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Sunday, November 03, 2002  



Especially the ones that go off right after you've sat down, and spray your ass. Dont'cha just hate that?


What pisses you off?

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You know, for the life of me I can't remember ever actually having seen an auto-flush toilet (not a sit-down one, anyway)...

posted by James Russell | 10:43 PM


 


What kind of Goth would you be?

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"You're a Denial Goth! You are so not Goth. In fact you're Post-Punk/Darkwave/Whatever lesser-known synonym for goth is popular this week. Give it up, it's obvious you're a Goth." Oy. All these personality tests are beginning to confuse me...

posted by James Russell | 6:39 PM


 


What box do you get put in?

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posted by James Russell | 6:36 PM


 

PUNK
How can I label you?

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posted by James Russell | 6:34 PM


 


Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?

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posted by James Russell | 6:24 PM


 

Madagascan soccer team stages unique protest against referee bias.

Madagascan football authorities plan to take severe action against club Stade Olympique l'Emyrne, who scored a world-record 149 own goals in protest against alleged refereeing bias in a match on Thursday.
SOE lost the game 149-0 to AS Adema in the last game of the Indian Ocean island's league championship on Thursday.
SOE's coach Ratsimandresy Ratsarazaka orchestrated the protest from the stands as the Antananarivo-based side began repeatedly firing shots into their own net from the opening whistle.
The Midi Madagasikara newspaper reported Saturday that the club now faced severe sanctions for their bizarre protest in the match against Adema, who clinched the title last weekend.
SOE, last year's champions, deliberately scored one own goal after another in a pre-determined protest over refereeing decisions that had gone against them during the four-team playoff to determine the national championship.

posted by James Russell | 5:13 PM


 

Phillip Knightley: are we overstating the dangers of the world today?

It is a dilemma for the media that remains unsolved. It can hardly ignore terrorist acts, even though to do so would defeat one of the terrorists' main aims: publicity for their cause and an advertisement for new recruits. But the way terrorists' acts are presented – a drama with each episode crafted like a thriller and the lack of a proper assessment of the real risk – causes alarm, concern and faulty perceptions.
Out there in the rest of the world there has been a perception over the past, say 25 years, that in Britain we went around terrified of IRA bombs, race riots, car hi-jackers, train crashes, rapists and child murderers. In fact, most of us were getting on with the reality of our everyday lives. The fact is that more people die on our roads every year than were killed during the entire history of the Irish troubles. More people were killed in one recent car pile-up in the fog in Wisconsin than by the sniper, but we didn't see that on the news. As the Qantas pilot told his passengers as he approached Sydney airport: "Folks, the safest part of your journey is over. The most dangerous is about to begin. Drive carefully.''

Read the rest, as it makes other, similarly interesting and good points.

posted by James Russell | 4:56 PM


 

George Kelly takes on Salman Rushdie.

It's like this, bro: Antiwar liberals, peace-minded progressives and a slew of folks who don't fit the previously mentioned profiles but whom I still feel I can straight-facedly call My Peoples didn't prefer the continuation of Taliban rule to U.S. intervention. So don't tell that lie out of some get-back urge. We're not rooting for terrorists, for Bin Laden, for the Iraqi status quo, for Bali nightclub blasts, suicide bombings and sharia stonings. [...]
We (the aforementioned My Peoples) have been Cassandra-ing ourselves blue in the face over all the things you spend the rest of your editorial pointing out about use of force in Afghanistan (and likely use in Iraq), high-handed unilateralist big-bank-take-little-bank attitude and so on. We're not ignoring Chalabi; I'm not ignoring him. There's more going on than a little high-test 200-proof Moral Clarity (available at finer search engines; ask for it by name!) can camouflage.

posted by James Russell | 4:45 PM


 

New Mexico voters to decide whether idiots, insane persons should be allowed to vote. It could probably be argued that many people now voting are already stupid or mad, so why the hell not.

posted by James Russell | 4:38 PM


 

US not, repeat not about to invade Kiribati.

An article on a satirical website in New Zealand has caused panic in the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, which is in the middle of a bitter election campaign.
The item claims President Bush had switched his attention from Iraq to regime change in Kiribati and that he had sent the Seventh Fleet to invade. [...]
President Tito's office has ordered a series of radio broadcasts condemning the story as defamatory and assuring the population that the United States is not about to invade.

Wonder if he's any relation to that other Tito...

posted by James Russell | 4:33 PM


 

The practice of crucifixion is alive and well in Belfast.

Mr McCartan said he did not know why his son was attacked.
"His face was unrecognisable, I had to identify him by a tattoo on his arm," he said.
"He was covered in muck and he was bleeding from his eyes and bleeding from his ears."
Police have ruled out a sectarian motive for the attack and have appealed for anyone with information on the incident to come forward.

Eh. I've long since stopped believing religion is really behind any of the cuntery like this that happens in Ireland, so I wouldn't even bother looking for a sectarian motive...

posted by James Russell | 4:28 PM


 

"Jesus" box damaged in transit.

posted by James Russell | 4:24 PM


 

Some people will never learn to be careful what they say when they're being taped.

A Brazoria County justice of the peace was caught on tape earlier this year berating city jail inmates with obscenities and racial slurs, prompting a request for a state investigation that could cost him his job.
Justice of the Peace Matt Zepeda was holding hearings at the Pearland City Jail when surveillance cameras recorded him bursting into several obscenity-laced tirades against inmates. [...]
In a tape from earlier this month, Zepeda can be seen standing at a doorway talking to an inmate inside a room.
After calling the man's name a few times, Zepeda tells him to stand up and says: "Hey, don't f--- with me. I'm the judge. Get over here right now."
Zepeda then uses a racial slur in ordering the inmate to get up again, asking, "You gonna act like a f-----g n----r, is that what you're doing?"
Although the inmate was white, Zepeda is later heard telling a police officer, "I thought he was black."

Not only is the guy a short-tempered bigot, he appears to be blind too. Or maybe just an all-round arsehead.

posted by James Russell | 4:22 PM


 

The latest in thrill-seeking idiocy.

posted by James Russell | 4:19 PM


 

Bright Cold Matt puts it well when it comes to the recent raids on people around the country suspected of terrorist connections. The Muslim community has been predictably outraged and the government has been equally predictably outraged that anyone could doubt the necessity for these raids. Also sprach Matt:

The subjects of the warrants issued appear to be Indonesian expats hovering at the fringes of whatever passes for Islamic radicalism in Australia. There's a very strong case that they should be questioned and evidence gathered.
But do we really need the TRGs? Would 24-hours' worth of surveillance have indicated that the subjects lived with young families? Did ASIO or the police have any evidence that the subjects owned guns?
News reports from the various raid indicate that ASIO seized computer equipment, documents, videos and other personal effects. Yet there appeared to be a distinct absence of firearms, bomb-making material or anything more threatening than a kitchen appliance at the subjects' homes.
Here is a walnut. Here is a sledgehammer.

I'm with that. Scott Wickstein was wringing his hands on this matter over at Ken Parish's blog the other day:

I want the enemies of Australia nailed. But I want it done correctly, and on our terms. Compromising our values is not the sort of victory I had in mind.

Which is exactly the problem. I think we can agree on the fundamental point that these people need to be rooted out and caught; the trick is going to be doing so without, as Scott says, compromising ourselves. I can't say I'm convinced that the recent ASIO busts have been entirely the right way of going about things...

posted by James Russell | 3:47 PM


 

Interview with Umberto Eco.

posted by James Russell | 3:30 PM


 

A right royal scandal narrowly averted?

The collapse of the trial of Princess Diana's butler just as he was to take the witness stand will fuel suspicions that the royal family deliberately wrecked the case to suppress potentially embarrassing evidence, The Guardian suggested yesterday.
Paul Burrell's testimony would have been "long, detailed and extremely interesting", his legal team told the newspaper. [...]
On Friday all charges were dropped. Mr Burrell was alleged to have stolen 310 items belonging to Diana and her two sons after her 1997 death.
The Guardian speculated that if Mr Burrell had given evidence, he might well have been questioned about his service in the Queen's own employment - he was her footman for 10 years - as well as in Diana's. In an interview with detectives, which was read out in court, there were hints of what might have been disclosed. [...]
After the acquittal, Mr Burrell collapsed into the arms of Lord Carlisle. "I am thrilled, I am thrilled," he sobbed. "The Queen has come through for me."

By the sound of things it wasn't necessarily you she was coming through for. All very strange, this one...

posted by James Russell | 3:30 PM


 

Australian Muslim leaders prepare to excoriate Islamist terrorism. Which I'd like to think would make Piers Akerman with his "whose side are they on" rhetoric happy, but it probably won't...

posted by James Russell | 3:27 PM


 

As a follow-on to that post I had about community radio and FBi recently, here's what I got in my email today: an actual communication from FBi to say what they've been up to...

Has your membership expired? You can check your expiry date on your membership card. If you do need to renew your membership please fill out the attached form and return it to FBi. If you have any questions about your membership status feel free to email us on info@fbiradio.org.au

Why should you renew your membership?
FBi needs your financial support. By becoming an FBi member you are directly supporting the development of the station and the future of good radio in Sydney. We are asking you to make an investment in your listening pleasure now. It also means that you can participate in decision making at the station and you are eligible for all member privileges.

Including the privilege of paying $60 at full rate as opposed to the flat $20 they were asking for 18 months ago when they got their licence. Oh yes, their licence which stipulated they were to be on air by June this year... and what about that extension they got to it, didn't their website say it'd be late this year that they'd finally hit the airwaves?

WHEN IS FBI GOING TO AIR ? //
FBi 94.5fm will launch in June 2003.

In other words, at this rate we can probably expect them to hit the airwaves circa January 2004...

We would like to get to air sooner. The main reason for the delay is we are in the process of negotiating a spot on one of the main transmission infrastructures in town to carry our fabulously strong signal (150 kW max). It is not as simple as sticking a pole on top of a high building as we have done in the past during test transmissions (half of 1kW). This infrastructure is very costly and likely to be in place for a good 10 years we want to get it right and this takes time.

It's taken plenty of time already, too. Sorry, but I am not yet convinced that my now expired membership particularly needs renewing...

posted by James Russell | 3:11 PM


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