Silvio TKO

Am I alone in thinking that Italain Prime Minsiter Silvio Berlusconi looked a bit like Hitler in this photo taken after he was assualted in Milan this month?

Kirby Your Enthusiam

66 year-old maverick (that is, borderline psychotic and arrogantly irresponsible) New South Wales Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan will almost certainly be re-elected at the 2010 Federal election after being placed 2nd on the Liberal Senate Ticket. Presumably he will spend this next term in office deliberately and gleefully slandering social liberals like he pilloried Justice Kirby.

Heffernan was quoted after the result saying,

"I can't think of anyone else in the federal parliament who can knock the nuts out of a bull or skin a sheep"

Yes Bill - but do you knock the nuts out with your teeth huh Bill? Huh? Or do you use a knife you city-slicking pansy.

Populate or perish

I just endured a dull human resources related meeting in a drab windowless boardroom. Essentially this meeting was an exercise in humouring the Human Resources Division while attempting to justify their existence. During the meeting the convenor asked me to ‘populate’ a document. I think her intention was for me to fill the document in but with ludicrous office speech who really knows. Considering I was being asked to populate I was tempted to use Peter Costello as my inspiration and fill in one form for Mum, one form for Dad and one form for my country...

Just can't bear it...

A circus bear in a Russian circus kills his trainer and the journalist writes "It is not clear what caused the attack"

Um...huge wild animal forced by trainer to wear skates and play ice hockey....yep - that seems like motivation to me...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8320849.stm

If these woolens could talk...

Was given a scarf for my birthday. The care instructions tag sewn on to the scarf included this:

"Knitted garments prefer folded storage"

They 'prefer'? Did someone ask them about this??

I am aware that to maintain shape it is preferable to fold knitted garments rather than hang them on coat hangers but I feel we are being paternalistic here in telling these woolen garments how to live their lives.

If they just want to hang in the back of the wardrobe and lose their shape who am I to say no?