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Im getting to old for this sh**, my very own Murtaugh moment

Sat, 30 May 2009 22:55:21 +0800

Now to move on from my previous rants

(I apologise, I get easily riled up by people and also I have just been innformed that the person I was ragging on previously is a ‘troll’…. not literally, well maybe, but more so a troll in the sense he hangs around these discussion places and posts and replies and reposts for the sake of riling people up and not to stimulate any intellectual discussion on the subject, attention seeking I believe it is called.)

Anywho, went out last night and had a few to drink. And then a few more and some more after that. Consequently I woke up with a raging headache and a serious urge to stomach purge. I had a Murtaugh moment, see Lethal Weapon and How I met your Mother.

My body is still recovering from a night on the town, and not even an all nigher, I was in bed by 12, for shame!

Apparently I am mendacious

Sat, 30 May 2009 22:35:40 +0800

Yes I had to google the meaning of this word as my vocabulary is not that of an oxford scholar. From what I read it means, lies, falsity and dishonesty. Referring to my previous post about the unleashed forum on abc.net.au, I replied to this one person and thought I had made a fair argument, but from his reply it was full of untruths and general nonsense. My conclusions from this are;

1. This guy is probably a politics nerd and not of my sort, I am all for government and the function of the state and its regulation of people and their actions. I already dislike him.

2. From the above conclusion, the guy probably is someone who hasn’t left university yet, one of those people who does degree after degree but never actually gets a job. I also do not like these people.

3. Probably googled the word untruth to find its synonyms and came up with mendacious. Thought it sounded smart, just made him sound pompous.

4. Loves a good argument and himself because he has felt the need to reply to every person who has replied to him and simply profess they are all wrong and he is right. That is my job, he doesn’t get to be me.

5. This guy probably doesn’t have much of a life, but who am I to judge, i am posting on my blog as we speak at 10.30 on a saturday night. (to be fair though I did go out last night and had a great time)

6. That people like that is why I don’t regularly post to those sort of forums, they shite me to tears, especially when I don’t agree with them.

So to try and keep my ‘hulk’ tendencies at bay I simply replied that we will agree to disagree and I still do not understand his logic and never will because I am pro-choice and always will be. He is really lucky I just didn’t call him a douchebag, even though I really really wanted to.

The never ending story....Part Deux

Fri, 29 May 2009 11:52:00 +0800

Ok Ok, yes the never ending story (the movie version) did actually end but came back with a vengeance (no wait that was Die Hard). Anywho in my usual trawlings of the internet space I came across this lovely little article and accompanying public commentry on……..ab (wait for it) ………..ortion. The logical sequal to the debate on religion versus science.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2578418.htm

I love debate and I hate it at the same time, as mentioned before I think I am such a wonderful orater that people will all of a sudden change their minds because I have seduced them with my words. When this does not happen I get mad. You get mad, how mad? you ask, I get very mad, HULK style! Mad enough that I want to mash the keyboard in frustration and rip it out of the computer and throw it at the photocopier and then kick both of them and storm out of the office and push the pot plants as I leave. I am hardcore.

Back to the story though, I know some people are pro-lifers and that’s cool with me, sure you like babies and you like foetuses so be it, but start telling me that I am anti-life and I am wrong as a pro-choicer and you need to step-off, back off and for all I care f*** off. We all have different views and just because you don’t agree with me does not mean I am wrong or you are wrong and it certainly does not mean you should find some way to legally enforce your beliefs upon me, it’s undemocratic, unfair and uncool. I am pro-choice and very much so. Abortion, creation, religion, it’s all a big value judgement landfill, come dump your crap! These issues are moral, ethical, social issues that are made with our emotions not with rationality or reason, it is unreasonable to expect it to be anything but a personal decision.

I mostly do not like pro-lifers because they think they are all high and mighty and that their way is the right and only way. I am sorry you are so deluded but you are wrong and short of calling you retarded (oops just did), you really do not understand the issue enough if you are happy to make concessions here and there for certain circumstances and cannot consider all the surrounding factors regarding abortion.

Pro-choice is not anti-life, we respect the right of the person to CHOOSE to keep or to abort.
Pro-choice do not see abortion as an alternative to contraception, if a person is irresponsible and gets pregnant should they have an abortion? No, that’s why in WA a women must undergo counselling from their medical practitioner, who hopefully at the same time would be giving them a prescription for the pill or some such.
Pro-Lifers are wishy washy saying that abortion is ok in cases of rape. Why? Because the women had no consent in the sexual act? Isn’t there still a life there according to your principles? Develop a backbone and take a stand its all or nothing right?
A foetus is not considered a person until it is born, legally. If you want to believe otherwise that is your choice.
Why should it be the womens choice and only the womens choice? I agree the man should have some say, maybe go to counselling with the women but ultimately the women is the one who will have to commit to 9 months of something growing inside her, kind of like tumour, its feeds off you, distorts your body, messes up your normal functions. The man also does not end up pushing that watermelon sized ball of flesh out a hole the size of a lemon.
If abortion were illegal, it would make the incidence of a) backyard abortions increase leading to b) greater numbers of infections and death from complications and c) neglected children who are resented because they were not wanted or are a financial burden.
If you wanted to stop abortions, teach kids about contraception, teach them to make informed choices. Don’t harp on to them about abstinence because we all know when you can’t have something you want it more and are more likely to try your darndest to get it and therein is the problem.
If society says here you have a choice, it does not mean the whole of society advocates abortion but we respect each other enough as human beings to understand that we all have our own opinions and judgements and can make our own choices without fear of being criminally tried and convicted, possibly threatened or killed by extreme pro-lifers (it happens) or shunned by society.
The reason issues such as this are regulated through law is because of the quagmire that it is, if abortion wasn’t regulated by the state you would have dodgy practitioners, dodgy operations, extreme pro-lifers doing extreme things and then argueing in court that it was all about protecting a life etc etc, people having abortions at a very late stage (in WA it is currently 20 weeks at the latest) becaus ethere is no legal framework or ramifications for doing it.

Mah, this issue gets me all annoyed because nobody can tell me what or what not to do (unless of course it is legislated) otherwise I do what I want.

Hudson Godfrey had the most sensible reply out of everyone and this Adz inc character cleraly has way too much time on his hands because he keeps putting his two cents in and making himself look like a arrogant fool. Notice how he is is ‘he’ only a stupid man could be so stupid.

Transition is complete…….’HULK MAD, need to smash!”

The never ending story....

Wed, 20 May 2009 15:19:00 +0800

The above is not in reference to the movie with Jonathon Brandis or Falcor, I am refering instead to the great debate between religion and science. The link below is an article about a skeleton being touted by some in the scientific world as the missing link

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25510652-5011761,00.html

I won’t rant too much about the article itself, its pretty self explanatory, I will make mention that for some random reason it has not been classed as front page news, or world news but has been lumped in the WTF (Weird True Freaky) section. Apparently not as news worthy as the front page article on children’s television viewing habits. Yes kids watch stupid shows but that’s because they have absolutely no idea what is going on, if it is furry, cuddly, colourful or sings then they will love it. Look at the Wiggles!

My main gripe is in fact the reader’s comments for the article;

http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,25510652-5011761,00.html

In such short time, what could have been a insightful debate about fossils and skeletons and evolution, turned into a crapstorm of insults, falseties and general nastiness between the two sides. I think I only saw one comment that commented on the article itself and what interesting news it made without making an opinion or taking a side, it could just have been a sarcasm that i have misinterpreted though.

Now I am all for science and I do believe in evolution but I am not going to try and make anyone else believe what I do (even if I do think the world would be a better place if everyone listened to me, but if this happened I would in fact be god and throw my own theories of evolution out the window, catch 22) and I wouldn’t start insulting anyone because they believe what they do. I think in this day and age and even as history shows, when we disagree and we try and make others think as we do, we argue, get drunk, throw punches, stab people with swords and go to war and if you’re really ambitious you get genocidically homicidal (if people aren’t alive they can’t disagree with you).

The debate and disagreement on this subject will never end and it will continue, as sure as the earth is round and revolves around the sun (science has of course been useful in the discovery of somethings), if people keep trying to come out on top as ‘right’ and ‘knowledgable.’

It’s a case of “I know you are but what am I?” that strange game you used to play in primary school when people said you were a poohead or a garbage man and failing any evidence contrary or lack of linguistic skills you replied, “I know you are but what am I?” And they would say you were a poohead or a garbage man again and you would bring out those magical words, “I know you are but what am I?” And the cycle would repeat until someone got bored and found something else to do.

I did have to laugh though, some of the comments were quite hilarious in both stupidity and irony.

Mr. Logic Link claimed that science can’t explain the nothing of the BIG BANG or how the universe could expand if it doesn’t exist yet (which one was completely off topic) but secondly shows they don’t really know much about quantum mechanics or physics because if they have this theory they are conceptualising ‘nothing’ as something. For the theory to work, ‘nothing’ is not simply a lack of doing, being or seeing, it is non-existant. The universe can expand because there is ‘nothing’ stopping it from doing so and ‘nothing’ means it has somewhere to go. There is no space or universe outside the universe.

Kate of Adelaide used a wonderful analogy of ‘technological evolution’ of the IPOD, again sarcasm? I am not sure.

There was a nice little something from Kev from NT, who believes that Darwin renounced his theories on his death bed, any self-respecting media sponge would have read wikipedia and found out that wasn’t true!

There is a lot of research into the human genome and animal DNA and I am pretty sure that when you check human DNA and pretty much any animal that there is a 80-95% match, that is why scientists feel that we all developed from single celled organisms. Primates are considered our closest relatives or evolutionary ancestor because we have a greater percentage match.

Personally if we evolved from bears it would be more exciting. Why bears? Why not?

I can't talk about it right now, it'll just make me mad.

Mon, 18 May 2009 09:20:35 +0800

I like most people get frustrated at things, many many things. Today the top 3 things that are my Jekyll/Hyde triggers are; 1. The ‘YES’ voters. Suck it up people, we don’t want daylight savings, deal with it. If it had been the other way around and you guys had won, us ‘NO’s’ would have to put up with it. Stop playa hatin. 2. Rugby, group sex and Matthew Johns. Apparently group sex is endemic in rugby culture and apparently it is ok for the players to just say sorry to the girl they humiliated because she ‘consented.’ I think it is absolutely disgusting that in this day and the progress made for womens rights, the girls involved are still being labelled sluts, whores, tramps etc. Just because she may have been willing at the time does not make what those turds did ok, when you’re half cut with booze you pretty much will say yes to anything. Yes the girl should take responsibility for their actions (stop drinking so much and looking for 5 minutes of WAG fame) but the players need to man up and realise women shouldn’t be treated in this way, it’s humiliating and degrading. 3. Liberal politicians. I have been nerding it up and reading some of the Hansard logs for sessions in the House of Representatives. Yes, I will admit Labor are blowing their own horns half of the time and I was never a Liberal fan but liberal politicians are spineless, idiotic twits. Get a backbone and develop a goal, a plan, a policy, something and maybe admit that previous Liberal governments are really the reason we are in the mess we are. They drove business and profit at the expense of the public and forced interest rates up and didn’t bother implementing any grand plans for future infrastructure. Greasy and slimy. Ok I have had my whinge for the day, hopefully this will keep the ragemonster at bay.

I always knew thinking things was bad for you

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:36:36 +0800

I always knew thinking things was bad for you

I am not sure if she is going to eat the watermelon or make a...

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:52:33 +0800

I am not sure if she is going to eat the watermelon or make a phone call with it. Bring Bring Melon phone.

Following is an email I received from Cale yesterday, above is...

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:45:37 +0800

Following is an email I received from Cale yesterday, above is the picture attached. Needless to say I laughed so much I almost lizzed.

ok here’s a story

one of the Bens has a friend who works in the newsroom for Seattle Fox news. Sometimes she asks him for images to put on the slides on the screen.

I assure you this is a screenshot directly from the tape.

Doppelgangers, we all have them

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:14:31 +0800

This could be Cale. Somewhere in the world he has an evil twin...

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:13:24 +0800

This could be Cale. Somewhere in the world he has an evil twin that is hanging out with Megan Fox.

This is cale

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:11:16 +0800

This is cale

Vocabulary violations

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:48:07 +0800

Far be it from me (the queen of made up words and very necessary conjunctions and acronyms) to dob on people who don’t use the english language well but today I was told,

“I losted my certificate.” and this was declared on a legal document, that’ll hold up in a court, especially if Elmo was your judge.

"Cake = Happiness"

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:14:43 +0800

“Cake = Happiness”

- Lauren, today, on the mysteries of why we can’t help but stuff our faces with sweet treats

Sharks never sleep and that frankly scares me, it has nothing to...

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0800

Sharks never sleep and that frankly scares me, it has nothing to do with the people eating and the sharp teeth.

Me needs slepp.....I mean sleep zzzzzzzz

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:59:21 +0800

I thought that, being the modern girl that I am, that I could work full-time and study and go to the gym and see my friends and keep a tidy house and keep up to date with current events and current television and still get a good 8 hours sleep every night. Not possible. Well at least not for me because I love sleep. I love nanna naps, I love dozing and I love just closing my eyes and pretending the world isnt there. If people sleep 1/3rd of their life away then I sleep 2/3rds. True. The only thing I love more than sleep is cats but that is because they like to sleep a lot too.

Being able to do everything can only be done by insomniacs….and time travellers.

City to Surf 2008 (Perth)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:10:40 +0800

I was one of 37,000 people who braved an early morning chill to put my running shoes on and run 12ks for charity. It is the second time I have attempted this feat and this year I am glad to say was a whole lot better than last year. One, I managed to run the whole thing, no breaks and two, I am pretty sure we smashed last years time (go team).

I was definitely paying for it yesterday and so today took some “recovery” time to recouperate, my knees and back are thanking me greatly.

The only things that bothered me were:

The amount of people that were nowhere near their starting group.
The amount of people who were in groups that they shouldn’t have been in

I will break it down so you understand why I am being a bit of a jogging nazi about it.

There are several groups in which you can run/walk. If you do the half marathon (by the way good on you, props to you that shit is hard!) you are orange and because you have further to run you start at 7.00. Then there is group A, they were coloured green and should be expected to run the 12ks in under 40 minutes. The next group was B and they were pink and should be completeing the 12ks in under 50 minutes and group C (yay my group) yellow in colour and able to run at under 70 minutes (which I think we did which is about a 15 minutes less than last year and when you are talking records, for me that is pretty staggering). Group D were blue and should be running at 70 minutes and over. The 12k walkers were hot pink.

What I continously saw was D’s and walkers all up in the B and C area and when your trying to run, dodge, swerve and avoid crashing into and past a whole bunch of people taking their sweet time or not in your group can really frustrate you. frustrate you enough that you want to throw your cups of water at them 9it was an accident really!) If you chose to start in D group or walk please, please go to the back where your starting area is because I can guarantee that everyone in B or C and maybe even A where you have slotted yourself in is not happy having to dodge you while concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other. If you wanted to walk and take your time go to the back because one that’s where you should be starting and two everyone overtaking you is not happy that they have to because they shouldn’t need to in the first place.

I also had problems dodging people who werent walkers but were walking. If you know you can’t run a full 12 ks dont put yourself in a running group, go in the walking group or D group and get your arse to the back. I could have shaved 30 seconds to a minute off my time if I wasn’t practicing to be a formula one runner and overtaking on the sly. I am quite surprised no one ended up arese over tit because they were having to overtake a walker and were being overtaken themselves and then the walker pulled out in front of them. It is a very dangerous activity runnning.

I did let everyone around me know this was how I felt because when you’re sweaty, out of breath, tired and there is some slight chaffing going on and you are only half-way done you are not in the best of moods. Maybe those people who were walking felt the same way but I have no sympathy because I kept running and I didn’t stop no matter how much I really really wanted to. And I really really wanted to.

Being the jogging nazi I am I have been wondering what if Hitler was into event management and coordinating community activities and not taking over the world the city to surf would be run so precisely and noone would dare step out of their starting group, or maybe he would revolutionise it by starting the groups at different times, staggering the start so the runners can run to their hearts content and the walkers, well the walkers, I don’t imagine “event management Hitler” would even have walkers they aren’t good for progress.

Birds are crazy.....like fully mental!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:56:29 +0800

Today I had to do one of the hardest things I have probably ever had to do. Forget running 12ks (which I will do tomorrow) or sitting through a 3 hour exam or sitting on a aeroplane with gastro or losing your teeth by a kick to your mouth or even falling of a bunk bed and splitting your chin open.

None of it compares to trying to subdue a pink galah named Percy while you try to cut his nails!

Percy isn’t a particularly friendly bird at the best of times, if you try and give him a scratch on the head he might just try and take your finger as a token of his appreciation. After my efforts today I have an arm that looks like it has been inserted into a box full of whipper snippers. In hindsight though it probably looked quite hilarious. Cale and I chasing a pink and grey bird who is pelting as fast as his little bird legs can carry him, trying to escape the bath towel that we are unsuccessfully trying to throw over him. Meanwhile he is up and flying around like a tiger moth until he is hiding in the corner like a poor puppy when he is finally out of breath and has no room to go. He even put his little foot up as if to say “pleases pleases don’t hurt me!” I felt like a horrible ogre right then.

But as my parents used to say, “its for your own good!” so we finally caught the poor bugger and clipped his toesies or at least his raptor sized claws. I kid you not his nails were ginormous they could have been props on jurassic park.

Percy did survive his encounter with the two terrible bird hunters/groomers and was duly duly rewarded with an awesome toy with plenty of chewy things and strings to occupy his little beak and newly trimmed feet.

A few of my favourite things....(kittens and mittens etc)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:57:11 +0800

Sometimes I think it is essential to remind ourselves of those things that make us smile, give us joy or make us feel warm inside. So in that spirit I will indulge you with a few of my favourite things……these are not in any particular order

Cats

Yes I am a crazy cat lady and damn proud of it. As much as I love furry, cuddly animals, cats make me go all mumsy and giggly because they amuse me greatly. They can be so attentive and so disinterested all at once, they always land on their feet (a talent I wish I had) and they have a different meow for every occassion. If you want a pet to love you unconditionally get a dog but if you want a pet that you can love unconditionally always get a cat.

Biscuits

It was a toss up between biscuits and chocolate. I decided that no matter what type of chocolate you get it always tastes like chocolate but biscuits, biscuits are truly a flavourthon. My personal addiction of late are scotch fingers (mmm half a tablespoon of butter in each biscuit!) but I have become addicted to rasberry shortcakes but I also love mint slices, monte carlos, gingernuts, tim tams, iced vo-vos, tick tocs, venetians, melting moments and well I am getting carried away a bit here. i think you get the point though.

Hot-water bottle

I can’t think of anything better than warming my toe-sies on a freezing cold night with a hot water bottle. As I am generally cold most of the time being as if I am made of ice, a hot-bot warms me through and I can survive the frosty winter without having to escape to a tropical hideaway up north. Ok being poor is the other reason I don’t escape to my tropical hideaway.

A good book

If you find the right book it can absorb you to the point that when you awaken from the self induced paperback coma you realise that several hours have passed, your tea has gone cold and you are squinting at the words because the light has faded past what your poor eyes can stand. Enough said.

Flannelette PJs

I sleep….a lot. I think that a good nap is great for just recharging your batteries or just forgetting the world for a little while as you snore (which i have been told I do) away in a dream place that can be whatever you wish, from a resort in the clouds with pools filled with marshmallows or an all you can eat buffet where you never gain a kilo. But you can’t have a nap or even a proper sleep without the right outfit and for me that is a comfy pair of flannos.

A good friend

They say that your friends are the family you get to choose and its very true. there is noone better to talk to then someone that gets you and will either say what you want to hear or give you the rough and guts of it because thats what you really need. A good friend will listen to you prattle on and your happy to do the same for them.

Chicken dinner

Chicken Treat chicken dinner with chips, nough said.

Music

I love music, naff 80s, songs from musicals, a bit of rock or maybe a sappy ballad. Music conveys for us what sometimes words cannot, as much as I like singing in with my out of tune caterwauling, it is easier to listen and get sucked in to the beat or swaying to the tune. I imagine that if everyone had a song that could be called their song, the song that would be the headliner in a soundtrack to their life mine would be either “wake me up before you go-go” by Wham or “we go together” from the Grease soundtrack. You know the one, “we go together like ramalamalama gadingy a dingy dong, shoo wop shoo woddy woddy ippidy boom de boom.” I think it makes no sense just like me.

Jeans

Every wardrobe must have a good pair of jeans. Not only are they comfortable and able to be worn many times in a row without washing (so long as you don’t spill anything on them and give them a good spray with deoderant every now and then) but they make you feel good. You feel good because they can hide your butt and your muffin top or they make your legs look slimmer or they’re the only pants you can slide in and out of. However they make you feel a good pair is a jean-ius investment.

and last but not least…..

Holidays

Sleep-ins and absolutely nothing, thats what holidays are and thats why I love them. It means doing whatever you want and sometimes for me it’s about doing nothing.

and that’s a few of my favourite things and I have a few more but thats 10 I could think of. I probably should have rambling on the list. Because I can dribble my fair share of crap and really I only need to be able to do it in a forum where someone might pay attention.

So is anyone listening?

Did I mention I also like validation?

"The Wizard: Elphaba, where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren’t true. We..."

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:58:16 +0800

“

The Wizard: Elphaba, where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren’t true. We call it history.

The Wizard: A man’s called a traitor, or a liberator.
A rich man’s a thief, or a philanthropist.
Is one a crusader, or ruthless invader,
it’s all in which label is able to persist.

”

- “Wonderful”, Wicked the Musical.

Truth and relativity

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:56:13 +0800

I like to think that I have the world figured out and that you sometimes shouldn’t believe everything you see or hear and I don’t get sucked in (too much) because of advertising but human nature is to be selfish (perhaps there is a gene for it) and even I forget that sometimes what I believe or perceive may not always be how it was intended.

I recently went and saw the musical Wicked (this was an excellent production and I have been singing “Wonderful”, “Popular” and “What is this feeling?” far more than i should). I guess you could say the theme was along the lines of misconceptions. Why is it that we think what we think? and are we always right? It definitely makes the world a much harder place to understand because suddenly you might have another option, another choice to consider.

Now the circumstance that brought this line of thinking on for me was what started out as a normal conversation which developed into me getting upset and yelling out out something which I believed to be true (I also said that I need therapy, so clearly I was not happy). Upon reflection and a much calmer conversation I was given a different version of the story, one which I had never even thought of. Whether this version of events is true I couldn’t say but it did enough to get me wondering when I had become selfish enough to think that this person might not want the best for me? If there were now two sides to the story who is right or how do you come to agreement or what do you do if you can’t? It’s that whole scenario of the victors write history.

It’s given me a bit to think about and maybe it will help me be a little less sensitive about certain things because I have now aired those things I bottled up but then again that could just be who I am but then again how I see myself may very well be completely different to how someone else sees me.

Sometimes too much thinking is where the problem lies, if we could just say this is right and this is wrong then we would all know where to stand when the line in the sand is drawn. And if we gave up thinking we might all enjoy ourselves a bit more because we wouldn’t be spending all our time worrying an considering things.

Sometimes I think I just ask to many questions.