One of the ladies I work with at school showed me this video clip. Its a good sentiment but one that is too common. I also would like to believe her that she IS sorry but some of her expressions make me doubt- and I know it is just the video clip but...
I've been working on trying to do less things that I regret being passive about. It has caused me to withdraw from some circles but it is something I'm going to continue to work on.
As the quote on my phone says "Which hurts the most: saying something you wish you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had" I vote the latter... you?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Caught in the Crowd
Monday, November 16, 2009
True Union
Well I couldn't sleep tonight so I thought I'd stay up for the rugby union... big mistake. Decided I like union's free flowing game. Problem is it doen't happen much- so I think I'll stick to highlights on Sports Tonight. I think Union is in a fair bit of trouble world wide- less and less people are playing and watching. Already football (soccer) is well and truly taking over Union's ranking of fourth most watched sport in australia- and if australia gets to host the world cup it will take off. The problem for rugby is they had their world cup in OZ and it didn't make much difference to player's numbers or viewers once it was over. Well how do the americans get people to watch their boring sports? Make movies about their sports with high intensity highlights, add personal touch, maybe a bit of racial inequality to make you 'connect with the people'. Well union is trying the same thing with Invictus. Three of the biggest hollywood names in Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman starring with Clint Eastwood directing. And whilest I cringe at the prospects of terrible attempts at south African accents (Mett Demon) I'm actually looking forward to this movie. And who knows it may get me watching rugby.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Attempt at a List
Nathan suggested if you can't think of what to write, Post a list- so here it goes.
Statements I hate
1. But what do you know?
2. Look I'm the doctor here leave that to me.
3. You wouldn't understand
4. One day you'll think the same.
5. You don't know what its like.
Henceforth when I hear these statements punishment will reign down like fire from heaven so consider yourself warned.
What statements do you hate
Statements I hate
1. But what do you know?
2. Look I'm the doctor here leave that to me.
3. You wouldn't understand
4. One day you'll think the same.
5. You don't know what its like.
Henceforth when I hear these statements punishment will reign down like fire from heaven so consider yourself warned.
What statements do you hate
Shows i hate
There are many shows I hate on tv. Soap operas. Medical show. Medical soap operas. (Scrubs of course is excluded).
But by far and wide the show I have hated most on TV besides the 3am tele evangelists is a show I have blocked the name out in my memory.
It consisted of hanging around in a hospital Foyer waiting for the next sad case to come through. If a Lawyer did this they would be sent to jail. It is capitalizing on people when they are at their most vulnerable for the sake of trying to pull your emotional strings and make you feel like you have an emotional attachment to these people. Let them be in their hour of sadness- Let people grieve in a dignified manner without shoving a camera in their face stickybeaking. Next we will have the tv crews sitting outside the morgue hoping for good stories
But by far and wide the show I have hated most on TV besides the 3am tele evangelists is a show I have blocked the name out in my memory.
It consisted of hanging around in a hospital Foyer waiting for the next sad case to come through. If a Lawyer did this they would be sent to jail. It is capitalizing on people when they are at their most vulnerable for the sake of trying to pull your emotional strings and make you feel like you have an emotional attachment to these people. Let them be in their hour of sadness- Let people grieve in a dignified manner without shoving a camera in their face stickybeaking. Next we will have the tv crews sitting outside the morgue hoping for good stories
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Bible thought
What do you do when a organizer of a good christian event continually quotes the bible out of context?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Murder in the High Seas.
Found this article here. Makes a very good point.
THERE appears to be a VERY BIG shark out there.
We know this because it made a snack out of just a BIG shark, a 3m white pointer, off Stradbroke Island last week.
Photos of what was left of the hapless great white, huge chunks of flesh torn from its once streamlined body, flashed around the world.
The size of the bigger shark was estimated to be at least 5m, causing the sphincters of Straddie's surfers to get very watertight indeed.
Shark photos and stories always elicit fascination but this particular photo should have caused cheering. It should have sparked a celebration that an animal that big still roams our seas.
And then it should have caused outrage that Queensland conducts a shark control program of dubious worth that indiscriminantly kills a creature listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
If you or I went out there and killed that 3m great white, we would be prosecuted and fined.
But Queensland and New South Wales have exemptions under the Act that allow the killing of these rare and beautiful creatures in the name of keeping swimmers safe.
"The shark control program is a bather-safety initiative and white sharks are an acknowledged threat to bathers," Queensland shark control program manager Tony Ham said. "There is an exemption for the shark control program in the fisheries legislation that allows their take within the program."
This is a great example of why governments are such a rich source of material for comedians.
There are hardly any great whites left. They are protected in Australia. Australia lobbied to have the species listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora to deter the lucrative trade in their jaws and teeth.
The Federal Government has what it calls a White Shark Recovery Plan. And then Queensland is allowed to throw baited drumlines into the sea and kill every peckish white pointer that passes by. What a joke.
The netting protecting Queensland and NSW beaches is a problem too, snaring its share of white pointers. And aren't we all getting a bit sick of seeing whales hooked up in the nets?
Hardly anything is known about white pointers – other than their numbers have crashed around the world, with estimates ranging between 60 and 90 per cent.
The Shark Recovery Plan says this about them: "The listing of the white shark as vulnerable was based on a number of factors, including evidence of a declining population, its life history characteristics (long-lived and low levels of reproduction), limited local distribution and abundance at the time of listing, and still being under pressure from the Australian commercial fishing industry."
There would be few things more terrifying than being attacked by a great white shark, no argument. But the chances of it happening are laughably remote. This is what the International Shark Attack File, which monitors shark-related incidents around the world, has to say about your chances of getting a nip:
"From a statistical standpoint, the chances of dying in this area (the sea) are markedly higher from many other causes (such as drowning and cardiac arrest) than from shark attack," it says.
"Many more people are injured and killed on land while driving to and from the beach than by sharks in the water. Shark attack trauma also is less common than such beach-related injuries as spinal damage, dehydration, jellyfish and stingray stings and sunburn. Indeed, many more sutures are expended on sea shell lacerations of the feet than on shark bites!"
The United States has more shark attacks than anywhere else.
But the ISAF says more people die in the US from sand-hole collapses on the beach than from an encounter with a Noah's Ark.
Certainly, in Queensland, you are more likely to die going for a few quiet drinks at a nightclub than being chomped in half at Straddie.
Perhaps the State Government should introduce a dickhead management program whereby the police are allowed to set mantraps baited with schooners of beer or bottles of Bundy near where potential glassers might lurk. It won't matter if the odd innocent drinker gets caught because the cops will be granted a legislative exemption.
Almost without exception, the people who survive shark attacks wish no ill-will to the creatures and anyone who has seen one while diving or snorkelling can't help but marvel at their sleek grace.
Great whites are the best sharks, the most awesome sharks, the sharks everyone would love to see.
So why are we still killing them when there are so few left?
There should be a moratorium on both netting and drumlines until a non-lethal method of shark management can be devised.
It's a small risk with a big reward.
by Rory Gibson.
He's right- I was in the water with a great white once in PNG and I'll never forget the grace of it and awe it inspired in me. I'm sure other people feel the same way about wild tigers and lions. Clearly we need to save these apex predators- But as they say in Shark water- no one wants to give money to save sharks as they arent fluffy and cuddly enough. Not quite like a pigmy hedgehog.
THERE appears to be a VERY BIG shark out there.
We know this because it made a snack out of just a BIG shark, a 3m white pointer, off Stradbroke Island last week.
Photos of what was left of the hapless great white, huge chunks of flesh torn from its once streamlined body, flashed around the world.
The size of the bigger shark was estimated to be at least 5m, causing the sphincters of Straddie's surfers to get very watertight indeed.
Shark photos and stories always elicit fascination but this particular photo should have caused cheering. It should have sparked a celebration that an animal that big still roams our seas.
And then it should have caused outrage that Queensland conducts a shark control program of dubious worth that indiscriminantly kills a creature listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
If you or I went out there and killed that 3m great white, we would be prosecuted and fined.
But Queensland and New South Wales have exemptions under the Act that allow the killing of these rare and beautiful creatures in the name of keeping swimmers safe.
"The shark control program is a bather-safety initiative and white sharks are an acknowledged threat to bathers," Queensland shark control program manager Tony Ham said. "There is an exemption for the shark control program in the fisheries legislation that allows their take within the program."
This is a great example of why governments are such a rich source of material for comedians.
There are hardly any great whites left. They are protected in Australia. Australia lobbied to have the species listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora to deter the lucrative trade in their jaws and teeth.
The Federal Government has what it calls a White Shark Recovery Plan. And then Queensland is allowed to throw baited drumlines into the sea and kill every peckish white pointer that passes by. What a joke.
The netting protecting Queensland and NSW beaches is a problem too, snaring its share of white pointers. And aren't we all getting a bit sick of seeing whales hooked up in the nets?
Hardly anything is known about white pointers – other than their numbers have crashed around the world, with estimates ranging between 60 and 90 per cent.
The Shark Recovery Plan says this about them: "The listing of the white shark as vulnerable was based on a number of factors, including evidence of a declining population, its life history characteristics (long-lived and low levels of reproduction), limited local distribution and abundance at the time of listing, and still being under pressure from the Australian commercial fishing industry."
There would be few things more terrifying than being attacked by a great white shark, no argument. But the chances of it happening are laughably remote. This is what the International Shark Attack File, which monitors shark-related incidents around the world, has to say about your chances of getting a nip:
"From a statistical standpoint, the chances of dying in this area (the sea) are markedly higher from many other causes (such as drowning and cardiac arrest) than from shark attack," it says.
"Many more people are injured and killed on land while driving to and from the beach than by sharks in the water. Shark attack trauma also is less common than such beach-related injuries as spinal damage, dehydration, jellyfish and stingray stings and sunburn. Indeed, many more sutures are expended on sea shell lacerations of the feet than on shark bites!"
The United States has more shark attacks than anywhere else.
But the ISAF says more people die in the US from sand-hole collapses on the beach than from an encounter with a Noah's Ark.
Certainly, in Queensland, you are more likely to die going for a few quiet drinks at a nightclub than being chomped in half at Straddie.
Perhaps the State Government should introduce a dickhead management program whereby the police are allowed to set mantraps baited with schooners of beer or bottles of Bundy near where potential glassers might lurk. It won't matter if the odd innocent drinker gets caught because the cops will be granted a legislative exemption.
Almost without exception, the people who survive shark attacks wish no ill-will to the creatures and anyone who has seen one while diving or snorkelling can't help but marvel at their sleek grace.
Great whites are the best sharks, the most awesome sharks, the sharks everyone would love to see.
So why are we still killing them when there are so few left?
There should be a moratorium on both netting and drumlines until a non-lethal method of shark management can be devised.
It's a small risk with a big reward.
by Rory Gibson.
He's right- I was in the water with a great white once in PNG and I'll never forget the grace of it and awe it inspired in me. I'm sure other people feel the same way about wild tigers and lions. Clearly we need to save these apex predators- But as they say in Shark water- no one wants to give money to save sharks as they arent fluffy and cuddly enough. Not quite like a pigmy hedgehog.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Kasabian Football Hero
Hmmm these guys have too much time on their hands- when guitar hero meets football
Sunday, November 01, 2009
A-Ha - Take on Me (Literal Version)
Nathan posted one but I thought this one was better :) here is take on me the literal version. Thanks to Gum for the introduction. Also there is a funny star wars thriller clip- sorry the host is a bit wanna-be
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