It’s really – REALLY – time to stop glorifying footballers in this country. I appreciate that sport is important to a lot of people, and football particularly so. Kids in the playground at school make and break friendships on the basis of which team they follow, workmates bond over the latest win or loss of [...]
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Actually, it *was* racist.
In 1999 a TV show on Aussie TV limped to a thankful end. That show was Hey Hey it’s Saturday, a show that didn’t so much jump the shark as leap the ocean. Over the past couple of weeks there’s been two reunion specials, which have been amazingly well received. I didn’t watch them, to [...]
I’m an adult.
As an adult person of the grown up type, I really think I’m more than able to choose what I do and do not access on the internet. Sadly, the Australian Government disagrees with this, and has decided the very best thing to do for Australia is to create a clean feed of information. What [...]
That’s not an apology.
I’ve been pondering lately the phrase “I’m sorry if my actions/words offended anyone”. It’s a phrase used a LOT by various sportsmen here in Australia who, after being caught drinking themselves half to death then crapping in hotel hallways or vomiting on people or groping young ladies, will do a press conference and say “I’m [...]
I am not a mother.
Which is, in short, why I will not yell at your kids for you. Yes, I will ask them to be quiet, but I won’t scream at them for being noisy or for having late books or for any of the other hundreds of things kids do that annoy their parents. YOU had the child, [...]
Cell Phone Tango
I know a lot of people have raised this, but it shits me off too, so I’m raising it also. Before mobile phones became so vital to our lives, if you were having a conversation with someone on the street and someone else you knew came up to say hello, you would include them in [...]