Random musings...

Just a few questions and ponderings I've been recently having...

*Is there anyone happier than I am, seeing England being completely destroyed by Pakistan?
*Speaking of Pakistan, why is there significantly little press about Yasir Arafat being in the team. Surely this is going to cause instability somewhere in the world?!
*If Andrew Flintoff fell over in a forest, and Kevin Pietersen wasn't there, would we believe it?
*How many more failures can the rancid Andrew Symonds have before he's dropped from the Australian test team?
*Apparently some of the recently arrested 'terrorists' "spoke of killing the PM" - haven't we all?
*Seriously though, when can we have a change of government in Australia? I'm sick of the increasing strength in the Australian dollar, and I'd really love it to crash so that my GBP is worth something. This is insane! Get Labour in power, there's no surer way to fuck up the economy and bring the Australian Rupee back to how it should be.
*News article "Snowy hydro sale plan worries Brumby" - does anyone else find this funny? Where's Clancy? Is Tom Burlinson gearing up for another movie on the basis of this? I need to know these things!
*Nauru is fighting to save having it's only Airplane from being repossessed as they are behind on their payments. Does hilarity have no bounds? Surely this is the perfect time for Australia to step in and trade them some payments for them housing some of our troublesome population?! "Nauruan Government Officials could not be contacted late yesterday" - Perhaps we can help them out with their phone bill, too.
*The Romans managed to bring infrastructure to Bath almost 2000 years ago, and yet even now the streets of London stink and there's refuse (and not just antipodeans) laying everywhere.... you'd think some lessons would be learnt?!
*'The Office' is the best TV series I've seen for quite awhile, but then again, it doesn't get any better than Slough, really, it doesn't.

Travis who???

In round 1, 1984, Gary Ablett made his senior debut for the Cats, and those of us there were wondering how some midfielder had captured our imagination more than Mark Jackson, who booted 9 goals that day. Not only did Ablett give us Geelong supporters real hope, but he pretty much guarenteed that most of us had the famous number 5. Since Ablett's retirement, noone has pulled on the number 5 down at Kardinia Park (and it'll always be Kardinia for us), and it's pretty much the way we like it. Aside from Nate or Junior pulling it on, it should be retired, not to be given to some young muppet called Travis Varcoe. Sorry Trav, you're probably a good lad and maybe some day you'll be good enough to do well in the AFL, but not wearing a number 5.

Hopefully I'll be wrong, and Travis Varcoe will be the 'next big thing', but I get the distinct impression that this is going to end very ugly and that I'm going to be enraged further, particularly when Travis plays his first game and someone refers to him as 'an excitement machine'.

It can only end badly.

News from the homeland...

For most part, I enjoy being ignorant, and for those of you that know me, this will not come as too much of a surprise, but recently I've actually checked the news once or twice every few weeks, and since I'm now living in the UK, it seems only natural that I would concentrate on what is happening in Australia, since it's obviously the most relevant.

However, after having read that Jelena Dokic was 43.9% welcome to play for Australia again, I bypassed the Australian news, because - quite frankly - such lunacy makes me angry. Not as angry as Leigh Colbert, but seething with rage, nonetheless. As such, I was news-derived-rage free for a short period of time, until I recently heard about the riots in Sydney. Initially, I thought that it was going to Redferne kicking off, or some latte sipping Bondi natives attacking Manly beach in a jealous rage. But when the real reason was revealed to me, I literally punched my desk.

I have very strong objections to this kind of behaviour, and if these people (and by 'these people', I'm referring to all the rioters) cannot live within the framework of our country, then they can just fuck right off. If you're against Australia, two words - fuck off! Go back to your 'homelands' or - if you're some redneck hillybilly Australian, then you should be sent to either Maralinga, or Moe. There should be no place for these people.

Perhaps - and I'm just thinking out loud here - we should send them all to Nauru. I had a mate that once lived there, and he turned out OK. Hmmr. Or if we can't send them to Nauru, how about some real Reality TV?! Leb & Redneck Running Man! And what's more, I'm completely serious about this. Not only would we soon sort out our 'racial issues' but we'd generate enough television revenue to be able to counsel our entire population.

Happy days.