June 2013

Next time your GP is away, ask them why when they get back ;) http://pharma.theglobalmail.org/

Hmm. Dunno. More concerned about increasing evidence of brain injury for kids in tackling than them having a bit of biff occasionally. And heading the ball in soccer has gotta be really not good for the brain, so it's not exempt.

Doesn't matter who you vote for, these trends in Australia should bother us. 1. People who get paid millions of dollars to mouth 'opinions' every day, like shock jocks and newspaper opinion columnists, are allowed to whip up intolerance and hate, and produce such an atmosphere of poison towards politicians that even kids feel justified in throwing their school lunches at them. Australians pride themselves on 'put up or shut up', yet lap up the daily vomit from these unelected windbags. Let them run for parliament if they're so sure they know how things should be done (they won't - much easier to get paid millions to just sit and have opinions all day.) 2. Everybody is angry or outraged about everything. 'Illegal' immigrants, guns, governments, pink batts, taxes - endless list of whines and anger and even hate. Calm down, go and live in Sierra Leone for a while and get some perspective. 3. Most people in the country are fed up with public services, but then vote for people who gut them even further. 4. None of us want to pay any more tax but then we whine about how the government services we all want are run-down and can't cope. See 3. Then we end up paying private companies 3 times as much for the same services and think that's much more efficient. 5. Parramatta is coming last again.

Reality is always better than fiction :-) In 1948 the Board of Governors of the BBC asked the head of the Variety Department, Michael Standing, to devise a guiding set of moral standards and protocols for the production of all BBC radio and television programmes. Standing produced what became known within the BBC as the ‘Green Book’, whose purpose was to eradicate smut, innuendo and vulgarity from all BBC programmes. After producing the book Standing took to implementing his guidance with eccentric zeal. In June 1949 he issued a memo to all staff in which he forbade BBC employees to illuminate any room with an Anglepoise lamp unless the main ceiling or wall light was also illuminated: Standing held a firm belief that a man working at a desk in a confined space with only the light from a low-wattage lamp would nurture furtive ideas and produce degenerate programme material. Director General Sir William Haley later rescinded the Anglepoise lamp edict as extreme and unnecessary.[1]

Where do the Lions celebrate beating the Wallabies? In Bathurst or Orange, chock full of rugger buggers? Nope. Beautiful Lithgow :)

Kevin might make it 2-0 to Queensland tonight.

What man would walk into a clothes shop and say "I want something in maroon"?

Hugely entertaining reading about the King of the "Ju-liar" club :-) http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/lies-and-deceptions/lies-deceptions