It seems that some Americans have taken the hunting part of bargain hunting literally in their approach to the post Thanksgiving, or Black Friday, sales. In a Los Angeles Walmart store a woman fended off her rivals for a cheap TV by pepper spraying them. 20 people were treated for injuries from the incident, many complaining of burning in their throats and skin and eye irritations. But it gets better. In gun crazy America, there were the [...] Continue Reading…
According to a study of Australians’ twitter usage, we Canberra folk are aggressive, angry and sad. A social media study by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and an advertising company, found Australians send about 5,000 tweets per minute. Researchers analysed a list of typical words associated with emotions, and found Canberrans are the most anxious, aggressive and sad in Australia. Other things revealed by this study: West Australians are the most [...] Continue Reading…
Customs officers ordered socialite Brynne Gordon-Edelsten to strip naked and pose for photographs and video footage when she arrived in Australia to marry flamboyant entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten. I don’t know why they bothered going to this trouble. It’s not like she generally hides much even when she’d dressed. Exhibit A Exhibit B No, she’s not at the beach wearing a fancy bikini and beach dress in the second picture. This is [...] Continue Reading…
So you go to Bali for a family holiday, and your 14 year old son stupidly goes off and buys himself some dope, and gets himself arrested. What do you do? Negotiate a $200,000 or so deal with a media company of course. Ka-ching! Might as well cash in on your trauma. I hate chequebook journalism. It stinks. I refuse to watch or read its products. So Channel 9, I will be studiously ignoring the story you’ve [...] Continue Reading…
Talk about over-reaction. A barmaid who threw a wet tampon at a McDonald’s worker "for a laugh" says the drunken prank has ruined her life. Rebecca Crimmins, who pleaded guilty to common assault in the Noosa Magistrates Court, said she had "pretty much lost everything" since the tampon-tossing incident in the early hours of September 25. She accused some people of over-reacting to the incident. The court last week heard a drunk Ms Crimmins had dabbed a [...] Continue Reading…
I must admit to having huge sympathy with Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur on the subject of women tennis players screaming and grunting loudly during matches.
Her comments came with two of the loudest grunters on tour, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, among the eight players at the season-ending tournament in Turkey.
Stosur said she was not bothered by the shrieking when on the court but believed the sound was “horrible” for spectators. Her coach had more to say:
“You can’t believe [...] Continue Reading…
Congratulations to the New Zealand All Blacks, winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, beating France 8-7 in the final tonight. It was a fitting result, given New Zealand’s dominance in rugby for years. Tonight’s win breaks a 24 year drought for them in world cups, having missed out several times previously when they were hot favourites. Well done France too, for making a game of what many expected to be a one-sided game. They [...] Continue Reading…
I must admit to being very sceptical about the truth of this story. I have a strong suspicion its a hoax. Wesley Warren Jr has an unfortunate condition – scrotal elephantiasis. This has caused his scrotum to swell to 45 kg (100 lb). In what must be the understatement of the year, Mr Warren said: "It’s not easy to get around," He developed the condition about 3 years ago. How [...] Continue Reading…
I found this after watching a repeat of the miniseries “Answered by Fire” on ABC TV a couple of weeks back. This was a pretty decent program about the vote for independence in East Timor in 1999, and starred Australian actor David Wenham and Canadian actress Isabelle Blais. Knowing nothing about Isabelle Blais, I googled her, and found that as well as being a very good actor, she also sings in a band called Caiman Fu. [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve never really watched more than about 10 minutes of “Dancing with the Stars”, but it seems the Australian version is very tame compared to what they get in other countries. For instance, in Argentina, it’s basically porn. Cinthia Fernandez in a recent episode starts the dance off in a racy outfit with her toga-clad partner. It’s some sort of Roman orgy scene, but with only two people. What follows is less of a dance and more of [...] Continue Reading…