Monthly Archives: December 2008

End of year madness

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Here’s a couple of weird things I’ve noticed in the news in the last day or two of 2008.

First, a carjacking in Melbourne.  The unusual thing about it was that the thieves jumped out of a Porsche Boxter, beat the victim up, and then stole his 1997 Jeep Wrangler.

Second, campers down at Pambula on the NSW South Coast saw some animal in their camping ground.  At first they thought it was a large goanna, but on closer inspection they found it was an alligator and 1.5 metres long.  Alligators are not native to Australia so one being here in the bush was a surprise to say the least.  Authorities believe it was probably a pet being illegally held somewhere close to Pambula.  Some of the campers captured the alligator using a volleyball net, wrestled it and taped its mouth shut before calling wildlife authorities.  The animal has been taken to a zoo while authorities look for a permanent home for it.

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Movie rage

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I know it shits me when people talk, or munch food loudly during movies, but this is really taking things to extremes.

James Joseph Cialella Jr, 29, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons violations for shooting another film goer in the left arm.  Cialella was furious for being disturbed while watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  He had asked the family to quieten down, then threw popcorn at the boy, which escalated into a physical argument with the father, during which Cialella pulled out a handgun (this being America where it is the done thing to carry a gun to the movies) and shot the father in the arm.

He then sat down and continued to watch the movie.

 

210,000

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Time for another roundup of my statistics as the 210k mark rolls over.  Its been 47 days for this last 10k, which is a bit slower than usual.  I am finding it harder to motivate myself to post to my blog, so I suppose my lack of activity and effort is reflecting in my readership.  I must aim to do better in 2009.

Now for the highlights of my search logs in that last 10k visits:

  • the demand for Hermione Granger porn continues unabated – variations on this, ie nude, porn, tits, pussy, sex, feature heavily in the top 50
  • there is also plenty of demand for tits (generically, not specifically Hermione’s)
  • as well as women crapping …. can’t imagine why that draws people here?
  • Sarah Palin has a few fans – Wasilla hillbillies came up a number of times …. can’t see any interest in Sarah Palin nude, though?
  • how to tell if your drunk is also popular – my advice, get drunk, you’ll find out for yourself
  • “gunshot wounds” – interesting fetish?
  • the usual pedos were out and about – pedo sex, 10 year old pussy, etc
  • stupid baby names gets a good run too.

Thats it for now.  Lets see what the next 10,000 brings.

Oh, and if I don’t post anything tomorrow, have a happy Christmas.

 

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Blame the dog

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Well, lots of us try to blame the dog to cover up a fart, but a guy in the Northern Territory  went much further, and tried to blame the ecstasy tablets police caught him with on his dog.

Steven James Dwyer, 48, contested the charge of possessing an amount of ecstasy tablets, saying he thought the pills would stop his pet shar-peis from breeding.  Dwyer claimed the tablets had come into his hands when he was outside a Katherine laundromat, after he met a man with a female shar-pei dog.  He told the Court the man had told him he used birth control tablets on the dogs, but he had since had his own dog desexed and had no use for the tablets he had in his car.

"I knew she was due to come on heat, I thought, ‘That’ll be very handy for her’,"

he said, claiming no money had changed hands.

Not surprisingly, the court didn’t believe his excuses. The magistrate didn’t swallow his bullshit story, plus I’m sure the fact he also pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine tablets at the same hearing didn’t help establish his credibility. (He claimed he bought that to help keep up with his workload as a painter).

He scored himself a 2 month suspended sentence for his troubles.  That’ll teach him to try to blame his dog for his sins.

 

 

More idiot parents giving their poor kids stupid names

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I posted a while back about stupid baby names some parents anointed their kids with in New Zealand.  Well it would come as no surprise at all that idiotic parents giving their kids appallingly stupid names is not exclusively a Kiwi thing.  I am often greatly amused/appalled by bogan naming conventions, so am regularly on the lookout for fine examples of parental stupidity.

Here’s one from America.  Heath and Deborah Campbell from New Jersey decided it would be a good idea to call their son Adolf Hitler Campbell.

Mr Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name”.  He also claimed:

“Yeah, they (Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They’re not going to grow up like that.”

The name of the boy presented a problem when a local store refused to inscribe “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” on a cake.  Said Mr Campbell:

“They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did,”

Hmmm, I can smell a stupid lawsuit coming on in the land of litigation.

But this family just gives and gives when it comes to childrens’ names.  They have other children named:

  • JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell
  • Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell – supposedly named in honour of Heinrich Himmler.

Mr Campbell said he didn’t expect the names to cause problems when the children start school.  Oh, yeah, sure thing!  Poor kids – if ever there was a lawsuit in this they should sue their parents for cruelty and stupidity.

And wait, there’s still more (this is like the free set of steak knives thrown in to sweeten the deal), Mr Campbell has decorated his home with swastikas and says he is related to a member of the SS.

Fuckwit – another pair who should never have been allowed to breed.

Good shoe-ting

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Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, showed excellent aim when he threw his shoes at US President George Bush in Baghdad yesterday.   I’d need hawkeye, like on the cricket on TV, to confirm it, but I’d say George would have copped at least one shoe fair in the face if he hadn’t have ducked out of the way.

al-Zaidi, an Iraqi television journalist, stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him.  With his second shoe, he said: "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."  He was then wrestled to the ground and taken away by security personnel.  Subsequent reports say he suffered some injuries, including a broken arm and ribs, but it is not clear if these happened during the struggle to restrain him, or later when in police custody.

Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture.  The sensitivity is related to the fact shoes are considered ritually unclean in the Muslim faith.

Of course, in the Arab world, al-Zaidi has become something of a hero for for expressing his anger at the Bush administration. In cafes and online chat rooms, people joked about the incident with glee, releasing years of frustration with U.S. policies. Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in the streets demanding his release from Iraqi custody.

 

Creative differences

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These are often cited as the reason a band breaks up, but a band in Italy called Soul Cry  took theirs to extreme lengths.

THE singer in an Italian teen gothic metal band and her brother allegedly stabbed the band’s guitarist dozens of times because he did not play well enough.  The 18-year-old singer, Cristina Balzano, and her 16-year-old brother, the band’s bass player, were arrested on charges of premeditated attempted murder.  Police in Genoa, on Italy’s northwestern coast, said the 16-year-old victim remained in  hospital, but his life was not in danger.

In a further show of band harmony, the victim accused both the others of stabbing him, Ms Balzano initially said she was trying to stop the victim from committing suicide and her brother has accused her of being the sole attacker.

 

Do people actually need to be told?

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Passengers have been getting pissed off about queuing at the QANTAS check-in counters at Brisbane airport lately, to the extent that a staff member was slapped by a customer, another collapsed from stress, and yet another was removed from her post after being abused by passengers.

What grabbed my attention about this was this response from the QANTAS staff’s union:

"We have asked Qantas to put up signs stating that it is not acceptable to abuse staff and that attacking staff is illegal."

Wow!  People actually need to be told that this is not ok.  Amazing – the level of some people’s arseholery is astonishing.   I suppose its not really surprising, after all, I do see plenty of rude, aggressive dickheads in action all over the place.  Just think, these people are allowed to drive, vote, breed, etc.

The other thing that I found interesting was this – again from the union:

"You would be charged with assault if you did that on the street. But if you do it at the airport there’s a level of acceptance because of the queues,"

No, its not acceptable.  People who act this way should be refused service, and ostracised, to make it absolutely clear that acting the arsehole is not going to get them anywhere.

Now get this!

Last year QANTAS agreed to hire 90 more staff for Brisbane Airport, a decision that came after staff were spat on and abused when they left their posts to assist an elderly woman who collapsed and died in a long queue.   Real charmers!  Everyone of them should have been permanently banned from flying with the airline.

The response to the passenger (a woman!) who slapped the male counter staffer was that she was denied passage on the airline for 24 hours.  Pissweak!  I’d have blackbanned the bitch for good.

 

Entrecard … going, going ……

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You’ll notice I’ve taken the Entrecard widget down from the prominent place at the top of the sidebar and moved it way down the page.

There are a couple of reasons for this:

  1. I was getting bored with EC, and dropping cards had become a chore
  2. the final straw was the appalling treatment of Turnip of Power, banned from EC for having a little dig at EC’s owner on Twitter – way over the top, heavy handed censorship and dummy spit of the highest order.

I’m not quite at the point of ditching EC altogether, but I’m close.  For the time being I’m leaving the widget up, but you won’t see me dropping nearly as much as I have been …. only my favourite blogs with EC will see regular visits from me, visits they’d get regardless of the presence of a widget.

Facebook follies

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A former student at a high school in Florida is suing her school over disciplinary action taken against her for “cyberbullying”.  Katherine Evans, who recently graduated from Pembroke Pines Charter High School north of Miami, Florida is suing principal Peter Bayer for suspending her after she posted negative comments about her English teacher.  Ms Evans created the Facebook group "Ms Sarah Phelps is the worst teacher I’ve ever met!" in November 2007.  The three students who joined only did so to praise Ms Phelps and criticise Ms Evans, after which she took down the page.  But the school learnt of it, and suspended her for 3 days for cyberbullying and disruptive behaviour.

To her credit, she is not doing the usual thing and suing for damages, but to have the suspension removed from her academic record.

While I am usually very cynical about frivolous lawsuits, I actually have a lot of sympathy for this one.  Assuming that what she said on Facebook was not abusive or defamatory, she’s entitled to an opinion, and its not the school’s business to censor it.

In other Facebook fun, here’s another example, following in the footsteps of Kyle Doyle, of how not to use it. 

A group of 5 diners ate and drank their way through a nice meal with lots of wine, at Melbourne’s Seagrass restaurant.  After ordering dessert, they slipped out for a “smoke” and didn’t return, leaving an unpaid bill of $520.  However, the restaurant owner remembered that when the group had arrived one of them had asked about one of his waitresses, who wasn’t working that night.  That waitress gave him a name, and then the owner thought of Facebook, and looked it up, finding a nice happy photo of him and his girlfriend, who was also part of the group of five.  His Facebook profile also identified his employer, which happened to be a nearby restaurant. 

The owner of Seagrass confronted the owner of the other restaurant, where the guy and his girlfriend worked, who promised to deal with it.  Within a short time, the guy’s employer, arrived at Seagrass with his bill evading employee, who paid the $520 bill plus a ‘”generous” tip.    Later he called to say that the man and his girlfriend had been dismissed.

Just desserts, I’d say!