Girl Friday

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Coup Update

Luckily, tanks don’t have inflatable tyres.
The tanks still dotted around Bangkok after last week’s military putsch against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are proving a major attraction for Thais and foreign tourists who want their picture taken with the soldiers.
But the army appears determined that the carnival atmosphere following the country’s first coup in 15 years [...]

Ask And Ye Shall Receive

Gender equality could spell the end of female sports in Canada:
As two Winnipeg sisters find out Tuesday if they’ve made the boys’ hockey team at their high school, their recent human-rights victory has spurred boys to try out for girls’ sports teams.
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“We have to see as a board what we want to do. Our big [...]

Inshallah

Good Luck West Coast

A wellwishing message from your fellow sandgropers.
Update: Especially you.
Update: The empire strikes back

Miscegenation At The Movies

Foxtel is showing a repeat of Heaven’s Burning, a little known pre-Gladiator Russell Crowe film which has everything you could ever want in a film:
1. Russell Crowe being a bad motherfucker.
2. Stupid Cops.
3. Crazy Japanese motorbike killers.
4. Even crazier Muslim bank robbers.
And last but definitely not least, a healthy dose of miscegenation featuring Russell and [...]

Girl Friday

Special “Healthy BMI” edition.

Soldier On

From Simon, the coup and subsequent martial law in Thailand haven’t had a huge effect:
The coup went largely unnoticed in Thailand’s popular tourist districts, where foreigners packed beer bars and cabarets oblivious to the activity about three kilometers away.
But word raced among street vendors hawking T-shirts, who packed up their carts and started heading home.
Morally [...]

Victorian Tourist Target Of Anti-Fuckwit Bigotry

Poor Wallsy. Why are people so unkind?
The locals view you with suspicion. When you walk the streets or boundary line in Brisbane or Sydney, the average football fan is friendly. In Adelaide, they like to banter and stir. It’s good fun. But in Perth, the dislike for Victorians is ingrained, so contemptuous, stares prevail.
People stare [...]

Fat People Still Not Sexy

I’m sure this same thing happened last year:
AUSTRALIAN Idol judge Kyle Sandilands has been slammed by the Victorian Government after he said a 17-year-old contestant needed to lose a “jelly belly”.
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Victoria’s Youth Affairs Minister Jacinta Allan said Mr Sandilands’ remark was humiliating and had the potential to do significant psychological damage to all the young [...]