Absolute classic
AussieBob over at Road to Surfdom does a spoof reply from our PM to the Kevin07 stuff – John007 | Cabinet: The Movie. Bonzer. Related posts: One for the annals of classic rebuttals Quick Hit: WA Cabinet announced Marry, Shag, Cliff: Classic ER Still doing the happy dance Teachers and performance rates of pay
We’ve gone over to the yellow side
Images generated by The Simpsonizer. I couldn’t get the software to play nice and generate a background picture that I could put the whole family into (unlike Lauredhel’s effort), but here we are as icons at least. Related posts: Procrastination Aid of the Day Lighter side: Cat and theremin Universal Smartarses Cooperative What to do [...]
Sunday Night Quiz
Here’s a Sunday Night Quiz for you! What is it? (yes, some of you may already know. Don’t give it away, eh?) Related posts: Reminder: Cherchez La Femme comes to Sydney this Sunday night (April 21) Sunday Night Fontmonstery: Dogs As Fonts Whoydensday: finally in Oz this Sunday Night Pop quiz: Women in Parliament Some [...]
Timewaster of the weekend
Created using the HeroMachine Superhero Generator Related posts: Weekend Wibble: space gems, stem cells, a spot, some spin, and a switch Up close and personal: Weekend Wildlife Weekend Wibble: improbable chums More weekend silliness Weekend walking
Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does
Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then advertise on their phone help service “did you know it’s even easier to register your [...]
Happy birthday, horsies
Image credit: orginally uploaded by g r e n Today is the official birthday of all racehorses in the Southern Hemisphere. Asked why it was essential to have all horses celebrating their birthday on the same day, Mr McCulloch said it was more of a racing tradition than anything else. “So that all the two-year-olds [...]
Wednesday Wow
I cheated a bit for this one – instead of my usual random trawling through the Wow! image pool I deliberately looked for one with a fox in it, because of the story I heard on the radio
Monday Paintblogging
I’m feeling way too sick to write anything much (stupid lungs), so I bring you – more kid art. Chroma Kidz washable paint on Reflex A4. Related posts: Monday Morning Torchwood Thread Monday Gardening: The Vegetable Patch Weekend dose of art Monday Magic Monday Mornin’ Map
Heehaw of the Day
If you only watch one YouTube movie today featuring dancing country farmer’s daughters contortionists singing about potato salad, it should be this one.
“Hospital overwhelmed by child anorexia rise”
This is just heartbreaking. News.com.au reports that admissions of pre-teen girls with severe anorexia nervosa to Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital have risen by over 1400% in the past four years. The article continues: Clinical leader Dr Andrew Kennedy, who overseas eating disorder patients, said the increases were “staggering”. “It continually blows our minds how sick [...]
Saturday Three: Health Successes, Virtual Gudjal, and CDEP Cessation Silliness
[Image credit: FPWA, via ANTaR] ANTaR, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, is an independent network of organisations and individuals (mostly non-indigenous) working in support of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Check out ANTaR’s Success Stories in Indigenous Health. From the foreword: Not so many reports highlight the good news [...]
Trouser tyranny
is what the men who love MUGs say they are fighting against. MUGs are Male Unbifurcated Garments such as kilts, and the movement against Trouser Tyranny calls its adherents Bravehearts after Mel Gibson’s smash hit movie back before he went mental. Some of the rhetoric on their site is a bit over-earnest (the writer really [...]
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