god then I could entertain the idea of plausability. The current situation of many different religions and gods seems to contribute to the argument of no god existing.
I myself think Football should be classified as a religion and each team as a different faith because it also is based on illogical, hereditary or environmental (e.g. where you live) conditions.
The fact is there are hundreds of different religions featuring many different gods. This must surely raise a few doubts or questions to religious people, one story about a God creating the world and you doubt it, many stories of different gods creating the world and now you are thinking, well they can’t all be right but how do we know which one is true?
The question of knowing which religion is correct is an impossible one to answer, all the religions are based on faith and not facts. So you could read about all of them but get no nearer the truth.
In the initial article Dawkins focuses on how society is conditioned not to questions religious beliefs and indeed we often tell each other never to discuss religion or politics are you have had a few drinks. The reason why we should discuss these topics is because they are based on faith and not facts, you won’t be able to prove to a religious person God doesn’t exist and in the same way they can’t prove to you he does, so all you have left is a lot of hot air. Politics is based on ideology but it’s difficult to discuss it because it is based on a number of topics with people arguing different and unrelated points, leaving you with more hot air.
Dawkins also mentions an article from the late and great Douglas Adams and his article “is there an artificial God”
The Douglas Adam article I recommend reading because it’s humorous, thoughtful and informative, a delicious mix.
So I will finish with thinking about the new word I have learnt Monotheism, the belief there is only one god. How do religious people come to terms with this, they must realise if they had been born in a different country they would believe in a different religion and god. What do religious people think about all the people who believe in a false god? They must think those poor misguided fools, dedicating their lives to pray and worship a god that doesn’t exist, can’t they see that might god is the only one that exists.
I would say to those religious people, the thoughts you have on the people who believe in a god that doesn’t exist are the same thoughts I have about the god you believe in and all the reasons you have to explain why the other religions god’s don’t exist could be used to explain why you god doesn’t exist. Surely there can’t be all these gods and if there was only one, why would he let all these people believe in the wrong god, why doesn’t he just pop down to earth and let the whole world stop spending time fighting, arguing and talking about which god exists.
Of course if he did that I would have to find something else to write about, so hopefully he will wait a few days before he puts in an appearance otherwise this article will all seem rather silly but I’m fairly confident there won’t be any sightings for a while.
Stop respecting religion and start submitting it to the same scrutiny as any other idea or argument
actually the first part of the article starts with this
Stop respecting religion and start submitting it to the same scrutiny as any other idea or argument, says Richard Dawkins. And September 11th 2001 makes this scrutiny more urgent than ever...
In the article Dawkins mentions the religion has been the cause of many violent atrocities and conflicts in the world, which always strikes me as incredible odd and something which I can never really understand. Why religion is so intolerant of other religions, in fact why is religion so intolerant of many things and peoples ideas. It always strikes me that religious people I would expect to be the most tolerant and forgiving but always seem to be in the media complaining about things. My comment is probably an inferior rehashing of Dawkins and Gore Vidal and I would recommend you read those articles for a more intelligent discussion of the subjects of religion and Monotheism, read the rest below if you want my thoughts on it.
In the article Dawkins quotes Gore Vidal and his essay - The Great Unmentionable) Monotheism and its Discontents –
This essay by Gore Vidal goes into a good deal of depth about not being able to discuss religion and is well worth reading.
I didn’t know what Monotheism meant so I had to look it up
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monotheism
Monotheism
mon⋅o⋅the⋅ism
[mon-uh-thee-iz-uh m]
–noun
the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
________________________________________
Origin:
1650–60; MONO- + (poly)theism
The idea of one god always brings a forth intrigue from me, intrigue in what religious people make of this. If there was one religion and everyone believed the same religion with the same god, although I would think this foolish to believe in a god, you would at least give it a bit more credence being based on the fact everyone who believes in god is believing in the same one, some strength in numbers or at least consistency. Basically if everyone who believes in a god all believed in the same god then I could entertain the idea of plausability. The current situation of many different religions and gods seems to contribute to the argument of no god existing.
I myself think Football should be classified as a religion and each team as a different faith because it also is based on illogical, hereditary or environmental (e.g. where you live) conditions.
The fact is there are hundreds of different religions featuring many different gods. This must surely raise a few doubts or questions to religious people, one story about a God creating the world and you doubt it, many stories of different gods creating the world and now you are thinking, well they can’t all be right but how do we know which one is true?
The question of knowing which religion is correct is an impossible one to answer, all the religions are based on faith and not facts. So you could read about all of them but get no nearer the truth.
In the initial article Dawkins focuses on how society is conditioned not to questions religious beliefs and indeed we often tell each other never to discuss religion or politics are you have had a few drinks. The reason why we should discuss these topics is because they are based on faith and not facts, you won’t be able to prove to a religious person God doesn’t exist and in the same way they can’t prove to you he does, so all you have left is a lot of hot air. Politics is based on ideology but it’s difficult to discuss it because it is based on a number of topics with people arguing different and unrelated points, leaving you with more hot air.
Dawkins also mentions an article from the late and great Douglas Adams and his article “is there an artificial God”
The Douglas Adam article I recommend reading because it’s humorous, thoughtful and informative, a delicious mix.
So I will finish with thinking about the new word I have learnt Monotheism, the belief there is only one god. How do religious people come to terms with this, they must realise if they had been born in a different country they would believe in a different religion and god. What do religious people think about all the people who believe in a false god? They must think those poor misguided fools, dedicating their lives to pray and worship a god that doesn’t exist, can’t they see that might god is the only one that exists.
I would say to those religious people, the thoughts you have on the people who believe in a god that doesn’t exist are the same thoughts I have about the god you believe in and all the reasons you have to explain why the other religions god’s don’t exist could be used to explain why you god doesn’t exist. Surely there can’t be all these gods and if there was only one, why would he let all these people believe in the wrong god, why doesn’t he just pop down to earth and let the whole world stop spending time fighting, arguing and talking about which god exists.
Of course if he did that I would have to find something else to write about, so hopefully he will wait a few days before he puts in an appearance otherwise this article will all seem rather silly but I’m fairly confident there won’t be any sightings for a while.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Are people starting to like Bill Gates?
I sometimes wonder what people will say about me when they are gathered round someone’s house or hopefully down the pub after my funeral. I hope they are sad for a second and then focus on my entertaining, stupid and amusing anecdotes and stories.
The reason I wonder this is that when ever someone dies people only have good things to say about them, rightly so in many ways, you want to remember and focus on the good qualities of people when making a brief statement about their life. Still I hope that someone might say that I could be a bit of an arse, argued a lot and often made a bit of a nuisance of himself, I mean who want’s to be liked and doing good things all of the time, bugger that a bit of selfish thinking never did anyone any harm.
Why am I talking about this, well I was wondering if we will start to see a change of opinion about Bill Gates, a slow changing of opinion towards nerdy Bill. This can happen now that Bill Gates has retired from Microsoft, although not working for Bill Gates is probably only working 37.5 hours a week I am guessing. Bill Gates will have a glimpse of the kind of things people will say at his funeral as social commentators routinely write articles on him from now until his actual death, if indeed he can die and hasn’t replaced his living organs with a biochemical version of windows!
Gates has been seen as the enemy, part of the windows led dictatorship of the home PC. In some ways Bill Gates has been lionised as the Darth Vader character in Star Wars and all, he was “the man” many people were rebelling against. A lot of PC users liked to see themselves as Han Solo’s or Luke Skywalker’s working in a small Rebel Alliance trying to work against the big corporate machine/imperial army (to labour on with the Star’s theme).
I have noticed this rebelling and rally against popular/mass used entities before, it often happens to bands. After a certain time when a band becomes so popular then the people who want to be different/individual and not go along with the norm will start to distance themselves and dislike the popular band. I read about one instance of this, it was when the Bee Gee’s had 5 singles in the top of the American single chart and was around the release of Saturday Night Fever. Showing perhaps there is truth in the saying that the only way to is down. Recently we have also had Cold Play, what most people seem to complain about is not the music but the band and their ubiquity.
So Bill Gates and Microsoft had a monopoly and then fought to keep it using nefarious bullying tactics and crushing any smaller competition which had the temerity to try and compete against Microsoft.
Recently I have noticed a small change in the opinion of Bill Gates, I personally have had a grudging respect, in a similar vain to the respect I have for the ruthless efficiency of seven times Formula one winner Michael Schumacher. I freely admit I do not have the focus to control as long and as hard as either Bill Gates or Schumacher and am not sure if I would be willing to act in the way they have done (although it is distinct possibility if I was in their position) but I can appreciate their actions in a cold calculating historical reflection. It has been successful because it is Bill Gates and Michael Schumacher that we know remember and not the names of the people who they bested.
Now Bill Gates has chosen to dedicate his time and considerable wealth to philanthropy will also make it easier for people to warm to him, which is saying something because he seems to have a impatient manner which often precocious intelligent child geniuses have when having to talk to well rounded but less intelligent individuals. I will use this opportunity to tell this trumpeted up self important little brain bullies, all the time you were locked away studying the rest of us were out on dates and socialising with people and having fun and no fun cannot be defined by making up a new calculation or formula or in Bill Gates’ case a new operating system.
I will add I think it is noble thing for Bill Gates to do, many businessmen often spend their time and money in making more money, so regardless that Bill has more money than anyone, the media attention, time and money he is putting towards good causes is a benefit to the mankind and so should rightly be applauded, Well done Bill you weasel faced uber nerd, there I said it.
So with the Gates shuffling out of Microsoft (is he a rat leaving the sinking ship?) and his focus on philanthropy, you will see history slowly rewritten to paint a nicer version of events which make nerdy Bill sound a bit more human and less Microsoft. It will also focus on his many achievements, especially on the start of Microsoft and his school days where he put in an incredible amount of work and thinking to propel him and Microsoft, which for a long time people could tell where Microsoft started and Bill Gates finished.
The plus side of Bill Gates giving his money away is it will hopefully stop people telling how many millions Gates earns a second or a minute, who cares, I bet he doesn’t it. It will also stop me wondering if you could buy your own country for 50 billion and what you would do with it.
So prepare yourself to join the new Bill Gates appreciation society as the world starts to like the person who was once the Darth Vader of the computer industry.
Why not listen to some comedy in your ears, listen to the comedy podcast - Hosks Half Hour for some comedy like you have never heard it before
The reason I wonder this is that when ever someone dies people only have good things to say about them, rightly so in many ways, you want to remember and focus on the good qualities of people when making a brief statement about their life. Still I hope that someone might say that I could be a bit of an arse, argued a lot and often made a bit of a nuisance of himself, I mean who want’s to be liked and doing good things all of the time, bugger that a bit of selfish thinking never did anyone any harm.
Why am I talking about this, well I was wondering if we will start to see a change of opinion about Bill Gates, a slow changing of opinion towards nerdy Bill. This can happen now that Bill Gates has retired from Microsoft, although not working for Bill Gates is probably only working 37.5 hours a week I am guessing. Bill Gates will have a glimpse of the kind of things people will say at his funeral as social commentators routinely write articles on him from now until his actual death, if indeed he can die and hasn’t replaced his living organs with a biochemical version of windows!
Gates has been seen as the enemy, part of the windows led dictatorship of the home PC. In some ways Bill Gates has been lionised as the Darth Vader character in Star Wars and all, he was “the man” many people were rebelling against. A lot of PC users liked to see themselves as Han Solo’s or Luke Skywalker’s working in a small Rebel Alliance trying to work against the big corporate machine/imperial army (to labour on with the Star’s theme).
I have noticed this rebelling and rally against popular/mass used entities before, it often happens to bands. After a certain time when a band becomes so popular then the people who want to be different/individual and not go along with the norm will start to distance themselves and dislike the popular band. I read about one instance of this, it was when the Bee Gee’s had 5 singles in the top of the American single chart and was around the release of Saturday Night Fever. Showing perhaps there is truth in the saying that the only way to is down. Recently we have also had Cold Play, what most people seem to complain about is not the music but the band and their ubiquity.
So Bill Gates and Microsoft had a monopoly and then fought to keep it using nefarious bullying tactics and crushing any smaller competition which had the temerity to try and compete against Microsoft.
Recently I have noticed a small change in the opinion of Bill Gates, I personally have had a grudging respect, in a similar vain to the respect I have for the ruthless efficiency of seven times Formula one winner Michael Schumacher. I freely admit I do not have the focus to control as long and as hard as either Bill Gates or Schumacher and am not sure if I would be willing to act in the way they have done (although it is distinct possibility if I was in their position) but I can appreciate their actions in a cold calculating historical reflection. It has been successful because it is Bill Gates and Michael Schumacher that we know remember and not the names of the people who they bested.
Now Bill Gates has chosen to dedicate his time and considerable wealth to philanthropy will also make it easier for people to warm to him, which is saying something because he seems to have a impatient manner which often precocious intelligent child geniuses have when having to talk to well rounded but less intelligent individuals. I will use this opportunity to tell this trumpeted up self important little brain bullies, all the time you were locked away studying the rest of us were out on dates and socialising with people and having fun and no fun cannot be defined by making up a new calculation or formula or in Bill Gates’ case a new operating system.
I will add I think it is noble thing for Bill Gates to do, many businessmen often spend their time and money in making more money, so regardless that Bill has more money than anyone, the media attention, time and money he is putting towards good causes is a benefit to the mankind and so should rightly be applauded, Well done Bill you weasel faced uber nerd, there I said it.
So with the Gates shuffling out of Microsoft (is he a rat leaving the sinking ship?) and his focus on philanthropy, you will see history slowly rewritten to paint a nicer version of events which make nerdy Bill sound a bit more human and less Microsoft. It will also focus on his many achievements, especially on the start of Microsoft and his school days where he put in an incredible amount of work and thinking to propel him and Microsoft, which for a long time people could tell where Microsoft started and Bill Gates finished.
The plus side of Bill Gates giving his money away is it will hopefully stop people telling how many millions Gates earns a second or a minute, who cares, I bet he doesn’t it. It will also stop me wondering if you could buy your own country for 50 billion and what you would do with it.
So prepare yourself to join the new Bill Gates appreciation society as the world starts to like the person who was once the Darth Vader of the computer industry.
Why not listen to some comedy in your ears, listen to the comedy podcast - Hosks Half Hour for some comedy like you have never heard it before
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