Busy man

Tiger Woods sure has been a busy man the last few years. The US magazine National Inquirer says the golfing star and serial adulterer has confessed to his wife Elin Nordegren that he slept with as many as 120 women during their five-year marriage.

Seems to me that he doesn’t quite get the idea of what being married is about.

I’m actually surprised he had much time for golf in amongst all that rooting.  I think the description “golfing star and serial adulterer” is wrong – should it be “serial adulterer and golfing star” which seems to be a more accurate reflection of his priorities in life.  I just wonder how good he’d be at golf if he was actually focused on that instead of his dick.

The magazine (and yes, I know its a very dodgy source) claims that Nordegren is committed now to divorcing Woods.  The final straw is not all the porn actresses and the multitude of other rather skanky fame whores that he screwed, but the fact that he slept with a 21 year old girl from the neighbourhood he lives in – and omitted to mention this to Elin when it was confession time.

Kicked arse

Went to see “Kick Ass” at the movies today.  Loved it.  What totally made it was Hit Girl – an 11 year old girl who kills bad guys … its just so compellingly weird.

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Violence plus – yep.  Crude language – yep.  Smut – yep.  Great fun – sure!

Meanwhile in the land of the crazy litigants

How’s this for ridiculous misuse of the legal process?  An American man bought a clock on eBay, and wasn’t happy with what he got, so posted negative feedback.  The seller, of course, is suing him for damages.

Michael Steadman is being sued for $15,000 after posting negative feedback on the seller, Elliot Miller, accusing him of having the ethics of a car salesman.   Mr Miller claims the negative feedback has ruined his "100 per cent" eBay rating and commercial reputation.

Mr Steadman was looking for a clock that would time stamp his employees cards for his welding business.  He spotted one on Mr Miller’s eBay page, which sells electrical components and hardware, and send off his $44, the cost of the clock.  However, the clock arrived in three shipments and the parts appeared to be from different models and were incompatible. He filed a complaint with eBay and got his money back, but said he wanted to leave the negative feedback to warn other potential buyers.

Mr Miller says in his lawsuit that the clock was "plainly offered for sale with the following language: ‘We cannot give you any guarantees and must offer it on an as-is, where-is basis only’."

Mr Steadman said that the case had so far cost him $7,000 in legal fees.

A few observations on this case:

  1. Mr Miller is a lawyer – probably explains a lot.
  2. I can’t imagine that Mr Miller could waive away basic consumer protections like goods actually being fit for purpose, ie working as they are intended – perhaps in the US the principle of caveat emptor applies more strongly than in most other Western countries like Australia?
  3. I think if I was Mr Steadman I’d have withdrawn the negative feedback when the threat of legal action obviously became serious – I’d not have cared enough about bagging out the seller to spend one dollar on legals let alone thousands
  4. as with all of these stupid lawsuits, the courts need to tell the parties to grow up, sort it out themselves and stop wasting court time.

Ka-ching! Airplane toilets = profit centres?

Irish budget airline Ryanair is to charge passengers for using the toilet on their flights.  They are going to make their toilets coin-operated, charging one pound or one euro per use.

Their rationale is to fit more seats on the planes by reducing the number of toilets.  According to a Ryanair spokesman:

“By charging for the toilets we are hoping to change passenger behaviour so that they use the bathroom before or after the flight,”

“That will enable us to remove two out of three of the toilets and make way for at least six extra seats.”

I can’t help but think they may get some nasty surprises under their seats and in sick bags – given they cater to the bottom of the market (ie bogans going on holidays).

Also, whats the pricing policy for those wanting to join the mile high club.  Two-for-the-price-of-one?

The big potato

… or is it really a big turd?

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Its in the main street of Robertson, NSW – where I went today.  Its a lovely area … although I’m not sure the idea of having a big brown potato to highlight the area’s main agricultural product was all that well thought through.

Does smoking make you a pig, or do pigs take up smoking?

This is a question a bit like the one I’ve also heard about there being a correlation between low intelligence and preference for country music.  Does country music reduce the intelligence of people who like it, or do morons choose country music as their favourite?

When I was out in the car a couple of days ago, it was said that there are approximately 7 billion cigarette butts littered each year in Australia.  7,000,000,000.  Cigarette butts represent just under half of all litter.

Now I was interested enough in this to do some follow up work.  So, 19% of Australia’s 22m people are smokers – thats about 4.235m of them.  That means about 1,650 cigarette butts chucked on the ground per smoker each year, the remnants of about 66 (25) packs.  Now, I will concede that not all smokers litter at this rate.  However, there must be a reasonable proportion of them just chucking their butts around wherever they happen to be when they finish each cigarette.

There’s really only one way I can describe these people …. fucking pigs!!!!  Clean up after yourselves, dickheads.

Makes a strong case for having extra toxic cigarettes – get the job of killing these pigs over and done with quicker, so they can do less harm to everyone and everything around them, and focus their efforts on killing themselves with lung cancer.