A few days ago, there was another fatal shark attack of the coast of Western Australia. That makes 24 across the country in the last 20 years. People of Australia, please panic! 24 hours after it happened – and, thus, many hours after the shark in question had moved on with his life – some… [Read more…]
October 17, 2011
In the last couple of years, I’ve met a lot of people online through cricket. I rarely send FB requests to people I’ve never met, but I often recieve them. I’m always careful to make sure we have a few mutual friends and that gives me an idea of why this person has requested me.… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011
Well, me actually. The cuts have come around yet again. I have been very lucky – I was very unlucky last time – and will not be losing my job or, in fact, any working hours. But others will. Our management has been telling us there is no alternative. They are lying. The library service… [Read more…]
October 9, 2011
Now, I’ve got to say that I have just about had it with the smokers. If you choose to smoke, that’s fine, but please remember the damage you are potentially doing to yourself and to others and remember that you ultimately choose to keep smoking. A few days back I was waiting at my lcoal… [Read more…]
October 4, 2011
In the Seinfeld episode The Andrea Doria (season 8, episode 10), George’s father and mother are eating with him in a booth at the coffee shop. Estelle feels a draft and wants to move to a table; Frank says he will not move because they have a booth and “I didn’t take the subway all… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
Several days ago, I logged onto facebook only to see hundreds of people in Australia either: complaining about the new facebook layout OR telling people how to get around the new facebook layout (setting your language to English UK) I found it annoying that everyone had such an issue with facebook making changes – after… [Read more…]
September 18, 2011
My sister-in-law is Miss Hospital Corners. I’m not kidding: if you shower at her house you will find, next to the shower screen, a squeegy which you must immediately use to clean the shower; every use of the toilet requires immediate application of a generous portion of disinfectant. She may be coming to visit us… [Read more…]
September 8, 2011
Myer, Perth city centre. You’d think a big chain like this would know better, wouldn’t you? Billabong “Spa’s”, Joondalup. Sigh.
September 5, 2011
Last week, it was announced that our government would be considering farming out abortion counselling to independent organisations. This doesn’t sound too bad until it becomes clear that radical religious and ant-abortion groups would be allowed to be among those “independent” organisations and that this is a situation championed by one of the most right… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
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