/rant mode on Today’s rant is unusual as it’s not about the USA election, USAn attitudes on sex and education [lack thereof], creationists being morons, or sporting broadcasts. Today I’m frothing at the mouth about something that’s going on here in Australia, that the population is not getting upset enough about – but that’s the [...]
One of the things I hate about blogs, bloggers and blogging are the so-called trolls; the sick fucks who make bloggers’ lives a misery. They’re the sad, small-minded, hate-filled types who leave comments telling the blogger how much they hate them (the blogger), what vile deluded people they are, what a sick life they leave, [...]
Steve Irwin was a dickhead. There’s been a lot of fuss about the South Park Halloween episode, featuring a bloodied Steve Irwin with a stingray hanging out of his chest. Via the BBC News Online; John Beyer of Mediawatch called the episode “grossly insensitive”, and that “Mr Irwin’s family are obviously still grieving about their [...]
Found this cute quiz via grrlscientist * http://www.spicolisbarleybin.com/games/survival.swf I got full marks – 17/17. Woohoo! According to this quiz, this means I have what it takes to be an extreme survivor, am allowed to wear an “I Will Survive” Gloria Gaynor t-shirt and taunt the predatory animal of my choice (doesn’t the wearing of a [...]
I wrote up a long entry about EDS – what it is and how it affects sufferers including me – and posted it as an “About” page as it is kind of stand-alone and is also too bloody long for a standard post. Ever since my diagnosis nearly ten years ago I’ve dealt with my [...]
Strangely one of the concepts that both attracts and repels me about blogs is THE MEME. Memes can be incredibly boring or self-aggrandising or plain pointless; space wastage. Or they can be absolutely fascinating, revealing things you never knew about yourself [or oneself, I just guess at pronouns; also 'oneself' whilst correct is just too [...]
