People who should not be allowed to breed, part 8,436

Posted on May 8, 2008
Filed Under dickheads, justice | 5 Comments | 107 views

Two parents who had split up about a year ago, recently went to the Family Court to ask for a ruling on where their 7 year old daughter’s birthday party should be held and who should be invited.   Her dad wanted to celebrate at McDonald’s with gifts, balloons, his relatives, his new partner - and their seven-month-old baby girl. Her mum wanted it to be on familiar ground at her daughter’s usual play centre, with no relatives.   

It took a judge, three barristers, three solicitors and a day in court at an estimated $30,000 to work out where the girl should celebrate her seventh birthday.

The parents have been before the court “a number of times” since they split up early last year. Last appearance, in December, the judge ordered they both undergo “therapeutic counselling”.  They ignored this, didn’t do the counselling and so ended up back in court over the birthday party.

Personally I’d say put the little girl into care, and tell mum and dad to grow up,  and then we’ll think about custody arrangements, and when we’ve shown we’re all grown up and mature, you can have her back.

Family law experts yesterday slammed parents who tie up valuable court time with “trivial” matters. Michael Taussig QC said if somebody came to him asking to run a case in court about a birthday, he would tell them to see a psychiatrist.  (Unfortunately, I’m sure most lawyers would happily take the money and run the case.)

“Unfortunately the Family Court has to deal with dysfunctional people constantly and this is just one example,” he said.

 

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Iron Man

Posted on May 7, 2008
Filed Under movies | 5 Comments | 136 views

My son talked me into going to see “Iron Man” tonight.  I’d seen the ads for it when I was in Taiwan and Hong Kong a week and a bit ago and thought it looked interesting (of course, I didn’t understand the ads in Chinese).  So “cheapskate Tuesday” at the local cinema was enough to convince me it would be worth spending $9.50 on.

ironman

And it was well worthwhile, much better than I’d expected.  I haven’t really been much of a fan of comic book adaptation movies (like Spiderman, Batman, the Hulk) but this one was pretty good ….I’d never heard of the Iron Man comics before, so it was all new to me.

Sure it was far fetched, but it did have an interesting premise, and the story was well told.  Robert Downey Jr was excellent as the main character, Tony Stark, and Jeff Bridges made a good bad guy (I didn’t even realise it was him until the credits at the end).  Gwyneth Paltrow did a decent job also.

 

Next thing we’re going to is in a couple of weeks …. The Chaser’s live show.  Kids talked me into that as well.  That should be good … Cellobella saw it last month in Perth and enjoyed it.

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Never let it be said I don’t deliver

Posted on May 2, 2008
Filed Under celebrities, porn, sex | 2 Comments | 361 views

Regular readers will know there’s an intense fascination among searchers who come to this blog for nude pictures of Hermione Granger, the young witch in the Harry Potter books, or more especially, movies.    Well, these are not actually nudes, but  getting there. 

This link is not safe for work.  It is presented as a service to those readers of my blog who wish to see Emma Watson’s rude bits.  Emma, who turned 18 only last month, plays Hermione in all the Harry Potter movies.

OK, hope this satisfies the needs of those readers for their Hermione fetish.

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Guns and snakes don’t mix

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Queensland, fuckups, weapons | 11 Comments | 597 views

It is often said that most people who fall victim to snakes get bitten while attempting to kill them.  Here’s another case where the snake beat someone trying to hunt it.

A woman was shot dead by her husband in Queensland this week while trying to flush out a brown snake that was hiding in their garage.  Leanne Sleba and her husband Geoff had spotted the two-metre Eastern brown snake earlier in the night, but failed to find it.  Worried about their children’s safety because they frequented the fridge in the garage, the couple returned later with a shotgun.

After a thorough search, they couldn’t find the snake, and were about to give up, when, according to a family member:

"Leanne started to walk away and she was about three or four metres from him and Geoff heard hissing and he looked down to see the snake on his foot.

"He’s either jumped, slipped….. and his finger hit the trigger and the gun went off.

"It hit Leanne,"

She died at the scene.

Toowoomba District Police Inspector Brett Schafferius said police deemed that the firearm accidentally discharged. Scientific investigations were undertaken and a report was being prepared for the coroner.

Call me suspicious, but how often do things like this eventually turn out to be much more than initially meets the eye?

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Why steal Zimbabwe?

Posted on April 19, 2008
Filed Under politics | 7 Comments | 842 views

I heard Robert Mugabe on CNN tonight, going on about the British, accusing them of trying to steal his country, or in his own words:

"down with the British, down with the thieves who want to steal our country".

My immediate reaction to this is why would anyone bother to steal Zimbabwe ….its such a total shithole of a country and would be lucky to be worth about $1 to anyone stupid enough to want to buy it.

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Travelling

Posted on April 14, 2008
Filed Under travel, work | 11 Comments | 1,043 views

I’m off tomorrow morning for a(n almost) 2 week trip to here:

tiananmengate 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then here:

taipei101

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and finally here:

hktram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its for work, but I will get a little sightseeing in each place.  I’ll be fairly scarce on my blog for the next couple of weeks, with work, sightseeing, eating and drinking.

 

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Adultery

Posted on April 14, 2008
Filed Under music | 1 Comment | 1,017 views

Loved this song 21 years ago, and its got a great video, which has kindly been uploaded to Youtube.  Do Re Mi were an excellent band, featuring the always delightful Deborah Conway.

 

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