Pete Kerr on fast food advertising:
I had a dream, that one day my nieces and nephews would sit down to watch Videos Hits and see 50 Cent rapping about being a pimp, and his mates banging on about how real men carry guns, sell drugs and keep women in sexual slavery, without them seeing any [...]
Animals more important than humans? Well, the endangered ones certainly are, according to fanatical conservationists:
An Australian diver who says he speared a grey nurse shark in self-defence faces charges for killing an endangered species.
“It was either the shark or me,” the unidentified man told the Daily Telegraph.
A New South Wales state fisheries officer [...]
Imre Salusinszky tries the all-McDonalds diet, and surprisingly doesn’t die:
Six years ago, with the help of GutBusters, I reduced my weight from 98kg to 80kg. I’ve always wanted to lose the extra two kilos to make it a round 20, but never imagined it would be Ronald McDonald who would get me over the [...]
A lot of kids in Australia are fat:
It is estimated that approximately one in five Australian children aged between 5 and 18 years old are overweight or obese. This is double the prevalence estimated in 1986.
Fortunately, there is already a cure for obesity: Eat less and exercise more. It’s guaranteed to work. Despite already having [...]
Fantasy.
Reality.
In other speech-stifling news, Tim Blair’s Malaysian sleeping dictionary* seems to be on strike:
I?m back! Or, as they say in Malaysia: “Pakaranang sunalirokrang sebang satang bandarang yang mempunang persaingang hebatdalamang pasarang keranang dipasarkang pengang kutamang antarabang pekerjanyang yangakangmang mahirdang kerjayang berpelajaran kualiti kehidupannyang persimpang kedudukannyang kemudahang mengkagumkang!”
* Warning: The Sleeping Dictionary contains many long, lingering [...]
For all of you who’ve just got out of a session of “Super-Size Me”, rest assured that no cow eyeballs were eaten during the making of the film. If you went to the candy bar during the film, however, you probably ate stuff that was made from ground up cow bones, lips and/or nutsacks. Moooo.
A couple of Star Wars-themed diversions to help you get through your busy day. First up, via bargarz, comes the ultimate ricer, Shawn Crosby’s H-Wing.
After you’ve had a giggle at that, check out BoingBoing’s link to “Office Space Wars“:
Office Space Wars is one of the funniest amateur video projects I’ve ever seen: it’s a [...]
This flash movie, “The Last Request“, documents the last meals requested by a selection of condemned prisoners in the US:
The Last Request presents the final choice as made by several of these prisoners. As you watch this, remember that the capital punishment system occasionally kills the wrong man.
So perhaps you should ask yourself: What would [...]
This week’s story of debauchery, involving horny doctors, naughty secretaries and photocopiers, brought to you by the Australian surf life saving association:
A CENTRAL Queensland doctor has been charged for allegedly spanking a female employee.
Dr Peter John Fenner AM ? the national medical officer for Surf Life Saving Australia and well-known irukandji jellyfish researcher ? is [...]
Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat. DNA testing showed why: The boy has [...]
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