Disordered Thoughts and Curmudgeonly Ramblings
Was almost gassed on the way to work today. The bus was so full of exhaust fumes that everyone was throwing open the windows despite it being only 5 degrees outside. Frostbite is, after all, mildly preferable to carbon monoxide poisoning.
On the plus side I got to see the dolphins playing in the river along Mounts Bay Road, which was nice. Unless of course they were gas induced hallucinations…
So, Dawn Fraser has outraged the nation by saying that Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic should go back to where their parents came from.
It’s a pretty bloody objectionable thing to say – no doubt there – but it reminds me of something I thought back in 2007 when Sir Patrick Moore made some similarly unhinged comments about women. The thing you have to remember about Dawn (and Sir Patrick) is that she’s old. Practically ancient.
Dawn Fraser is 77. By the time a person gets to 77 the world has changed. The society they grew up in has gone, morphed into something wildly different several times over. So it’s only to expected that sooner or later they’ll do or say something badly out of step with the modern world.
So here’s my idea. Once someone – be they a public figure or a private citizen – reaches 75 we give them permission to say whatever crazy crap they want to, and in turn we completely ignore it. We don’t make a fuss, we don’t create a scandal. We just say “Good old Dawn” or “Good old Sir Patrick”, give them a pat on the back and move on. And if anyone feels offended we simply remind them that the person in question is old, set in their ways, and frankly not worth the bother.
Such a policy would benefit us all I think.
You know, it’s pretty much impossible for me to put into words how much I enjoy spam emails like this…
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Sure, they’re just trying to sell you food packs, or gold, or trying to get you to visit a site loaded down with viruses, but it’s so damn entertaining!
Q: How do Reavers clean their battle harpoons?
A: Put them through the Wash
1: What is the best way to identify a frog species?
Stop it at the border and demand its papers
2: Some frogs can change the colour of their skin, why would they do this?
To keep up with the latest fashions
3: What is the biggest threat to our frogs?
Frog eating aliens from Tau Capricorni
4: True of False? Frogs can leap higher than a house.
True, for a sufficiently small house and a sufficiently large frog.
Fascinating bus journey today courtesy of a fellow a few seats back loudly telling the story of how he stole a car in Adelaide, drove it to Sydney, had all his money stolen by ‘a tranny’ in Kings Cross, and ended up in jail in Tamworth.
Oh the people you meet on Transperth!
Sir Christopher Lee: Screen legend dies aged 93
Damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn! 🙁
You know those dreams where there’s a really awesome shop, and then you wake up and forget the dream, but halfway through the day you remember the really awesome shop and for a moment you think it’s real and then you remember it was just a dream and there’s no really awesome shop?
I hate those dreams.
But I tell ya, if Games Workshop branches were as amazing as I dream they are, there’d be a lot less whinging in the tabletop community.
(I dream about Games Workshop. It’s hard to put into words just how sad that is).
It’s always a gamble when one of your favourite books gets turned into a movie. Even more so when said movie stars Matt Damon. But the trailer for *The Martian* actually looks pretty good.
I can already spot a few things they’ve done differently, but I think I can see why, so that’s cool. And it’s at least one movie in which Sean Bean is unlikely to die (no guarantees though…).
Well, it looks like Fallout 4 is go, and it’s set in Boston. I imagine the Institute will play a role.
Huzzah!! 😀
Of course I’ll probably need a new computer to run it 🙁
