world news : Brett Fish

a letter, from Magda Pecsenye, to her sons about stopping rape.

'Dear Boys, Some really horrible things happened to someone who could be one of your friends, and it was done by some people who could be your friends. You're 11 and almost-8 now, so the incident that made me write this letter isn't something you've heard about, but this stuff keeps happening, unfortunately. So I need to talk to you about it...' with that attention-grabbing opening paragraph, Magda Pecsenye, who is the writer for the [...]

By brettfish|2013-03-19T21:20:19+02:00March 19th, 2013|change the world, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, people, thorts of other people, what i am reading, world news|0 Comments

Manchester United beat Poverty by three goals to hunger.

So last night there was a game of football/soccer between Manchester United [soccer is one of my least supported sports but if i have ever supported a team it has been Manchester United... and then locally Kaizer Chiefs back in the day when Dr Khumalo played and i always back Bafana!] and Real Madrid in the Champion's League. Real Madrid won 2-1 but of course there was "that red card incident" with Nani getting sent [...]

By brettfish|2013-03-06T03:51:52+02:00March 6th, 2013|and other animals., bible things, change the world, shtupidt people, sport and games, world news|0 Comments

Oscar madness…

in the space of a week we go from the craziness surrounding the public 'investment' into the news, gossip and views surrounding the Oscar Pistorius case [where everyone had an opinion, a judgement, a Barry Bateman courtroom tweet to retweet and an emotional or political response] to the 3am [in South Africa] screening of the Academy Awards Oscars ceremony which is a few minutes away from starting... there seems to be a lot of similarity [...]

By brettfish|2013-02-24T21:08:32+02:00February 24th, 2013|and other animals., change the world, world news|0 Comments

Positive celebrating life story post 3: Nick Vujicic and son

Continuing my sharing of positive news: Anyone who has heard Nick Vujicic speak or seen him on a video will have been deeply inspired... Nick's Wikipedia page gives a brief intro to this giant of a man: 'Nicholas James "Nick" Vujicic (born 4 December 1982) is a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare 'disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and [...]

By brettfish|2013-02-23T02:00:31+02:00February 23rd, 2013|inspire-ations, world news|5 Comments

Dangerous Elections you can Least Expect…

so with election day happening in Americaland this week it was almost inevitable that Brad Fish, host of the hilarious 'Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect' series on You Tube would lend some words of warning as to why voting for the elections [with an 'L'] can be a Dangerous Thing for reasons you might Least Expect... check it out and if it makes you smile, laugh, giggle or snort some kind of liquid through [...]

By brettfish|2012-11-06T09:35:56+02:00November 6th, 2012|and other animals., humour'ish, local news, silly things, world news|0 Comments

Self-OCCUPY'd [a belated processing of the Occupy Movement that i encountered face to face]

i don't know a crazy lot about politics, nor do i claim to. although i do try to keep on top of the daily/weekly goings on back home in South Africa as well as the major news events with daily visits to internet news sites like iafrica.com and bbc.com so that i have a general idea of what is going on in the world. so when the OCCUPY movement came along, i had some idea [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-25T08:32:43+02:00September 25th, 2012|and other animals., challenges, change the world, local news, shtupidt people, silly things, world news|2 Comments

to celebrate a 40 million something goal is human, to forgive is divine…

i imagine this is a much bigger post or discussion than what will fit in here but let's get it started... a soccer player [who was worth something like 40 million something - does it really matter when you hit 40 million whether the next word is pounds, euros or dollars?] scores a goal. a hundred facebook statuses [stati?] read something along the lines of 'amazing goal - so worth the money spent' i get [...]

By brettfish|2012-05-18T08:50:56+02:00May 18th, 2012|and other animals., challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, life, shtupidt people, sport and games, world news|2 Comments

woman runs to catch baby from ten storey fall…

i thoroughly enjoy stories of hope and unselfishness and here is one of them... inspiring stuff...

By brettfish|2011-07-03T21:15:02+02:00July 3rd, 2011|heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, world news|0 Comments

why camping is not better than Jesus

aka 'the boy who cried wolfpocalypse' as i sat in theatresports [improv comedy group i belong to] class last nite and people were joking about the whole rapture thing or lack of thing, it was a little frustrating to see how christians [to be seriously not confused with Christ-followers though] had once again managed to give the group a bad name... a laugh-out-loud point-and-mock bad name... but this time it was a truly ridiculous premise [...]

By brettfish|2011-05-24T06:49:07+02:00May 24th, 2011|and other animals., church, God stuff, shtupidt people, world news|4 Comments

the royal wedding preach

my good friend patrick of cordery sent me a link to the preach at the wedding of william and kate yesterday which i sadly missed due to not wanting to watch it... but i'm really glad he did cos the words of this are phenomenal and really worth checking out or going and taking a read through again in case you were watching but a bit too caught up by lady gaga's hat... this is [...]

By brettfish|2011-04-30T13:25:28+02:00April 30th, 2011|God stuff, inspire-ations, marriage, relationships, world news|3 Comments