Peter who?

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a political junkie. For those outside of New South Wales, Peter X is the member for X and the Leader of the NSW Opposition.

There's a state erection coming up (are your eyes glazing over?) next year and with the NSW Government facing the election on the one hand with a comfortable lead on the opposition (there's not been much opposition in NSW for the last 10 or so years), however with a team that doesn't have an awful lot of experience (with the expected resignatin of Debus to Federal politics, there will be no ministers who've had mroe than 4 years experience, let alone experience as an opposition government). I for one am excited (admittedly, I do get excited over fairly mundane things).

The Manager, Wrongtown

This woman has started a blogsite where he posts photos and comments on people he thinks are Jerks.

It's only new so you aren't there... yet.

Here is part of his first post and a link to his site.

This dude is what the blog is all about. He was alone at Welcome to the Johnson's, laughing, dancing, having the best time ever. His head was like a caged animal-back, forth, back, forth. I had to talk to him. He told me that PBR was $2. I said I was getting vodka tea. He said vodka cheese sounds delicious. Wouldn't cheese foam on vodka be good he said? Did I know that some people just get martinis because they like olives? He thought pimentos grew inside olives. My friend took his photo and he asked me if he'd be on myspace.com. Just laughing at jerks, dude.

Laughing at Jerks!

Metal fans take note

"Something was definitely "off" on the 27th night of October in the year 2006 on the streets of San Francisco. Christians will say it's because Halloween was only days away and San Francisco is full of sinners, which is bullshit of course 'cause Satan, like, totally rules."

If you are a metal fan and like to read fan stuff visit this guy's website. Red gig reviews, stories of nioghts out, slagging off bands that suck, etc. He writes well. Take the trip.

umlaut
Umlaut was a zine that existed from 1992-95.

Despite limited distribution, fans included Hipsters from coast to coast and Rock Stars of various credibility, including Sonic Youth and Metallica.

To quote The Cramps: “I dig that goddam Rock ‘N Roll.. The kind of stuff that don’t save souls.” OR as The Bible says "For their rock is not as our Rock.." [Deuteronomy 32:31].

Abortion, Republican states and Nicaragua

Apparently the above map represents the population of legal abortionsin the US since 1973. I am not that sure of electoral trends in the US - but aren't these mostly Republican states?

There is this crazy hypothesis that legalizing abortion has reduced crime. Aren't Republicans more likely to commit a crime that Democrats? So shouldn't aborting millions of them reduce the crime rate? Crazy hypothesis I say. Just so crazy it might be right!* You can read about it here.

Anyway I raise the topic because I read in the newspaper this week that Nicaragua passed a bill making all abortions illegal. Apparently the only other coutries that have blanket bans on abortion are El Salvador and Chile.

I wonder why third world nations make decicions like this? The developed world (with one notable exception) seem to be all for womens rights and legalising abortions.

Is it because of US foreign Aid conditions?

Or is it because of the power and reach of the Pope?

Or is it part of some master conspiracy by Neil Hamburger and his fans/fanatics to build up a regional threat so he has someone convenient to bomb? Neil is a lazy bugger, after all, and when he is president he's unlikely to want to be jetting around the world to the Middle East and Africa.

Neil gave us his foreign policy over a decade ago. It's pretty clear what he's up to.

* I made that bit about Republicans being criminals up!

Is it wrong?

Is it wrong to tie babies up when they are having their afternoon nap?

Even when you are a child care centre? I mean there are doens of the little rug rats you have to keep an eye on.

Allegedly this child care centre thinks so...

Radio Birdman - New Race (Live, 1977)

Radio Birdman are just so awesome. And rock in the 70's just seems soooooo much cooler than the new guys.

I couldn't beleive that thing on Spics and Specks the other night. Did the Strokes really pull a song about the police for fear of being offensive? And did Shihad really change their name to Pacifier in the US?

God baby rock stars - grow a pair!

(So much for staying out of youtube.)

keep it greasy so it will go down easy

Daxton on Triple J

Check out Daxton sharing his view on some drug laws for TripleJ TV.

Dax is about halfway thru - GOLD!

sponsorship

god i wish this site made some money.
Anyone got any ideas?

No, we ain't gonna take it!

I have been banned from posting too many Youtube posts, but hey, when YOU ARE A DISGUSTING SLOB, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Check out this classic 80's tiwsted rock classic

heh heh

electric twanger

smurf porn?

Mufti Day = Casual Friday

Today in Australian News it’s definitely Mufti Day. Also known as Casual Friday

I post this for our international readers as anyone is Australia couldn’t have missed this item.

It’s all over the news: Sheik Hilali, Australia’s Mufti, has ruffled feathers with a speech where in a poor metaphor he likens women to cat food and suggesting the way they dress induces men to sexualise and assault them. It’s a biggie; The Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward demanded that Sheik Hilali be charged with "incitement to rape".

Here is an excerpt from an article in the Australian:

In a clear reference to the notorious Sydney gang rapists, Sheik Hilali said in the sermon: "It is she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying.

"It's she who shortens raises and lowers. Then it's a look, then a smile, then a conversation, a greeting, then a conversation, then a date, then a meeting, then a crime, then Long Bay Jail," he tells his worshippers with a chuckle.

"Then you get a judge, who has no mercy and he gives you 65 years.

"But when it comes to this disaster, who started it? In his literature, scholar al-Rafihi says: 'If I came across a rape crime - kidnap and violation of honour - I would discipline the man and order that the woman be arrested and jailed for life.' Why would you do this, Rafihi? He says because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn't have snatched it."

You can see the nature of the controversy. If women dress the way they do they are asking to be raped!

And there is another side to it, as the Triple J breakfast crew reminded me this morning. If it was a Christian religious leader would this much controversy be going on or would we quietly ignore them and get on with the day? And then there are the women who wear burkahs and veils. They should be allowed to go about their business without harassment, but our good mufti is going to make things difficult for them by his contextualisation of the outfits.

Well, here’s another shit storm for people to get worked up about.

Me? I am still coming to grips with this: The metaphor is that if uncovered meat is left out it isn’t the cat’s fault that it eats the meat. But how is it the meat’s fault? And if the meat is left out, isn’t it likely to b bad? Won’t the cat get sick? And then won’t we have to decide whether to take it to the vet or put it down?

Come on people, if you are going to use metaphors, work them.

And lastly; why do Australian Muftis always get interviewed in bed? Is it some kind of Lennon thing?

Death By Murder!

Top 10 most likely places to be murdered don't include Australia!

There is an essay by some guy called Death by Murder where he identifies one of the best ways to avoid being murdered – don’t be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Fair enough. I like a common sense approach. But he doesn’t break his lists of places down to local regions. If he did North Queensland or the Northern Territory may be on the map.

The good news is that after a couple of years of attention by community organisations, the press and regional government officials things are changing. Slowly. For example, in 1999 there was this report on crime and violence against women in the Torres Straight.

The bad news is that if you are an aboriginal or Torres Straight islander you are 7.5 times more likely to b murdered than whitey, and if you are an indigenous woman; pack your things now and book the hearse. You are 11.7 times more likely to die at the violent hands of others.

Hmm – there I was thinking it would be easy to find something on the topic on the prime ministers website. I should have known better. I couldn’t find anything recent when I searched using the work ‘aboriginal.’ When I search for ‘violence’ I did find a commitment by John that he would put up $20 Million as a down payment to address domestic violence in indigenous communities.

No update, no mention of extra funding in subsequent years. John – what are you doing?

So, anyway, some guy, it appears to me that even better than not being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are safer from murder if you lose that blackness and get a pair.

(This partly explains Michael Jackson, but only partly.)

Want to learn more about this topic?
Read this paper

In it Neena Bhandari comments on how an amazing twenty-three percent of all Australian aboriginal women have been attacked by a partner or family member. There is a case study of one particular women who… well, you can read the summary at Amazon.

The source for the map is here.

Man east plane (repeat)

Surpirsingly this blog's most popular entry point is the "Man east's plane" post.

I repost it here for nstalgia's sake...

Man eats plane - and piles of other vehicles."...there is one man who has devoted his adult life to metal-eating on a grand scale... His name: Michel Lotito aka Monsieur Mangetout.

His major achievement to date: a Cessna 150 light aircraft. He started munching it in June 1978, and at a rate of a few snacks a day, finished it in 1980.

Lotito's remarkable eating habits began when he was a child. Mocked by other children because he has rickets, he came to win their admiration by chewing glass and proving his resistance to pain; he would invite them to beat him with bats and to stick needles into his body.

Even today, sidelines of his act include using his body as a dart board and letting his chest be punctured with staples. Lotito's technique is to cut objects into bite-size portions and to eat about 2 pounds of metal a day. He likes to first lubricate his digestive tract by drinking mineral oil, and then consume large quantities of water while he is eating.Disbelieving doctors have frequently subjected Lotito to detailed examination, including X-ray, and have concluded that at least part of what he consumes is broken down by unusually powerful digestive juices.

Specialists have also found that the linings of his stomach and intestines are twice as thick as average. As a result, while he can eat metal and other apparently indigestible objects, his digestive system does not cope efficiently with soft foodstuffs such as eggs and bananas.

In 1981 he was attacked and stabbed, receiving severe life threatening internal injuries. He underwent major surgery and recovered surprisingly quickly. Three weeks later he ate a robot.

Source for above is here

CNN article here

Woman Breaks neck with shopping trolley

A shopping cart hoisted atop a supermarket flagpole by pranksters fell and broke a woman's neck, California police say.

"The cart fell on (her) when she untied the rope to raise the flag, something she did every day when she went to work," police Lt Lisa Perrine said today.

Someone apparently raised the empty cart aloft during the night.

Lt Perrine did not know how much the shopping cart weighed or how it was attached to the top of the pole.

Shantie Marjal, 62, of Eagle Rock, California, has been hospitalised in a serious condition since the Saturday morning accident outside Ralphs supermarket in Pasadena.

"The cart broke Ms Marjal's neck and caused serious head trauma," the lieutenant said, adding that the victim was not paralysed.

She said police were asking the public for help identifying those involved

from the age

Hairway to Steven

Would you take this lift?

Where does it go?

Sometimes things aren't what they appear to be, and here's a case in point: the floor of this elevator car is painted to give the illusion that there's no floor at all. It's a trompe l'oeil that's realistic enough to convince the roadrunner that there is indeed a tunnel on the side of the mountain, not just a painting by Wile E. Coyote.

Speaking of lifts... Would you rather be stuck in a lift with an angry sea gull or trapped in a room full of wasps?

It could happen to you

Cheaper than Lobster

TORONTO -- An animal
rights group called
Tuesday for a theme park
operator to cancel
a competition in which
people will try to break
the world cockroach-eating
record.
Theme park operator Six Flags Inc., based in
New York, is staging the contest as part of a
promotion leading up to Halloween in which it
is also offering customers free entry or
line-jumping advantages if they eat a live
Madagascar hissing cockroach.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
said it had been flooded with calls from children,
adults and even anonymous employees of
Six Flags opposing the record-breaking contest
and the overall promotion.
Competitors will try to break the current world
record, which is held by Ken Edwards of Derbyshire,
England, who devoured 36 Madagascar hissing
cockroaches in one minute in 2001.
Taylor dismissed any health concerns, saying the
cockroaches were raised in a sterile environment
and were as safe to eat as shrimp or lobster with
high nutritional value.Madagascar hissing cockroaches
are large, wingless cockroaches that can grow to between
1.5 to 3 inches .

can i get a Brown Travel 10

HEY LADIES
Welcome to #######.com. Our mission in life is drive
around town and pick up the hottest girls we find.
Then after a little smooth talk, we get them to let
us **** them & *** in their pretty little faces all
while video taping the whole thing. Oh yea, after
they wipe the *** off their face, we leave them
on the streets!
There is only one way to get to Wrongtown

Drink like Richard Burton

The more I study religions the more
I am convinced
that man never worshipped anything
but himself. Richard Burton

Richard Burton CBE
(November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984)
was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s
through the 1980s.
Richard Burton
He was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village
of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot and grew
up in a poor, Welsh-speaking household with
many brothers and sisters.

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it
going into each individual intestine. Richard Burton

Short Bus to Wrongtown - Comedy gig

There are occasions when coarse, sexist material can be
terribly funny. This was not one of them.

Clare Turner is the highlight of Short Bus.

Genre - Comedy
Location - The Cue
Address - 277
Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Date - 27 September 2006 to 14 October 2006
Tickets - $5
Online Bookings - www.melbournefringe.com.au

The chairs are far more comfortable at Cue. I'm not at all certain how to
describe my lack of ease with the performance itself. Perhaps an emailed, Great job, team! might begin to convey this displeasure.

Short Bus conductors Ben Hodson and Paul Jones seem like such nice boys. This makes their cheerless, pointless comic clutter all the more inscrutable.

There are occasions in which a cool distance can refocus coarse, sexist things to make them terribly funny. This was not one of them. I waited for mortified laughter or incensed shock. Instead, I felt dull nausea as a conservative litany of misogynist jokes were poorly refigured as irony.

From deep within their stale discomfort, each comedian revealed a glimmer of hope. When these boys manufacture material that emits a faint whiff of humanity, they may very well be worth a look.

Clare Turner, by contrast, is a highly evolved vulgarian. A resolute Pippi Longstocking with the errant tongue of Joan Rivers, Turner is legitimately funny and odd. It was, at last, a relief to find a comic at ease with her strangeness.

This review was by Helen Razer in the Age. And she is a bit old and not funny so maybe this gig is worthwhile.

Don't sweat Global Warming

Everyone's talking about global warming and the climate crisis - and now there's a new way to show our elected representatives we're serious.

I'm part of a national campaign that's redrawing the map of Australia, so that every person concerned about climate change can stand up and be counted, wherever you live. Together, we're starting a new movement to drive the message home to politicians at all levels of government that we expect responsible leadership and bold action to solve this crisis.

This issue is bigger than party politics, bigger than special interests, more important than short-term economic gain - and each of us can play a part in the solution by taking a stand for our future.

Now we’re aiming for a record-breaking target of 250,000 people to help create a groundswell for change in every electorate across the country.

I'll hope you'll join me - just click on the link below to add your name to the Climate Action Map now.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow

How did they not know???

Halo Movie news

This clip is a short film by the proposed director for the Halo movie (2008.)

It's called "Alive in Joburg" and is a documentary style filem about alien refugees ending up on Joburg.

Nuclear weapons are for pussies

Nuke 'em from orbit

Watch the effects of thermonuclear weapons

Quick Change Artists on America's Got Talent

Holy cow these guys are amazing.

Daily Show: Bush's Stumped Speech

bwahahahahahahaha

Jon Stewart is a funny fucker.

Diet Coke+Mentos=Human experiment: EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT

Just watch it

War Protesters website: Masturbate for Peace

There's no greater antidote for war than love. Feelings of hatred and distrust form the necessary basis of armed confrontation. Replace those negative feelings with love and you're halfway towards resolution of any conflict.

However, any real love must start from within. You can't love others without loving yourself first. And, of course, masturbation is the greatest expression of self-love. So it's natural that we, the citizens of the world, are joining together to masturbate for peace.

Viva La Fidel or R. I. P .

Current conjecture among medical experts
is that Fidel Castro has
widely metastatic colon cancer
and either did not survive the surgery
announced by Cuban officials,
or — if he survived — will be dead
within a matter of a few weeks.
The condition is terminal.
It was known before Castro’s sudden
collapse last weekend that he had stomach cancer,
but the speed of his decline caught his medical
team by surprise. It is thought to have been
contributed to by depression over his declining
health and anxiety over whether or not the
revolutionary movement he founded
would long survive his passing.

Are you an eproctophile?

I know at least one of you who is (I'm referring to you, Android!). Wondering what an eproctophile is? It's someone with a fart fetish. Eww.

But funny thing, fetishes and obsessions. Someone recently referred to themselves to me as being a gym germophile - I'm guessing they meant gym germophobe (irrational fear of germs in gyms) or someone who is obsessed with German gyms (germophile, after all, meaning one who loves all things German).

Now, some might argue that I'm a word nerd, and they'd probably be right. Career hazard I guess. My other favourie is spermologist. Well, generally spermology is a term used to describe a person who collects or studies seeds, but it's also used to describe someone who collects trivial (and often useless) knowledge.

Offal Pie and other mysteries

From Crikey comes this article on healthy eating;

You may have been under the impression that was a meat pie you were devouring last Grand Final weekend. But not according to Food Standards Australia New Zealand – today they have announced they’re changing the code to require pies to contain 25% meat flesh.
Advertisement

The current definition of a pie leaves off the word “flesh”, meaning pies can “legally contain any part of an animal carcass, including snouts, ears, tongue roots and tendons.”

So are there any other foods that claim to be something they're not? Meat pies are notorious for being loose with their definition of meat, but it's only one on a long list of treats that push the boundaries of good taste.

Read the rest of the article here

Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time.

Watch out Michael Jackson!

When in Northampton...

 

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