Mile high ego club

Qantas has announced plans to charge AUD160 extra for those who choose to sit in the seats next to the emergency exits, which are prized for their extra leg-room. This plan has been decried in the press by... a 31 year old lawyer and self-promoting wannabe politician from Brisbane who travelled to Russia in 2002 for radically leg-lengthening surgery to gain an extra 8 cms (per leg). Hajnal Ban, who has written a book about her surgery, has recently gone to great lengths (insert chuckle here) to promote herself. Her press release, in defense of tall people everywhere, is a prime example of this. She is not tall. She underwent surgery because she was, in her mind, too short.

In short, she is a complete joke.

On her website (http://www.hajnalban.com/), which promotes her book and the cult of Hajnal she is described as being a high profile Australian politician when she is in fact a mere Councillor for Logan City in Queensland who is barely known outside her own neighbourhood. More amusingly her web page tells us that "Hajnal is as equally known for her unique style and elegance. She has been described by many as a leader in fashion and design. " Eat your heart out Jackie Kennedy-Onassis, step aside Princess Di - let's all admire Hajnal nobody.

The website continues "Even Hajnal's name generates conversation." Somnething along the lines of "Who?" I should think.

I think somebody needs a reality check.

When cricketers do not protect their middle stump...

From the ABC website...

Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup after being diagnosed with genital warts, the Pakistan Cricket Board says.

A statement on the board's website said: "The Medical Board has reported that Shoaib Akhtar was suffering from Genital Viral Warts and Electrofulgration was done on May 12, 2009.

"They further stated that his wound though healing needs further care and treatment for another minimum 10 days for the purpose of healing and to achieve skin cover."

Too much info Pakistan Cricket Board!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/21/2577649.htm

Totally Forked

Retired Rugby league player Matthew Johns has been the focus of the media this week due to the revelation that he, and fellow teammates, had group sex with a woman in 2002. Ignoring the morals debate and the very loose interpretation of the phrase 'group sex' I found a comment by Sports psychologist Noel Blundell in The Australian unintentionally amusing. Blundell, talking about the method of educating the players, says

"There's no single-pronged attack - there has to be a multi-pronged attack"

And here I was thinking multi-pronging was what got the Rugby players into trouble in the first place...

Tabloid Headlines of the Week.

On the Herald Sun website "They're Flogging a Gift Horse" was the header for an 'article' about the free gifts 'celebrities' receive when they attend the Logies. Considering the bad press the prize-giving ceremony received I should have thought that the headline could have referred to the process of doling out the Logies themselves...

The sexual congress of an amorous couple on the lawns of Windsor Castle, while the Queen was in residence, was sex-romp, multi-inch fodder for the tabloid dailies in the UK this week. Hats, or indeed, clothes off to the sub-editor at The Sun for the following headline for the story that revealed the identities of the lawn lovers

"This one and this one are the ones who gave each other one on one's lawn"

Snigger.