End of year madness
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 [...]
Movie rage
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 [...]
210,000
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. [...]
Blame the dog
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 [...]
More idiot parents giving their poor kids stupid names
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 [...]
Good shoe-ting
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 [...]
Creative differences
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 [...]
Do people actually need to be told?
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 [...]
Entrecard … going, going ……
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: I was getting bored with EC, and dropping cards had become a chore the final straw was the appalling treatment of Turnip [...]
Facebook follies
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 [...]
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