Ozzy Osbourne is to have his genome sequenced by scientists desperate to know how the hell he's managed to stay alive.
Geneticists in biohazard suits gave the £27,000 test to the dove-devouring, bat-biting Black Sabbath singer to try and find out how specific genes can protect against the effects of drug and alcohol abuse.
Nathan Pearson, director of research at Massachusetts firm Knome, told Sky News: "Sequencing and analysing individuals with extreme medical histories provides the greatest potential scientific value."
(Don't tell a soul, but there's a personal motive, too: geneticists are notorious party animals. It's a little-known fact that Watson and Crick were high as kites on acid and booze when they 'discovered' the structure of DNA. It isn't, in fact, a double helix at all, but a simple straight line.)
"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know," he once said. "I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead!"
Of course, Ozzy's a reformed character now. At our last office party, he restricted himself entirely to wheatgrass juice - handy, as it happened, when we needed a designated driver to take everyone to A&E. In retrospect, the flying competition wasn't such a brilliant idea.
Just look at where Ozzy is from, and it is no wonder that he is genetically predisposed for consuming and having a God-given tolerance for large quantities of alcohol.
"Give the devil an inch" -
An Anglo-Saxon unit of length was
the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch
was equal to 3 barleycorn. The English Inch is far better than the Hun Gry unit of measurement equal to 1/10 of a line and 1/120 of an inch. An Englishman should never go Hun Gry. Of course we know it in the bible.
This is why a Yard is superiour to a Pint. Heartbreaker, with your 44 U.S. ounces!
Ozzy is:
The Ponce of Gothness
The maddest
bark at the moon
British Birdman of ale!
When a source is realised, a sink will simultaneously be realised too - without a single exception - otherwise, there will be no limits to anything. As such, when, say, democracy was realised, communism has to have its place or else greed [of expression] will have no limits. Just look at the greedy who will become the fearful at another moment. The reason for polarities is for all to realised that balance is the key and the point/reality but without knowing how or why we “are” [and not so much who we were or are going to be], we will missed the reality standing behind a lesson.
The beauty about rebels is that they have no attachments to control and are meant to proliferate where control is running amok but not realising who or what they truly are, they then form attachments to abandonments and that is the worse of two evils, so to speak. This is because when inertia, oka the left, femininity, subconsciousness, carbs, depression, lethargy, and so forth, is let loose, it has little means of self-recovery whereas the control freak has action as his intrinsic quality. All forms of drugging have inertia as their god which is why addiction has no real cure other than through self-realisation, the realisation of, firstly, one’s position relative to reality and thereafter, the realisation of Reality Him/Her Self. It is benevolent to realised that the left, in extremis, is lunacy, which is why the worshipping/”appreciation”/comradship of/with such behaviour is reserved for the abandoned [nutters], oka Frivolity, the disease of The British, especially the English, Britain being the 4 chambers of the “Heart of the Universe”, and as all know about the blood circulatory system, it reaches every corner of the body/globe [and this reality is not a British/English thingy/”greatness” and neither is “Shakespeare” - not when one could be reborn as, say, a Chinese, god forbid].
As always, the Guardianship of Progeny from polarities is the foundation upon which true progress will come and the “Entertainment” culture of Abandonment in contemporary Western culture will build an empire of nutters who’ll worship tree-stumps and its ilk as the reason for their existence. The same goes for science, especially medical science, where lunatics of sorts are driving all towards such a weakened immune system that most will have no defence against abandonment-cum-control and these saviours then finger-point at “substances”/evil in order to facilitate the peddling their handlers’ wares. Just look at the gadgeteers who, through their bookies in the mass media, are so susceptable to “fashion”, oka religion ,that tomorrow, when told that some gadget will breathe for them, they’ll willingly sacrifice that innateness to/for some materialistic master ….. and after having finished laughing and coughing blood, take a peek at the mirror and all that surrounds and you’ll probably won’t want to wake up until some saint of the material hints that he’s again looking for volunteers to become rebels without a real cause - other than his cause. Immunise your true self and thereafter, at least some breathing space is afforded for that second thought.
Emma