Opinion Space

Tiger's Sexcapades

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:41:29 GMT

I've decided to break my silence over the Tiger Woods sex scandal.

I'd like to make two points:

I don't believe in sex addiction. How hard is it to not have a root with everything you see? Ridiculous. And they have rehab for this? What a scam. Feeling horny when you are away from your partner? No problem, masturbate, simple.
It is also ridiculous that this is a news story. How is the sex life of someone public domain anyway? Tiger slept around on his missus, I don't agree with that behavior, but so what? Tiger's sex life is none of my concern. With all the stuff going on in the world we have all stopped to pass judgment on some dude we have never met. Who do we think we are?

This is a perfect example of just how crap the media has become, less news and more salacious tabloid gossip. We are all being distracted by this tripe whilst the things we should care about are ignored.

Disgusting, we are not being f**ked by Tiger, we are being f**ked by the so called news media. I'm reporting this as a rape.

Forum: General Topics

Indigenous All Stars Vs NRL All Stars

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:08:43 GMT

Well the footy season is off and running. At last!

I'm a bit confused about something though. Today there was an "Indigenous" All Stars Vs NRL All Stars game. It was a rippa. Congratulations to the "indigenous" team.

The problem is that I made the mistake of looking up "indigenous" in the Macquarie Dictionary (2000 ed) and this is what it says... "originating in and characterizing a particular region or country".

So any football player from either of these two teams is indigenous if they were born and raised in Australia.

That's what it means doesn't it?

That would make me indigenous even though I'm white. I originate from Australia and my culturally characteristics are Australian. I certainly feel indigenous to Australia, I have no idea how to be un-Australian.

So in reality this is an indigenous vs mostly indigenous game because some Pacific Islanders make an appearance in the NRL All Stars side.

Let's call this what it is, Aboriginal Blood Vs Migrant Blood. This is a great day for reconciliation (insert sarcasm here).

We are never going to get away from this race based Us Vs Them crap are we?

Forum: General Topics

Buy an American an Atlas Appeal

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:19:24 GMT

I've just been watching the sports news coverage post Superbowl coming out of the USA. Very amusing. Apparently the players are under the impression that they are world champions now.

I'm afraid you're not rocket surgeon.

You see, the Superbowl is the final competition to see who is the best football team in the US NFL. The only teams in the US NFL are from inside the USA. That makes it a domestic competition not an international one. You are not world champions, you are domestic champions. Congratulations.

Don't take your helmets off, protect your heads, you can't afford to lose any more brain cells.

USA baseball fans and players suffer from a similar delusion. They think they are competing in The World Series. Nope, domestic series, hate to have to be the one to point out the obvious again.

I think I see the problem here, US Americans mustn't have any atlases. I appeal to the world, please send the USA your old atlas. Don't send globes though, they will freak the flat earth Christians out too much. Teach them to walk before they need to run.

Imagine the confusion of living without the knowledge of where your oil and electronic appliances magically come from or where your bombs go when you shoot them up in the air. This is a heart breaking tragedy.

Please join the "Buy an American an Atlas Appeal" today.

Forum: General Topics

Selected Statements of Belief

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:52:13 GMT

I Believe

All people are equal regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, socio-economic status, philosophical school of thought or any other tribal distinction.

All people have both equal rights and equal responsibilities and everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want provided their actions do not diminish someone elses freedom. Political policy should reflect this.

Its perfectly acceptable for you to offend other people. If you are offended by someones lifestyle or point of view that is your problem not theirs.

Democracy provides the illusion of fairness and is the best form of politics we have come up with so far. Two party politics, preference sharing and compulsory voting are a corruption of democracy.

Democracy and freedom are two different things.

Neither democracy nor freedom can ever be instituted at the point of a gun.

Money is our slave master and the time intensive pursuit of money just to survive is a total waste of our one chance of existence.

We all have the right to defend ourselves but not to attack even as a misguided pre-emptive defensive maneuver.

Chocolate brownies are more addictive than crack cocaine.

Failure to live within environmental boundaries leads to extinction. Breeding ourselves to extinction is insanity.

There is no god.

Organized religion is politics and therefore bad. Personal delusional belief is mostly harmless and everyones right but organized religion is systematized brainwashing and therefore should be illegal.

Obesity is not caused by big bones.

Fitness is attractive.

Only fit people should be eligible for a naturists license and they should be allowed to nude up everywhere.

The Beatles are the most over-rated artists in the history of music.

Elvis impersonators insult the memory of the second most over-rated artist in the history of music.

Shakespeare is not literature.

Clive Barker is literature.

TiVo is a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. It would be a great invention if there was anything worth watching on television.

Laughter is better than Prozac but Viagra is better than using an improvised splint.

Pubic hair is not a disease in search of a cure.

Cats rule. Remember, the good book says cats go to heaven, dogs go to hell, people go nowhere & vegetables reincarnate as politicians.

Some deaf people are faking it. They are just being rude.

Irrational optimism backed up by common sense decision making is a powerful combination.

A wise man once said toke the joint, eat the brownie and chill out.

Gunny Highway once said shut your hole hippy.

They both had a point.

Read the full Statement of Belief: Alias Pseudonym's Book of Revelations.

Forum: General Topics

Apple itoys... Meh

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:16:42 GMT

I'm putting my hand up to say I'm not into the Apple itoys.

I'm not a trendsetter or follower. I have zero interest in applications that I never use. I'm not mesmerized by flashing lights or things that go zoom.

I'm a guy who likes multifunction tools that get the jobs I want done, well, done.

I've been researching my next phone recently. I currently own a Nokia N95 8GB. It has been a great phone for me but not perfect. It needs a qwerty keyboard because I do a lot of texting and the screen is too small for web browsing in my opinion.

The camera is great, I use that heaps, the FM radio is excellent, I'm not into downloading music because all the stuff I like has that rip off drm crap attached to it, and it has all the "apps" I need built in like calculator, clock, diary, address book, notepad, gps, wifi access etc.

It's almost the perfect tool for me. The best thing has been that in the 2 years I've owned it it has never broken down. This is the only computer type thing I have ever owned that didn't crash from time to time.

But my contract is almost up and I would like to upgrade to something that at least has a qwerty.

At first I was impressed with the iphone, until I compared it's specs to the new Nokia N900. What is going on in Apple's head? What is going on in iphone buyer's heads for that matter? The iphone is all flash but it's light on features compared to other phones like the Nokia. So why would anyone choose it?

I was really curious to see what the new itablet would be like to see if it compared favorably, but I now realize it is more of a laptop replacement with phone connectivity. Not what I'm after but fair enough. I wonder if it will be light on features you would normally expect from a laptop like a dvd drive for instance. Only time will tell I guess.

I just don't get where Apple's head is at. If you are making a smartphone why leave out all the useful stuff like a decent camera and a competitive amount of memory and instead go for 3rd party gimmick apps that people will think are cool for about 5 mins and then never use again?

Maybe Apple is onto something. Maybe they have done their research after all. Maybe most people really are retards. Apple are certainly shipping stacks of iunits. Clearly the retard market is a gold mine.

All flash and no substance. We have become a generation of iwankers.

That should be Apple's new slogan:

Apple Corporation - iproducts 4 iwankers.

Forum: Science & Technology

Are Single Women Too Picky?

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:12:49 GMT

I'm a single guy and I'm sick of hearing about the man drought! What man drought?

Women are far too picky. There is no perfect man or perfect woman. They don't exist.

The real world is not an episode of Delusional Slut in the City. If you want to find relationship happiness you need to burn your phone book size checklists you use to rate every man you meet to see if he stacks up.

Let me share with you the man's checklist:

Is she attractive? (The answer is yes if she's not anorexic, not obese but anywhere in between. Hair color, skin color, dress sense, freckles, tall / short not an issue).
Is she nice? (Bitchy Barbies are unattractive and so are prostitutes who care about how much you earn, where you live or what you drive).

That's it. If a woman meets the above criteria she is date worthy and she is marriage material if she has similar goals and values to you and she laughs at your stupid jokes.

Women would be much happier if they adopted our list and ditched their search for a Hollywood fictional character who will sweep them of their feet to the sound of Mike Bubble music. Bubble? Buble? Whatever, Sinatra light, you know who I'm talking about.

Forum: General Topics

Australian Republic, Flag & Anthem

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:42:23 GMT

Australia should be a republic, no question. I have a post on this already here so check it out.

The current anthem is utter crap and needs to be changed to 'We Are Australian' which is a heart stirring anthem which properly tells the story of who Aussies are today. The old anthem is a dirge which evokes no emotion at all.

The flag also needs a makeover to reflect who we are today. I say we keep the color, keep the southern cross where it is and delete the union jack. Then we move the main star which is currently under the union jack up until it is oriented halfway up the left side of the flag. It should also be turned into an 11 pointed star to represent the 11 colonies / nations who make up the modern Australian country.

These are:

The Torres Strait Islands
Queensland
Norfolk Island
The Aboriginal Nation
New South Wales
The Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania
South Australia
Western Australia
The Northern Territory

The old state / territory / indigenous flags could stay the same to acknowledge who we were before Federation but they would be flown beside the new national flag which represents all 11 of us as one country (supposedly united) living today under the southern cross.

The RSL should also fly the old Australian flag incorporating the union jack beside the new one because the old flag is the one our diggers died to defend and as such should remain as a symbol to that sacrifice. The new flag will be the symbol future diggers fight and die under.

What do you think?

Forum: Politics

Are Indian Students Safe in Australia?

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:58:30 GMT

The Indian people and politicians are in uproar about the alleged racial attacks on Indian students in Melbourne.

What a beat up! Pardon the pun.

Melbourne has a violent crime problem. It shares that problem with just about every other major population center in the world. It's an issue that needs to be addressed no question.

But this idea that Indian students are being targeted is crap. When Indian students are attacked (usually during a robbery or mugging) there is an outcry from the media and the Indian people. OK. Fair enough. But when other races are attacked in the same way it's ignored.

Why? When you look at the crime statistics they do not show that one race is being targeted over another race. The crime statistics show that people of all races are being attacked by people from all races.

This is a crime problem not a racism problem.

And let's not lose sight of the fact that Indians in India have a greater risk of being the victims of crime than Indians in Australia. Melbourne is bad but at least it's not Mumbai.

Enough with the hysteria, enough with the selective reporting, enough with the political point scoring, none of those things help us solve the real problem of crime.

Forum: Politics

Outsourced Human Resources Departments

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:49:11 GMT

There has been a major negative shift in the way Human Resources are handled since I left school.

When I left school in the late 80s (best decade ever) and applied for work my application and interview was processed by either the owner of the company or the supervisor of the department you were hoping to work for.

This made sense. What the employer was basically looking for was someone who would turn up on time every day, had a brain in their head and so was capable of being trained and who would fit in with the employees who already worked there.

They didn't really care if you had qualifications or experience because they wanted to train you how to do things their way anyway.

I found it easy to find work back then.

I then became self employed for over 14 years and then decided to go back and work for someone else. It's much easier to work for an employer than it is to work for yourself and the pay is more consistent.

But the employment game had changed dramatically in that time. Now all applications and interviews were handled by Human Resource academics and departments. Often these departments were outsourced to dedicated Human Resource companies.

What a nightmare!

Let me give you one example of many adventures I endured.

I had a forklift license and was looking for a forklift operator job. How hard could it be?

The first hurdle was getting an interview. Because I didn't have 5 years experience as a forklift operator that by itself often caused my application to be binned immediately. The HR company had a brief from their client that they ideally required experienced operators so all applications that didn't exactly fit within those parameters were rejected out of hand. That's how academics think. Well, they don't think, they fill out forms.

When I did finally get an interview, before I could talk to someone about the job I had to endure a mountain of computerized psychological and aptitude testing. WTF? I'm applying to operate a forklift not a space shuttle!

When I finally got to speak to a human they were all bent out of shape over my self employment history. I would have thought that would be a positive. Self employed people have to run a business as well as perform the job, they are self motivated and hard working, they have to be, otherwise they earn nothing.

But apparently it's a negative because you are applying for a job below your "station in life". As a self employed person I had been a boss, I had employed not only myself but others as well and in the HR specialists mind this seemed to make me a potential threat somehow as an employee. I was perceived to be too over qualified to be labor but not academically qualified enough to be management.

After many failed attempts I finally managed to find a part time job in a warehouse as an order picker. When I arrived I discovered I didn't have the correct license to operate the equipment there. I had a forklift license but I also needed an order picker forklift license as well. The HR company should have known what licenses were required to do the job. Obviously. But they didn't.

As it turned out the company let me operate the equipment anyway because the supervisor didn't have a license either, nor did the full time order picker on staff. Both had been sent there by the same HR company who recruited me.

In fact the full time order picker had been told by the HR company that they were being recruited by a liquor wholesaler when in fact it was a safety equipment wholesaler. Not only did the HR company not know what licenses were required, they didn't even know what their client did!

Amazing. The world's gone mad! Employers are screaming for staff, the unemployed are screaming for jobs and these useless academic HR clowns are in the middle incompetently jerking off. These HR people are both useless and unnecessary. They are a waste of space.

Go back to the old system where the employer actually recruits their own staff. It's the only sensible solution.

Forum: General Topics

Delusional Charities

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:47:56 GMT

I've just discovered how difficult it has become to give to charity.

Some of the local charities, I won't name names but you know who you are, are asking the public for donations of furniture, white goods and electrical appliances.

I don't mind giving to charity when I can even though I'm living in poverty land myself. You do what you can.

I had an old dvd player whose remote no longer worked but was still driveable by using the buttons on the machine itself. It worked fine. A charity came out to pick it up and said it wouldn't take it because there was no remote.

My parents had an old sofa they no longer needed. It was in fine shape, the internal springs and upholstery were undamaged but the charity knocked it back because it was too old.

My sister tried to donate a fridge. It worked fine but again it was refused because it wasn't modern enough.

Are you kidding me?

What's next? Are homeless people now demanding yachts as shelter? Are starving people now demanding caviar? Are beggars walking the street demanding $100 bills and wearing signs that say "we take VISA"?

I believe that people in need of help will accept any help graciously and thankfully. I don't believe people in need of help are this picky.

The charities themselves are delusional. People in need are missing out on help because these charities won't allow well meaning people to give.

Wake up to yourselves.

Forum: General Topics

Banning Plastic Shopping Bags

admin — Thur, 17 Dec 2009 21:30:14 GMT

One crazy idea governments have come up with is to ban plastic shopping bags. Why not make biodegradable plastic shopping bags mandatory instead? I use plastic shopping bags as bin liners.

Hows that for recycling? If you ban plastic shopping bags I will have to buy cloth shopping bags which burn additional resources in their manufacture AND plastic bin liners instead.

More expense and inconvenience for me for no environmental gain.

Plastic bin liner bags should also be biodegradable.

Think politician!

Forum: Science & Technology

Goodbye Internet Freedom

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:59:06 GMT

Well, looks like they're finally going to do it. The Australian government is copying the Chinese and adopting internet censorship.

They are starting out mild by banning access to all criminal content sites and sites that contain child porn and bestiality. Who can argue with that? Most people never look at that filth anyway. But this is just the flirty seduction stage.

First they ban the really offensive stuff, then they slowly redefine what is offensive, and then Stalin Clause comes to town to tell us what's naughty and what's nice.

Forget the concept of freedom, forget being treated as an adult capable of making our own moral judgments, the government will do that for us. They see us as nothing more than modern serfs bowing and scraping to our "better thans".

But these are just the same old political cycles in a modern context. Out of oppression comes revolution. Out of revolution comes freedom. Out of freedom comes apathy and complacency. Out of apathy and complacency comes sneaking totalitarian oppression. Out of oppression etc...

Live it up while you can politicians, you will ultimately fail in creating the world in your image. You cannot destroy our will to be free and if you try you will be eventually destroyed. History has proven that time and again.

I'm not encouraging violence here, I'm certainly against that, but remember, the harder you squeeze a human the harder they bounce back.

Filter that bitches!

Forum: Politics

Compulsory Voting

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:05:57 GMT

Compulsory voting robs the electorate of true representation.

Australia has compulsory voting, as a result we get inaccurate election results which the winning party claims gives them a mandate to do whatever they want.

Wrong.

Each party has a small number of die hard true believers who vote for them. Most people in the electorate however do not feel that any of the parties truly represent them.

When most people are forced to vote they weigh up the pros and cons of each party and vote for the one that kinda sorta represents them on some of the issues they hold most dear. They vote for the best of a bad bunch knowing that their vote is being wasted on someone who does not really represent them.

That's not good enough.

If they were not forced to vote, they would stay at home on election day and protect their vote from misuse because they don't have anyone who truly represents them that they would really want to vote for.

A mass boycott of an election by this silent majority would be the healthiest thing imaginable for the Oz democracy. This would wake the politicians up and show them that their policies do not truly represent their constituents. They would then be motivated to actually conduct proper research into what the people really want and they would then hopefully change their policies in an attempt to woo the non voters into voting for them next election.

This would make the political parties more customer focused. Instead of trying to tell us what to think and believe they would be forced to ask us what we think and believe and adjust their policies accordingly if they want to be in power.

That's how democracy is supposed to work. Compulsory voting is a corruption of democracy.

Forum: Politics

Bible Re-Write

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:54:47 GMT

I have decided to rewrite the christian bible to help them out of their ignorant ages and drag them kicking and screaming into the real world. Here it is

The New Christian Bible

In the beginning I don't know what happened, but here we are, best make the most of it.

Sometime later a bearded guy came down off a mountain after having a think and suggested 5 commandments that are a good idea.

1. Thou shalt not kill.
2. Thou shalt not steal.
3. Thou shalt not root around on your partner.
4. Thou shalt not lie about people.
5. Thou shalt not vote for conservative politicians.

Many years after that, a hippy decided perhaps erroneously to give the Romans the finger. Before he was messed up he had a good idea.

Lets all be nice to one another and treat each other with respect. Treat others the way you would like them to treat you, unless you are some kind of Pulp Fiction style gimp who likes to be kept in a box wearing latex.

Hear endeth the lesson. Peace be upon you.

Forum: Politics

Emissions Trading Scheme

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:03:09 GMT

Can someone explain to me how an emissions trading scheme (ETS) will help the environment?

How does both taxing and simultaneously compensating polluters achieve anything?

How do we solve this problem by just throwing another form at it?

Isn't this just another complicated derivatives market just like the other ones that just contributed to the global financial crisis (GFC)?

To me this looks like a typical bureaucratic wank fest. All smoke and mirrors. All motion but no accomplishment. And a complete lack of common sense.

Overpopulation, non carbon forms of pollution, recycling, energy efficiency and clean energy production are ignored by the politicians while they concentrate on developing a way of allowing carbon dioxide producers to pay a bribe to keep doing what they are doing.

Business as usual albeit with more paperwork and money changing hands.

Forum: Science & Technology