Hands up all you who enjoy the TV show 'Lost'.
Yeah figures.
I starrrrrtttttted to watch it when it first came on.
The lost me right about the point that A a short haul passenger jet was being used to fly from Australia to the USA, B it crashed from cruising altitude INTO A MOUNTAIN and wasnt i, completely fucked up and ii, more than one person survived (being generous there I frankly think theyre ALL dead). So they basically lost me in the first what? 5 minutes of the show.
Ferchrissake the ENTIRE tail section of the aeroplane came off in flight! Ferrchrissake the cockpit was found INTACT about 5km from the rest of the aeroplane which (ferrchrissake) looks amazingly like it was delicated dropped on a beach by a crane. What? It was? yeah yeah I know. Ferrchrissake nearly (it seems) the entire passenger compliment SURVIVED. Yeah. It augured in from about 35,000 feet. It was in ATLEAST 2 pieces when it hit. Yeah it is still possible to find not only the cockpit BUT (BUT he says) find one of the PILOTS alive a day or so AFTER the crash.
Fuck me am I watching a remake of Fantasy Island 'boss bits of the plane the plane'.
Atleast Gilligans Island was believable in its' original premise.
Newsflash TVland. Everyone on that flight died. They were GONNA die anyway as the pissy aeroplanes' engines woulda flamed out somewhere over the pacific. Noone survives when aircraft smash into things. People survive buggered up takesoff and landings. People survive when shit goes wrong at VERY low altitude.
Ok
This new one
Surface.
right
Like... US nuclear subs arent protected against EMP. WTF you think happens when they fire a nuke tipped torpedo at something? huh??? Arnie said it best ... 'if it bleeds we can kill it'
They kept referring to the beasty as a new form of mammal. Then a new form of vertebrate. Then a fuck knows what it was but it sure looked like a bloody big LIZARD to me. Now obviously mammals are all vertebrates so fair enough. But it doesnt look or act like a mammal. It lays eggs like an amphibian (look i know monotremes lay eggs ok ima freakin Aussie we live with the freaky lil critters).
IE it is really reptilian in nature.Where is the fur and/or obvious fat layers n streamlining aquatic mammals exhibit?
Theyve also compleately ignored natures deal with apex predators.
This thing lays eggs like a prey species. Turtles fer example. They lay LOTS of eggs as that way atleast some will survive to maturity. Apex predators do NOT give birth to copious young. They have one or two offspring at a time. This thing lays thousands at a time. Other predators would feed like hell on the little ones so that very few would survive to maturity. So youd find one or two big ones.
You will never find a predatory species coming to dominate the food chain unless the area has been severely interfered with via outside agency. Then they kinda shall we say DIE OUT from lack of food. Predators never outnumber prey. Simple as that. Hell even crocodiles conform. There is never more than one really BIG bastard croc in any one particular stretch of water.
So I dont watch either show as I believe they are both fundimentally flawed.
Now I watch shows like Buffy n Angel etc. I suspect critical disbelief happily. Like the X-files they do not purport to be factual. It is all hocus pocus. Well n good.
When a show is supposed to be a serious drama my old theory 'it is just as easy to get it right and costs no more' is bloody pertinent. NOONE walks away from plane crashes from 35000 feet unless theyve got a bloody parachute ok??
Right
On to Empire. yeah that show about Big Julie getting stabbed in the rotunda (a very painful place so im told). Purporting to be based on true events. Yep.
What bugs me about it is they bandy about terms like 'youll NEVER be Caesar!!!' like 'caesar' is a title.
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caesar became a title under Diocletian in about 285AD (IDONT have a book to hand to get the date dead right but it was in his reign that the Tetrarchy was introduced.
In 43BC it was Julius' family NAME.
As G. Julius Caesar adopted his nephew Octavianus as his son then he too was A Caesar not THE Caesar. The Julio- Claudians were all (atleast nominally) born into or adopted in to the family.
Octavian didnt need to sneak about gathering support n whimpering like a snivelling coward at what the senate might do!! He had the entire army of Julius at his back slavering for revenge. Mark Antony only came out against him when the Egypto-Macedonian bitch Cleopatra sank her claws into him. Second triumvirate folks. Look it up look it up.
Oh yeah another coincidence. Watched the first episode of Empire. Mused over the gladiator Tyrannus. Went to the toilet. Sat reading Flavius Josephus The Jewish War (a little light reading heh). There on the page I flipped to casually (With Josephus I play 'lets pick a page') was mentioned the greek slave 'tyrannus'. Id not encountered the name b4 in my readings here n there.
The point of this episode is that the end of the Roman Republic is an exciting story in and of itself. The rise of Augustus and the consolidation of the Roman empire under the rule of one man, while preserving the outward forms of republicanism is an intrisically interesting tale.
SO WHY FUGGIN MAKE SHIT UP???
It isnt exciting enough? PFFT
There isnt enough intrigue?? PFFFT
boody hollywood just cant help 'making shit better'
I'd love to be marking some morons' ancient history papers after they watch this crap.
there
Oh yeah I got tools n a toolbox fer Christmas YAY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Ive had tools b4. NEVER had a good toolbox to put them in. So they tended to get lost. Now I have a fair to middlin chance at fixing my car MYSELF. Hell I already did the ignition timing yesterday! I can now tighten stuff myself. heh
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
coincidences (really just the one or two I can remember at the moment though theyre always happening to me)
I read a lot. Dunno if I ever mentioned that b4.
Mostly crime fiction. I'm no snob I enjoy American writers and British. I havent found the genre well represented with Australian authors so no comments there.
I do particularly enjoy the ones set in Los Angeles as, having been there I can track the various characters' movements which heightens the enjoyment factor. Big deal eh.I also enjoy the occasional scifi and humorous outpourings.
So
I finished reading a novel written about 3 -4 years back set in sunny Boston n points thereabouts in which a character nicknamed 'Van Gogh' is killing people n removing their right ears.
so far so good.
One of the victims names is 'Gillfillan'. Weird arsed name that. Never heard it read it imagined it b4.
Finished that book. Picked up 'Better than Life' the sequel to Red Dward (getting my SciFi AND comedy fix in one easy hit). First paragraph mentions 'van gogh'. So the last paragraph in book 1 and the first paragraph in book 2 both mention a Dutch painter. Neither book is about Dutch painters.
Picked up the next book. Crime novel set in Scotland. detective bieng shown around a building by an archaeologist named Gillfillan. freaky shit.
All 3 books picked at random from the local library.
Ive noticed this sort of thing happening a lot. Does this reflect anyone elses' experience?
I seriously thought I had a small electronic transmitting device in my head for a while.
Watch the cricket. I would make some obtuse comment only indirectly related to what we were watching or listening to n about 2 minutes later one of the commentators would say the same thing almost word for word. Happened with the football too. Once or twice you think 'yeah they thought the same thing I did' but continually over 2 years (I am NOT referring to the little catchphrases etc all commentators develope andwhich get imitated by viewers). The Gurl thought I was being paranoid until she started to actually take note of the frequency of the occurences.
Hell they even took shows off when I bagged shit out of them the night b4. As you could imagine I got somewhat nervous.
Hasnt happened for some time now thank the gods.
Talking about the gods
I was playing squash the other day ('NO you were??' I hear you all say aghast) n looked up at the ineffective roof fans n thanked the great god of Squash , Jehengar Khan for bestowing his munificience on a shot I had played. The I realised The great one is still alive. So I had to change it to Hashim Khan as I'm fairly certain he has gone to the great glassbacked court in the sky.
Mostly crime fiction. I'm no snob I enjoy American writers and British. I havent found the genre well represented with Australian authors so no comments there.
I do particularly enjoy the ones set in Los Angeles as, having been there I can track the various characters' movements which heightens the enjoyment factor. Big deal eh.I also enjoy the occasional scifi and humorous outpourings.
So
I finished reading a novel written about 3 -4 years back set in sunny Boston n points thereabouts in which a character nicknamed 'Van Gogh' is killing people n removing their right ears.
so far so good.
One of the victims names is 'Gillfillan'. Weird arsed name that. Never heard it read it imagined it b4.
Finished that book. Picked up 'Better than Life' the sequel to Red Dward (getting my SciFi AND comedy fix in one easy hit). First paragraph mentions 'van gogh'. So the last paragraph in book 1 and the first paragraph in book 2 both mention a Dutch painter. Neither book is about Dutch painters.
Picked up the next book. Crime novel set in Scotland. detective bieng shown around a building by an archaeologist named Gillfillan. freaky shit.
All 3 books picked at random from the local library.
Ive noticed this sort of thing happening a lot. Does this reflect anyone elses' experience?
I seriously thought I had a small electronic transmitting device in my head for a while.
Watch the cricket. I would make some obtuse comment only indirectly related to what we were watching or listening to n about 2 minutes later one of the commentators would say the same thing almost word for word. Happened with the football too. Once or twice you think 'yeah they thought the same thing I did' but continually over 2 years (I am NOT referring to the little catchphrases etc all commentators develope andwhich get imitated by viewers). The Gurl thought I was being paranoid until she started to actually take note of the frequency of the occurences.
Hell they even took shows off when I bagged shit out of them the night b4. As you could imagine I got somewhat nervous.
Hasnt happened for some time now thank the gods.
Talking about the gods
I was playing squash the other day ('NO you were??' I hear you all say aghast) n looked up at the ineffective roof fans n thanked the great god of Squash , Jehengar Khan for bestowing his munificience on a shot I had played. The I realised The great one is still alive. So I had to change it to Hashim Khan as I'm fairly certain he has gone to the great glassbacked court in the sky.
Monday, December 19, 2005
Bloody pets
I miss my old budgerigar :/
berty was a plain green standard budgy. Like you get in the wild. Right size right colour.
He loved watching the cricket, eating lettuce and telling me where the flies were when they managed to get inside.
Bugger got really stroppy if ya turned the cricket off. Went mental in fact. Nothing could be heard over the screech of annoyed bird.
He had good enough hearing he could ascertain when we opened the vege crisper from 2 rooms away. UP n down up n down he would run on his perch whislting happily . Loved lettuce he did.
He hated flies as much as I did. Perhaps more. Always eyeball exactly where they were n make this unique 'theres a fly' chirp. Then do the dance of joy when I came n killed it.
What I particularly enjoyed was when the gurl would hold the mongrel bastard cat up to his cage. THe cat would try to get away to no avail as the mighty beak of Berty came out the cage n nipped him on the nose. Cat hated it. I loved it.
then he would watch intrigued as the powerball lotto draw took place. Then hold his own draw with his coloured ball being rolled down his ladder 7 times (5 n 2 supplimentaries donchano).
Hated being interrupted while he talked about something too. Give you a right serve. Laughed at my jokes.
Not like the stupid cockateil we have now. Bloody noisy bastard. Anyone want a bird?
Though he does duck down n hide when ya say 'peekaboo!' which is cute. Screams NO DEAL NO DEAL whenever Deal or No Deal (Game show here where the host asks the contestant 'deal or no deal') is on tv. Cracks me up but we can NEVER get him to do it when the vidcam is out.
N i dunno who took my dog n why they left this OTHER identical one in his place.
MY dog would look at you like you were a moron if ya walked up n started patting him. Call him with hand signal n he would walk calmly over n sit. This new, WEIRD dog grovels fer pats n attention in general. Sits his head on ya lap fer chrissake! WHERES MY DOG?? The gurl keeps threatening to give him away i say 'you go b4 the dog goes the CAT however.. that smelly little creature can piss off whenever it feels like'. To which I hear 'he is a tom - they all smell bad - he is actually pretty good'. Which is neither here nor there far as Im concerned. I dont have to deal with OTHER cats, just this one.
christmas is nearly here. Done all our shopping cept mebbe two presents. NO mad scrambling in this house this year! First time fer everything eh. as always the problem was to find USEFUL stuff as distinct from fancy looking crap. me I am easy to buy for. Racket grips n squash balls. Easy. A sports shirt in a light colour.
anyhoo have a good holiday season etc
berty was a plain green standard budgy. Like you get in the wild. Right size right colour.
He loved watching the cricket, eating lettuce and telling me where the flies were when they managed to get inside.
Bugger got really stroppy if ya turned the cricket off. Went mental in fact. Nothing could be heard over the screech of annoyed bird.
He had good enough hearing he could ascertain when we opened the vege crisper from 2 rooms away. UP n down up n down he would run on his perch whislting happily . Loved lettuce he did.
He hated flies as much as I did. Perhaps more. Always eyeball exactly where they were n make this unique 'theres a fly' chirp. Then do the dance of joy when I came n killed it.
What I particularly enjoyed was when the gurl would hold the mongrel bastard cat up to his cage. THe cat would try to get away to no avail as the mighty beak of Berty came out the cage n nipped him on the nose. Cat hated it. I loved it.
then he would watch intrigued as the powerball lotto draw took place. Then hold his own draw with his coloured ball being rolled down his ladder 7 times (5 n 2 supplimentaries donchano).
Hated being interrupted while he talked about something too. Give you a right serve. Laughed at my jokes.
Not like the stupid cockateil we have now. Bloody noisy bastard. Anyone want a bird?
Though he does duck down n hide when ya say 'peekaboo!' which is cute. Screams NO DEAL NO DEAL whenever Deal or No Deal (Game show here where the host asks the contestant 'deal or no deal') is on tv. Cracks me up but we can NEVER get him to do it when the vidcam is out.
N i dunno who took my dog n why they left this OTHER identical one in his place.
MY dog would look at you like you were a moron if ya walked up n started patting him. Call him with hand signal n he would walk calmly over n sit. This new, WEIRD dog grovels fer pats n attention in general. Sits his head on ya lap fer chrissake! WHERES MY DOG?? The gurl keeps threatening to give him away i say 'you go b4 the dog goes the CAT however.. that smelly little creature can piss off whenever it feels like'. To which I hear 'he is a tom - they all smell bad - he is actually pretty good'. Which is neither here nor there far as Im concerned. I dont have to deal with OTHER cats, just this one.
christmas is nearly here. Done all our shopping cept mebbe two presents. NO mad scrambling in this house this year! First time fer everything eh. as always the problem was to find USEFUL stuff as distinct from fancy looking crap. me I am easy to buy for. Racket grips n squash balls. Easy. A sports shirt in a light colour.
anyhoo have a good holiday season etc
Monday, December 12, 2005
Fear V desire
I went fishing for trout yesterday.
Now I could be acused of being something of a dilettante when it comes to trout fishing.
I go, wander about for a bit, teach one of my lures to swim some n if it looks like jack shit is happening I wander home again. My problem is I like 'sight' fishing.
That means I like to SEE the fish I'm trying to catch. Around here lately that is like pfft... FAT chance mate. Every time Ive been gold panning where I went fishing yesterday Ive seen trout. Yesterday? zip nada, nothing.
Come to think every time I go panning there I get something. Yesterday ? zip etc.
The gurl got very disheartened very fast. Not helped that she isnt feeling real well lately.
We even went up to Sofala last week n yeah got nothing. I know I go at weird times of the day but I usually see SOMETHING. I dont usually use my fly rod though cuz I rarely know if I am doing it right heh
I'm somewhat more puzzled by our lack of success (relatively - we are not trying to find enough gold to retire on - just to say we found some) gold panning as I know generally where n what to do. I ALWAYS get something. Not lately :/
Pretty scared of bloody snakes yesterday. Very overgrown. Very dense foliage. And Warm. Snake time. thankfully we didnt see a single one. Doesnt mean they werent there. Sneaky bastards. THey lurk where you cant see them then BAM strike when you relax for a mere second!! In Australia it is customary to run the pricks over several times when seen on roads so they cant chase you n crawl inside your car , laying in wait.
So the Lebanese boyos in Sydney bash a Cronulla lifesaver or two last weekend. THIS weekend 5000 skips bashed some lebanese who were, lets face it, too stupid to stay away. N its the anglo saxons aussies' fault the whole thing started. Cant figure that out myself. Racial violence sucks. But surely white folks have the right to defend themselves? Are we supposed to roll over on our tummies n play dead while arabic australians abuse young women in the streets (when they arent pack raping them as has happened), assault surf life savers trying to save lives (volunteers all) and who have generally (so it seems) rendered one of Sydneys' favourite beaches a no go zone unless you are of some sort of Arabic descent? Not right. Not right at all.
You lot got a fair go when they came here. you continue to get a fair go. Stop acting like arseholes. Cuz if you act like arseholes eventually a lot of people get the shits n some of them decide to DO something about it.
Anyone wants to call me racist can get fucked too. My exwife is chinese. My favourite uncle is Maltese. One of my best mates is Russian. Hell I even think the poms are ok. I grew up next door to a family of Lebanese refugees. Nicer people you wouldnt meet. They seemed pretty happy to be somewhere noone was shooting at them. I wonder what THEY think of the behaviour of the younger, Australian born generation.
The trouble is if the police arrest the pricks there is an instant bloody furor revolving around the fact they are 'lebanese' or 'muslim' or wherever the hell their anticedents are. NOT that they are little punk arse bastards. There are plenty of white mongrels in gaol across Australia for being pricks. When THEY get arrested noone makes a big deal about it do they? Nope. Arsehole got arrested for being an arsehole. Good.
they all whine about why can't you just accept us n our culture. Well fuck you. Your lot CAME here cuz we dont do shit like that. So stop trying to import your culture of intolerance and hatred here then labeling US as racist because we refuse to accept behaviour from you which we find unacceptable in our own cultural context. Narrow mindedness, petty hatred and conflict is the reason your families came here in the first place. Yet you BRING it with you. If you want to live in a crap world where the inmates run the asylum go back to Lebanon or Iraq or Iran where the rule of law and the human rights you blythely babble about is upheld in such a shining fashion.
Funny thing though. Dont ever seem to have any dramas with the Greeks, Italians, Maltese, Turks n Chinese. Or the Indians, Pakistanis n Sri Lankans. Aside from one or two bad eggs the Vietnamese seem to be a reasonable lot too.
Hell our real national day is a celebration of the fact we INVADED Turkey. Gives them a fair reason not to like us youd think eh. Get along just fine.
Wish we could send a few bloody NEW ZEALANDERS back home though. Can't move fer them on Bondi. It sux. Or sex. Or six. Something like that. Buy a vowel anyone?
I know... as the South Park song goes... 'blame Canada!!!!' Right it is ALL Canadas' fault. Probably them thar FRENCH Canadians. Ca va.
Likewise all you trades unionists from bloody England. Fuck off BACK there ya bastards. You all lobbed here in the late 70s n early 80s AFTER youd royally SCREWED the UK. Why? Cuz there were jobs n education n sun. Did you leave the bullshit behind? No. What a surprise it is to hear the dulcet tones of an english trades unionist banging on about shit here. Trying to fuck this country like they fucked England in the 70s.
If i hear another whining puling moron complain about 'high' interest rates again I think I will be sick. You can tell right away they were gormless twits in the late 80s otherwise theyd remember the recession we had to have when the communists i mean the labor party stuck us with 20% unemployment and 20% interest on HOME loans. (dont ASK what business loans went to - hell I think we should have the right to SUE the labor party for gross missmanagement - they put my father out of business in about 6 months fuck you very much).
How insulting can that lot get too? They had to introduce QUOTAS of women to try to boost the number of women in their party. Condescending bastards. If theyre good enough theyll get a run if they arent they wont. Simple. This is the system that gave us Roz Kelly as a MINISTER OF THE CROWN, Carmen Lawrence as a MINISTER of the CROWN, just to name two morons the labor party thought were talented. Just once I would like to see a labor party MLA who has actually either A run his/her own business or B at least held a JOB that DIDNT involve being a shop steward OR working for a union directly. Great grounding for running a country that. Learning how to blackmail employers, strike and generally do stuff that would have you arrested anywhere else.
Pulled ANOTHER leg muscle on Tuesday. So. Second week running (!) no gym. No squash. damnit. N NO it was the OTHER leg. stupid stupid boy.
Now I could be acused of being something of a dilettante when it comes to trout fishing.
I go, wander about for a bit, teach one of my lures to swim some n if it looks like jack shit is happening I wander home again. My problem is I like 'sight' fishing.
That means I like to SEE the fish I'm trying to catch. Around here lately that is like pfft... FAT chance mate. Every time Ive been gold panning where I went fishing yesterday Ive seen trout. Yesterday? zip nada, nothing.
Come to think every time I go panning there I get something. Yesterday ? zip etc.
The gurl got very disheartened very fast. Not helped that she isnt feeling real well lately.
We even went up to Sofala last week n yeah got nothing. I know I go at weird times of the day but I usually see SOMETHING. I dont usually use my fly rod though cuz I rarely know if I am doing it right heh
I'm somewhat more puzzled by our lack of success (relatively - we are not trying to find enough gold to retire on - just to say we found some) gold panning as I know generally where n what to do. I ALWAYS get something. Not lately :/
Pretty scared of bloody snakes yesterday. Very overgrown. Very dense foliage. And Warm. Snake time. thankfully we didnt see a single one. Doesnt mean they werent there. Sneaky bastards. THey lurk where you cant see them then BAM strike when you relax for a mere second!! In Australia it is customary to run the pricks over several times when seen on roads so they cant chase you n crawl inside your car , laying in wait.
So the Lebanese boyos in Sydney bash a Cronulla lifesaver or two last weekend. THIS weekend 5000 skips bashed some lebanese who were, lets face it, too stupid to stay away. N its the anglo saxons aussies' fault the whole thing started. Cant figure that out myself. Racial violence sucks. But surely white folks have the right to defend themselves? Are we supposed to roll over on our tummies n play dead while arabic australians abuse young women in the streets (when they arent pack raping them as has happened), assault surf life savers trying to save lives (volunteers all) and who have generally (so it seems) rendered one of Sydneys' favourite beaches a no go zone unless you are of some sort of Arabic descent? Not right. Not right at all.
You lot got a fair go when they came here. you continue to get a fair go. Stop acting like arseholes. Cuz if you act like arseholes eventually a lot of people get the shits n some of them decide to DO something about it.
Anyone wants to call me racist can get fucked too. My exwife is chinese. My favourite uncle is Maltese. One of my best mates is Russian. Hell I even think the poms are ok. I grew up next door to a family of Lebanese refugees. Nicer people you wouldnt meet. They seemed pretty happy to be somewhere noone was shooting at them. I wonder what THEY think of the behaviour of the younger, Australian born generation.
The trouble is if the police arrest the pricks there is an instant bloody furor revolving around the fact they are 'lebanese' or 'muslim' or wherever the hell their anticedents are. NOT that they are little punk arse bastards. There are plenty of white mongrels in gaol across Australia for being pricks. When THEY get arrested noone makes a big deal about it do they? Nope. Arsehole got arrested for being an arsehole. Good.
they all whine about why can't you just accept us n our culture. Well fuck you. Your lot CAME here cuz we dont do shit like that. So stop trying to import your culture of intolerance and hatred here then labeling US as racist because we refuse to accept behaviour from you which we find unacceptable in our own cultural context. Narrow mindedness, petty hatred and conflict is the reason your families came here in the first place. Yet you BRING it with you. If you want to live in a crap world where the inmates run the asylum go back to Lebanon or Iraq or Iran where the rule of law and the human rights you blythely babble about is upheld in such a shining fashion.
Funny thing though. Dont ever seem to have any dramas with the Greeks, Italians, Maltese, Turks n Chinese. Or the Indians, Pakistanis n Sri Lankans. Aside from one or two bad eggs the Vietnamese seem to be a reasonable lot too.
Hell our real national day is a celebration of the fact we INVADED Turkey. Gives them a fair reason not to like us youd think eh. Get along just fine.
Wish we could send a few bloody NEW ZEALANDERS back home though. Can't move fer them on Bondi. It sux. Or sex. Or six. Something like that. Buy a vowel anyone?
I know... as the South Park song goes... 'blame Canada!!!!' Right it is ALL Canadas' fault. Probably them thar FRENCH Canadians. Ca va.
Likewise all you trades unionists from bloody England. Fuck off BACK there ya bastards. You all lobbed here in the late 70s n early 80s AFTER youd royally SCREWED the UK. Why? Cuz there were jobs n education n sun. Did you leave the bullshit behind? No. What a surprise it is to hear the dulcet tones of an english trades unionist banging on about shit here. Trying to fuck this country like they fucked England in the 70s.
If i hear another whining puling moron complain about 'high' interest rates again I think I will be sick. You can tell right away they were gormless twits in the late 80s otherwise theyd remember the recession we had to have when the communists i mean the labor party stuck us with 20% unemployment and 20% interest on HOME loans. (dont ASK what business loans went to - hell I think we should have the right to SUE the labor party for gross missmanagement - they put my father out of business in about 6 months fuck you very much).
How insulting can that lot get too? They had to introduce QUOTAS of women to try to boost the number of women in their party. Condescending bastards. If theyre good enough theyll get a run if they arent they wont. Simple. This is the system that gave us Roz Kelly as a MINISTER OF THE CROWN, Carmen Lawrence as a MINISTER of the CROWN, just to name two morons the labor party thought were talented. Just once I would like to see a labor party MLA who has actually either A run his/her own business or B at least held a JOB that DIDNT involve being a shop steward OR working for a union directly. Great grounding for running a country that. Learning how to blackmail employers, strike and generally do stuff that would have you arrested anywhere else.
Pulled ANOTHER leg muscle on Tuesday. So. Second week running (!) no gym. No squash. damnit. N NO it was the OTHER leg. stupid stupid boy.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
stupid leg
yeah stupid damn leg
pulled a groin muscle the other day (no not THAT one). hurts it do when that happens. Hobble hobble ouchy ouchy ouchy no more squash n gym fer at least a week. Going even crazier :/
Going to mum n dads' again tomorrow we are pulling the front suspension struts out of mums' old (slighter errrr shorter) Peugeot n bunging them into mine. My left front shock is totally buggered. Looking forward to my beast handling n rriding like a Peugeot again (yay). Seems like we get to visit the parents every fortnight or so lately. I hope to also steal the front seats from her car. They are totally the wrong trim colour but I frankly could care less about that as my seat has frayed on the back squab bolster where you rub getting in and out. and theyve done about 600,000kms so theyre finally up fer wearing out I guess. Mums' car only has about 300,000 on the clock so the seats look near new. Hope to fix the exhaust once n for all too it is totally shitting me. Then soonish in the new year I'm be up fer front tyres (well... rears really but the current fronts are going on the back so the new ones will be on the front) Michelin XMV1 $125 per tyre hmmm not as much as I expected. sweet.
Petrol is coming down again. you know itll go up just b4 xmas again though. bloody bandits.
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One of the local idiots is screaming at her kid as I write. I reckon she is 3 streets over giving it total what for. Poor kid. dunno wtf he/she did but it surely cant be worth the entire suburb hearing about it. Swearing this n that n the other doesnt seem like a good way to raise a kid but what do I know eh.
My relationship with the cat is improving slowly. He gets out of my way when he sees me coming AND he sometimes actually leaves the room. I call this progress. Now if I can convince the little freak to just wander off n not come home it will be perfect.
we have ALL our Xmas shopping done!
ner ner ner... done and done. First time in HISTORY. No dealing with stressed out braindamaged people rushing about not looking where they are going n abusing you fer making 15 unsuccessful attempts to avoid them running into you. bastards. I will miss knocking little johnnies n jennies over as they wander about in their childish lack of awareness, heads jammed up their arses. I dont give way for your kids unless I know them. You have NO claim on my due care n attention beyond what is reasonable in avoiding flattening said kids unless they are directly in my care, related or friends' children. Otherwise they best watch where the hell theyre going!! OK ok I DO swerve for them on the road but only cuz the paperwork is too too painful.
What drives me crazy 1242452....
email spam from fuggin AMERICA labeled 'offer only available to U.S. residents' so... DONT send it to email addies .com.au bastards n I wont fire bomb ya damn office if i ever find out where it is. pricks.
Seeyas in a couple of days
yeah stupid damn leg
pulled a groin muscle the other day (no not THAT one). hurts it do when that happens. Hobble hobble ouchy ouchy ouchy no more squash n gym fer at least a week. Going even crazier :/
Going to mum n dads' again tomorrow we are pulling the front suspension struts out of mums' old (slighter errrr shorter) Peugeot n bunging them into mine. My left front shock is totally buggered. Looking forward to my beast handling n rriding like a Peugeot again (yay). Seems like we get to visit the parents every fortnight or so lately. I hope to also steal the front seats from her car. They are totally the wrong trim colour but I frankly could care less about that as my seat has frayed on the back squab bolster where you rub getting in and out. and theyve done about 600,000kms so theyre finally up fer wearing out I guess. Mums' car only has about 300,000 on the clock so the seats look near new. Hope to fix the exhaust once n for all too it is totally shitting me. Then soonish in the new year I'm be up fer front tyres (well... rears really but the current fronts are going on the back so the new ones will be on the front) Michelin XMV1 $125 per tyre hmmm not as much as I expected. sweet.
Petrol is coming down again. you know itll go up just b4 xmas again though. bloody bandits.
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One of the local idiots is screaming at her kid as I write. I reckon she is 3 streets over giving it total what for. Poor kid. dunno wtf he/she did but it surely cant be worth the entire suburb hearing about it. Swearing this n that n the other doesnt seem like a good way to raise a kid but what do I know eh.
My relationship with the cat is improving slowly. He gets out of my way when he sees me coming AND he sometimes actually leaves the room. I call this progress. Now if I can convince the little freak to just wander off n not come home it will be perfect.
we have ALL our Xmas shopping done!
ner ner ner... done and done. First time in HISTORY. No dealing with stressed out braindamaged people rushing about not looking where they are going n abusing you fer making 15 unsuccessful attempts to avoid them running into you. bastards. I will miss knocking little johnnies n jennies over as they wander about in their childish lack of awareness, heads jammed up their arses. I dont give way for your kids unless I know them. You have NO claim on my due care n attention beyond what is reasonable in avoiding flattening said kids unless they are directly in my care, related or friends' children. Otherwise they best watch where the hell theyre going!! OK ok I DO swerve for them on the road but only cuz the paperwork is too too painful.
What drives me crazy 1242452....
email spam from fuggin AMERICA labeled 'offer only available to U.S. residents' so... DONT send it to email addies .com.au bastards n I wont fire bomb ya damn office if i ever find out where it is. pricks.
Seeyas in a couple of days
Saturday, December 03, 2005
The Church Of the Almighty Bald One
Welcome to the Church of The Almighty Bald One...
We begin with the ritual chant.. "homer homer homer"
Accolytes will undergo the ritual enbaldening leaving but 3 lonely hairs to nurtured and cared for.
Hell is defined as Sector 7G.
Here we do not say 'amen' we say 'mmmmmmmmm *topic for discussion*
Hallelujah has been replaced with 'wooooooohooooooooooo'
Te almighty one is credited with turning money into beer and providing nacho hats for the multitude!!
Other miracles include the wondrous flying pig, the ability to make the sexiest cartoon woman ever love him and the miracle of the 300 game of bowling!! wooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooo
The son of the almighty one is the devil incarnate! Beware.
The daughter of the almighty one is an annoying wasp droning about shit noone wishes to hear her words are poison to the truth!!
Beer and porkchops to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmmmmm porkchops
heh
We begin with the ritual chant.. "homer homer homer"
Accolytes will undergo the ritual enbaldening leaving but 3 lonely hairs to nurtured and cared for.
Hell is defined as Sector 7G.
Here we do not say 'amen' we say 'mmmmmmmmm *topic for discussion*
Hallelujah has been replaced with 'wooooooohooooooooooo'
Te almighty one is credited with turning money into beer and providing nacho hats for the multitude!!
Other miracles include the wondrous flying pig, the ability to make the sexiest cartoon woman ever love him and the miracle of the 300 game of bowling!! wooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooo
The son of the almighty one is the devil incarnate! Beware.
The daughter of the almighty one is an annoying wasp droning about shit noone wishes to hear her words are poison to the truth!!
Beer and porkchops to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmmmmm porkchops
heh
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Bloody hell is that the date??
Wow
It has been almost 3 weeks since I wrote anything!!!
The shame the shame!
Sorry reader.
I've been somewhat deaf for the past 2 weeks or so though.
My right ear was chock full of wax n poking n probing only annoyed it more so I headed off to the doc for a syringing. Ahhhh... no more pain... STILL can't hear though...
Bought some stuff to help break up wax n went back to the doc a week later (still unable to hear). ANOTHER syringing... STILL couldnt hear could I?
bugger bugger bugger...
had another go with the syringe today n miracle of miracles!!! I can hear again!!!
God everything is loud! I think it wasnt so much not being able to hear on my right side that was annoyign but the huge pressure build up all the time. Like someone was filling my ear up with water every couple of seconds. It didnt hurt but it was really irritating.
So Ive been playing the American coaches' 'system' for 2 weeks now. I think all he has managed to do is actually clarify what one si supposed to do in a match. It is working though I hate to say. Ive cut out unforced errors almost completely. For me they are mostly caused by basically having to many shot variations available (nice problem to have if you have it mind!) then having a brain fart when it comes time to hit a shot that I can reproduce 99% of the time perfectly well. The system i'm following tells me what to hit (not that hard to follow really - in the back corner hit it down the wall, in the front corner play a straight drop 99% of the time... let the other bozo hit the cross courts n show off shots). According to the rating list I'd be considered 'expert/professional' level regarding shotmaking n we are apparently over enamoured with playing fancy shots. It is true too. I sometimes go for the hollywood shot just cuz i CAN not cuz it is the right shot to play. Brain dead. i seem to be doing more running (no bad thing) but making far fewer errors so its working for me so far.
Oh yeah
I GOT A TROPHY ner ne ner ne nerr nerrrr (heh when I originally typed that i wrote 'atrophy' then thought well DERR everyone gets older) I won the Panthers Squash Club B grade club championship final AND the veterans plate event (first of the losers I call it). I rule B grade. I progress t oA grade next year where all plans working nicely I should scare shit out of a few folks. I'm back on my diet AND my phentermine tablets (100% pure amphetemine WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) so I'm hoping the weight comes off in lumps cuz Ive got the racket skills back where I want them now, I'm moving about pretty well fer a fat lard arsed 110kg lump so losing the 40 odd kilos will do wonders for my speed n well being.
Looks like the intermittent starting trouble I was having since we changed the starter motor (Rocky DONt start I know I know) has been fixed - a faulty battery terminal of all things. Now to tackle the stupid leaking exhaust when the rain finally stops.
I know most of my readership could care less but...
When oh when are we gonna see something done about foot faults in squash???
I raised the subject some time ago at a club I play at to be told 'oh we dont bother with that!' I said 'so Ive noticed!! If you dont bother with foot faults then can I not worry about serving above the 'high ball' line??' they said 'no of course not thats a service fault!' I said 'so is not having your foot wholey with in the service box when you hit the ball' 'It isnt the same' I said 'if you cant be arsed applying ONE rule you shouldnt bloody complain when someone couldnt be arsed applying another rule should you? I mean... with your serve you get to take the time to GET YOUR DAMN FOOT IN THE BOX! I dont want the high ball line cuz I serve my lob serve within an inch or two of the line n damned air pressure variation can mean the difference between a fair serve and a fault I atleast take the time to get my FOOT right!!! They just didnt get it. It isnt just local club squash either it happens at the British open. Every pro game Ive been able to see on TV or d/led from the innernet shows foot fault mania!! I hate it.
As for that dickhead aussie they are stringing up in Singapore I say good on em. Fucking drug dealers. You go to singapore with drugs you KNOW whats gonna happen if you get caught. So suck shit. Swing ya mongrel. A minute silence for the dog? Never
A minute silence is reserved for the 102000 australian servicemen who gave their lives. not some drug smuggling son of a bitch.
It has been almost 3 weeks since I wrote anything!!!
The shame the shame!
Sorry reader.
I've been somewhat deaf for the past 2 weeks or so though.
My right ear was chock full of wax n poking n probing only annoyed it more so I headed off to the doc for a syringing. Ahhhh... no more pain... STILL can't hear though...
Bought some stuff to help break up wax n went back to the doc a week later (still unable to hear). ANOTHER syringing... STILL couldnt hear could I?
bugger bugger bugger...
had another go with the syringe today n miracle of miracles!!! I can hear again!!!
God everything is loud! I think it wasnt so much not being able to hear on my right side that was annoyign but the huge pressure build up all the time. Like someone was filling my ear up with water every couple of seconds. It didnt hurt but it was really irritating.
So Ive been playing the American coaches' 'system' for 2 weeks now. I think all he has managed to do is actually clarify what one si supposed to do in a match. It is working though I hate to say. Ive cut out unforced errors almost completely. For me they are mostly caused by basically having to many shot variations available (nice problem to have if you have it mind!) then having a brain fart when it comes time to hit a shot that I can reproduce 99% of the time perfectly well. The system i'm following tells me what to hit (not that hard to follow really - in the back corner hit it down the wall, in the front corner play a straight drop 99% of the time... let the other bozo hit the cross courts n show off shots). According to the rating list I'd be considered 'expert/professional' level regarding shotmaking n we are apparently over enamoured with playing fancy shots. It is true too. I sometimes go for the hollywood shot just cuz i CAN not cuz it is the right shot to play. Brain dead. i seem to be doing more running (no bad thing) but making far fewer errors so its working for me so far.
Oh yeah
I GOT A TROPHY ner ne ner ne nerr nerrrr (heh when I originally typed that i wrote 'atrophy' then thought well DERR everyone gets older) I won the Panthers Squash Club B grade club championship final AND the veterans plate event (first of the losers I call it). I rule B grade. I progress t oA grade next year where all plans working nicely I should scare shit out of a few folks. I'm back on my diet AND my phentermine tablets (100% pure amphetemine WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) so I'm hoping the weight comes off in lumps cuz Ive got the racket skills back where I want them now, I'm moving about pretty well fer a fat lard arsed 110kg lump so losing the 40 odd kilos will do wonders for my speed n well being.
Looks like the intermittent starting trouble I was having since we changed the starter motor (Rocky DONt start I know I know) has been fixed - a faulty battery terminal of all things. Now to tackle the stupid leaking exhaust when the rain finally stops.
I know most of my readership could care less but...
When oh when are we gonna see something done about foot faults in squash???
I raised the subject some time ago at a club I play at to be told 'oh we dont bother with that!' I said 'so Ive noticed!! If you dont bother with foot faults then can I not worry about serving above the 'high ball' line??' they said 'no of course not thats a service fault!' I said 'so is not having your foot wholey with in the service box when you hit the ball' 'It isnt the same' I said 'if you cant be arsed applying ONE rule you shouldnt bloody complain when someone couldnt be arsed applying another rule should you? I mean... with your serve you get to take the time to GET YOUR DAMN FOOT IN THE BOX! I dont want the high ball line cuz I serve my lob serve within an inch or two of the line n damned air pressure variation can mean the difference between a fair serve and a fault I atleast take the time to get my FOOT right!!! They just didnt get it. It isnt just local club squash either it happens at the British open. Every pro game Ive been able to see on TV or d/led from the innernet shows foot fault mania!! I hate it.
As for that dickhead aussie they are stringing up in Singapore I say good on em. Fucking drug dealers. You go to singapore with drugs you KNOW whats gonna happen if you get caught. So suck shit. Swing ya mongrel. A minute silence for the dog? Never
A minute silence is reserved for the 102000 australian servicemen who gave their lives. not some drug smuggling son of a bitch.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
driving in victoria (no this isnt pornographic)
Now Mexicans shit me as much as they shit anyone above the border (for the North American reader (s) I'm not talking about people who live south of Texas), Queenslanders included, but actually having to drive amongst them is fraught with danger!
Zero lane discipline
Zero tolerance for people from other states who are unsure where they are going but who signal lane changes with lots of space n time.
The attitude that 'oh?? You wanna change into MY lane you ^&$)($%#^%$^?? You think because you indicated AND there is plenty of room that I will let you in??? Ima speed up into the gap so FUCK YOU arsehole!!!'
I havent been cut off so many times in on YEAR driving in Sydney as I did in one MORNING in Melbourne. Animals...
I havent been tailgated like that in years.
They run red lights (we all know i HATE that)
They think Amber means accelerate. Bastards.
They ALL seem to have massive amounts of trouble watching where they are going AND maintaining control of their vehicle
even Rocky is a better driver than anyone from Victoria. The only people who werent shit were from out of state (NSW or Qld) or like the gurls' father, originally form elsewhere.
Give them a merging lane situation and my god the horror the horror! Rude arrogant obnoxious ill disciplined self centred egotistical maniacs behind the wheel. Steve Bracks (Vic premier) if you want to lower the road toll it isnt speed that is the problem in your state its your full compliment of absolute DICKHEADS allowed to drive. Does anyone actually TEACH these pusillanimous puke inducing morons A how to steer and brake and B defensive driving?
Youve got GREAT roads. You have shit drivers. You should see them in NSW they havent got a CLUE. Id book Vic drivers on principle if i was aa NSW copper on the theory that i KNOW theyve done something really really stupid that really really shit all the other road users in the last 5 minutes or so.
Yep the gurl is home we went n got her on the weekend. Swapmeet at bendigo then down to melbourne to get the gurl.
Like bendigo swap. Wasnt too hot. No dust. No friggin morons. Unlike Ballarat. Lots of dust, too damned hot n every 2nd person a total dickhead. And most of them tanked to the eyeballs.
You know when the Americans get hold of something they cant help but complicate the shit out of it eh.
I just read a book by an american 'squash expert' who managed to take about 100 pages to say 'hit the ball down the walls, drive it deep when you are behind your opponent and hit short when youre in front'AND made it sound like 'his' 'strategy' for winning squash was the something he thought up all by himself. I just reduced it to one sentence mate. HE covered it up with all sorts of technical sounding bullshit and interestign circular arguments. He also seemed to be operating under the assumption that your opponent would graciously hit the ball BACK to you all the time in the middle of the court. Let calls and strokes dont seem to exist in his world either. But hey Ima try it n see. Strange idea eh... I always thought you hit it as far away from your opponent as possible. anyhoo...
Zero lane discipline
Zero tolerance for people from other states who are unsure where they are going but who signal lane changes with lots of space n time.
The attitude that 'oh?? You wanna change into MY lane you ^&$)($%#^%$^?? You think because you indicated AND there is plenty of room that I will let you in??? Ima speed up into the gap so FUCK YOU arsehole!!!'
I havent been cut off so many times in on YEAR driving in Sydney as I did in one MORNING in Melbourne. Animals...
I havent been tailgated like that in years.
They run red lights (we all know i HATE that)
They think Amber means accelerate. Bastards.
They ALL seem to have massive amounts of trouble watching where they are going AND maintaining control of their vehicle
even Rocky is a better driver than anyone from Victoria. The only people who werent shit were from out of state (NSW or Qld) or like the gurls' father, originally form elsewhere.
Give them a merging lane situation and my god the horror the horror! Rude arrogant obnoxious ill disciplined self centred egotistical maniacs behind the wheel. Steve Bracks (Vic premier) if you want to lower the road toll it isnt speed that is the problem in your state its your full compliment of absolute DICKHEADS allowed to drive. Does anyone actually TEACH these pusillanimous puke inducing morons A how to steer and brake and B defensive driving?
Youve got GREAT roads. You have shit drivers. You should see them in NSW they havent got a CLUE. Id book Vic drivers on principle if i was aa NSW copper on the theory that i KNOW theyve done something really really stupid that really really shit all the other road users in the last 5 minutes or so.
Yep the gurl is home we went n got her on the weekend. Swapmeet at bendigo then down to melbourne to get the gurl.
Like bendigo swap. Wasnt too hot. No dust. No friggin morons. Unlike Ballarat. Lots of dust, too damned hot n every 2nd person a total dickhead. And most of them tanked to the eyeballs.
You know when the Americans get hold of something they cant help but complicate the shit out of it eh.
I just read a book by an american 'squash expert' who managed to take about 100 pages to say 'hit the ball down the walls, drive it deep when you are behind your opponent and hit short when youre in front'AND made it sound like 'his' 'strategy' for winning squash was the something he thought up all by himself. I just reduced it to one sentence mate. HE covered it up with all sorts of technical sounding bullshit and interestign circular arguments. He also seemed to be operating under the assumption that your opponent would graciously hit the ball BACK to you all the time in the middle of the court. Let calls and strokes dont seem to exist in his world either. But hey Ima try it n see. Strange idea eh... I always thought you hit it as far away from your opponent as possible. anyhoo...
Saturday, November 05, 2005
oh yeah Nerdism
I think I admitted to nerdish tendencies a couple of blogs ago.
I think this was reinforced to myself when I discovered 2 Star Trek next gen DVDs in the bottom of my book bag when I got home from the local library the other day.
God theyre funny when you watch 7 episodes back to back. The scripts written by 6yos!
The wooden stultifying acting!
That stupid psychic character (chick with dark hair n big tits... ever notice that Gene rodenberry MUST have been a tit man? THere isnt one woman in any show he had anything to do with that isnt a booby monster) my god if thats the best insight being 'sensitive' gives you then GIVE IT UP GIRL!!!
character storms off the bridge in an obvious snit n the stupid woman wanders in n says 'i sensed you are angry and upset' ROFL was it the smashed doors? the 3 dead crewmembers? the cat running for its life? or that the 'upset' one declared war on the Romulans?? what was it that allowed you to work it out? Just a feeling you got eh? Bloody valuable this empathy shit eh?
The thing thats always bugged shite outa me was at the start during the credits you see the ship sorta spooling up to go into warp drive. You know - the tail pipes start to glow n you hear a sort of rvving/winding up sound that is supposed to tell you its gonna launch into the distance. All well n good though in space if they cant hear you scream why does Star Trek assume you can hear the engines from outside? anyhoo my beef is this - when it actually GOES it stretches out towards the direction it is pointed then woosh its gone. I reckon it should compress on itself not stretch. The drive comes from the rear right. Thats the actual first bit that starts to accelerate so it should logically compress not stretch. Inertia being what it is the front should tend to want to accelerate 'after' the rear does. Thats even assuming there was enough friction to make a meaningful effect. Shouldnt ever stretch though - thatd be expected going into a black hole or a worm hole i think.
lol
Cant wait fer rockape to comment on this.
The medical dialogue wouldnt have impressed a monkey in the last one i watched!
They SCARED a virus out of someone! Damn
what a leap forward! call the bird flu people!
Gimme Stargate SG1 any day.
I think this was reinforced to myself when I discovered 2 Star Trek next gen DVDs in the bottom of my book bag when I got home from the local library the other day.
God theyre funny when you watch 7 episodes back to back. The scripts written by 6yos!
The wooden stultifying acting!
That stupid psychic character (chick with dark hair n big tits... ever notice that Gene rodenberry MUST have been a tit man? THere isnt one woman in any show he had anything to do with that isnt a booby monster) my god if thats the best insight being 'sensitive' gives you then GIVE IT UP GIRL!!!
character storms off the bridge in an obvious snit n the stupid woman wanders in n says 'i sensed you are angry and upset' ROFL was it the smashed doors? the 3 dead crewmembers? the cat running for its life? or that the 'upset' one declared war on the Romulans?? what was it that allowed you to work it out? Just a feeling you got eh? Bloody valuable this empathy shit eh?
The thing thats always bugged shite outa me was at the start during the credits you see the ship sorta spooling up to go into warp drive. You know - the tail pipes start to glow n you hear a sort of rvving/winding up sound that is supposed to tell you its gonna launch into the distance. All well n good though in space if they cant hear you scream why does Star Trek assume you can hear the engines from outside? anyhoo my beef is this - when it actually GOES it stretches out towards the direction it is pointed then woosh its gone. I reckon it should compress on itself not stretch. The drive comes from the rear right. Thats the actual first bit that starts to accelerate so it should logically compress not stretch. Inertia being what it is the front should tend to want to accelerate 'after' the rear does. Thats even assuming there was enough friction to make a meaningful effect. Shouldnt ever stretch though - thatd be expected going into a black hole or a worm hole i think.
lol
Cant wait fer rockape to comment on this.
The medical dialogue wouldnt have impressed a monkey in the last one i watched!
They SCARED a virus out of someone! Damn
what a leap forward! call the bird flu people!
Gimme Stargate SG1 any day.
hmmm spooky
Just DAYS after I rant about stupid documentaries, mentioning the sublimely gorgeous Dr Bettany Hughes as an exception guess what is on the ABfrigginC this afternoon? Her doco on The Spartans! As I had no TV guide for this week I didnt know it was on!
Wonderful.
Firstly SHE does all the voice-over and in front of camera work, secondly EVERY sentence has fresh information in it. In other words she doesnt spend half the show rehashing SHIT mentioned 60 times before. You snooze you lose. And she actually A knows what she is talking about n B sounds like she loves it. I think there is barely a wasted minute in her doco. Maybe the horseriding scene right at the end - though she both looks good as you can think on a horse AND she was segueing into next weeks' installment which will no doubt mention Spartan women and their propensity for raising horses. So it was kinda appropriate anyway AND very 'in'. Students would get it. This is a show for people into the topic who will likely never get the chance to actually GO there as the visuals are fantastic.
*sigh* She isnt hard on the eyes either *grin*
Ive just read what would HAVE to qualify as the worst edited novels I have EVER held in my hands. Each one has at least 4 spelling errors on EACH page. Each page has contextual spelling errors too. Thats what I call it when they spell the word correctly but it is clearly (from the context) the wrong word eg 'I decided I was being taled (instead of 'tailed' - followed)' simple shit. An obviously illiterate editor. Some of the mistakes look/feel like a dumb shit editor thinking the writer fucked up when he really didnt and hence making changes unneeded by the context. WEird. Two in a row. The first one was from a bloke who has English as a first language. I suspect the second one has it too.
Wonderful.
Firstly SHE does all the voice-over and in front of camera work, secondly EVERY sentence has fresh information in it. In other words she doesnt spend half the show rehashing SHIT mentioned 60 times before. You snooze you lose. And she actually A knows what she is talking about n B sounds like she loves it. I think there is barely a wasted minute in her doco. Maybe the horseriding scene right at the end - though she both looks good as you can think on a horse AND she was segueing into next weeks' installment which will no doubt mention Spartan women and their propensity for raising horses. So it was kinda appropriate anyway AND very 'in'. Students would get it. This is a show for people into the topic who will likely never get the chance to actually GO there as the visuals are fantastic.
*sigh* She isnt hard on the eyes either *grin*
Ive just read what would HAVE to qualify as the worst edited novels I have EVER held in my hands. Each one has at least 4 spelling errors on EACH page. Each page has contextual spelling errors too. Thats what I call it when they spell the word correctly but it is clearly (from the context) the wrong word eg 'I decided I was being taled (instead of 'tailed' - followed)' simple shit. An obviously illiterate editor. Some of the mistakes look/feel like a dumb shit editor thinking the writer fucked up when he really didnt and hence making changes unneeded by the context. WEird. Two in a row. The first one was from a bloke who has English as a first language. I suspect the second one has it too.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
some bs aboutTV
Saw something on tv about 'Friends' yeah the tv show. This got me to thinking.
See I never ever saw an episode of Friends that I thought was worth more than half a chuckle. I admit I wasnt a watcher of the show - I reckon if the adverts are that unhilarious there is probably no point watching it. Sometimes though there was nothing else on n we wanted to watch what was on after.
So heres my take on tv shows (the ones I can remember)
Friends: rather pointless, inane characters, most of the time simply not funny. A show that portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons.
EVERY fix these dickheads get themselves into could be solved by 99% of the population by - heres a tip - ACTING LIKE ADULTS. Not even sensible MATURE adults - just adults will do. David Schwimmers character a palaeontologist? GIVE ME A BREAK! his character couldnt FIND the exam room OR get there on time. Who decided Jennifer Anniston could A act n B was a comedienne? Who decided that 'hair style' was wonderful? Looks like she just brushes it each morning girls - I wouldnt go spending money on the look. Who decided the what I call the 'What am I? chopped liver?' line (and varients) was A funny n B repeatable ad nauseam? Proof that if they spend enough money flogging it people will indeed eat shit n grin like its steak. Overpaid, over acted crap.
Seinfeld: the show about nothing did exactly that to me for god knows how long its tedium ran. A show that portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons. ALL of them. There didnt appear to be ONE sane individual in the show. The best bits were JS monologues starting n ending the boring middle. A show that showed adults getting into stupid situations by taking the DUMB option every time (see Friends). Overpaid overacted crap.
Two and a half men: AHHHHH now this I like. Men acting like men, one a ladies man n one a bit of a shy boy. With the kid PERFECT. Well scripted, well (not OVER) acted. Everyone has met these people at some time (unlike the above shows).
Frasier: SImply fail to see the appeal of two psychiatrists acting like deranged children for eight years. Who would EVER go see either of them for therapy? They should be locked up themselves!
Everyone loves Raymond: Ok there are some genuinely funny moments in this one. The mum is a distilled version of my mum, n who wouldnt feel sorry for Deborah? A show which portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons.
My Wife and Kids: I like this one. Ive liked damon wayans since he played that marine in a funny as hell movie. God knows the wife is annoying though.
Law & Order (various): Some of the story lines are getting repetitive (in the 'have we seen this b4??' mold) I love Eames from crim intent. Liked the old bloke who just died. Was always concerned that the cops never seemed to do enough detecting b4 handing it off. This latest one trial by jury , is weak as piss. The two female leads sit looking like stunned mullets when the defence outplays them. Ida thought youd expect that sometimes. They arent convincing characters -whereas some of the other female lawyers have been very strong.
CSI: I watch it n enjoy it. Not cuz 'forensics is trendy' cuz I read Professor Keith SImpsons' 40 Years Of Murder when I was 12 - If you havent heard of him go google. I like it cuz I like picking holes in their procedure - I reckon I could spring 95% of their suspects if I was a defence lawyer. They have great little mysteries each week in Vegas, but they insist on moving shit BEFORE they photograph it. They traipse about with their lovely long hair uncovered n street clothes n shoes dancing through the scenes dragging in trace evidence and contamination everywhere. Bogus folks tres bogus. N I HATE that red headed *pause n look intent* guy in Miami *stare knowingly at camera, take off sunglasses authoritatively* Over actors THIS way please. Gary Scinise in NY is great. The other thing that grates is how they treat their forensic pathologist. They are medical doctors with a further specialty, talking about 10-12 years at university, treated like barely trained chimps by the csis. N they way they treat 'greg' is appalling - HE does all the real work! shame shame shame.
heh
Blue Heelers: Aussie cop show set in rural Victoria. Bout time it died a natural death. Its a good show -well acted n scripted etc but shit guys the town it is set in is crime central! forget policing levels in the city!! GET all the cops to Mt Thomas ASAP! I lived in a town that size. TWO cops - not 6 or 8 - TWO.
Big Brother: I call it Dont bother. As Ive said elsewhere here, If I want to watch people living life I will stick my head out the door of my computer room n look into the rest of my house. Or visit a friend with children. ANYTHING rather than watch that god awful show. I cannot BELIEVE they CHARGE you for the dubious privilege of voting for or against people (whichever way it works). it is SPONSORED by a telco. Shameful. they egg you on to vote for your one as many times as you like via the OF COURSE more expensive sms. N the dopey shit moron teenagers lap it up just LAP it up. Here SCREW ME TOO!!! Just GIVE them all your money n sign your life away ya friggin idiots. These people have the right to make decisions about the country and in some cases, another human life. Frightening. Simply frightening.
Australian Idol: god no not MORE warbling starlings (budgies at least are cute and chirp in tune). N how those gibbering idiots they have fronting the show got let out I do not wanna know. You know what REALLY tears my tits ? That stupid 'touch down ' shite. Taken DIRECTLY from the American original. Fellas... we dont actually HAVE touch downs here (ok ok sit down i know there is a small group of weirdos who actually do play grid iron here so technically we DO ... somewhere) . What is wrong with 'TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!' covers rugbys league and union, 'GOAL!!!!' covers wogball, aerial ping pong (aussie rules) and netball, or even 'HOWZAT?????' from cricket. Nah nah just dumb it the hell down.
Spicks and Specks: possibly my favourite show. funny and informative without being condescending or trite. The host hosts, he doesnt try to make it all about him. Lets the guests be guests, have a good time etc. Love Hamish Blake ( one of the guests) that is one seriously funny bloke.
Kath n Kim: another supposedly funny show thats only raved about by the pseudo intelligentsia because it comes from the ABfrigginC so you have to ramp it up dont ya. They like it cuz it pokes loads of seriously lame fun at poor people. I havent seen a single actually funny moment on it. There is much much cleverer comedy out there.
Inspector Rex: ahh the dog. I love rex. Its just a nice show. sure theres the odd bit of gunplay sometimes. But the good guys always win. The dog acts like he isnt acting (you TRY catching him taking directions from off camera - I reckon Ive caught him at it once MAYBE). Mosers gf is a BABE n deliciously in a non blonde blue eyed aryan way. I dont care they repeat it all the time.
The Shield: Good cop show. Ya love n hate the bald bloke at the same time. great scripting.
The Closer: I was prepared to hate this one based on the craptacular way they edited the adverts for it. But it is actually rather enjoyable to watch. In the adverts she seemed a rather irritable character but it makes sense when you watch it. I'd be shitty too heh.
That 70s show: took a while for me to get into but once I did I think its great. I like sitcoms where if the players say something actually funny (like -youd laugh if it was said in your loungeroom by one of your mates) they actually laugh at it in the show too. It is just natural. Other shows mentioned here they all stand/sit/lay about looking like the rods up their spines got rods up their spines waiting for the laugh track so they could relax. Topher Grace is brilliant. Have to be with a name like that eh. I'd almost beg the redhead to say hello to me (forget sex - just acknowledge my existence damn you!) N the south american character is priceless.
Its like, you know: Another funny show i think IF youve been to LA n spent time with locals. Otherwise I am not sure it translates. Funny shit IF you get the joke though.
dah dahhhhhhhhhh
The Simpsons: simply consistently the best tv show EVER made. You know its good when you quote THEIR parody of the original instead of the original (I speak of course of Rainer Wolfcastle). Even Itchy and Scratchy is brilliant. They consistently write good little songs (when is there gonna be an album of actual songs from the show eg 'Baby On Board' ,'Who Needs The Quicky Mart' etc not that crap they put out that was remixes of top 40 shit). the show works for kids, it works for adults, Americans laugh at different things to Australians (I assume that holds for whereever you live it is just Ive observed the American/Australian thing first hand), both find common things funny too. I suspect we laugh at things we think the yanks do thats weird, n there are jokes Americans get that we dont (cultural stuff we dont have).
I love it. I have never understood why they consider the simpsons 'disfunctional'. Mum n dad love each other. They both love their kids. The kids are like kids everywhere. Maggie is delightful. I cant see david hasselhoff (yeah hes been out here lately floggin shit) without hearing a young Lisa saying davi hassahof cracks me up. whenever theres a cop show on i say to the gurl 'they need Night Boat the CRIME solving boat' if they wanna crack this. N she invariably points out the land locked nature of the particular show involved. I think there is a Simpsons moment for EVERYTHING that happens in your day. Brilliant.
yeah yeah
theres other shows .
Like i LOVE that channel ten does a show on the Australian Rally Championship but hate that the show seems to spend MORE time showing us some commentators face than it shows us cars travelling sideways. Do it like the people who do the WRC shows - voice over guys VOICEOVER! The WRC show is either cars flying, or drivers being interviewed. Never see the person asking the questions or giving info. Unlike Channel Tens' ARC show. The show isnt about YOU Mr Rust, Mr Wood & Mr Diffey.
N Bill Woods you should give up if you cant tell the difference between a tyre rubbing on a guard and an oil leaking cooking off during a touring car race. Youve been doing it for TEN years now fer chrissake. Still dont seem to have much grasp of what is actually happening on the track.
I thank you.
See I never ever saw an episode of Friends that I thought was worth more than half a chuckle. I admit I wasnt a watcher of the show - I reckon if the adverts are that unhilarious there is probably no point watching it. Sometimes though there was nothing else on n we wanted to watch what was on after.
So heres my take on tv shows (the ones I can remember)
Friends: rather pointless, inane characters, most of the time simply not funny. A show that portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons.
EVERY fix these dickheads get themselves into could be solved by 99% of the population by - heres a tip - ACTING LIKE ADULTS. Not even sensible MATURE adults - just adults will do. David Schwimmers character a palaeontologist? GIVE ME A BREAK! his character couldnt FIND the exam room OR get there on time. Who decided Jennifer Anniston could A act n B was a comedienne? Who decided that 'hair style' was wonderful? Looks like she just brushes it each morning girls - I wouldnt go spending money on the look. Who decided the what I call the 'What am I? chopped liver?' line (and varients) was A funny n B repeatable ad nauseam? Proof that if they spend enough money flogging it people will indeed eat shit n grin like its steak. Overpaid, over acted crap.
Seinfeld: the show about nothing did exactly that to me for god knows how long its tedium ran. A show that portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons. ALL of them. There didnt appear to be ONE sane individual in the show. The best bits were JS monologues starting n ending the boring middle. A show that showed adults getting into stupid situations by taking the DUMB option every time (see Friends). Overpaid overacted crap.
Two and a half men: AHHHHH now this I like. Men acting like men, one a ladies man n one a bit of a shy boy. With the kid PERFECT. Well scripted, well (not OVER) acted. Everyone has met these people at some time (unlike the above shows).
Frasier: SImply fail to see the appeal of two psychiatrists acting like deranged children for eight years. Who would EVER go see either of them for therapy? They should be locked up themselves!
Everyone loves Raymond: Ok there are some genuinely funny moments in this one. The mum is a distilled version of my mum, n who wouldnt feel sorry for Deborah? A show which portrays New Yorkers as neurotic morons.
My Wife and Kids: I like this one. Ive liked damon wayans since he played that marine in a funny as hell movie. God knows the wife is annoying though.
Law & Order (various): Some of the story lines are getting repetitive (in the 'have we seen this b4??' mold) I love Eames from crim intent. Liked the old bloke who just died. Was always concerned that the cops never seemed to do enough detecting b4 handing it off. This latest one trial by jury , is weak as piss. The two female leads sit looking like stunned mullets when the defence outplays them. Ida thought youd expect that sometimes. They arent convincing characters -whereas some of the other female lawyers have been very strong.
CSI: I watch it n enjoy it. Not cuz 'forensics is trendy' cuz I read Professor Keith SImpsons' 40 Years Of Murder when I was 12 - If you havent heard of him go google. I like it cuz I like picking holes in their procedure - I reckon I could spring 95% of their suspects if I was a defence lawyer. They have great little mysteries each week in Vegas, but they insist on moving shit BEFORE they photograph it. They traipse about with their lovely long hair uncovered n street clothes n shoes dancing through the scenes dragging in trace evidence and contamination everywhere. Bogus folks tres bogus. N I HATE that red headed *pause n look intent* guy in Miami *stare knowingly at camera, take off sunglasses authoritatively* Over actors THIS way please. Gary Scinise in NY is great. The other thing that grates is how they treat their forensic pathologist. They are medical doctors with a further specialty, talking about 10-12 years at university, treated like barely trained chimps by the csis. N they way they treat 'greg' is appalling - HE does all the real work! shame shame shame.
heh
Blue Heelers: Aussie cop show set in rural Victoria. Bout time it died a natural death. Its a good show -well acted n scripted etc but shit guys the town it is set in is crime central! forget policing levels in the city!! GET all the cops to Mt Thomas ASAP! I lived in a town that size. TWO cops - not 6 or 8 - TWO.
Big Brother: I call it Dont bother. As Ive said elsewhere here, If I want to watch people living life I will stick my head out the door of my computer room n look into the rest of my house. Or visit a friend with children. ANYTHING rather than watch that god awful show. I cannot BELIEVE they CHARGE you for the dubious privilege of voting for or against people (whichever way it works). it is SPONSORED by a telco. Shameful. they egg you on to vote for your one as many times as you like via the OF COURSE more expensive sms. N the dopey shit moron teenagers lap it up just LAP it up. Here SCREW ME TOO!!! Just GIVE them all your money n sign your life away ya friggin idiots. These people have the right to make decisions about the country and in some cases, another human life. Frightening. Simply frightening.
Australian Idol: god no not MORE warbling starlings (budgies at least are cute and chirp in tune). N how those gibbering idiots they have fronting the show got let out I do not wanna know. You know what REALLY tears my tits ? That stupid 'touch down ' shite. Taken DIRECTLY from the American original. Fellas... we dont actually HAVE touch downs here (ok ok sit down i know there is a small group of weirdos who actually do play grid iron here so technically we DO ... somewhere) . What is wrong with 'TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!' covers rugbys league and union, 'GOAL!!!!' covers wogball, aerial ping pong (aussie rules) and netball, or even 'HOWZAT?????' from cricket. Nah nah just dumb it the hell down.
Spicks and Specks: possibly my favourite show. funny and informative without being condescending or trite. The host hosts, he doesnt try to make it all about him. Lets the guests be guests, have a good time etc. Love Hamish Blake ( one of the guests) that is one seriously funny bloke.
Kath n Kim: another supposedly funny show thats only raved about by the pseudo intelligentsia because it comes from the ABfrigginC so you have to ramp it up dont ya. They like it cuz it pokes loads of seriously lame fun at poor people. I havent seen a single actually funny moment on it. There is much much cleverer comedy out there.
Inspector Rex: ahh the dog. I love rex. Its just a nice show. sure theres the odd bit of gunplay sometimes. But the good guys always win. The dog acts like he isnt acting (you TRY catching him taking directions from off camera - I reckon Ive caught him at it once MAYBE). Mosers gf is a BABE n deliciously in a non blonde blue eyed aryan way. I dont care they repeat it all the time.
The Shield: Good cop show. Ya love n hate the bald bloke at the same time. great scripting.
The Closer: I was prepared to hate this one based on the craptacular way they edited the adverts for it. But it is actually rather enjoyable to watch. In the adverts she seemed a rather irritable character but it makes sense when you watch it. I'd be shitty too heh.
That 70s show: took a while for me to get into but once I did I think its great. I like sitcoms where if the players say something actually funny (like -youd laugh if it was said in your loungeroom by one of your mates) they actually laugh at it in the show too. It is just natural. Other shows mentioned here they all stand/sit/lay about looking like the rods up their spines got rods up their spines waiting for the laugh track so they could relax. Topher Grace is brilliant. Have to be with a name like that eh. I'd almost beg the redhead to say hello to me (forget sex - just acknowledge my existence damn you!) N the south american character is priceless.
Its like, you know: Another funny show i think IF youve been to LA n spent time with locals. Otherwise I am not sure it translates. Funny shit IF you get the joke though.
dah dahhhhhhhhhh
The Simpsons: simply consistently the best tv show EVER made. You know its good when you quote THEIR parody of the original instead of the original (I speak of course of Rainer Wolfcastle). Even Itchy and Scratchy is brilliant. They consistently write good little songs (when is there gonna be an album of actual songs from the show eg 'Baby On Board' ,'Who Needs The Quicky Mart' etc not that crap they put out that was remixes of top 40 shit). the show works for kids, it works for adults, Americans laugh at different things to Australians (I assume that holds for whereever you live it is just Ive observed the American/Australian thing first hand), both find common things funny too. I suspect we laugh at things we think the yanks do thats weird, n there are jokes Americans get that we dont (cultural stuff we dont have).
I love it. I have never understood why they consider the simpsons 'disfunctional'. Mum n dad love each other. They both love their kids. The kids are like kids everywhere. Maggie is delightful. I cant see david hasselhoff (yeah hes been out here lately floggin shit) without hearing a young Lisa saying davi hassahof cracks me up. whenever theres a cop show on i say to the gurl 'they need Night Boat the CRIME solving boat' if they wanna crack this. N she invariably points out the land locked nature of the particular show involved. I think there is a Simpsons moment for EVERYTHING that happens in your day. Brilliant.
yeah yeah
theres other shows .
Like i LOVE that channel ten does a show on the Australian Rally Championship but hate that the show seems to spend MORE time showing us some commentators face than it shows us cars travelling sideways. Do it like the people who do the WRC shows - voice over guys VOICEOVER! The WRC show is either cars flying, or drivers being interviewed. Never see the person asking the questions or giving info. Unlike Channel Tens' ARC show. The show isnt about YOU Mr Rust, Mr Wood & Mr Diffey.
N Bill Woods you should give up if you cant tell the difference between a tyre rubbing on a guard and an oil leaking cooking off during a touring car race. Youve been doing it for TEN years now fer chrissake. Still dont seem to have much grasp of what is actually happening on the track.
I thank you.
Monday, October 31, 2005
bloody documentaries
being a bit of a nerd... there... i admitted it. I feel better now. Where was I? Oh yeah...
Being a bit of a nerd I tend to enjoy documentaries. Well, ones on topics I'm interested in, anyway. Now in the old days you had some old geezer in a cardy with a microphone n a poncy pommy voice waving his arms about in front of old ruins/cyclotrons/museums/mass accelerators or interviewing serious looking individuals who-know-what-they-are-talking-about n who were left to get the f** on with it.
With the exception of the two docos by the luscious Dr Bettany Hughes (is that her last name? I wasnt paying attention to anything cept her gorgeous boobs n wicked lips with the fullness n the smiling n the pouting n causing the drooling n the bulging n the diiiscomfit *Think Professor Frink who makes you laugh n makes you think*) documentaries no long take this information packed form.
no
Where was Dr Hughes when I was at uni? I'll tell ya.. not bloody lecturing ME thats fer sure. I mighta stayed at uni abasing myself at her feet permanently. hell she even likes the bloody Spartans!
Where was i?
oh yeah...
no longer etc
Now days you get some vacuous sounding no doubt blonde female newsreader type who does an admirable job sounding out all the big words, sounding siutably breathless with sexual excitement at the thought of a (gasp!) 3000 yo clay figure (big woop..n I was an archaeo/ancient history student n i reiterate BIG WOOP) that may or may NOT be some sort of religious artifact (dunno wtf it is? call it a 'cult or religious' object 'obviously worshipped in this purpose built shrine room' BS bs n more bs).
Then follow the 2 sentences of actual information n one shot of something interesting (IF you think some POS clay thing is interesting)with 5 minutes of weird coloured lights n montages (i think, courtesy of Team America - World Police n South Park, that 'montage' is the word) of people running hither n thither (theres a word that needs more useage -thither) with no real discernable connexion to the topic at hand. While breathlessly repeating the same shit youve already told the viewer 16 times.
THEN explain it AGAIN (what it is the show is about) once twice nay thrice more fer the dummies. Then give us another snippet of info. Then please sir MORE flashing lights with NO fucking connexion to the topic please.
In the end you get maybe 15 minutes worth of actual information that may pertain to the reputed topic. And 40 minutes of bullshit. In the old days it was called filler.
If I wanted to watch shit I would turn on Australian Idol or (when its on) Dont Bother i mean Big Brother.
They could learn from pornos
They dont piss about with useless 'scripts' or 'plots'. you want some poor exploited girl giving head? you got it. etc etc whatever you like. They know what their target audience is after n deliver it. no BS... well... cept fer the fake orgasms. Youd think the sex industry would know that women having a real orgasm are physiologically incapable of screaming. Moaning n gasping yes. Screaming, no. Not possible. If she be screamin she not be cumming.
errrrr
hmmmmm
chick i massaged at aqua today had huge tits.
otherwise not much has happened lol
Being a bit of a nerd I tend to enjoy documentaries. Well, ones on topics I'm interested in, anyway. Now in the old days you had some old geezer in a cardy with a microphone n a poncy pommy voice waving his arms about in front of old ruins/cyclotrons/museums/mass accelerators or interviewing serious looking individuals who-know-what-they-are-talking-about n who were left to get the f** on with it.
With the exception of the two docos by the luscious Dr Bettany Hughes (is that her last name? I wasnt paying attention to anything cept her gorgeous boobs n wicked lips with the fullness n the smiling n the pouting n causing the drooling n the bulging n the diiiscomfit *Think Professor Frink who makes you laugh n makes you think*) documentaries no long take this information packed form.
no
Where was Dr Hughes when I was at uni? I'll tell ya.. not bloody lecturing ME thats fer sure. I mighta stayed at uni abasing myself at her feet permanently. hell she even likes the bloody Spartans!
Where was i?
oh yeah...
no longer etc
Now days you get some vacuous sounding no doubt blonde female newsreader type who does an admirable job sounding out all the big words, sounding siutably breathless with sexual excitement at the thought of a (gasp!) 3000 yo clay figure (big woop..n I was an archaeo/ancient history student n i reiterate BIG WOOP) that may or may NOT be some sort of religious artifact (dunno wtf it is? call it a 'cult or religious' object 'obviously worshipped in this purpose built shrine room' BS bs n more bs).
Then follow the 2 sentences of actual information n one shot of something interesting (IF you think some POS clay thing is interesting)with 5 minutes of weird coloured lights n montages (i think, courtesy of Team America - World Police n South Park, that 'montage' is the word) of people running hither n thither (theres a word that needs more useage -thither) with no real discernable connexion to the topic at hand. While breathlessly repeating the same shit youve already told the viewer 16 times.
THEN explain it AGAIN (what it is the show is about) once twice nay thrice more fer the dummies. Then give us another snippet of info. Then please sir MORE flashing lights with NO fucking connexion to the topic please.
In the end you get maybe 15 minutes worth of actual information that may pertain to the reputed topic. And 40 minutes of bullshit. In the old days it was called filler.
If I wanted to watch shit I would turn on Australian Idol or (when its on) Dont Bother i mean Big Brother.
They could learn from pornos
They dont piss about with useless 'scripts' or 'plots'. you want some poor exploited girl giving head? you got it. etc etc whatever you like. They know what their target audience is after n deliver it. no BS... well... cept fer the fake orgasms. Youd think the sex industry would know that women having a real orgasm are physiologically incapable of screaming. Moaning n gasping yes. Screaming, no. Not possible. If she be screamin she not be cumming.
errrrr
hmmmmm
chick i massaged at aqua today had huge tits.
otherwise not much has happened lol
Friday, October 28, 2005
just a quichey (or is that quicky?)
So while I was down at mum's I went over to my mate Pauls' n we then went down to the cricket nets near his place (you americans n canadians can just try to keep up ok). There were maybe 15 cricketers practising happily when one of thems' 12-14 yo boy pulls out a fake baseball n mitt (what girls) n says to me (who knows him narry from a bar of soap) 'can you throw some baseballs for me to catch? Dont worry - it's not a real baseball' to which I replied 'I'm not worried - baseball isnt a real game' Which absolutely, totally, completely broke every cricketer there up. Some ended up rolling on the ground they were laughing that hard. The poor kid got this slightly puzzled but determined not to cry look happening. Hell even his DAD was almost in tears.
I'm mean
I know it.
Hey rocky I cant pull a rabbit out of a hat (AGAIN? That trick NEVER works!!! THIS time for SURE!!!) But I did acquire a Gunn & Moore Autograph Series WA (Bert) Oldfield Autograph bat the other day from a 'curios and Ephemera' shop in Windsor. The kicker is , not only is it a Bert Oldfield Autograph bat (with the stamped on in ink autograph) but it is ALSO personally signed by the bloke himself on the left back shoulder of the bat. Which the poor woman who runs the shop cant have known or I wouldnt have only paid $20 for it!
for those igerrant fules who dont kno
WA (Bert) Oldfield was the Australian test wicketkeeper during the 1932 bodyline tour. he was struck in the head by Harold Larwood during the Adelaide test match. An occurrence which almost occcasioned a declaration of war against England. Bastards
As fer you f**** Jardine (I KNOW you went to hell you prick) I hope its too fuggin hot down there n the management is NOT allowing you to turn on the A/C... Though youre a big enough prick youre probably RUNNING the joint eh.
Heh
The kiwis MIGHT understand that last bit... the poms will... the rest can bloody well google all of it. lazy prats expect me to explain everything? what am I? an analogue google?
I'm mean
I know it.
Hey rocky I cant pull a rabbit out of a hat (AGAIN? That trick NEVER works!!! THIS time for SURE!!!) But I did acquire a Gunn & Moore Autograph Series WA (Bert) Oldfield Autograph bat the other day from a 'curios and Ephemera' shop in Windsor. The kicker is , not only is it a Bert Oldfield Autograph bat (with the stamped on in ink autograph) but it is ALSO personally signed by the bloke himself on the left back shoulder of the bat. Which the poor woman who runs the shop cant have known or I wouldnt have only paid $20 for it!
for those igerrant fules who dont kno
WA (Bert) Oldfield was the Australian test wicketkeeper during the 1932 bodyline tour. he was struck in the head by Harold Larwood during the Adelaide test match. An occurrence which almost occcasioned a declaration of war against England. Bastards
As fer you f**** Jardine (I KNOW you went to hell you prick) I hope its too fuggin hot down there n the management is NOT allowing you to turn on the A/C... Though youre a big enough prick youre probably RUNNING the joint eh.
Heh
The kiwis MIGHT understand that last bit... the poms will... the rest can bloody well google all of it. lazy prats expect me to explain everything? what am I? an analogue google?
IIIIIIIIIII'mmmmmmmm baaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkk
Well the car is finally fixed! yay me (n dad).
It has taken me THREE WHOLE $@%^%!~%!% days to get rid of all the bullshit email spam on my isp (!!!) There was so much the server wouldnt let me log on n d/l it all. Or sumffin. I dunno. Just took ages. Kept crashing n shite. So today is the first day it appears stable enough to even think about downloading some pron n updating the blog.
You'll note Ive added word verification to the comments section. Real people shouldnt have a problem with it. (that means you Lisa)
I think the extended semi holiday did my squash some good as I played Tuesday night, WEdnesday night n again yesterday n I dont think Ive hit the ball better since I started playing again. good solid contact through the shot n I seem to be timing it better. Felt like I was 24 again (remember those floggings I gave you rockape? hmmm? those lil floggings? yeah.. Notice I wasnt stupid enough to try playing footy with you though!!)When I was 24 I think I was playing about as well as I can remember - I was taking a former professional to 5 sets every game so it was all good heh. Of course I am not getting around as well as I did then but atleast I feel like the ball is going where I want it to now.
While I was away I went to two swapmeets with dad. I sold 100% of the stuff I took - to wit - one helmet, and one set of 2 piece race leathers (motorcycle leathers). I threw in a set of plastic wetweather oversuit with the leathers (deal clincher n I was only gonna ask about $10 for em anyway) so I rule. heh
WEll I'm tapped for now.
anyone wants to suggest something for me to get on my soap box about feel free eh.
It has taken me THREE WHOLE $@%^%!~%!% days to get rid of all the bullshit email spam on my isp (!!!) There was so much the server wouldnt let me log on n d/l it all. Or sumffin. I dunno. Just took ages. Kept crashing n shite. So today is the first day it appears stable enough to even think about downloading some pron n updating the blog.
You'll note Ive added word verification to the comments section. Real people shouldnt have a problem with it. (that means you Lisa)
I think the extended semi holiday did my squash some good as I played Tuesday night, WEdnesday night n again yesterday n I dont think Ive hit the ball better since I started playing again. good solid contact through the shot n I seem to be timing it better. Felt like I was 24 again (remember those floggings I gave you rockape? hmmm? those lil floggings? yeah.. Notice I wasnt stupid enough to try playing footy with you though!!)When I was 24 I think I was playing about as well as I can remember - I was taking a former professional to 5 sets every game so it was all good heh. Of course I am not getting around as well as I did then but atleast I feel like the ball is going where I want it to now.
While I was away I went to two swapmeets with dad. I sold 100% of the stuff I took - to wit - one helmet, and one set of 2 piece race leathers (motorcycle leathers). I threw in a set of plastic wetweather oversuit with the leathers (deal clincher n I was only gonna ask about $10 for em anyway) so I rule. heh
WEll I'm tapped for now.
anyone wants to suggest something for me to get on my soap box about feel free eh.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
so heres the thing
so I get roasted for not writing much n what do I go n do?
not write much!
heh
I know i know
But Ive been down at mums' (200kms away) helping the master of peugeots (dad) fix the stupid arsehole cheap shit clutch n bearing some previous dickhead decided to fit instead of genuine quality parts. arsehole. someone (who obviously sniffed a profit) decided that (during the stewardship of the previous owner) my car needed to have the gearbox out n 'fixed' This is a DECIDEDLY (i know I'm using the word a lot) rare procedure on a peugeot. Unless youre a moron who puts auto fluid in a manual box (seen that - couldnt believe it n they STILL got the nearly 400kms to our dealership b4 it expired). So while they had the box out they changed the clutchplate, pressure plate and the bearing. With cheap shite. There was probably ZERO wrong with the original stuff.
anyway when you dont have a hoist or a pit you spend a LOT more time laying on your back in weird angles than would otherwise be the case with this job. When you no longer have an engine hoist you cant do it the easy way n unbolt the engine n get it out of the way. We basically had to make it up as we went along as the factory workshop manual assumes you have stuff we no longer have :/ damnit.
so thats where Ive been the last week n it is where I'll be til next monday most likely as I will go to a swap meet with dad on the weekend n friday n monday will be shakedown stuff to make sure nothing falls off etc.
Kassi darling I hope ya back like ya said.
I miss talking to ya - only sane person I know (I am having doubts about young Lisa.... JOKE JOKE)
Ima try figuring out how to set those settings to piss off those spammer dickheads too when I get home.
Rocky you unmentionably ugly man... I dont drink anymore. I am worrying about you mate you seem to have the red wine on the brain lately. n no i dont drink any less either heh
:P
not write much!
heh
I know i know
But Ive been down at mums' (200kms away) helping the master of peugeots (dad) fix the stupid arsehole cheap shit clutch n bearing some previous dickhead decided to fit instead of genuine quality parts. arsehole. someone (who obviously sniffed a profit) decided that (during the stewardship of the previous owner) my car needed to have the gearbox out n 'fixed' This is a DECIDEDLY (i know I'm using the word a lot) rare procedure on a peugeot. Unless youre a moron who puts auto fluid in a manual box (seen that - couldnt believe it n they STILL got the nearly 400kms to our dealership b4 it expired). So while they had the box out they changed the clutchplate, pressure plate and the bearing. With cheap shite. There was probably ZERO wrong with the original stuff.
anyway when you dont have a hoist or a pit you spend a LOT more time laying on your back in weird angles than would otherwise be the case with this job. When you no longer have an engine hoist you cant do it the easy way n unbolt the engine n get it out of the way. We basically had to make it up as we went along as the factory workshop manual assumes you have stuff we no longer have :/ damnit.
so thats where Ive been the last week n it is where I'll be til next monday most likely as I will go to a swap meet with dad on the weekend n friday n monday will be shakedown stuff to make sure nothing falls off etc.
Kassi darling I hope ya back like ya said.
I miss talking to ya - only sane person I know (I am having doubts about young Lisa.... JOKE JOKE)
Ima try figuring out how to set those settings to piss off those spammer dickheads too when I get home.
Rocky you unmentionably ugly man... I dont drink anymore. I am worrying about you mate you seem to have the red wine on the brain lately. n no i dont drink any less either heh
:P
Sunday, October 09, 2005
what a yawn (x2)
Well another year another Bathurst 1000 race. Another yawnfest. I've been a race fan most of my life but frankly these days I find it all a bit, well, pointless.
Round n round n round burning shit knows how much petrol so brain dead morons can wave holden or ford flags at each other safe in the knowledge that they dont have to watch any actual decent cars racing. God forbid!
Bring back the days when it wasnt a sucky silhouette formula. Bring back more than TWO sodding makes of car. Actually... dont bother. When is the next round of the World Rally Championship? Good...
And as for the World eleven Versus Australia. What a farce that has turned out to be! They could have picked another Australian side that would have given our senior team a better run! If that is the BEST the best in the world can do it is no wonder we kick shit out of everyone most of the time. Hope they actually turn up to play during the test match. Though if their form through the one day series is ANY sorta guide it will all be over in 3 days tops.
Yeah I know I havent been contributing much lately Ive had comp trouble so sue me. N frankly Ive been totally bored. Hard to be motivasted when the only comments ya get are about stupid spammers (stand fast Walker thanks mate). I mean I know i'm boring n rabbit shit mostly but some sorta response would be nice *shrug*.
Been playing like shit lately. Feels like Ive lost any strength in my hand n wrist. N my legs feel like jelly all the time. Getting totally bored feeling like crap all the time :/
Noone on my msn list is ever on to chat to either. Fuck knows why I bother. Thank god fer porn. If it wasnt for internet porn id never see women these days (yeah yeah thats a total lie but even though I see lots of gals at the gym none of em wanna play with me now do they of course not even the gf doesnt wanna play so why would total strangers?)
Round n round n round burning shit knows how much petrol so brain dead morons can wave holden or ford flags at each other safe in the knowledge that they dont have to watch any actual decent cars racing. God forbid!
Bring back the days when it wasnt a sucky silhouette formula. Bring back more than TWO sodding makes of car. Actually... dont bother. When is the next round of the World Rally Championship? Good...
And as for the World eleven Versus Australia. What a farce that has turned out to be! They could have picked another Australian side that would have given our senior team a better run! If that is the BEST the best in the world can do it is no wonder we kick shit out of everyone most of the time. Hope they actually turn up to play during the test match. Though if their form through the one day series is ANY sorta guide it will all be over in 3 days tops.
Yeah I know I havent been contributing much lately Ive had comp trouble so sue me. N frankly Ive been totally bored. Hard to be motivasted when the only comments ya get are about stupid spammers (stand fast Walker thanks mate). I mean I know i'm boring n rabbit shit mostly but some sorta response would be nice *shrug*.
Been playing like shit lately. Feels like Ive lost any strength in my hand n wrist. N my legs feel like jelly all the time. Getting totally bored feeling like crap all the time :/
Noone on my msn list is ever on to chat to either. Fuck knows why I bother. Thank god fer porn. If it wasnt for internet porn id never see women these days (yeah yeah thats a total lie but even though I see lots of gals at the gym none of em wanna play with me now do they of course not even the gf doesnt wanna play so why would total strangers?)
Sunday, October 02, 2005
bahh exercise is SUPPOSED to be good for you
So why am I so sore? *sniff*
I went to the gym then I played squash fer 1 1/2 hours today. My legs hurt :/
This is the fundamental problem with exercise. It is far far easier to be bloody lazy. It should hurt to sit around doing bloody nothing!!!
I remember back when I was svelte (babybear keeps asking me if I'm svelte yet - I think she read it in a book n decided to use it rather than 'thin' or 'skinny'). I hurt all the time. I played squash for several hours every day, trained to play squash for several hours every day. All the training I was doing I shoulda felt NO pain i reckon. Instead I was in agony 24/7. Of course some may argue from that that praps I have not got the ole athletes' body type. I suspect a nuggety flint of truth in that. Running should be a joy after all it is what our bodies are designed to do.
I personally have never felt that 2nd wind n that euphoria runners are always blathering on about. Ever. Never. Ive felt that cramping sensation in the quads. That tearing sensation in the calves. That 'fuck me I dont think I can breathe enough to play the last 3 points' i HAVE felt. That shit do I have legs or is there a lump of cement below my pelvis? feeling I have felt.
Truth be told I used t oget a real sharp pain in my right clavical every time I ran anywhere n wasnt carrying something in either hand. this dissuaded me from running sometimes.
BTW I tried writing about serious stuff n aside from Walker (thanks mate) noone seemed to give a fuck one way or the other. So pfft I'ma stick to dribbling shit from now on (sit DOWN rocky they already KNOW I dribble shit at olympic standard). So screw controversy.
I'm hoping to have the cash to play in the bathurst open this month *fingers crossed*. I have to play a guy tomorrow who is ranked so ahead of me i cant actually see him most of the time. Naturally this does not prevent me from deluding myself I have a chance to beat him! heh. Young buggers... they shit me with their speed n eyes that work n n n natural timing (come to think.. I never had much in the way of natural timing - I sometimes wonder how good I coulda BEEN if I had even a drop of sports genes in me) yahyah. He is gonna brain me but I hope to teach him a modicum of respect for his elders. I then have to play the sexiest gal in Bathurst with a squash racket in her hand. *sigh* hard to concentrate. too hard. very very hard. I'd like to occupy HER T (squash joke dont trouble yerself if you dont get it).
oh well
Hope everyone who reads this is well (all 5 of you)
N Good on the WEsts Tigers for winning the football today. GO TIGERS (I dont support them but it is always good when a NSW side beats a QLd side!!!) As eni fule kno Queensland sucks
I went to the gym then I played squash fer 1 1/2 hours today. My legs hurt :/
This is the fundamental problem with exercise. It is far far easier to be bloody lazy. It should hurt to sit around doing bloody nothing!!!
I remember back when I was svelte (babybear keeps asking me if I'm svelte yet - I think she read it in a book n decided to use it rather than 'thin' or 'skinny'). I hurt all the time. I played squash for several hours every day, trained to play squash for several hours every day. All the training I was doing I shoulda felt NO pain i reckon. Instead I was in agony 24/7. Of course some may argue from that that praps I have not got the ole athletes' body type. I suspect a nuggety flint of truth in that. Running should be a joy after all it is what our bodies are designed to do.
I personally have never felt that 2nd wind n that euphoria runners are always blathering on about. Ever. Never. Ive felt that cramping sensation in the quads. That tearing sensation in the calves. That 'fuck me I dont think I can breathe enough to play the last 3 points' i HAVE felt. That shit do I have legs or is there a lump of cement below my pelvis? feeling I have felt.
Truth be told I used t oget a real sharp pain in my right clavical every time I ran anywhere n wasnt carrying something in either hand. this dissuaded me from running sometimes.
BTW I tried writing about serious stuff n aside from Walker (thanks mate) noone seemed to give a fuck one way or the other. So pfft I'ma stick to dribbling shit from now on (sit DOWN rocky they already KNOW I dribble shit at olympic standard). So screw controversy.
I'm hoping to have the cash to play in the bathurst open this month *fingers crossed*. I have to play a guy tomorrow who is ranked so ahead of me i cant actually see him most of the time. Naturally this does not prevent me from deluding myself I have a chance to beat him! heh. Young buggers... they shit me with their speed n eyes that work n n n natural timing (come to think.. I never had much in the way of natural timing - I sometimes wonder how good I coulda BEEN if I had even a drop of sports genes in me) yahyah. He is gonna brain me but I hope to teach him a modicum of respect for his elders. I then have to play the sexiest gal in Bathurst with a squash racket in her hand. *sigh* hard to concentrate. too hard. very very hard. I'd like to occupy HER T (squash joke dont trouble yerself if you dont get it).
oh well
Hope everyone who reads this is well (all 5 of you)
N Good on the WEsts Tigers for winning the football today. GO TIGERS (I dont support them but it is always good when a NSW side beats a QLd side!!!) As eni fule kno Queensland sucks
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
so who cares eh
i hate men who think the measure of their worth is how big their wallet is.
I hate women who only measure their worth by how big their husbands' wallet is.
I hate cats. Don't bother entering into a discussion ok. I hate cats. They stink. They kill native birds with a persistence I would admire if it was applied to pigeons n starlings. They think my house is a toilet. They will find out my house is a death zone once i get my slug gun from mum's place. the cat that shares room with us only shows me affection cuz he KNOWS I am allergic. bastard. If i wanted my curtains n lounge ripped I can do it MYSELF with a knife thank you very much. They kill native birds. They sneak around like we are too stupid to see them. They kill natice birds. They have to have litter trays. Christ on a crutch they stink. Did I mention they kill native birds? I shot the last one I saw hunting a poor bloody defenceless possum. No cat ever knew its father. Theyre all bastards in other words.
I hate drunk drivers n their whiney pissweak fucking excuses.
It is real simple fuckwit... LEAVE the car at home. It isnt rocket science n its obvious youre no fuggin genius. Should have to wear a big hat with 'ima fucking stupid moron drunk driver I MAY indeed try to kill you n yours on the road today'
I hate women who cheat then whine about men who cheat. Hypocritical moles. What goes around comes around.
I hate pepsi.
I hate stupid tv ads that basically TELL you they think youre a bloody idiot.
I hate the bloody idiots who buy products sold to them by people who call them bloody idiots to their faces. weird.
I hate people who push in front of me in a line or at the shops.
I hate the shop staff who SERVE those rude arrogant people. If they serve more than one person who pushes in I go see management n tell them I am never spending money in their store ever again n why.
I hate actors n actresses who think that because they play dress up they have the right to tell me what I should or shouldnt think. News flash. You NEVER grew up you still play dress up. Piss off out of my face. The better Roman emperors had the right idea - they executed actors that shit them.
I hate the brain dead 'Holden/Ford' crap my countrymen indulge in. They are both heaps of shite so GET over it. I especially hate the dickhead who tell ME how good whichever one they like is when the only car theyve ever driven is a 1980 XD falcon with fucked shocks n the balljoints worn out. This vast pool of automotive experience allows them to think I nknow fuck all cuz Ive driven about 300 different cars in my life, just cuz I CHOOSE to drive a Peugeot for much better reasons they they drive whatever they drive.
I hate being fat.
I hate the fact that it doesnt seem to matter what I do I'm still fat.
I hate having asthma.
I hate having to take drugs for back pain, uric acid and asthma.
I hate having a shit knee.
I love having one good knee
I love having meds i can take for asthma insteada dying.
I love having meds that stop my getting kidney stones (finally after 20 years they cure me).
I love my blue heeler billy. He is the best dog a bloke could have.
I love living where the air is clean n the water drinkable without all the shit they add in the city.
I love my car cuz the seats are like armchairs n the suspension is supple n smooth even though the shocks need changing, n it goes exactly where its pointed.
I love the feel of a squash ball coming off the strings of my racket dead centre.
I love that the gurl takes her meds n stays calm.
i love the sound of a kookaburra laughing its head off.
I love seeing galahs feeding on the side of the road.
I love wombats. Theyre the coolest creatures on the planet i reckon.
I love thunderstorms.
I love the sound of a steak sizzling on the hotplate. I love the smell of a steak sizzling on a hotplate.
I am looking forward to the warmer weather so I can go gold fossicking withthe gurl n get my legs wet traipsing round the countryside.
I hate women who only measure their worth by how big their husbands' wallet is.
I hate cats. Don't bother entering into a discussion ok. I hate cats. They stink. They kill native birds with a persistence I would admire if it was applied to pigeons n starlings. They think my house is a toilet. They will find out my house is a death zone once i get my slug gun from mum's place. the cat that shares room with us only shows me affection cuz he KNOWS I am allergic. bastard. If i wanted my curtains n lounge ripped I can do it MYSELF with a knife thank you very much. They kill native birds. They sneak around like we are too stupid to see them. They kill natice birds. They have to have litter trays. Christ on a crutch they stink. Did I mention they kill native birds? I shot the last one I saw hunting a poor bloody defenceless possum. No cat ever knew its father. Theyre all bastards in other words.
I hate drunk drivers n their whiney pissweak fucking excuses.
It is real simple fuckwit... LEAVE the car at home. It isnt rocket science n its obvious youre no fuggin genius. Should have to wear a big hat with 'ima fucking stupid moron drunk driver I MAY indeed try to kill you n yours on the road today'
I hate women who cheat then whine about men who cheat. Hypocritical moles. What goes around comes around.
I hate pepsi.
I hate stupid tv ads that basically TELL you they think youre a bloody idiot.
I hate the bloody idiots who buy products sold to them by people who call them bloody idiots to their faces. weird.
I hate people who push in front of me in a line or at the shops.
I hate the shop staff who SERVE those rude arrogant people. If they serve more than one person who pushes in I go see management n tell them I am never spending money in their store ever again n why.
I hate actors n actresses who think that because they play dress up they have the right to tell me what I should or shouldnt think. News flash. You NEVER grew up you still play dress up. Piss off out of my face. The better Roman emperors had the right idea - they executed actors that shit them.
I hate the brain dead 'Holden/Ford' crap my countrymen indulge in. They are both heaps of shite so GET over it. I especially hate the dickhead who tell ME how good whichever one they like is when the only car theyve ever driven is a 1980 XD falcon with fucked shocks n the balljoints worn out. This vast pool of automotive experience allows them to think I nknow fuck all cuz Ive driven about 300 different cars in my life, just cuz I CHOOSE to drive a Peugeot for much better reasons they they drive whatever they drive.
I hate being fat.
I hate the fact that it doesnt seem to matter what I do I'm still fat.
I hate having asthma.
I hate having to take drugs for back pain, uric acid and asthma.
I hate having a shit knee.
I love having one good knee
I love having meds i can take for asthma insteada dying.
I love having meds that stop my getting kidney stones (finally after 20 years they cure me).
I love my blue heeler billy. He is the best dog a bloke could have.
I love living where the air is clean n the water drinkable without all the shit they add in the city.
I love my car cuz the seats are like armchairs n the suspension is supple n smooth even though the shocks need changing, n it goes exactly where its pointed.
I love the feel of a squash ball coming off the strings of my racket dead centre.
I love that the gurl takes her meds n stays calm.
i love the sound of a kookaburra laughing its head off.
I love seeing galahs feeding on the side of the road.
I love wombats. Theyre the coolest creatures on the planet i reckon.
I love thunderstorms.
I love the sound of a steak sizzling on the hotplate. I love the smell of a steak sizzling on a hotplate.
I am looking forward to the warmer weather so I can go gold fossicking withthe gurl n get my legs wet traipsing round the countryside.
Monday, September 26, 2005
drugs n why are we STILL arresting people?
hope I get most of this down in time (I have things to do people to see).
Most of western society is in what is called a 'war' on drugs. Billions spent every year in person power (doesn't have that certain 'ring' 'manpower' has eh) equipment to search for, surveill, arrest and incarcerate drug dealers and certain categories of users (depending on which country you live in).
Billions wasted while ever ONE single, central problem remains in place, in play.
The profit gained from drug running.
Does ANYONE seriously think these people traffic drugs for fun and relaxation?
They do it for MONEY. Lots and lots of money.
It seems obvious to me that regardless of the level of 'threat' perceived in individual countries (eg Singapore where they hang drug dealers, or Australia where we send them to club fed)dealers will not only survive they will earn enough cash to make the risk seem worth taking. No tax, no rivals (rub em out if they appear), all cash. Fancy cars, sexy chicks etc etc etc. Hmmm. Bit like smoking I suspect -the wont happen to me syndrome is alive n well in drug runners.
So how do we fix the problem?
Well the last statistic I saw in Australia suggested there are about 1500 heroin addicts in Sydney (I make no claims as to reliability of figures). This isnt many in a city of over 2 million. No idea how many drug dealers there are running about.
But it seems to me these poor sad individuals (addicts) suck up an inordinate amount of money in medical and policing expenses. I say treat addicts not as criminals, don't mask their addiction with OTHER, equally addictive stuff like methadone, TREAT them as if they are sick (which I believe they are), then deal properly with the root of the problem. In 12 months under the mongoose plan governments will have more than enough money to deal effectively with the medical and social issues addiction causes.
How?
Easy
Government must itself become the supplier of choice.
GIVE the addict his/her fix. Scratch the itch. Control access to the drug of choice, control dosage, and charge nothing for the fix. Government should grow their own in effect. What will happen then?
Drug dealers are basically out of business overnight. There cannot be any money if the government is GIVING the shit away. Old old rule. If you want to KILL an industry get the government involved. What dealer on the planet could afford to compete with free junk? Doesnt matter what it is - heroin, smoke, cocaine, whatever.
A couple of rules would need to be in place. Addicts would need to register. They would be given a metered dose by a registered health care professional (doctor or nurse). Now you might say that will cost extra money etc etc etc. Yes. Perhaps one extra doctor and nurse per hospital JUST to do the addicts. But they will be getting clean drugs, under medical supervision.
So what happens then?
No more mugging for drug money. Break, enter, steal offences would drop enormously. Drug related gangland killings would almost stop. In places like the USA turf wars over drugs would simply STOP happening. Basically look up EVERY crime that happens due to drug use and put a line through it. People would not have to sell themselves into prostitution. Dealers wouldnt be getting people hooked to sell them product. The spread of diseases such as hepatitus and AIDS would, I suspect, basically stop via drug use as people would not be sharing needles. Again taking load off the health service.
The poor bloody police would have more resources to chase old style crims. Car thieves, burglars etc. Customs wouldnt be so overwhelmed. All that black money going into the drug dealers' hands would instead stay in circulation in the general economy. The medical systems wouldnt have to deal with ODing idiots. Prisons would not be as over crowded. EVERYWHERE one turns one can see financial savings.
The goal is to eventually ween the poor souls off the shit. I think this could be done once the SOLE source of supply is the regulatory authority.
Once that is done fucking BAN cigarette manufacture. Those bastards kill more people in a year than any of the drug dealers EVER have. They call drug dealers purveyors of death well its cigarette companies that are the true purveyors of death. OK ok I know that will likely only drive it underground like heroin is now. Again you have to take the profit motive away.
Down the track I think billions if not trillions would be saved.
Money that could be spent on better health schooling and transport services.
Or better toys for the army/navy/airforce. Kidding KIDDING we have just about enough ways to kill each other. Farm relief. Shit the list goes on eh. No little kids dying cuz mummy is a fucking smackhead n left her methadone out where little fingers could reach cuz she was off her face.
Eventually I would hope there would be NO addicts. If you wanna try it you go to the doctor n have a hit on your day off. etc whatever.
Then we can spend some of the saved money on shitbag drunk drivers. Hire some of the now out of work drug goons to have what my brother in law calls 'Sort The Fuckers Out' tours.
But the drug problem is simple to fix. The government has to be the supplier.
It'll take a year for some effect to start to be seen maybe 5 years before the whole situation is so under control we will look back n wonder wtf we were doing beforehand.
N yes I have indeed sent this idea to the government (the PM himself actually). Unfortunately they seem horrified by the idea of actually DOING something about it rather than being SEEN to do something about it.
See it is easy to tip more money and resources at the 'problem'.But if you have not identified the actual REAL problem you are just making criminals out of a lot of sick people. Take the profit from the enterprise and the drug trade dries up. You can then set to helping the poor sods who are hooked. Simple as that.
Most of western society is in what is called a 'war' on drugs. Billions spent every year in person power (doesn't have that certain 'ring' 'manpower' has eh) equipment to search for, surveill, arrest and incarcerate drug dealers and certain categories of users (depending on which country you live in).
Billions wasted while ever ONE single, central problem remains in place, in play.
The profit gained from drug running.
Does ANYONE seriously think these people traffic drugs for fun and relaxation?
They do it for MONEY. Lots and lots of money.
It seems obvious to me that regardless of the level of 'threat' perceived in individual countries (eg Singapore where they hang drug dealers, or Australia where we send them to club fed)dealers will not only survive they will earn enough cash to make the risk seem worth taking. No tax, no rivals (rub em out if they appear), all cash. Fancy cars, sexy chicks etc etc etc. Hmmm. Bit like smoking I suspect -the wont happen to me syndrome is alive n well in drug runners.
So how do we fix the problem?
Well the last statistic I saw in Australia suggested there are about 1500 heroin addicts in Sydney (I make no claims as to reliability of figures). This isnt many in a city of over 2 million. No idea how many drug dealers there are running about.
But it seems to me these poor sad individuals (addicts) suck up an inordinate amount of money in medical and policing expenses. I say treat addicts not as criminals, don't mask their addiction with OTHER, equally addictive stuff like methadone, TREAT them as if they are sick (which I believe they are), then deal properly with the root of the problem. In 12 months under the mongoose plan governments will have more than enough money to deal effectively with the medical and social issues addiction causes.
How?
Easy
Government must itself become the supplier of choice.
GIVE the addict his/her fix. Scratch the itch. Control access to the drug of choice, control dosage, and charge nothing for the fix. Government should grow their own in effect. What will happen then?
Drug dealers are basically out of business overnight. There cannot be any money if the government is GIVING the shit away. Old old rule. If you want to KILL an industry get the government involved. What dealer on the planet could afford to compete with free junk? Doesnt matter what it is - heroin, smoke, cocaine, whatever.
A couple of rules would need to be in place. Addicts would need to register. They would be given a metered dose by a registered health care professional (doctor or nurse). Now you might say that will cost extra money etc etc etc. Yes. Perhaps one extra doctor and nurse per hospital JUST to do the addicts. But they will be getting clean drugs, under medical supervision.
So what happens then?
No more mugging for drug money. Break, enter, steal offences would drop enormously. Drug related gangland killings would almost stop. In places like the USA turf wars over drugs would simply STOP happening. Basically look up EVERY crime that happens due to drug use and put a line through it. People would not have to sell themselves into prostitution. Dealers wouldnt be getting people hooked to sell them product. The spread of diseases such as hepatitus and AIDS would, I suspect, basically stop via drug use as people would not be sharing needles. Again taking load off the health service.
The poor bloody police would have more resources to chase old style crims. Car thieves, burglars etc. Customs wouldnt be so overwhelmed. All that black money going into the drug dealers' hands would instead stay in circulation in the general economy. The medical systems wouldnt have to deal with ODing idiots. Prisons would not be as over crowded. EVERYWHERE one turns one can see financial savings.
The goal is to eventually ween the poor souls off the shit. I think this could be done once the SOLE source of supply is the regulatory authority.
Once that is done fucking BAN cigarette manufacture. Those bastards kill more people in a year than any of the drug dealers EVER have. They call drug dealers purveyors of death well its cigarette companies that are the true purveyors of death. OK ok I know that will likely only drive it underground like heroin is now. Again you have to take the profit motive away.
Down the track I think billions if not trillions would be saved.
Money that could be spent on better health schooling and transport services.
Or better toys for the army/navy/airforce. Kidding KIDDING we have just about enough ways to kill each other. Farm relief. Shit the list goes on eh. No little kids dying cuz mummy is a fucking smackhead n left her methadone out where little fingers could reach cuz she was off her face.
Eventually I would hope there would be NO addicts. If you wanna try it you go to the doctor n have a hit on your day off. etc whatever.
Then we can spend some of the saved money on shitbag drunk drivers. Hire some of the now out of work drug goons to have what my brother in law calls 'Sort The Fuckers Out' tours.
But the drug problem is simple to fix. The government has to be the supplier.
It'll take a year for some effect to start to be seen maybe 5 years before the whole situation is so under control we will look back n wonder wtf we were doing beforehand.
N yes I have indeed sent this idea to the government (the PM himself actually). Unfortunately they seem horrified by the idea of actually DOING something about it rather than being SEEN to do something about it.
See it is easy to tip more money and resources at the 'problem'.But if you have not identified the actual REAL problem you are just making criminals out of a lot of sick people. Take the profit from the enterprise and the drug trade dries up. You can then set to helping the poor sods who are hooked. Simple as that.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
i stiiiiiiill havent found what I'm looking forrrrr
Hmm my good scissors are total shite.
The loops for the fingers are too small. They feel nice in the scissoring action n appear to be nice n tight blade to blade but they dont actually CUT anything particularly well. As we (humans) have been making scissors or scissor like objects since the BLOODY BRONZE AGE Ida thought we would praps have attained the shall we say 'state of the art'? Apparently not.
I still havent found a can opener that would fulfil my requirements either.
Ie
OPENING A CAN MORE THAN ONCE (the openers not the can - I mean you could conceiveably open a can twice -it has two ends after all but why would you?) so no I havent found where I can get swiss army able-to-survive-an-atombomb-will-cook-clean-watch-footy-n-drink-beer-with-you can opener. Not that I drink beer but its the thought that counts. Come to think not that I drink at all.
The loops for the fingers are too small. They feel nice in the scissoring action n appear to be nice n tight blade to blade but they dont actually CUT anything particularly well. As we (humans) have been making scissors or scissor like objects since the BLOODY BRONZE AGE Ida thought we would praps have attained the shall we say 'state of the art'? Apparently not.
I still havent found a can opener that would fulfil my requirements either.
Ie
OPENING A CAN MORE THAN ONCE (the openers not the can - I mean you could conceiveably open a can twice -it has two ends after all but why would you?) so no I havent found where I can get swiss army able-to-survive-an-atombomb-will-cook-clean-watch-footy-n-drink-beer-with-you can opener. Not that I drink beer but its the thought that counts. Come to think not that I drink at all.
odds n sods
Played squash again last night
Two matches.
Lost the first in 4 what a surprise. Had that 'don't feel like being here, feel like I'm playing shite' feeling the entire time. I put it down to dropping a starter motor on my foot Monday and the fact I HATE point a rally scoring. Bit of a traditionalist me eh.
Then went to bathurst squash for the main comp (for me the main comp) expecting more of the same but totally surprised myself by playing rather well indeed. Weird shit form.
I would like to meet the brain dead, cranially challenged fuckstick that first thought it is a brilliant idea to put herbaceous border type vegetation in the middle of a bloody round-about. Yeah. What a move. Let's make it so NOONE can see whatthefuck is coming EVER. It is playing Russian roulette with cars. Sheer lunacy.
I'd also like to know who the grey cardigan wearing, balding, still-lives-with-mother, catches a bus to work cuz cars are so environmentally damaging (ever FOLLOWED a bus idiot?) who thought clear indicator lenses are a fantastic idea.
They ARE indeed if you work in the repair industry. It is the front indicators in particular that shit me. Can't tell if theyre on. Can't tell if theyre off. Dunno what the guy/gal is gonna do. Start to pull out n suddenly there is a flashing light n a bloke with that ' ive GOT my indicator ON dickhead' look. Yeah but when it is the same colour as your HEADLIGHT I can't really bloody TELL can I?? What EVER was wrong wit good old orange lenses? You know? The ones you can actually SEE the indicator flashing? You can clearly (heh) differentiate between headlight and indicator. Sounds too i dunno.. SAFE to me. Funny though, I never almost get cleaned up by anyone driving a car with the old stylee indicators. And I can hear that bloody kiwi accent in Dunedin purring 'ut's prubublee cuz yu dunt luuk' no kassi darling - Ive even had to resort to asking the gurl if she thinks an indicator is on or not. She actually agrees with me they are impossible to see. Sensible girl that.
hmmm there was something else wot shit me off while driving yesterday...
no.. wasnt the marked lack of sexy young things waving n offering sexual favours (though i confess that is a problem).
wasnt the dwindling number of genuine Peugeot owners around to wave to while driving (the new breed are just dickhead BMW drivers without the wallet that stretches that far - they barely know they are driving the 2nd oldest breed of car on the planet..idiots)
hell it wasnt even the number of dickheadidai (sudden Homeric urge brought about by looking at all the copies of the Iliad Ive rescued from opshops) who charge up the gutter lane at warp 6 AS the lights go red THEN swerve across in front of me to the right turn lane while slamming the brakes on. Like ... what was wrong with slowing down a hundred metres back on the amber light n changing lanes BEHIND me (seeing there was NOONE FUCKING ELSE ON THE FUCKING ROAD)?? hmm? in such a tearing hurry to stop at a red light? Forgot where you were going dear? Forgot 'gee i have to turn right at these lights I'll take the GUTTER lane' (for north american viewers transpose left for right) Makes perfect sense to me if you assume the driver is a total fucking suicidal moron.
But even that egregious assault on my calm state of mind is not what shit me.
Ive done trucks running red lights (restrain me someone).
Not even idiots who wait until the light is almost red before pulling away thus preventing ANYONE else from getting through the intersection (though I think that should be a tyre slashing key down the flanks offence).
hmmm
I think I'm most miffed by the lack of nubile young things offering sexual favours actually. yes yes thats it. Girls I'm not getting any younger ok. You need to act now to avoid disapointment. Stocks ARE limited. I dont even require payment. Though feeding n the occasional back rub would be nice.
damn my foot hurts :/
lesson there younguns
DONT drop starter motors anywhere near your poor precious foot. stupid thing *kicks painful foot with nonpainful foot*
ok that was stupid
Hah my doctor is so sweet
she rang on friday rather concerned with my 'abnormal liver test results' this in what has to be the sweetest voice you will EVER hear on a telephone line. I love litening to her. So I book in n toddle off yesterday to check my abnormal liver test results. Then spent 20 minutes explaining how it was actually a wonderful result given two years ago the number under discussion was 304 where the normal range was 25 - 80 and it is now 118 down from the May test at 126 (I dont understand what the numbers test just that 304 bad craig bad! 118 is a wonderful improvement). See she wasnt my doctor when this bloody liver problem started. Ive had a few but it seemed they were all on a 6 month rotation or some such so one day I got the shits n said to the delightful girl who runs the receptionists 'look get me in with one of the permanent docs, female preferably cuz the gurl will wanna see her too n I think maybe she would be more comfortable with a female doc' n voila it was done. So after 30 minutes or so it was 'well keep doing what youre doing it seems to be working'
eat pizza? maccas? no seriously.
Two matches.
Lost the first in 4 what a surprise. Had that 'don't feel like being here, feel like I'm playing shite' feeling the entire time. I put it down to dropping a starter motor on my foot Monday and the fact I HATE point a rally scoring. Bit of a traditionalist me eh.
Then went to bathurst squash for the main comp (for me the main comp) expecting more of the same but totally surprised myself by playing rather well indeed. Weird shit form.
I would like to meet the brain dead, cranially challenged fuckstick that first thought it is a brilliant idea to put herbaceous border type vegetation in the middle of a bloody round-about. Yeah. What a move. Let's make it so NOONE can see whatthefuck is coming EVER. It is playing Russian roulette with cars. Sheer lunacy.
I'd also like to know who the grey cardigan wearing, balding, still-lives-with-mother, catches a bus to work cuz cars are so environmentally damaging (ever FOLLOWED a bus idiot?) who thought clear indicator lenses are a fantastic idea.
They ARE indeed if you work in the repair industry. It is the front indicators in particular that shit me. Can't tell if theyre on. Can't tell if theyre off. Dunno what the guy/gal is gonna do. Start to pull out n suddenly there is a flashing light n a bloke with that ' ive GOT my indicator ON dickhead' look. Yeah but when it is the same colour as your HEADLIGHT I can't really bloody TELL can I?? What EVER was wrong wit good old orange lenses? You know? The ones you can actually SEE the indicator flashing? You can clearly (heh) differentiate between headlight and indicator. Sounds too i dunno.. SAFE to me. Funny though, I never almost get cleaned up by anyone driving a car with the old stylee indicators. And I can hear that bloody kiwi accent in Dunedin purring 'ut's prubublee cuz yu dunt luuk' no kassi darling - Ive even had to resort to asking the gurl if she thinks an indicator is on or not. She actually agrees with me they are impossible to see. Sensible girl that.
hmmm there was something else wot shit me off while driving yesterday...
no.. wasnt the marked lack of sexy young things waving n offering sexual favours (though i confess that is a problem).
wasnt the dwindling number of genuine Peugeot owners around to wave to while driving (the new breed are just dickhead BMW drivers without the wallet that stretches that far - they barely know they are driving the 2nd oldest breed of car on the planet..idiots)
hell it wasnt even the number of dickheadidai (sudden Homeric urge brought about by looking at all the copies of the Iliad Ive rescued from opshops) who charge up the gutter lane at warp 6 AS the lights go red THEN swerve across in front of me to the right turn lane while slamming the brakes on. Like ... what was wrong with slowing down a hundred metres back on the amber light n changing lanes BEHIND me (seeing there was NOONE FUCKING ELSE ON THE FUCKING ROAD)?? hmm? in such a tearing hurry to stop at a red light? Forgot where you were going dear? Forgot 'gee i have to turn right at these lights I'll take the GUTTER lane' (for north american viewers transpose left for right) Makes perfect sense to me if you assume the driver is a total fucking suicidal moron.
But even that egregious assault on my calm state of mind is not what shit me.
Ive done trucks running red lights (restrain me someone).
Not even idiots who wait until the light is almost red before pulling away thus preventing ANYONE else from getting through the intersection (though I think that should be a tyre slashing key down the flanks offence).
hmmm
I think I'm most miffed by the lack of nubile young things offering sexual favours actually. yes yes thats it. Girls I'm not getting any younger ok. You need to act now to avoid disapointment. Stocks ARE limited. I dont even require payment. Though feeding n the occasional back rub would be nice.
damn my foot hurts :/
lesson there younguns
DONT drop starter motors anywhere near your poor precious foot. stupid thing *kicks painful foot with nonpainful foot*
ok that was stupid
Hah my doctor is so sweet
she rang on friday rather concerned with my 'abnormal liver test results' this in what has to be the sweetest voice you will EVER hear on a telephone line. I love litening to her. So I book in n toddle off yesterday to check my abnormal liver test results. Then spent 20 minutes explaining how it was actually a wonderful result given two years ago the number under discussion was 304 where the normal range was 25 - 80 and it is now 118 down from the May test at 126 (I dont understand what the numbers test just that 304 bad craig bad! 118 is a wonderful improvement). See she wasnt my doctor when this bloody liver problem started. Ive had a few but it seemed they were all on a 6 month rotation or some such so one day I got the shits n said to the delightful girl who runs the receptionists 'look get me in with one of the permanent docs, female preferably cuz the gurl will wanna see her too n I think maybe she would be more comfortable with a female doc' n voila it was done. So after 30 minutes or so it was 'well keep doing what youre doing it seems to be working'
eat pizza? maccas? no seriously.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
orright orright dahdaaa what shits me about wimmins not in 2000 werds
Due to popular demand....
drum roll please ....
I will give you an example by way of indicating what shits me about wiimmin these days ( and I'm nt going down the lying, cheating etc etc road either though I have plenty of cause to).
There is an advert here on tv. Woohoo I hear echo in NZ Canadia n Qld. It features a woman. We are clearly supposed to assume she is a housewife. I would say about 30yo. Attractive. Sitting on the floor in her sunroom sipping coffee while a plumber fixes something. What she is actually doing is dreaming she is on a tropical island somewhere, while sipping the coffee.
She is in what looks like a half million dollar house, doing jack shit (cept housework)and her lifestyle STILL isnt satisfactory. IF she was at work on a break drinking coffee n daydreaming then fair enough I say.
Yep I know it is not so much what the irrational half of the species does that annoys but rather how they are portrayed in popular media. However youve only got to sit n listen to some rich bitch whinge about how crap her life is (doesnt work, plays tennis every day, gets a manicure thrice weekly, weekends at the snow,cheats on hubby with the tennis coach AND the masseur, but never has ANY 'her' time).
I never heard my mother complain about having a big expensive house, fancy car, tennis with the girls n enough money to do what she wanted during the day. I suspect she KNEW she was on a good wicket. Came from a family that didnt have much money (not dirt poor but not wealthy). Never heard any of my aunts complain either.
I suspect the whingers come from wealthier backgrounds, are accustomed to a certain lifestyle n dont like it when they find out money doesnt magically appear each week. Likewise she didnt complain when things got tough.
Someone on saras blog mentioned a valid point too regarding medical issues. When it is a fella we are supposed just suck it up n go submit to whatever devilry the docs what to inflict on us. If we complain about the uncomfortable (read PAINFUL) intrusive nature of the procedure we are wimps. Sometimes I wonder if the ladies want a bloody MEDAL for going to the doctor for what is a routine exam. It is YOUR life. A couple of minutes of embarrassment and discomfit once a year. Get over it. You think I LIKE having a hand stuck up my arse? I walk funny for a week. *shudder*
The initial discussion started regarding education on cervical cancer. Someone wanted to broadcast their examination on NZ radio. I reckon that was not and is not an appropriate forum. It smacked of a stunt. There was some hoohah about it being important to educate people blah blah. the female bloggers all seemed to think it a wonderful idea.
Ladies it was a stunt. You have to also respect the right of the station manager to decide what he/she thinks is appropriate content for the time slot. In fact that person has the right to say yay or nay to ANYTHING they want to put to air. The fact it was a female issue just politicised the non issue. And if you disagree you are seen as some sort of unthinking uncaring primitive. That female broadcaster wasnt trying to 'educate' anyone. She was trying to SHOCK listeners. If she was serious about raising the topic she would have chosen a less confronting methodology. Like discussing the issues with her cohost.
disagreeing with something like this can cause one to be labeled.
I personally think cervical and breast cancer needs to be tested for at the appropriate intervals. Thats it. Women know they are at risk. If they DON'T know this by now then the millions spent on calm clear educational adverts on tv, radio and in print have been wasted. Some idot shock jock broadcasting her cervical scrape on breakfast radio is not going to make someone suddenly say 'i better go DO that'. Unless you were already feeling guilty cuz you knew you should but hadnt. Praps it might work at that level.
I doubt if the male host said 'I think I shall broadcast live my prostate examination' that the station manager would have said 'oh sure lets get a film crew in too' I suspect he/she would have said the same as he/she said on the cervical exam. to wit 'errrr no'. For the same reason. It is cheap sensationalism. The fact I think it that does NOT mean I think prostate cancer is unimportant. Nor that testing for prostate cancer is unimportant.
I don't want to hear their heart bipass op on radio live either. Doesnt mean i laugh at the idea of heart disease. I found out today an old friend died last month from heart disease. Glad I had that ECG last week (n i DIDNT need some idiot on the radio to TELL me to do it). Time n place. thats all.
I have a sneaking suspicion all this 'education' is a touch counterproductive sometimes or flat out doesnt work. If it did NOONE in their right bloody minds would still be making tobacco companies richer n richer. The death peddling scum suckers. Yes Ima reformed smoker. nearly 4 years now. Tobacco advertising in Australia has been banned for over 20 years (more like 30 I think I was only a kid when it stopped). We have had 'education' on the evils of smoking for a similar period. Doesnt seem to STOP people smoking. Hell the hacking cough in the morning, shitty breath, lack of fitness etc doesnt seem to stop them. So clearly the education isnt working. I stopped because I stopped being stupid one day. if it takes 20 years for the adverts to sink in it is bloody poor. I got sick of being sick basically. That 4000th advert showing some poor bugger with lung cancer didnt make me stop. I KNOW it causes lung cancer. Ive known since BEFORE I started smoking. I think youd have to be living under a ROCK in The GObi not to know.
Breast cancer testing is important. Cervical cancer testing is important. Prostate testing is important. Go get tested. Discuss it with your partner and your children if you have them. Don't let some shock jock both manipulate your concerns and hijack the subject for the facile purpose of increased ratings. Her actions should be seen as an insult to women generally (most advertising is grossly insulting to women generally). Don't let someone tell you you are too stupid to understand the issues unless she takes a microphone to the exam.
And dont get the shits with some poor fat white bloke who thinks youre all actually smart enough to think for yourselves even if he seems to constantly get proof to the contrary. youre NOT headless chooks. Youre NOT living in Victorian times. You dont need someone with questionable motives and the moral/ethical ideas of a snake telling you what to do. You know whats right so bloody DO it.
I now flee to my hideyhole.
drum roll please ....
I will give you an example by way of indicating what shits me about wiimmin these days ( and I'm nt going down the lying, cheating etc etc road either though I have plenty of cause to).
There is an advert here on tv. Woohoo I hear echo in NZ Canadia n Qld. It features a woman. We are clearly supposed to assume she is a housewife. I would say about 30yo. Attractive. Sitting on the floor in her sunroom sipping coffee while a plumber fixes something. What she is actually doing is dreaming she is on a tropical island somewhere, while sipping the coffee.
She is in what looks like a half million dollar house, doing jack shit (cept housework)and her lifestyle STILL isnt satisfactory. IF she was at work on a break drinking coffee n daydreaming then fair enough I say.
Yep I know it is not so much what the irrational half of the species does that annoys but rather how they are portrayed in popular media. However youve only got to sit n listen to some rich bitch whinge about how crap her life is (doesnt work, plays tennis every day, gets a manicure thrice weekly, weekends at the snow,cheats on hubby with the tennis coach AND the masseur, but never has ANY 'her' time).
I never heard my mother complain about having a big expensive house, fancy car, tennis with the girls n enough money to do what she wanted during the day. I suspect she KNEW she was on a good wicket. Came from a family that didnt have much money (not dirt poor but not wealthy). Never heard any of my aunts complain either.
I suspect the whingers come from wealthier backgrounds, are accustomed to a certain lifestyle n dont like it when they find out money doesnt magically appear each week. Likewise she didnt complain when things got tough.
Someone on saras blog mentioned a valid point too regarding medical issues. When it is a fella we are supposed just suck it up n go submit to whatever devilry the docs what to inflict on us. If we complain about the uncomfortable (read PAINFUL) intrusive nature of the procedure we are wimps. Sometimes I wonder if the ladies want a bloody MEDAL for going to the doctor for what is a routine exam. It is YOUR life. A couple of minutes of embarrassment and discomfit once a year. Get over it. You think I LIKE having a hand stuck up my arse? I walk funny for a week. *shudder*
The initial discussion started regarding education on cervical cancer. Someone wanted to broadcast their examination on NZ radio. I reckon that was not and is not an appropriate forum. It smacked of a stunt. There was some hoohah about it being important to educate people blah blah. the female bloggers all seemed to think it a wonderful idea.
Ladies it was a stunt. You have to also respect the right of the station manager to decide what he/she thinks is appropriate content for the time slot. In fact that person has the right to say yay or nay to ANYTHING they want to put to air. The fact it was a female issue just politicised the non issue. And if you disagree you are seen as some sort of unthinking uncaring primitive. That female broadcaster wasnt trying to 'educate' anyone. She was trying to SHOCK listeners. If she was serious about raising the topic she would have chosen a less confronting methodology. Like discussing the issues with her cohost.
disagreeing with something like this can cause one to be labeled.
I personally think cervical and breast cancer needs to be tested for at the appropriate intervals. Thats it. Women know they are at risk. If they DON'T know this by now then the millions spent on calm clear educational adverts on tv, radio and in print have been wasted. Some idot shock jock broadcasting her cervical scrape on breakfast radio is not going to make someone suddenly say 'i better go DO that'. Unless you were already feeling guilty cuz you knew you should but hadnt. Praps it might work at that level.
I doubt if the male host said 'I think I shall broadcast live my prostate examination' that the station manager would have said 'oh sure lets get a film crew in too' I suspect he/she would have said the same as he/she said on the cervical exam. to wit 'errrr no'. For the same reason. It is cheap sensationalism. The fact I think it that does NOT mean I think prostate cancer is unimportant. Nor that testing for prostate cancer is unimportant.
I don't want to hear their heart bipass op on radio live either. Doesnt mean i laugh at the idea of heart disease. I found out today an old friend died last month from heart disease. Glad I had that ECG last week (n i DIDNT need some idiot on the radio to TELL me to do it). Time n place. thats all.
I have a sneaking suspicion all this 'education' is a touch counterproductive sometimes or flat out doesnt work. If it did NOONE in their right bloody minds would still be making tobacco companies richer n richer. The death peddling scum suckers. Yes Ima reformed smoker. nearly 4 years now. Tobacco advertising in Australia has been banned for over 20 years (more like 30 I think I was only a kid when it stopped). We have had 'education' on the evils of smoking for a similar period. Doesnt seem to STOP people smoking. Hell the hacking cough in the morning, shitty breath, lack of fitness etc doesnt seem to stop them. So clearly the education isnt working. I stopped because I stopped being stupid one day. if it takes 20 years for the adverts to sink in it is bloody poor. I got sick of being sick basically. That 4000th advert showing some poor bugger with lung cancer didnt make me stop. I KNOW it causes lung cancer. Ive known since BEFORE I started smoking. I think youd have to be living under a ROCK in The GObi not to know.
Breast cancer testing is important. Cervical cancer testing is important. Prostate testing is important. Go get tested. Discuss it with your partner and your children if you have them. Don't let some shock jock both manipulate your concerns and hijack the subject for the facile purpose of increased ratings. Her actions should be seen as an insult to women generally (most advertising is grossly insulting to women generally). Don't let someone tell you you are too stupid to understand the issues unless she takes a microphone to the exam.
And dont get the shits with some poor fat white bloke who thinks youre all actually smart enough to think for yourselves even if he seems to constantly get proof to the contrary. youre NOT headless chooks. Youre NOT living in Victorian times. You dont need someone with questionable motives and the moral/ethical ideas of a snake telling you what to do. You know whats right so bloody DO it.
I now flee to my hideyhole.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
bloody hell starter motors are heavy
Bloody hell starter motors are heavy when you drop one on your foot.
Yep
clumsy mongoose strikes again.
Please send money to the 'save goose from himself' fund
goddamnit my foot hurts.
Oh and yes my car needed a new starter motor. Bloody thing. Hadnt quite turned its toes up just yet but unlike 95% of the motoring population I practice preventative maintenance. Or rather dad does. I have 10 thumbs. The way I played squash last night proved it too.
Shocking
simply shocking.
didnt help I could hardly stand up heh.
Oh nutha thing I learnt (it took a while but I'm stubborn). If you are familiar with the 'noodles' you can buy for use in a pool (long sausage like foam device for flotation). Well we use them in aqua aerobics. One of the exercises involves two people sitting on one noodle facing away from each other then they start breast stroking (no rocky not fondling boobies). The aim is to drag your opponent down the pool. Men cannot do this exercise unless they ENJOY being continuously bashed in the nuts by the noodle. I had to delicately raise this point with the young n very attractive instructor (yes rocky in the hope she would offer to rub/kiss it better - she didnt)who , being female, had never even thought about the possible effects (i know why the girls enjoy this exercise, conversely).
So I'm innocently downloading some porn n i start getting exception errors
stupid puter. I happen to mention this fact to the exgf (with whom I was chatting on msn) n she said 'serves you right ya perv'! is this fair? didnt even get to SEE the blonde in the leather maids' uniform! ripped off
So I spent today cleaning the house. Yeah yeah you can PACK up laughing Lisa. Dunno what the wimmin whinge about. Anyone would think housework is hard to listen to the female of the species.
Wow
wipe benches n cupboard doors. squirt squirt wipe wipe.
wash dishes itd be hard with a broken hand.
I did 4 loads of laundry. Shit this washing clothes caper is tough. put shit in washing machine/put powder in/turn on. God I dunno how they manage really.I mean in my grandmothers day sure wshing the clothes was bloody hard yakka. I can SEE that. But so was shearing 300 sheep a day (my grandfather was a gun shearer). Dont think he ever whined about it though. Oh yeah then I vacuumed. AND tidied the yard. swept the paths, raked the yard for bits of shit (non turd variety) the dog drags about. Cleaned his bed area. played with the poor lonely fella for a bit. Helped dad with the car (though I suspect I was more in the way than anything). THEN we went round the opshops looking for shit dad can cart to a swap meet n flog.
Ima mop the floors b4 I go to bed tonight. its a doddle housework. If i could be ARSED actually planning it i reckon mebbe 20 minutes a DAY tops (Id stagger the tasking). But I did it all today cuz the real estate is inspecting tomorrow.
And I wanted more 'me' time. I have to wash fairly frequently because I do gym every day, then generally I play squash that afternoon.. atleast 3 times per week anyway. Generally 5. So the ole maytag gets a workout. I reckon kids might keep ya busy while theyre awake mebbe. But I say this... If you WANTED them pack up whinging about em. You got what you wanted. Deal.
heh
Yep
clumsy mongoose strikes again.
Please send money to the 'save goose from himself' fund
goddamnit my foot hurts.
Oh and yes my car needed a new starter motor. Bloody thing. Hadnt quite turned its toes up just yet but unlike 95% of the motoring population I practice preventative maintenance. Or rather dad does. I have 10 thumbs. The way I played squash last night proved it too.
Shocking
simply shocking.
didnt help I could hardly stand up heh.
Oh nutha thing I learnt (it took a while but I'm stubborn). If you are familiar with the 'noodles' you can buy for use in a pool (long sausage like foam device for flotation). Well we use them in aqua aerobics. One of the exercises involves two people sitting on one noodle facing away from each other then they start breast stroking (no rocky not fondling boobies). The aim is to drag your opponent down the pool. Men cannot do this exercise unless they ENJOY being continuously bashed in the nuts by the noodle. I had to delicately raise this point with the young n very attractive instructor (yes rocky in the hope she would offer to rub/kiss it better - she didnt)who , being female, had never even thought about the possible effects (i know why the girls enjoy this exercise, conversely).
So I'm innocently downloading some porn n i start getting exception errors
stupid puter. I happen to mention this fact to the exgf (with whom I was chatting on msn) n she said 'serves you right ya perv'! is this fair? didnt even get to SEE the blonde in the leather maids' uniform! ripped off
So I spent today cleaning the house. Yeah yeah you can PACK up laughing Lisa. Dunno what the wimmin whinge about. Anyone would think housework is hard to listen to the female of the species.
Wow
wipe benches n cupboard doors. squirt squirt wipe wipe.
wash dishes itd be hard with a broken hand.
I did 4 loads of laundry. Shit this washing clothes caper is tough. put shit in washing machine/put powder in/turn on. God I dunno how they manage really.I mean in my grandmothers day sure wshing the clothes was bloody hard yakka. I can SEE that. But so was shearing 300 sheep a day (my grandfather was a gun shearer). Dont think he ever whined about it though. Oh yeah then I vacuumed. AND tidied the yard. swept the paths, raked the yard for bits of shit (non turd variety) the dog drags about. Cleaned his bed area. played with the poor lonely fella for a bit. Helped dad with the car (though I suspect I was more in the way than anything). THEN we went round the opshops looking for shit dad can cart to a swap meet n flog.
Ima mop the floors b4 I go to bed tonight. its a doddle housework. If i could be ARSED actually planning it i reckon mebbe 20 minutes a DAY tops (Id stagger the tasking). But I did it all today cuz the real estate is inspecting tomorrow.
And I wanted more 'me' time. I have to wash fairly frequently because I do gym every day, then generally I play squash that afternoon.. atleast 3 times per week anyway. Generally 5. So the ole maytag gets a workout. I reckon kids might keep ya busy while theyre awake mebbe. But I say this... If you WANTED them pack up whinging about em. You got what you wanted. Deal.
heh
Thursday, September 15, 2005
goddamnit
shit shit shit
I had JUST bloody written a 2000 word rant about why women shit me
went to hit 'publish' n had an exception fault n had to reboot.
so youll just have to wait.
stupid piece of shit computer.
I have to go to the doctors now n see if I have lymph cancer.
Think I'm scared?
you bloody bet
I'm sick of finding new stuff to be shit scared about.
Sometimes I think it would be just easier in the long run to bloody die n get it over with.
I had JUST bloody written a 2000 word rant about why women shit me
went to hit 'publish' n had an exception fault n had to reboot.
so youll just have to wait.
stupid piece of shit computer.
I have to go to the doctors now n see if I have lymph cancer.
Think I'm scared?
you bloody bet
I'm sick of finding new stuff to be shit scared about.
Sometimes I think it would be just easier in the long run to bloody die n get it over with.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
So The Bloody Poms Have FINALLY Done It (and whatever else I can think of)
Well It only took from 1989 to now thats what? 16 years?
They finally got The Ashes back poor dears.
What it means is any bloody whinging pom I have to talk to until we slap them down again will be insufferable. Even my pommy mate.
It wont matter they struggled even to beat what amounted to a 3 man team (the other 8 were f*** near useless).
It wont matter to them that we near bloody WON the two tests THEY won. None of it will matter. They will piss on about the closest series in years n years etc n how finally England has a team to be proud of etc etc. Still nearly got run down by possibly the worst performing Australian cricket team since about 1984 (our lot were SHOCKING back then). Well good on them. Hope they choke.
HEH
I played squash last night (comp). Won 3/0. It is a strange fact but true that every ttime I play on court 3 i can SEE my legs (ergo i know they are present n accounted for) but I cant FEEL them. Weirdest thing. I can feel my feet - theyre the leaden lumps down at ground / floor level. I feel tired even before the game starts even though mentally I feel fine. As I say its only EVER court 3 that produces this effect -like the air is different or theres magnets under the floor whatever. I won anyway. Girl I played was a fair whippet too (I dont mean shes a dog - I mean she was/is FAST). Luckily I was striking the ball rather nicely last night which is good cuz I have to play the bloke who brained me last week THIS wednesday again (I substitute on wednesday cuz I hurt my hand a while back n etc etc nm). As I played liike SHITE last week I'm hoping for a touch of the ole revenge.
Since our last time togethers reader Ive been:
Punched in the face for asking a bloke to slow down in a supermarket parking lot. Cops got him I think. Bastard. Ya know society is in trouble when people like that are wandering about belting people for making reasonable requests. So for a few days I didnt feel like typing shit.
spent 12 hours in a car with my dad rescuing his trailer which had lost a wheel bloody MILES from anywhere. This also involved laying on the side of what is maybe Australias' busiest highway buggerising about with the trailer. So nothing typed that day or the next (I slept most of the next day).
Been to my nannas' 80th birthday. which also involved heaps of driving. Same deal that took basically 3 days over the weekend (I had to go the folks' place the night b4 n then crash there that night too b4 coming home day 3)
Hah my dog LOVES going to mums place. Wonder why
could it be an actual KENNEL to sleep in (yes they have a guest kennel for my dog and my sisters dog). Could it be the copious dog treats mum hands out? Could it be mum lets him inside cuz HER dog is allowed inside? He isnt allowed inside at home n he knows it. Could it be the air conditioning ? I know when we got home sunday afternoon he flat out didnt want to get out of the car. No wanted to go back to mums didnt he. Sat there looking at me with those big brown doggy eyes (where DO they learn that?)then the little whimper n longing gaze east towards Windsor. Then once he is out the sad hang dog look while he lays on the doggy bed mum bought cuz 'the poor thing has to lay on *4 layers of carpet/a foam pad/3 blankets* he needs a bed' He still isnt talking to me. Barely brings me his Kong Toy to throw for him. Sook. Sposed to be a blue heeler. Toughest dog on the planet. This is the dog that used to sleep in the snow at Oberon. I mean we would find him asleep covered in snow. Just a lump in the snow. Now has to have a bloody BED. The shame the shame.
The gurl has been away at her parents for almost 2 weeks now (that is what soaked up blogging time the weekend b4 - they came up on the friday to get her n left sunday).
God its boring being alone without work etc. Just gym squash gym squash. Oh wait... pretty girls at both hehehehehehehehe woohoo pity Ima fat ugly old creep eh.
seeyas soon eh
They finally got The Ashes back poor dears.
What it means is any bloody whinging pom I have to talk to until we slap them down again will be insufferable. Even my pommy mate.
It wont matter they struggled even to beat what amounted to a 3 man team (the other 8 were f*** near useless).
It wont matter to them that we near bloody WON the two tests THEY won. None of it will matter. They will piss on about the closest series in years n years etc n how finally England has a team to be proud of etc etc. Still nearly got run down by possibly the worst performing Australian cricket team since about 1984 (our lot were SHOCKING back then). Well good on them. Hope they choke.
HEH
I played squash last night (comp). Won 3/0. It is a strange fact but true that every ttime I play on court 3 i can SEE my legs (ergo i know they are present n accounted for) but I cant FEEL them. Weirdest thing. I can feel my feet - theyre the leaden lumps down at ground / floor level. I feel tired even before the game starts even though mentally I feel fine. As I say its only EVER court 3 that produces this effect -like the air is different or theres magnets under the floor whatever. I won anyway. Girl I played was a fair whippet too (I dont mean shes a dog - I mean she was/is FAST). Luckily I was striking the ball rather nicely last night which is good cuz I have to play the bloke who brained me last week THIS wednesday again (I substitute on wednesday cuz I hurt my hand a while back n etc etc nm). As I played liike SHITE last week I'm hoping for a touch of the ole revenge.
Since our last time togethers reader Ive been:
Punched in the face for asking a bloke to slow down in a supermarket parking lot. Cops got him I think. Bastard. Ya know society is in trouble when people like that are wandering about belting people for making reasonable requests. So for a few days I didnt feel like typing shit.
spent 12 hours in a car with my dad rescuing his trailer which had lost a wheel bloody MILES from anywhere. This also involved laying on the side of what is maybe Australias' busiest highway buggerising about with the trailer. So nothing typed that day or the next (I slept most of the next day).
Been to my nannas' 80th birthday. which also involved heaps of driving. Same deal that took basically 3 days over the weekend (I had to go the folks' place the night b4 n then crash there that night too b4 coming home day 3)
Hah my dog LOVES going to mums place. Wonder why
could it be an actual KENNEL to sleep in (yes they have a guest kennel for my dog and my sisters dog). Could it be the copious dog treats mum hands out? Could it be mum lets him inside cuz HER dog is allowed inside? He isnt allowed inside at home n he knows it. Could it be the air conditioning ? I know when we got home sunday afternoon he flat out didnt want to get out of the car. No wanted to go back to mums didnt he. Sat there looking at me with those big brown doggy eyes (where DO they learn that?)then the little whimper n longing gaze east towards Windsor. Then once he is out the sad hang dog look while he lays on the doggy bed mum bought cuz 'the poor thing has to lay on *4 layers of carpet/a foam pad/3 blankets* he needs a bed' He still isnt talking to me. Barely brings me his Kong Toy to throw for him. Sook. Sposed to be a blue heeler. Toughest dog on the planet. This is the dog that used to sleep in the snow at Oberon. I mean we would find him asleep covered in snow. Just a lump in the snow. Now has to have a bloody BED. The shame the shame.
The gurl has been away at her parents for almost 2 weeks now (that is what soaked up blogging time the weekend b4 - they came up on the friday to get her n left sunday).
God its boring being alone without work etc. Just gym squash gym squash. Oh wait... pretty girls at both hehehehehehehehe woohoo pity Ima fat ugly old creep eh.
seeyas soon eh
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Paranoia ... or ...Sharynn wheres my *insert missing item here*???
That was a total Black Sabbath reference btw in case you lot missed it.
Well, And Ozzie Osbourne.
You'll no doubt have noticed, loyal reader, I have the odd little grievance with advertising here n there.
Now a bloke wouldnt wanna be paranoid but...
Ive had a whinge about Carlton draught beer adverts telling us their customers are sad unreliable morons.
Their advert changed about a week after that blog to one showign their customers as intelligent engaging people. Interesting.
Hyundais monster advert... gone the week i posted on it.
2 days after commenting to the gurl that i cant stand the voice over guys voice in the macdonalds advert it is replaced by a nice sounding womans' voice.
Sitting watching the football n I'll say something TOTALLY obtuse about something n 3 minutes later the commentators say the exact same thing.
The last mentioned happens ALL the time.
I think theres a bug in my head or in some item of clothing etc, praps one iof my squash rackets.
I know youre listening
you bastards
when you change the damned adverts the Least you could do is leave a note in the message section of my blog saying 'hey we never thought of it thqat way thanks'
AND BLOODY PAY ME for the consult ya bastards
And next advert run it past me for a modest fee ya dopes.
Well, And Ozzie Osbourne.
You'll no doubt have noticed, loyal reader, I have the odd little grievance with advertising here n there.
Now a bloke wouldnt wanna be paranoid but...
Ive had a whinge about Carlton draught beer adverts telling us their customers are sad unreliable morons.
Their advert changed about a week after that blog to one showign their customers as intelligent engaging people. Interesting.
Hyundais monster advert... gone the week i posted on it.
2 days after commenting to the gurl that i cant stand the voice over guys voice in the macdonalds advert it is replaced by a nice sounding womans' voice.
Sitting watching the football n I'll say something TOTALLY obtuse about something n 3 minutes later the commentators say the exact same thing.
The last mentioned happens ALL the time.
I think theres a bug in my head or in some item of clothing etc, praps one iof my squash rackets.
I know youre listening
you bastards
when you change the damned adverts the Least you could do is leave a note in the message section of my blog saying 'hey we never thought of it thqat way thanks'
AND BLOODY PAY ME for the consult ya bastards
And next advert run it past me for a modest fee ya dopes.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
just a quicky
Some dopey (heh) TV news team in Melbourne sent a bloke over to Indonesia to cover the drug arrests of some very very stupid Australian drug smugglers (if you did it you get what you bloody deserve ya stupid stupid people).
The bloke they sent over?
his name?
this is a mastercard moment folks (priceless in other words)
Justin Hale
The bloke they sent over?
his name?
this is a mastercard moment folks (priceless in other words)
Justin Hale
sport *sigh*
So the funniest thing on the sports news this week was:
New Zealand beats south africa (this is the voice over)in the tri-nations tournament last night thus keeping their hopes of a tri nations finals berth alive!!
keeps their hopes alive?? youre kidding right?
the only team who hasnt won a bloody match is Australia. Heres a tip tv guys...
the tri nations final series will be between South Africa and New Zealand. The third team (Australia) hasnt a snowballs' hope in hell of reaching the finals - to do that you actually have to WIN sometimes.
so good on the bloody poms for winning another test match. yay England
they played VERY well - nearly all of them played their best cricket.
They STILL nearly got beaten by an Australian team who were playing so far below their best I felt like NSW could have beaten them.
I think nearly everyone who is commenting on the ashes seems to be losing sight of that fact. Australia are NOT batting well nor are they bowling particularly well either. N if we could hold a catch itd be nice. and we STILL only lost the 2nd test by TWO runs. To put it in perspective if each of our top order batsmen made just ONE more run each in EITHER inning we would have won the 2nd test. This in a test where it is admitted we played poorly.
They NEARLY lost the 4th test too.
Lets not get carried away by the hullaballoo - they NEARLY lost the 4th test. That after being 258 runs ahead on the first innings. Again if our top order made just say 5 runs each extra I think England would have looked silly. I know its easy to say 'only 5 runs each extra' blah blah but look at it overall its not much per player is it?
The other factor which has to be looked at is at least 3 totally dodgy leg before wicket decisions. Ponting hit it. Martyn hit it (damn near off the middle) n katich was well outside leg stump. 3 wickets which were not out.They werent tough calls either they were pretty damn clear. England has had much the better of the close umpiring calls this series. And in my opinion been the happy recepients of some downright bloody shocking calls.
when England beats us by an innings n 200 runs a couple of times then they can get cockahoop. So far theyve been lucky as cats with nine lives. Look at the first test folks - we won that one by 240 odd runs. Yeah... a flogging. Look at their two wins - 2nd test by TWO runs, 4th test by 3 wickets.
So I say again
Australia has played poorly (we have had 2 players playing well n 9 not), England has 10 players performing and one not (the keeper is a putz) and they STILL nearly lost BOTH the tests they won. Note that nearly LOST them - not nearly ended up a draw - Australia were a lick n a SPIT away from winning both from behind. This is no dominant performance - England have avoided (on my rough calculations)by about 75 runs being on the end of a 3 nil drubbing. In other words - if Australia got 2 more runs in the 2nd test we win. If we got maybe 70 more in the 4th test we win. Indeed in the 4th test I think 20 runs might have been all that was needed - we were WELL in the tail after all. They only won by 3 wickets. Thats after having to chase 129 for the win. Yeah. Not many to get and they STILL nearly tripped over at the line.
Basically if Australia gets a decent 1st innings in the 5th test n the umpires dont give inside edges out LBW we should bloody win it easily.
New Zealand beats south africa (this is the voice over)in the tri-nations tournament last night thus keeping their hopes of a tri nations finals berth alive!!
keeps their hopes alive?? youre kidding right?
the only team who hasnt won a bloody match is Australia. Heres a tip tv guys...
the tri nations final series will be between South Africa and New Zealand. The third team (Australia) hasnt a snowballs' hope in hell of reaching the finals - to do that you actually have to WIN sometimes.
so good on the bloody poms for winning another test match. yay England
they played VERY well - nearly all of them played their best cricket.
They STILL nearly got beaten by an Australian team who were playing so far below their best I felt like NSW could have beaten them.
I think nearly everyone who is commenting on the ashes seems to be losing sight of that fact. Australia are NOT batting well nor are they bowling particularly well either. N if we could hold a catch itd be nice. and we STILL only lost the 2nd test by TWO runs. To put it in perspective if each of our top order batsmen made just ONE more run each in EITHER inning we would have won the 2nd test. This in a test where it is admitted we played poorly.
They NEARLY lost the 4th test too.
Lets not get carried away by the hullaballoo - they NEARLY lost the 4th test. That after being 258 runs ahead on the first innings. Again if our top order made just say 5 runs each extra I think England would have looked silly. I know its easy to say 'only 5 runs each extra' blah blah but look at it overall its not much per player is it?
The other factor which has to be looked at is at least 3 totally dodgy leg before wicket decisions. Ponting hit it. Martyn hit it (damn near off the middle) n katich was well outside leg stump. 3 wickets which were not out.They werent tough calls either they were pretty damn clear. England has had much the better of the close umpiring calls this series. And in my opinion been the happy recepients of some downright bloody shocking calls.
when England beats us by an innings n 200 runs a couple of times then they can get cockahoop. So far theyve been lucky as cats with nine lives. Look at the first test folks - we won that one by 240 odd runs. Yeah... a flogging. Look at their two wins - 2nd test by TWO runs, 4th test by 3 wickets.
So I say again
Australia has played poorly (we have had 2 players playing well n 9 not), England has 10 players performing and one not (the keeper is a putz) and they STILL nearly lost BOTH the tests they won. Note that nearly LOST them - not nearly ended up a draw - Australia were a lick n a SPIT away from winning both from behind. This is no dominant performance - England have avoided (on my rough calculations)by about 75 runs being on the end of a 3 nil drubbing. In other words - if Australia got 2 more runs in the 2nd test we win. If we got maybe 70 more in the 4th test we win. Indeed in the 4th test I think 20 runs might have been all that was needed - we were WELL in the tail after all. They only won by 3 wickets. Thats after having to chase 129 for the win. Yeah. Not many to get and they STILL nearly tripped over at the line.
Basically if Australia gets a decent 1st innings in the 5th test n the umpires dont give inside edges out LBW we should bloody win it easily.
Red lights mean STOP GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Bathurst in New South Wales' central tablelands (from Sydney... head west over the mountains, drive fer a while n hey presto sunny Bathurst).
Now by and large it is a nice enough place to live. People are mostly friendly, plenty of shops, maccas, etc free squash, nice parks, lotsa pubs (if you drink), free squash, cheaper rent than Oberon n oh yes did I mention free squash?
It is only 2 hours from my parents place which is nice. It is only 30 minutes from Orange, which is nice.
It is home to probably more red light runners than any other rural city in the western world (i reckon you expect shit like that in India n Derkderkistan etc).
Red light running is one particular bad habit that gets right up my nose. If I was one of those punch people n think later types I suspect I woulda clocked an even hundred separate people since living here, all for going through red lights.
The way I look at it is those fucking MORONS are trying to KILL me. It isnt like the light is amber. No i mean stone cold red. I mean *I* have a GREEN light. I'm not even talkng about that dead zone when their light is red and my light is red. I mean I get green, pause, look again, THEN go n STILL nearly get murdered by some arsehole in a hurry. Tip... LEAVE EARLIER.
Now you'd think the cops might have something to say wouldnt you?
Well I near got cleaned up by someone turning against the red the other night. But get this... they cut across in front of us near wiped us out (we had the green to turn right) BUT ALSO turned in front of a patrol car which was ALSO running the red light but proceeding straight across the intersection in the opposite direction from them!! Did the cops pull em up? hell no. fuckers nearly killed me n the victim (coming home from squash) AND themselves AND 2 cops n get off scott free.
The situation that scares me most though is the damn trucks. I see one run the red EVERY DAY. thats 30 - 50 tonnes of metal going through a light that is so red it is almost green again. Ive seen one run a light with cars IN THE INTERSECTION! What The Fuck was that bloke thinking?????????
When the revolution comes...
after the lawyers
n the politicians
n the drunk drivers
red light runners.
It'll go something like this...
*siren siren*
you
up out of the car
'who me?'
yeah shithead you
'whatd I do *smirk*'
tried to kill 15 innocent people BLAM BLAM BLAM
nothing to see here folks just making sure that prick wont ever hurt anyone ever again.
next
I actually tink there should be a national system whereby people (like me fer example) have authoritah to rip someones' licence up on the spot for being morons on the road.
I have no real problem with people speeding IF certain conditions are met:
don't do it around schools or where kids are playing - they dont grow brains til they are at least 20.
dont do it during peak hour etc
hell just not on suburban streets
dont do it if their are ANY other cars about
Its the dickheads who change lanes without looking, turn in front of your red car with the lights on then say 'i didnt see you' THATS CUZ YOU DIDNT LOOK YA FRIGGIN IDIOT. people who NEVER indicate (youd follow someone for a bit after their first non indication) cuz damn that shits me too. I am not a mind reader i dont KNOW you live in that street. Anyone doing anything stupid. Anyone who are obviously too busy with other things to drive their car safely (teenaged girls look out - its a tonne of metal do you understand?? its NOT a fucking BARBIE DOLL).
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i reckon I could do 100 peoples' licences a day n STILL not get through em all.
Now by and large it is a nice enough place to live. People are mostly friendly, plenty of shops, maccas, etc free squash, nice parks, lotsa pubs (if you drink), free squash, cheaper rent than Oberon n oh yes did I mention free squash?
It is only 2 hours from my parents place which is nice. It is only 30 minutes from Orange, which is nice.
It is home to probably more red light runners than any other rural city in the western world (i reckon you expect shit like that in India n Derkderkistan etc).
Red light running is one particular bad habit that gets right up my nose. If I was one of those punch people n think later types I suspect I woulda clocked an even hundred separate people since living here, all for going through red lights.
The way I look at it is those fucking MORONS are trying to KILL me. It isnt like the light is amber. No i mean stone cold red. I mean *I* have a GREEN light. I'm not even talkng about that dead zone when their light is red and my light is red. I mean I get green, pause, look again, THEN go n STILL nearly get murdered by some arsehole in a hurry. Tip... LEAVE EARLIER.
Now you'd think the cops might have something to say wouldnt you?
Well I near got cleaned up by someone turning against the red the other night. But get this... they cut across in front of us near wiped us out (we had the green to turn right) BUT ALSO turned in front of a patrol car which was ALSO running the red light but proceeding straight across the intersection in the opposite direction from them!! Did the cops pull em up? hell no. fuckers nearly killed me n the victim (coming home from squash) AND themselves AND 2 cops n get off scott free.
The situation that scares me most though is the damn trucks. I see one run the red EVERY DAY. thats 30 - 50 tonnes of metal going through a light that is so red it is almost green again. Ive seen one run a light with cars IN THE INTERSECTION! What The Fuck was that bloke thinking?????????
When the revolution comes...
after the lawyers
n the politicians
n the drunk drivers
red light runners.
It'll go something like this...
*siren siren*
you
up out of the car
'who me?'
yeah shithead you
'whatd I do *smirk*'
tried to kill 15 innocent people BLAM BLAM BLAM
nothing to see here folks just making sure that prick wont ever hurt anyone ever again.
next
I actually tink there should be a national system whereby people (like me fer example) have authoritah to rip someones' licence up on the spot for being morons on the road.
I have no real problem with people speeding IF certain conditions are met:
don't do it around schools or where kids are playing - they dont grow brains til they are at least 20.
dont do it during peak hour etc
hell just not on suburban streets
dont do it if their are ANY other cars about
Its the dickheads who change lanes without looking, turn in front of your red car with the lights on then say 'i didnt see you' THATS CUZ YOU DIDNT LOOK YA FRIGGIN IDIOT. people who NEVER indicate (youd follow someone for a bit after their first non indication) cuz damn that shits me too. I am not a mind reader i dont KNOW you live in that street. Anyone doing anything stupid. Anyone who are obviously too busy with other things to drive their car safely (teenaged girls look out - its a tonne of metal do you understand?? its NOT a fucking BARBIE DOLL).
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i reckon I could do 100 peoples' licences a day n STILL not get through em all.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
eeek
tomorrow morning I find out if I am gonna be on the jury
Hope so
I need the cash cash cash!! hah
may mean I get to go to the thursday evening aqua aerobic class too..The instructo took us for wednseday (filling in). shes cute assssssssssss thats 'as' not arse though there was nought wrong with that either!
Alas kassis man was dead right on saturday morning
He said South Africa would flog us in the rugby n he was right. Is their no end to the mans' predictive talents? They called the All Blacks game result too.
Answer? Back anyone we are playing at the moment i think even the bloody YANKS would have a chance these days (god that hurt to write).
Least we have the best squash player i nthe world still
what?
hes number 3?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :/
I still have a sore wrist but bugger it ima play squash when I get the chance.
Played on friday night n enjoyed the increased speed n agility I put down to the recent aquatic activities. Zip not sloth what a wonderful feeling.
The local high school burnt to the ground on friday night (these two occurances are not related except by date). We live only 200m away n could almost feel the heat from it as it really got going. Talk about hundreds of rubberneckers!! Cars lined up for hundreds of metres. Made it hard for the emergency services to get to the site too.
Anyhoo
Have a good weekened and or week
Hope so
I need the cash cash cash!! hah
may mean I get to go to the thursday evening aqua aerobic class too..The instructo took us for wednseday (filling in). shes cute assssssssssss thats 'as' not arse though there was nought wrong with that either!
Alas kassis man was dead right on saturday morning
He said South Africa would flog us in the rugby n he was right. Is their no end to the mans' predictive talents? They called the All Blacks game result too.
Answer? Back anyone we are playing at the moment i think even the bloody YANKS would have a chance these days (god that hurt to write).
Least we have the best squash player i nthe world still
what?
hes number 3?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :/
I still have a sore wrist but bugger it ima play squash when I get the chance.
Played on friday night n enjoyed the increased speed n agility I put down to the recent aquatic activities. Zip not sloth what a wonderful feeling.
The local high school burnt to the ground on friday night (these two occurances are not related except by date). We live only 200m away n could almost feel the heat from it as it really got going. Talk about hundreds of rubberneckers!! Cars lined up for hundreds of metres. Made it hard for the emergency services to get to the site too.
Anyhoo
Have a good weekened and or week
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