I’m on a roll now with food.
Posted at Aussie Bloggers about great moments in Australian takeaway food.
Went to a blogger meet at Albion Park ** and tried the deep fried Mars Bar for dessert.
Now, I give you this ….
Mmmm … creative use of Krispy Kreme donuts!!!
Source – A Hamburger Today.
** see the post dated 15 June, titled “I ate at the Aviator”
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Open day at military barracks, you know, where they demonstrate all their weapons and other gadgets. I’ve been to a couple and they are quite interesting.
Near Carcassone in France on the weekend there was one such, and marines gave a demonstration of a hostage liberation exercise. Unfortunately their weapons were loaded with live ammunition rather than blanks. Result: 15 civilians and 2 soliders injured – 4 seriously, with 2 said to be critical.
One soldier had been detained, although no explanation was immediately forthcoming for why the wrong ammunition was loaded into weapons. A police spokesman said that investigators believed the deadly ammunition was loaded by mistake.
I wonder how long it took for the “oh shit, oh fuck” realisation to occur among the soldiers.
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I got around to watching the Schapelle Corby documentary that was on TV the other day – “Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth.” (I believe Ganja Queen was an alternative name of the program in some places it has been or will be shown. Can’t say it told me anything startling, although it did have its interesting bits.
It seems now that public opinion in Australia has turned significantly against Corby. A poll found that 53 per cent of people believe she is guilty while just 15 per cent say she is innocent. Almost a third of people remain unsure. This compares with something like 85% support for her innocence at the time of her trial.
I’ve always thought she was guilty. Her story is just so unconvincing in so many ways:
And I could go on and on about the dodginess of her family. We were laughing at home that it was like watching a David Attenborough wildlife special on bogans. They are way beyond bogan!
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Juan Manuel Alvarez attempted to commit suicide in January 2005.
His chosen method was to park his car on the railway tracks and wait for the train. However, he chickened out, and changed his mind at the last minute. However, he could not move the car, so he fled the scene to a friend’s house. His car was hit by a Los Angeles-bound train, which derailed and then ploughed into a train travelling in the opposite direction. 11 people were killed andf more than 180 injured.
Alvarez was found guilty of murder this week, and now faces the death penalty.
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After being arrested for possession of the drug, GBH/GHB/fantasy, Todd McKenney (musical theatre actor, and “Dancing With the Stars” judge), told police that he had been at a party, and had danced so much and got too hot, so he took his pants off to cool down so he could continue dancing. While his pants were down, he claims someone else at the party must have put the drug in his pocket.
McKenney was arrested after being found unconscious in a park, and had to be revived by ambulance officers. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of drug possession. Since his arrest was revealed in April the entertainer and FM radio host, has publicly defended himself, saying that he had been the victim of drink spiking and “tall poppy syndrome” envy by someone who wanted to bring him down.
Everyone repeat after me, Todd, sure we believe you!!!!
Now I’m thinking such a creative defence lends itself to many situations. Lets see:
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Thats what Jeff Fenech and Azumah Nelson did last night in Melbourne. Made a mockery of the so called sport of boxing, which is itself already a joke. Fenech, aged 44, beat Nelson, aged 49, on points in their 10 round fight.
Fenech, 44, did not regret that he and Nelson, 49, came out of a decade of retirement, but conceded Tuesday night’s bout at Vodafone Arena would not rank alongside their fabled clashes of 1991-92.
Both men said afterwards they would not fight again, but felt they offered the 6,000 crowd value for money.
Lets see if they stick to that. Track record of boxers suggests as soon as someone waves enough cash at them they’ll be tempted again.
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A brawl happened on the weekend between parents watching an under-12 kids’ football game in Maroubra.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy allegedly called a “black c—” by an opposition trainer says she and her husband only reacted violently because the referee should have stopped the game. The woman, Vanessa, told 2GB radio this morning that she believed “any parent would have reacted that way”.
Vanessa said a trainer from Mascot abused her son when he tackled his son.
“Mascot had the ball and my son did a really really big hit on this kid,” Vanessa said.
“The trainer ran on the field and said ‘You’re nothing but a something something black something.”
She said her son told his father about the abuse after the game.
Now here comes the bit that is just pure gold. Vanessa said:
“My husband confronted the trainer. He denied it so my husband hit him. He hit my husband back. Then the Mascot coach’s wife hit my husband so I hit her,”.
Yep, thats the way to resolve conflict between parents, and set a good example for the kids.
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Last 10k visitors took 39 days, a bit more than the previous 10k.
As for what brought people here, its just the usual things – Hermione Granger nude, pedo sex, tits, girls crapping, and the like.
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As if to confirm he’s a nutcase, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has come out with these gems.
“The MDC will never be allowed to rule this country – never ever,”
“Only God who appointed me will remove me, not the MDC, not the British.”
“We will never allow an event like an election [to] reverse our independence, our sovereignty, our sweat and all that we fought for … all that our comrades died fighting for,”
Umm, why bother having the election then, Robert? Even if it is a total sham? Why all the violence and intimidation of opposition supporters? Worried that having turned Zimbabwe from the “breadbasket” of Africa to a shithole, your people won’t vote for you without a bit of arm twisting? Must have been a worry for you in the first election – clearly your vote riggers got complacent and let Morgan Tsvangarai win … so the extra effort’s going in now to make sure the people don’t make that mistake again.
Lets face it, the only way Mugabe will surrender power is when he’s carried out in a box. CIA, Mossad or someone, get in there and do the people of Zimbabwe a big favour, sooner rather than later.
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Convicted gang rapist Bilal Skaf was in court again appealing to get one of his convictions quashed or the sentence to be reduced. Skaf of course was notorious after getting sentenced to 55 years jail for his lead role in a series of gang rapes in Sydney a few years ago. This sentence was later reduced on appeal to 38 years.
In fact he has become so notorious for his crimes that according to his lawyer:
”(Skaf’s name) has become synonymous with rapes committed by people of the Muslim faith in western Sydney and … with gang attacks on young women.”
“If an advertiser were trying to achieve a brand name for a gang rapist, Bilal Skaf has achieved this aim. The product for gang rapist in western Sydney is Bilal Skaf,”
The lawyer went on to say no potential juror could have escaped his notoriety, and it was impossible for him to have ever received a fair trial. Well I say, too bad Bilal, whose fault was that? The fact that you committed so many vicious crimes got you too well known, for being a rapist thug, and now you want to cry because of it. Should have thought of that before you went out and raped all those young women, dickhead.
The second part of his argument, to have his sentence reduced, was even more bizarre, and disturbing. His lawyer said:
“The Gosling Park incident appears to take place over less than one hour,”
“There was no significant harm caused to the complainant, no significant physical injury.”
This is bordering on saying she was up for it, it was just a bit of fun with the boys that got out of hand, and by the way, it didn’t last long and didn’t hurt her. I wonder if the lawyer had enough conscience to go out and vomit after court at the thought of having to use that as an argument in Skaf’s defence?
Skaf’s younger brother Mohammed, 25, is also appealing his conviction and sentence. He has lymphatic cancer and was not present at the hearing. Hopefully he suffers a lingering and painful death from the disease.
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