Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Here is my solution to drugs in sport. Obtain a blood sample from every athlete who competes in the Olympic. Then tell them that although the technology doesn’t currently exist to test for every drug, one day it will. When that day comes we will test your blood. Any medal you win now with the help of drugs could be taken away 10, 20 or 30 years down the track. You will never be able to be confident that you have gotten away with cheating.
Problem Solved.
Next.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Gripe of the week
Every man and his dog seems to have a mobile phone these days. Everyone from the 10 year old kid to the 75 year old Grannie are making use of this new technology. But no-one teaches them mobile phone etiquette. I think society has now turned on anyone who uses their phone during a meeting, in a cinema or in an art gallery but there still seems to be a number of grey areas as to what is appropriate. My current annoyance are people who use their mobile phone and wave in the crowd at sporting events to find their friend who is somewhere in the same arena. Listening to some guy yell into his mobile phone…
“I’m below the Tooheys sign… No not that one, the one to the left….. yeah now look three rows down…. No down…. No, not that far….Yeah I’m wearing a wallabies jumper….. No! The other side of the ground!!!”
Whoever you are, you aren’t that important. If you were you wouldn’t do it.
If you are one of these people please consider the following:
You obviously already know they are in the same stadium, who cares if you can see them or not. Is it really that amazing that you are both in the same place?
There are people all around you also waving, so telling your friend to look for the guy waving isn’t going to help.
The people behind you actually came to see the game, not the back of your arse while you wave like an idiot.
Once you find them, what are you going to do? No, I’m serious… really, I want you to think about it!
Monday, August 23, 2004
Monday, July 05, 2004
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You know he isn't going to play fair!
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Amazingly, more than half did not even know there was an emergency phone number. (It's triple 000 for those of you who were wondering.) About that many people again actually knew help was just a phone call away, but had absorbed too much foreign television and could recall only numbers such as 911 or 999.
In an effort to reassure those having a little trouble, the Queensland Emergency Services Minister, Chris Cummins, described dialling triple 000 as "a very simple procedure" and noted that children as young as two had managed to get it right. But I don't suppose those children were Queenslanders.
What is going on with the gene pool in Queensland? Perhaps the exodus from Victoria to Queensland is finally having an effect?