What the world needs now is another diet, don’t you think? We have carbo-loaded in the Seventies which made us fatter. We low-fatted ourselves in the Eighties into obesity, low-glycemafied our systems into total confusion, not to mention more obesity. We Pritikined, Stillmaned, Atkinised and Zoned ourselves into morbid obesity. So where did that get us? Continue reading
What Pisses me off
Richard Pratt and the Tall Poppy Syndrome
Just like Mme Defarge who knitted while heads were being chopped off during the French Revolution, we follow her example and chop the heads off tall poppies. Continue reading
In the name of Friendship- a review
My book club encourages me to read books which I would not normally choose. This is a good thing in itself because it broadens my experiences. By nature, I am a classicist and enjoy Victorian and Edwardian literature simply because it has style and excellent characterisation. And because I am a literary snob. Continue reading
Another silly survey.
The headline in today’s Brisbane Courier Mail bowled me over. “New mums feeling the strain from sleep loss”. I picked myself up from the floor after that shattering revelation and reread the results of yet another useless study about Mummies and their problems. I had to make sure that I had not misinterpreted the article. I hadn’t. Continue reading
Go, already!
It’s no secret that I don’t particularly like the younger generation. Continue reading
Hostage taking works.
In my previous blog I criticised both the South Korean do-gooders and the Taliban who kidnapped them. The latest news is that yet another nation, South Korea, has capitulated to the villainous kidnappings by the Muslims. Continue reading
Double Standard
If there’s any event that demonstrates the media’s prejudice against Israel it’s what’s happening right now in Lebanon. The Lebanese army is shelling Palestinian militants in refugee camps full of civilians. So where’s the outcry from the BBC against the Lebanese army? Where are the photos of mangled bodies? Imagine if the army doing the attacking was Israeli. Continue reading
Short but not sweet
Hasbro, the company which produces the most famous board games, has brought out quick twenty minute versions of Monopoly and Scrabble because nowadays there is no time to play a decent game. Apparently, our lifestyle does not allow children to play a game that may take a couple of hours. We are told that children today are so time poor that they have to emulate Road Runner (Beep Beep) on speed. What rubbish!. Continue reading
Ring-pull cans
It’s the little things that annoy us. We don’t wake up in the morning and muddle our way through the day absorbed in thoughts about the galaxy, for example, unless we are astronomers.
Fascinating as our universe may be, it doesn’t figure prominently in everyday life concerns.
Ring-pull cans do, however. Continue reading
India’s abandoned widows.
As a self-confessed misanthrope, not much about the evil of mankind surprises me, but last night an ABC programme called “Foreign Correspondent” brought my low opinion of mankind to a new nadir. Continue reading
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