My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

i got these stupid dental floss things to use to get the gunk out between my teeth...i did them all...i got all this gunk out...i thought i was going great guns...then i washed out my mouth...grimmaced into the mirror to see the fruits of my labour and realised that i had actually removed nothing but gums and my mouth was a reddish colour from the gum bleeding...

in the end all of it was for nothing:

dirty teeth + gunk removal = clean teeth

clean teeth + gum blood = dirty teeth

I was back to the beginning.

All of the new "prisoner abuse allegations" don't really sound that bad to me. Sure I'm an infidel heathen, but all that aside, if I had a woman interrogator in a short mini skirt, showing some breast, and whipping me...I'd be loving it! Hell some people even pay for that sort of treatment!

"The seized evidence that can be admitted includes 17 books, 55 magazines, two DVDs and four computers. Jackson's lawyers say that 23 of the magazines are from 1936 and are considered collector's items".


Ok call me crazzzzzzzzzy - but how the fuck can child porn be a collectors item? It's child porn! Old-new-whatever - it shouldn't exist.

My Goodies DVD went missing :(

To make an excellent espresso drink or shot, as espresso is served in small amounts called this, just follow these steps:

1. Grind up roasted dark espresso beans that are oily-looking. Imported Italian Roast blends are the darkest espresso coffee beans and are considered the best to use.
2. Grind these beans until they are fine but not yet a powder. Place these espresso beans into the strainer of your espresso coffee making device. Make sure that the strainer is packed full and hard for maximum taste.
3. Turn your espresso machine on and watch as it drips down. Make sure that a nice layer of foam forms on top of the drink, as the foam is the most delicious part of an espresso drink. This foam is called crema.
4. Drink your espresso soon after it is made. You may want to add some sugar to sweeten the taste but make sure you drink it quick. An espresso that is cold is not truly an espresso.

60 Miles An Hour - New Order

I don't know if I told you, but I'm seeking sanctuary
You'll never guess the things that I do
I'll have the devil round for tea
Don't you know that I'm here beside you
Can't you see that I can't relax
When I saw you in my rearview
You could've stopped me in my tracks

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

You can take me to an island, ride across the stormy sea
We can worship pagan idols, there together you and me
Why don't you run over here and rescue me?
You can drive down in your car
Why don't we both take a ride and turn that key
We'll drive at 60 miles an hour

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

I'll be there for you when you want me to
I'll stand by your side like I always do
In the dead of night it'll be alright
'Cos I'll be there for you when you want me to

"boy bands! who look better than you :P"

Boy bands don't look better than me - just different. They look like boy bands...aka with girly features that pre-teen girls like because they're going through their lesbian phase. It's true- no real woman likes a girly boy...only during certain times during their cycle when they're trying to find some girly boy to nurture the child that their body is telling them they should be carrying after having monkey sex with an alpha male during the "lets get down and dirty" phase where all the rough and ready action is. The girly boy gets to bring up the child - the alpha male gets all the fun - and the boy band gets all the action from the pre-teens Michael-Jackson-R-Kelly-style.

Wiggas

Why in the fuck do average, to perhaps, even well educated, white people choose to talk like poorly educated black people? Ebonics (talking like an African American) or Abonics (talking like an Aboriginal Australian) is fine if you are a poorly educated African American from a low socioeconomic class or a poorly educated Aboriginal Australian from a low socioeconomic class - but middle class educated white guys? Why? eg. the entire band N*Sync et Al.

Well educated black people do not even talk in ebonics. You would not catch Colin Powell or Kofi Annan or Martin Luther King Jr speaking poorly. These are the type of role models people should be looking up to. Samuel L Jackson, while not in the same league as the previous persons, again does not stoop to using poor English.

Why have we created this culture where it is cool to be poorly educated and/or sound poorly educated? It makes no sense at all. We should be trying to boost peoples self esteem and helping them get the best education that they can so that they can make something of their lives. People shouldn't be ashamed of being well educated and trying to hide it behind crass slang and poor diction.

I was talking the other day with my friend about the differences between the city and the country. In the country everyone comes across with poorer rougher sounding English - which is difficult for the city person to understand so often they discount the intelligence of the person because of their diction. It makes the stereotyping that you are brought up doing subconsciously very difficult when you are thrown into an environment you are not used to. With everyone in the country sounding rougher - you really have to listen to every person for a long time before you can discern the intelligent ones from the not so intelligent ones.

The city is a lot different - if you sound rough chances are that you are rough.

NOW we have to deal with people deliberately skewing their voice to mask their upbringing and education to a level that is below them? Why? So many people will discount you merely on your voice. Why pretend to be something you're not? It does not make you cool - it makes you imitation and you are mocking those who have not had the opportunities that you have.

nicht an dieser Adresse

I've resorted to using different languages on the letters that I get weekly from telstra with regard to the previous tenants phone bill. I previously tried the old "not at this address" tag in English - but that didn't work. I have dabbled in "Not at this address!!!" and even at one stage tried a "Not at this address. Please stop wasting my money sending these invoices out!"

I received a copy of "The Kama Sutra" from a friend. It's not quite the ancient text - but is a modern version of the ancient text. It starts each chapter with the ancient version and then goes onto modernise it and interpret how it applies to today - all in full colour ancient portraits at first and full colour photographs following. The funny thing is the friend who gave it to me decided that they wanted to try some of it out - unbeknownst to them at the time, the first 10 pages or so after the "getting to know you" type part and the damn "bathing" and puting on perfume etc is all about oral sex - I was stoked at least!

The only trouble with the book is that in the modern interpretation of it - half the positions actually say that they may result in permanent penis damage. It is like they're all in there just to mock me with their alluring sights that will never be able to be achieved! If you look at the pictures they have in it - I can understand why they say they cannot be actually performed. The guy would have to be at least foot long to reach the orifice in the most outrageous ones and the photographs suggest he is no where near making the mark (and as some previous commenter pointed out I'm not a foot long).

Was listening the radio tonight and they did a segment on Joy Division. It made me want to come home and listen to some Joy Division songs. Sadly I do not own an album. This is something I will change tomorrow. New Order albums just aren't quite the same when on a Joy Division mission.

Love will tear us apart Joy Division

When routine bites hard
and ambitions are low.
And resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow.
And we're changing our ways
taking different roads.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold
turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
that we've kept through our lives.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Do you cry out in your sleep,
all my failings expose?
Gets a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold.
Why is it something so good
just can't function no more?

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again...

I sit here wearing Australian boxer shorts. An Australian flag hangs from my curtain rod. An Australian flag bed spread is on my bed. I am Australian - hear me complain.

Have you seen the new whiz-bang robot war machines? They are about 1 metre high and carry a machine gun and some camera equipment. It'll only be a few more steps and it'll be judgement day like in terminator!

I had the unexpected pleasure of watching some good old fashioned traditional Australian belly-dancing for Australia day today. "What does belly dancing have to do with Australia" I hear you ask? *tisk-tisk* Belly dancing is as Australian as apple pie, as Australian as the Eiffel Tower, as Australian as standing up for what you believe in, as Australian as thinking for yourself, as Australian as Big Ben, as Australian as the Golden Gate Bridge, as Australian as Hollywood, as Australian as beer, as Australian as the Taj Mahal, as Australian as freedom.

I Am Australian

I came from the dream time, from the dusty red soil plains,
I am the ancient heart - the keeper of the flame,
I stood upon the rocky shore, I watched the tall ships come,
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.

I came upon the prison ship bound down by iron chains
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man, I became Australian.
I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression, I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler, I am Australian.

We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira, and I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian.
I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky, the rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land, I am Australian.

We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.

It is always strange when they give out terror warnings in Australia. They say that there is going to be an attack on Australian assets in Indonesia - then instead there's an attack on our Iraqi embassy. The original reports will be saying that it has not been confirmed that the target was our embassy. The other reports will say that the terror warnings for Indonesia were wrong. Then three (3) weeks later we will come forward and admit that the bomb that blew up our embassy was infact aimed at our embassy. The intelligence community will get into trouble for not predicting it.

Ok:

1. We worked out there was going to be an attack on an Australian asset (tick);
2. There was an attack on an Australian asset (tick);
3. It was in the wrong predominantly right-wing fundamentalist terrorist muslim country (cross); and
4. It was still in a right-wing fundamentalist terrorist muslim country (tick).

Three (3) out of four (4) isn't all that bad for the intelligence community.

Ok:
1. There has been an attack that may or may not be an attack (cross);
2. After three (3) weeks of umming and ahhing it is decided that has been an attack (tick);
3. There has been an attack that may or may not be on an Australian asset (cross); and
4. After three (3) weeks of umming and ahhing it is decided that it was an attack on an Australian asset (tick).

Two (2) out of four (4) for the press. Houston I think we have a problem.

ugh...i hate cathy freeman...
everytime she's on tv talking she keeps crapping on about how great she is....she won one freakin' gold medal...and she can't even string a sentence together...why in the hell do they insist on interviewing her? can't they find another Australian born olympic athlete who can actually speak proper english? ugh!

Peter J Ramsay, of Peter J Ramsay and Associates fired RIH on her second day of employment due to her failure to accept his conditions of contract which were below the award standard conditions of work outlined by the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition to this, Peter J Ramsay, of Peter J Ramsay and Associates failed to:

1. give due notice of termination of employment;
2. give explanation as to the termination of employment; and
3. made no attempt to negotiate.

Someone in their infinite wisdom decided to give me a new iron for Christmas so that I would not electrocute myself with my old one (about 20 years old - with some frayed parts of the cord on it). The new iron seems to have more water leak out of the base of it than it does from the steam vents! And yet my old iron was meant to be unsafe? :P

I Feel So - Box Car Racer

Sometimes
I wish I was brave
I wish I was stronger
I wish I could feel no pain
I wish I was young
I wish I was shy
I wish I was honest
I wish I was you not I

'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callused
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over

Sometimes
I wish I was smart
I wish I made cures for
How people are
I wish I had power
I wish I could lead
I wish I could change the world
For you and me

'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callused
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over

'Cause
I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callused
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over

I feel so mad
I feel so angry
I feel so callused
So lost, confused, again
I feel so cheap
So used, unfaithful
Let's start over
Let's start over

John Curtis - I salute you for telling it like it is, however, your report could do with a bit of a brush up and a little bit less emotion in the introduction. But hell - if you don't tell the world that they're destroying the disputed beginnings of civilisation as we know it - who will?

.....By the rivers of Babylon...

By the rivers of Babylon - Boney M.

By the rivers of babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion.

By the rivers of babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion.

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord’s song in a strange land

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Requiering of us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord’s song in a strange land

Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

By the rivers of babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion.

By the rivers of babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion.

By the rivers of babylon (dark tears of babylon)
There we sat down (you got to sing a song)
Ye-eah we wept, (sing a song of love)
When we remember zion. (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)

By the rivers of babylon (rough bits of babylon)
There we sat down (you hear the people cry)
Ye-eah we wept, (they need their God)
When we remember zion. (ooh, have the power)

Titan Probe Drops Into 'Creme Brulee'-Like Surface (reuters)

Crème Brûlée - www.gourmetsleuth.com
Crème Brûlée is a French term for what the English refer to as Burnt Cream. The word brulee refers to dishes, such as custards, finished with a sugar glaze.

This simple custard is cooked and cooled. A small amount of sugar is sprinkled on the top of the cooled custard and the sugar is caramelized using a small torch or beneath a broiler.

This classic custard inherits its' delicate flavor from the simple mixture of cream and eggs. Traditional creme brulee does not use any additional flavorings such as vanilla.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups heavy cream or 1 1/4 cups heavy cream and 1 1/4 cups light cream
4 large egg yolks, well beaten
1/4 to 1/3 cup superfine sugar

Directions
Bring cream to a boil, and boil about 30 seconds. Pour it immediately into the egg yolks and whisk them together. Return the mixture to the pan and continue cooking without allowing it to boil. Stir the mixture until it thickens and coats the spoon. Pour the mixture into a shallow baking dish. Refrigerate overnight.

Two hours before the meal, sprinkle the chilled cream with the sugar in an even layer and place it under a broiler preheated to the maximum temperature. The sugar will caramelize to a sheet of brown smoothness. You may need to turn the dish in the grill to achieve an even effect. It is important that this step be done very quickly in order to keep the custard cold and firm and the top crisp and brown.

Serving size - 4 to 6

I've been walking down the street for coffee and raisin toast for breakfast every weekend at the Moon Bar Cafe on William Street. It is about the only place open before 10am in Port Macquarie - except for the take away places, McDonalds, KFC, and the like. The service is rather abrupt - but it is not like service anywhere is much. The meals aren't great - but they're good, as good as anywhere else in Port Macquarie. My mother upset them by asking where her drink was when it didn't turn up with everything else - I was shocked - and somewhat bemused at the thought of what they did to her drink to put her in her place. I just hope they don't do the same to me every time I go there.

Every weekend that I have been going down there I've been with a different girl in the morning - the owners must think I have a new girl every week!

Apparently one of the male waiters is hot so I've been told - to me he looks like a yobbo surfie crossed with a footballer who's had a spanner dropped on his face...but that's just my opinion. The best views you get at that place is the blonde who works in the optus shop next door - the only trouble is it's never open on weekends. I just might have to start going there for lunch so I can check up on her.

p.s my hot gym chick is moving to England. Who the hell moves to England? I can understand someone like Kylie Minogue - but she was kicked out of Australia so it is not like she moved by choice. Nick Cave - again he was all but kicked out. My only hope is that Peter Andre follows them.

"Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, resigned on Friday after a pizza shop owner said she had reneged on a promise to help him avoid deportation in exchange for free pizza." (Reuters).


This is reminiscent of Local, State and Federal Government in Australia. Continually our bureaucrats, political workers, and a-political workers sell their souls for a free meal, a fishing trip, or a one-night stand. Why?

Throughout most of the third world country bribes are common place. Us in our supposed "civilised" western society look down on these cultures of bribery with disdain. Between 5%-15% is the common payment of most business deals in bribes - depending on the country and the importance of the deal of course. Say the deal is $30,000: @ 10% that is $3000 that the person being bribed gets. $3000 can go a long way if you do the right thing with it. $3000 is worth having.

In Australia we look down on taking bribes - that is for the third world country as our arrogant dogma goes. We in Australia are "above" that. What do we accept? A free meal. A fishing trip. A one-night stand. If you're going to go down for accepting bribes. If you're going to get in trouble for breaking the law. If you're running a dodgy business. Would it not be a much better idea to actually get something worthwhile out of it?

Why in the hell sell your soul for a pizza? Why in the hell sell your soul for a fishing trip? Why jeopardise everything for so little? I will not sell my soul for something so useless.

they had penguins...and they were dancing...and there was this heavy classical music as they danced and frolicked...ah documentaries...everyone thinks i'm on some kind of mind altering drug...damn society and it's assumptions...a perfectly sane person can see dancing penguins without being on drugs - can't they?

(TV does rot the mind)

I was watching this documentary that went through the Nazi propaganda films and talked about the atrocities of the war. The problem i have with the piece is that they paint a picture of the townsfolk around the concentration camps as bad people. These people are normal people like you and I who have been swept up in circumstances that seem beyond our control. They are not any more bad of a person as someone who lets Iraqi prisoner abuse continue, or someone who lets gaols exist, or someone who lets the environment be destroyed around them in the name of big business without even raising an eyebrow.

Inaction doesn't necessarily make you a bad person - it can mean any number of things. It can mean you are: scared; naive; misguided; or overwhelmed. I often get overwhelmed by things that are beyond my control. I get upset at things that are beyond my control. I find there are so many things that are beyond my control. I sat there tonight thinking : "What in the hell would I have done in the same situation?". The fact that I cannot answer that question scares me - I do not know what I would have done in that situation. I cannot know what I would have done in that situation until I was in it.

What would you have done? What will you do?

i thought I'd install yahoo messenger again just to see what was happening and/or if anyone at all had even realised I'd gone missing - they hadn't of course.

The scary/funny/bizarre thing is that in the two (2) days since i've had it re-installed i've been approached by three (3) different couples each of which is a younger girl and an older guy with a homepage with random amateur looking porn shots and a request to participate in a 3-some! I knew there were a lot of old rich guys going around with younger girls in and around the area I live in who had to recruit guys to service their wives because they weren't up for the occasion - but I had no idea that they recruited the workers from yahoo messenger! I had never really thought about how the hell one goes about recruiting someone for a threesome before - but now I know.

The embarressing *cough* thing is, that although I am not challenged in the equipment department by any means - infact I was actually larger than the last vibrator I compared myself with (what? i was curious! that was all!- and no it wasn't my vibrator, infact it was a present I gave my girlfriend), all of these old guys with the girls half their ages seem to be rather well endowed and would be puting me to shame if their website pictures are anything to go by.

There I was naively thinking that it was all about the money that kept the younger girls with the older guys - how wrong I was. Sometimes there are more important things in life than money.

From www.afp.com:

The Great Andamanese numbered 10,000 in 1789. But their friendliness to outsiders who brought measles, syphilis and influenza which saw their numbers shrink to 625 in 1901. By 1969 only 19 Andamanese survived, according to Indian government figures.

They were resettled on Strait Island to try to protect their society.

India's 1971 census shows a population of 24 surviving Great Andamanese but by 1999 their number had grown to 41 and the population swelled to 49 last year.

Photography of Andaman's Stone Age tribal people is banned by an order of the Supreme Court and access to their habitats is blocked by the local administration.

The forager Andamanese are among five endangered primitive tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. There are 200 warrior-like Sentinelese, the 98-member Onge, 350 Jarawa and 250 hunter-gatherer Shompens.

Call me naive - but I never realised that we actually have isolated wildlife park type sanctuaries for people. I always knew that when outsiders come they bring crazy diseases that kill of the natives. I realised that there were tribes who were disappearing - but sanctuaries?

“I noticed today that the elections are on schedule for June the 30th.” — George "Dubya" Bush , November 20, referring to the US-dictated January 30 Iraqi parliamentary elections.

Note to self:

Even though tennis does not even get myself to the point of raising a sweat - it sure as hell hurts my back. There is a hell of a lot of twisting I do not normally do involved in playing "bad tennis".

Australia's "terrorist suspect" aka person-who- most- likely- got- caught- up- in- the wrong- country- at- the- wrong- time- reading- the- wrong- books- and- hanging- with the- wrong- people has finally been let free without charge. It has only taken a few years. Sure most of the other nationals were set free ages ago aka people- from countries- with- a- backbone because their nations went into support them and stand up for their rights as HUMAN FUCKING BEINGS instead of the animals they have been treated as.

The Australian government has refused to apologize - despite reports officials stood there and watched as a confession was beaten out of our "terror suspect" in a mysterious "torture plane" that flew him to Egypt and across to the Caribbean. The US government has refused to apologize - despite the fact they beat a confession and did the flying and then found there was insufficient grounds to lay charges.

SO: it is not the fault of the Australian governments apathy that caused this man to be beaten into a pulp and gaoled for no reason; and it is not the fault of the US governments aggression and perpetration of these acts that caused this man to be beaten into a pulp and gaoled for no reason. This leaves one entity in the equation - it must be his own fault he got beaten into a pulp and gaoled for no reason - maybe he's just been a freaking kamikaze sadist all this time hiding out on the beach and his family have been worried for no reason at all?

Corporate branding and corporate labelling has not been something that interests me for a very long time, at least, for the most part. When I was younger I used to want "brand name" clothes - because all of the "cool" people had them. That was more to fit in and be accepted than anything else, I guess, in part, that is what corporate branding is all about - even in adulthood. BMW and Dell and Sony seem to be the adult corporate brands replacing the "cool" clothing brands that ruled throughout my school days- obviously some people never grow up.

These days I tend to care more about quality than corporate brandname and/or price. Take leather shoes, for example, a matter close to my heart; I cannot for the life of me find a single pair of shoes made or sold in Australia that have glued and double stitched soles with a durable sole on them. Colorado? I don't think so - the new soles on those shoes are already worn flat before you buy them which implies to me they have already given up the fight before even starting. Doc Martens? Only seem to have single stitching. Rivers? Those shoes which can cost up to $100 don't even have stitching keeping them together and yet they insist on bragging about the quality of them in their catalogues. If I'm paying $100 for a pair of shoes my damn shoes are going to have double stitching, glued soles, with durability.

The same goes for electric appliances and other items - what good is a brandname without quality? They are all made in the same Korean sweat shop. Plastic parts, fake chrome colours - $160 for a DVD player that looks like it is made in the backyard by a two year old with fingerpaint!

I have no idea what my point is - when I started, before my phone rang, on the first paragraph, I did have a point I was going to make BUT now I'll just leave you with my opinion on branding - to me you can have all of the corporate branding in the world - if there is no quality it is not worth the extra price.

"Now that the FDA-approved Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) is in widespread use, milk drinkers are getting more than hormone and antibiotic residue in each glass. Many are gulping down "Pus" with their milk, the byproduct of Mastitis, an infection of the udder and one of the side effects of rBGH. The FDA has acknowledged eight painful side effects of rBGH in cows: The exacerbation of mastitis, uterine disorders, ovarian cysts, liver degeneration, joint disorders, calcium depleted bones, excessive weight gain, and an increased risk of breast cancer. In the only long term study published on the effects of rBGH in cows, 33% died after the second lactation. Of these, 15% became victims of "downed cattle syndrome" in which an animal becomes too sick or weak to stand. This is a direct result of excessive body weight due to overeating, to supplement excessive milk production, and loss of calcium caused by overproduction of milk stimulated by rBGH."
(Last Chance For Animals)

If the damage to animals isn't enough-

The most compelling issue is that the rBGH creates an extra amino acid, has been banned in the UK and Canada and other countries, had only 90 days of a 180 day testing process submitted to the FDA (Robert Cohen's FDA Testimony, and "The Corporation").

Got milk?

These kids asked me if I was 18. They then went onto ask:

"Can you buy us alcohol?"
"No!"
"Can you buy us cigarettes?"
"No!"
"Do you sell drugs?"
"No!!"

I decided after their first question that if they are young enough to not be able to tell if I'm above 18 or not they're way to young to be drinking.

you know how you do a search for something and porn and/or bikini clad females shows up instead of what you're after? I've never had that happen until now...now here i am looking at Annalise Braakensiek...never really thought much of her before...but damn...she's good in stills...on shows like fat pizza and all that she just looks average...a bit of airbrushing and some makeup can go a long way!

www.annalise.com.au

http://users.indigo.net.au/don/nonsense/carepilog.html --> this guy is either a complete nutter or a genius...he's dissing plate tectonics and citing einstein and newton...(ok i'm an engineer - it interests me)...

Pitt 'had phone sex with Jolie'
Staff reporter
Posted Mon, 10 Jan 2005

Sexy telephone conversations between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were the final nail in the coffin of the Hollywood hunk's marriage to Jennifer Aniston, according to a report in News of the World

Some people get all the damn luck. Why isn't Angelina ringing me for phone sex? Angelina ring 0401364395 for a good time baby!

To protest is to be free?

g'night.

I got pulled over by the police two days ago. The situation:

1. Object in middle of road;
2. Brake;
3. Swerve to avoid object;
4. One tyre goes over one of double lines;
5. Police car coming other way;
6. Police car puts on lights;
7. Police car does U-turn infront of 3 cars who each slam on brakes to avoid collision;
8. Police car indicates for me to pull over on a corner at the end of a straight approaching a bridge;
9. Police man, who is not wearing a safety vest, comes to car window and stands in middle of road lecturing me on road safety;
10. Police officer checks to see if I have been drinking;
11. I inform Police officer if I had been drinking I would not have been able to avoid obstacle;
12. Cars swerve to avoid police officer at last minute due to his standing position and my stopping position he forced me into;
13. Police officer is undecided as to what charges he can give me and is thinking out loud when he mentions: reckless driving; failing to indicate; crossing double lines; negligent driving;
14. Police officer has no fine book on him and vowes to return to office where he can go through the road rules to work out what he can charge me with and says fine will be in the mail.

What gives him the right to lecture me on road safety when he has endangered the lives of many, including himself, on his quest to lecture me on road safety?

The only thing I can see that I did wrong was not indicate when swerving to avoid the object, even so, at no stage did I endanger anyone elses lives. Or is there some other thing I am missing? What should I have done or should I do if it happens again?

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twenty-one grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?"...(21 Grams)

Day time television is like a morgue of tv shows past and tv shows present. The has beens, the never wases, and the never will bes.

Ugh.

After going north and looking at what Australia's Northern NSW and Southern QLD has to offer - I walked around Port Macquarie today in a sombre mood. The sad sad locals do not know what they are missing - they walk around this little town and think they have it made.

Footnote to the previous post (even though it will appear above it):

it got to the point where we broke so many road rules in qld we just gave up caring...and to our dismay...the rest of qld didn't even notice because they were too busy messing with their own rules. It made a hectic driving experience so much better. To fit in better with the locals: we only indicated when there was a sign there reminding us to; we only refrained from unnecessary swerving when there was a sign reminding us to; we only stopped for pedestrians on crossings when there was a sign there saying "drivers - please stop for pedestrians on crossings"; and we only did the speed limit when it reminded us to.

"Ah Qld................'ey"

After one missed red traffic light - the joke the entire time we were there was:
"Ah - we're from NSW we don't stop for Qld'ers".

It's not like it mattered anyways- there's not actually anyone in Brisbane. I expected a city and found a large country town with a mall that one could blink and feel like they were in the middle of Armidale.

I had always imagined Brisbane to be much more like Surfers Paradise and the rest of the Gold Coast - modern, new, tacky, cheap. Brisbane, however, is very old fashioned and stylish. Stylish being very un-Queensland. I am sure Brisbane is a disgrace to the rest of the state for its old school charm.

Brisbane and Melbourne have a lot in common, so forgive me if I tend to compare them too much in the next few psuedo-paragraphs. They both have a stylish mix of old and new. They are both river cities. They both miss the harbour of Sydney - during new years festivities if at no other time.

I'm not sure about the New Years at Brisbane in comparison to Melbourne. Melbourne has multiple lame fireworks displays one after the other at different points in the river. Brisbane has one good fireworks display that can only be seen from select locations. Does being able to see more of the lameness of the Melbourne fireworks make them better? Does the one-off better fireworks display make them better? I'm not sure. The one thing I can be sure of is that neither are anywhere near that of Sydney.

A few things strike me as being odd in Qld. The Qld roads do not have arrows on them indicating that lanes end and you should merge - something that is oft repeated in Vic. The arrows indicating lanes end are something NSW people come to rely on when driving as a final warning that the lane is ending. Now the interesting things are the signs they have everywhere that are more like driving lessons 101 than anything of real importance....

"Indicate Before Changing Lanes"
"Unnecessary Swerving Causes Accidents"

After being in Qld for half a day I realised why they need these signs everywhere. There's crazy nutters changing lanes all the time with no indicators and for no reason what so ever - it's like they take it upon themselves to do zig-zags purely because they can! In a state where their drink driving ads are more about how damn unlucky and inconvenient it is to get caught than anything else - their speeding signs are along the same lines and they need instructional signs on basic driving skills? It's no wonder they keep killing so many people on the roads! 5 hit and runs on one night when I was there! (and no - I had nothing to do with it as my car was safely in a parking lot the entire time)