Manly Library Classifies Armstrong’s Books As Fiction
This story is a classic Australian put-down for sports worst cheat.
So it’s only a hoax, but everybody got the joke.
Two Gold Post Boxes In Leeds
I took this picture in Leeds on Saturday.
Two Gold Post Boxes In Leeds
Someone must have won a gold medal at the Olympics. But then Yorkshire did better than Australia!
David Campese Acts Like The Aussie Male Stereotype
This story in the Telegraph, this morning is a gift to all good sports reporters, who like to make papers entertaining. The second line sums up the report.
When he can drag himself away from his shaving mirror David Campese has long been known as the journalist’s best friend.
Where would newspapers be without characters like David Campese?
An Island Gets Lost
The Australians have also proven that an island has got lost. The story is here on the BBC. Wikipedia has an explanation, in that it thinks Sandy Island might be a copyright trap.
How To Abuse A New Zealander
Apparently a judge has said that calling a New Zealander, a stupid, fat Aussie is racial abuse. It’s here in the Australian.
I belong to an Internet forum about Visual Basic and sometimes, the banter between Aussies and Kiwis has got a bit fruity, with frequent references to sheep. Although, it hasn’t happened for some time!
I’ve also been involved in lots of banter with Aussies, that you wouldn’t have used with some nationalities as they are much more sensitive.
Is Two Australian Dollars A Day Too Much?
Gina “Who Ate All The Pies?” Reinhart thinks so according to this report in the LA Times.
Obviously, you have to compete, but there are other ways to do it.
CrossRail faced with Europe’s largest project and one of the biggest tunnelling projects ever, decided that it was better to use bigger machines and upskill the workforce. They even created TUCA, which I have called, London’s University of Hole Digging.
The unloved Reinhart, doesn’t seem to believe in the principle that what goes around comes around. There are endless examples, where investment has repaid itself many times, by just being sensible with it. Some of the transport links for the Olympics have allowed youngsters to travel to get their first good job.
I take it, she would feel that we should recreate the East End sweatshops, so that we can employ them at the equivalent of two Australian dollars a day.
Twenty20 Upsets
England’s Twenty20 team performed badly against South Africa yesterday, but so did the Australia’s against Pakistan.
Australia now seem to be ranked below Ireland in this form of cricket.
The View Of Assange In The Press
This article on the BBC, gives a summary of what the world’s press has said about Julian Assange’s press conference yesterday. The Guardian, which would have been considered to be a likely supporter, said this.
“At around 2.30pm Assange emerged on to the balcony, a pallid figure dressed in a business-blue shirt and maroon tie. There was an enormous roar. Assange managed a thumbs-up, then tapped the microphone and inquired: “Can you hear me?” This, perhaps, was the moment for someone to shout: “‘E’s not the Messiah! ‘E’s a very naughty boy!”
The Independent, another possible supporter, was in a similar mood.
“A competent image consultant could have warned him not to emerge into the public eye looking as he did. Far from giving him a Churchillian look, his blue shirt, crimson tie and cropped hair created – as one wag pointed out on Twitter – a curious resemblance to John Inman, from the 1970s’ sitcom Are you Being Served?
“But what was much more serious – the elephant in the room, so to speak – was Assange’s wilful failure to say anything about the actual reason that the Swedish police want to question him.”
But The Sun, which seems to be an increasingly serious paper these days, was similar in tone to The Independent, without the theatrical references was quite matter of fact.
“Odious Julian Assange loved every second of his pompous balcony rant. His speech was long on egotistical claptrap, but oddly failed to mention what this extradition case is actually about — the rape of one woman and sexual molestation of another.
“If Mr Assange really does believe in the importance of transparent justice in a democratic state, he should subject HIMSELF to it now and get on the first plane to Sweden.”
Moving to Assange’s home country of Australia, the Australian takes a more practical approach.
“Assange is an Australian and Australia is a staunch US ally. If Assange’s legal future became a major talking point in this country, you could probably expect a bit of nationalism to intrude. It’s likely, though not certain, that Assange would be seen as wearing the white jersey and the US perceived as wearing a black one. In other words, it probably wouldn’t transpire as a US public relations triumph.”
It’s a mess and the sooner it’s cleaned up, the better.
A Woman’s Touch Is Needed
That’s not meant to be sexist, but I do lack a certain amount of female help and guidance.
Take this morning, I woke up and thought, I’d got a splinter in my foot. If I had, it’s probably my own fault as I’m always bare footed around the house. But there was no-one with the supreme experience of a mother to have a look and possibly a dig. So in the end, I went to Upper Street and asked in Shuropody. As it happened, an Australian from Brisbane, by the name of Gabby was free and gave my feet a quick service. The problem was a small corn, which was expertly dealt with.
So this small problem was solved, but then others have not been so simple to deal with, if I had a woman nearby, to ask for help.
A question though I must ask, is why do most of the Australians I meet seem to come from Brisbane? And why do most of them seem to know a coeliac or two?
The Anonymous Widower 