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Thursday, June 29, 2006

No pain No gain

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Who volunteers for this stuff?)

If your looking to loose weight, y not give it ago. No pain no gain right?

Saturday, June 24, 2006

The Squirrel and the Grasshopper


REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE END



THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION:

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.

A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.

The ABC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the
squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.

The Australian press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.

The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of Australia demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house. The ABC, interrupting a cultural festival special from St Kilda with breaking news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing "We Shall Overcome".

Bill Shorten rants in an interview with Laurie Oakes that the squirrel has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his "fair share" and increases the charge for squirrels to enter Melbourne city centre.

In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The squirrels's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work.


The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrel 's food is seized and re distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.

Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Australia as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Australians apparent love of dogs.

The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from peoples credit cards.

A 60 Minutes special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrels's food, though Spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshopper's drug "Illness".

The cats seek recompense in the Australian courts for their treatment since arrival in Australia.

The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.

A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost $10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up.

Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased. The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Australia's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.

The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister.

The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in Australia.

The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.


THE END

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

My word

Something’s been bugging me for a while since my Jury duty that maybe your guys can give me an opinion on. Up there on a jury stand you must place your hand on a bible and swear to tell the truth (different wording but you get the idea). You had another option which was called an affirmation where you raise your hand, which I assume (I’m not sure though) is for those who do not follow the bible (not the best choice of words but I’m sure you know what I'm getting at here). Now to the question; As I follow no religion, so there for can not swear by any "God" that I’m telling the truth, does this make me a lyre to those who do believe in a "God" as I have nothing to swear by but my word?

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Jimmy

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Hot air ballooning soon


Sunday the 18th of June I will be crawling out of bed really early on a freezing cold frosty morning just so I can see the sights in a hot air balloon. I am told it is nice and toasty warm when you’re up in the air on the balloon though. After that I will be enjoying breakfast at Lake Weeroona. Wish me luck that I don't get frost bite.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Jury Duty


Jury duty is an experience for all even if you don't get picked to sit in the jury box. It was 5 days of seeing if I were to be picked for a case in court 5. Seeing the accused and hearing in detail what he was being accused of was enough for me personally (not a case I wanted to sit through) but simply being educated on the selection process and the formality of it all was experience enough. I now have to wait for 3 years or more till my next jury duty letter.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Amanda's Wedding


My life has been super busy for the last month. Amanda's wedding was beautiful in the gardens of Greystains and the reception in the greystains manor. Weather was great for it. (I wish you and Scott all the best for the future Amanda and will see you soon).