Monthly Archives: August 2006

Out late last night

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I was out last night till 2 am, and spent over $300. And I didn’t drink a drop of anything alcoholic. Can’t recall being out that late and sober at the same time, for ages.

The problem was one sick dog. She started coughing and gagging, like she was trying to spew, but nothing would come up. We rang the emergency vet, and decided to monitor her and see if she settled down, but no, she started up again. Wife and daughter were worried she was choking, so called the vet again. So off we went about midnight or so, to the vet. Of course, once we were there, she stopped all the coughing and gagging, despite going like crazy in the car.

Anyway, after lots of poking and prodding, a couple of x-rays and needles, the vet figured it was nothing major. So after handing over $300 plus, we went home.

Dogs … who’d have ‘em?

PS: At our regular vet today, it ended up being a case of kennel cough. Odd, we thought, because she hasn’t ever stayed in a kennel, and was immunised against it. But apparently, they can get it from any other dogs they come in contact with, and the immunisations are only effective against 2 of about 8 strains of it.

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Wannabe carny gets 8 months

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Samuel Marc Barnes Siddall, the brainiac who put his girlfriend’s 14 month old daughter in a clothes dryer because:

  1. she spilt some medicine on herself
  2. the girl liked “wizzies” so he thought he’d give her a fun ride in the tumble dryer;

got sentenced to 8 months jail today.

Here’s what Mr Intellect looks like.

Siddall / File picture

What is that shit on his suit?

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Doing your civic duty

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Evidence in a Sydney gang rape case today included the fact that one of the accused men had been identified by the victim by three lumps on his penis. The prosecutor indicated that the jury would be shown photos of both of the accused men’s genitals.

Ewww … just what you need to encourage you to do jury duty – getting to see pictures of some low-life’s dick.

Its been ages since I’ve been called for jury duty and its only been once in my life. I had to turn up weekly for 4 weeks. Didn’t get selected (*) in the draw for any of the cases the first 3 weeks, found myself a (reasonably) legitimate excuse to get out of turning up the last week. Lucky for the accused that I didn’t get picked. The first case was some middle aged guy accused of molesting a young girl. Immediately I saw him, and before the charges were read out, I had him tagged as a stereotypical pedophile. So much for having an open mind. But I was right as he was found guilty. Can’t remember what the other cases I missed out on were.

(*) No, I wasn’t wearing a tee shirt with a racist/sexist/pedophilist/something-else-ist slogan to discourage the impression of impartiality, but a suit, even used to wear ties back then.

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Battle of the Bulge

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How would you like one of these? Its a Burger King quad stacker burger. Just look at all that nutritional goodness. 4 beef patties, 4 slices of cheese, 4 pieces of bacon. Salad … no way, thats for wimps! 1 000 calories and 68 grams of fat per burger. I hope they have defibrillators and qualified medical people at the Burger King’s where they sell them.

You have to wonder who the marketing genius who thought this up was. Clearly they’ve never heard bigger is not necessarily better, nor do they have the remotest concept of healthy eating or any consideration that they might, just might, have something to do with the obesity epidemic.

This particular pile of fat and grease hasn’t reached Australia, so here’s a review of the delights of ploughing through one. Interestingly, it claims 8 strips of bacon not 4, just to push the modest excess that little bit further. And if one of these is not enough to satisfy your hunger, some Burger King’s have a buy one get one free offer!!!


But this isn’t the biggest burger going around. Hardee’s – a chain we don’t have here, has a Monster Thickburger, which is about a third bigger again. A mere 1 420 calories and 107 grams of fat. Yummy!

PS- A couple of these would sort out the likes of Nicole Ritchie and Keira Knightley.

The Riff-Raff come to Canberra

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A case this week in the ACT Magistrates Court shows that the scum of the world come to Canberra. Yes, thats right … Canberra is not the serene middle class (boring) public servant haven many Australians believe. I’ll even go so far as to admit to bogans of our own, and even that they don’t all live over the border in Queanbeyan.

In the court case this week, a 38 year old man was alleged to have beaten to death the 4 year old daughter of his partner. The child, Trinaty Monique Howarth, died in hospital after her mother’s boyfriend allegedly hit her around the head with a saucepan, and then hit her with a stick. This happened in their car, parked outside Bunnings at Tuggeranong in November last year. The boyfriend was charged with Trinaty’s murder, to which he has pleaded not guilty. He was also charged with assaulting his (now former) partner, Alicia Maree Wilson.

It really does escape me what motivates people to do things like this to another person, let alone a small child. All I can say is they are vile scum, and if found guilty at trial, he deserves to never see the outside of a prison.

While this tragedy happened in Canberra, the players were imported bogans. Proof of their boganity comes throughout the story:

  • the name Trinaty – intentional, or spelling error?
  • the alleged perpetrator, was of “no fixed address”
  • they had come from South Australia, having just bought a car …wonder where the money for that came from?
  • they came to Canberra to stay with the boyfriend’s brother, but happy families as they are, had an argument with him and got told to fuck off
  • they spent the night before the bashing in their car

I reckon I’d also be fairly safe in guessing that long term welfare dependency and substance abuse have played their part in the death of the little girl.

Skin and bones = attractive?

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Good on Penelope Cruz for speaking out against all those teen magazines that push the image that girls and women need to be ultra-thin to be attractive. She objects to the unhealthy role models they portray.

Specifically she said:

“I would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some people look better thin and some people don’t. For example, I look better when I have three more kilos on me than I do now. The influence of those magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific, at 13 you are still a child.”

Couldn’t agree more. I can’t see how women with their ribs poking out are particularly attractive at all. For example, Nicole Ritchie:


or Keira Knightley:

I actually think women with a bit of flesh on them look much better than really skinny ones. I want women who look like women not with bodies like young boys. It escapes me how super thin is supposed to be the be all and end all of attractiveness. Hollywood is especially bad with this … how often do you see really nice looking actresses when they started, become really gaunt and sickly looking, if not just outright strange – the “big head on a stick” body shape is not a good look!

PS – just above Nicole Ritchie’s bikini bottoms in the photo above, that is a tattoo, not some feral pube styling.

Like father like son

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Good riddance to the father and son team Chaouki and Khater Bou-Antoun.

Khater, the son, was jailed earlier this year for 14 years. Chaouki, the father, this week, also got 14 years, with a minimum to be served of 10 years. Their crimes, first Khater was a gang rapist, who sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl at North Bondi in 2003, second Chaouki tried to organise a hitman to kill the girl so she could not testify at his son’s trial. Unfortunately for him and his son, the hitman they tried to hire was an undercover policeman.

Khater told the hitman he wanted the girl raped before she was killed, then:

“Then I want you to pop (shoot) her in the stomach, then pop her in the eye and the forehead,”

Charming! His father’s crime was to pay the hitman a $3,000 deposit for the murder. Despite denying that he intended to go through with the plan to kill the girl, he pleaded guilty to soliciting a murder. The judge in sentencing him did not believe he showed any remorse or sympathy towards the victim or any reservations about the plan until he was charged over it, and that the “cold-blooded” murder plot of the “innocent sexual assault victim” was motivated by the desire to stop her testifying. Once charged of course, Chaouki cried lots of crocodile tears, claiming he feared his son would be killed in jail, that his son pushed him into going along with the plan.

Lovely men aren’t they? Maybe if Chaouki had raised his son with values that said it was not acceptable to rape women, and then it was not acceptable to have someone killed to protect yourself from the consequences of your actions, he wouldn’t be in the shit he got himself into. Where is it that the lowlifes develop these sort of reprehensible values? I really fail to understand how these scum come to think their behaviour is somehow acceptable.

United 93

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Took advantage of the day off work, and tightwad Tuesday at the local cinema to see “United 93″. Its a very powerful film, well worth seeing.

Update (23/08/2006): Next film I’m thinking of seeing is “Snakes on a Plane” … yes, I suspect it will be crap, but I’ve been sucked in by the hype, plus the concept is intriguing.

Wow, truly amazing news

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Jessica Rowe, the TV presenter who Channel 9 chief executive Eddie McGuire wanted to “bone”, is pregnant. Amazing! Major news! Backbone of the whole Today show!

In a new low of self-promotion by Nine, the network is promoting an “intimate conversation” between Today hosts Rowe and Karl Stefanovic about her high-profile pregnancy. The gripping interview will take place “sometime this week” and will be “all about her pregnancy”, according to a Nine spokesman. Why is this actually news? Jessica fucks … so what? She and husband Peter Overton made a baby, wow, so what? It will be either a boy or a girl, wow amazing! I ask, why is airtime wasted on shit like this?

Mind you, I’m obviously overrating the intelligence of Nine’s audience for the Today show. Since Jessica Rowe’s pregnancy was announced recently, its viewership has increased from about 220k to 270k per day. Never mind the quality or content of the program, we watch because Jessica is nice and she’s going to have a baby … amazing, and how cute!

Leave that ball alone

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Fun and games in the cricket between England and Pakistan! Pakistan did the big dummy spit when penalised by the umpires for tampering with the ball. They refused to return to the field after a break to continue play. As a result the umpires, Darrell Hair from Australia and Billy Doctrove from the West Indies, declared the match over and awarded the game to England, Pakistan’s refusal to play constituting a forfeit under the laws of cricket. It is the first time in 130 years of test cricket that a match has been forfeited.

Good on the umpires I reckon! Pakistan’s refusal to accept the umpires’ decision was shameful – sure they can feel aggrieved about a decision, and they can protest all they want through the right channels, but an open display of dissent towards the umpires’ decision is totally unacceptable …just not cricket. As well as the loss of the game, I believe the players involved need to be disciplined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), with fines and/or suspensions.

The Pakistanis are now saying they will refuse to play under Hair as umpire. The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Shaharyar Khan, said:

“We are going to make it clear to the International Cricket Council that we are not going to play under the supervision of Hair in any future matches,”

and former Pakistan captain Imran Khan accused Hair of acting like a “mini-Hitler” and a “fundamentalist”.

Now I hope that the ICC puts Pakistan in its place over this. They should appoint Darrell Hair to umpire the next several tests in which Pakistan plays, and keep doing so until the Pakistanis pull their heads in over their allegations of Hair’s bias, and basically get on with playing. To bow to the demands of Pakistan will place all umpires and match officials in an untenable position … teams will know they can get their own way by intimidating the officials into submission.

Hair is no stranger to controversy. He was the umpire who no-balled Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan in 1995-96 for chucking, an action that has made him the enemy of Sri Lankan cricket followers ever since, and has resulted in the ICC going through all sorts of contortions to legitimise Muralitharan’s so called “bowling”. The Sri Lankans of course accuse anyone who is critical of his action of being biased or racist or similar, rather than just calling Murali’s bowling what it is – a mockery of what has been understood as “bowling” by everyone else through the history of cricket. The ICC’s backdown to accommodate Sri Lanka’s defence of Murali has been disgraceful, lets hope they don’t bend over to Pakistan over the current fracas.