I won’t be here for a while, and if I am the updates will be sporadic. My mother is currently very sick at the moment (she has been for a little while now) and will be undergoing a quadruple heart bypass next week. So as you can imagine, my attention will be there. Of course there may be twitter updates, but I’ll be away from here for a while.
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I Love Ebay!
I love eBay. Sure, it’s a place where one can ripped off, but it’s a also a place where you can buy pretty much anything like someone’s soul or even an old Russian submarine! My needs are a little less grandiose or odd. I’m a fan of old games. You remember those don’t you? The games where you got a massive 200 page manual, reference card, map posters and numerous floppy discs all in a 5 kilo box. But the most important thing included was the fact that is was actually a good game!
Sadly those days are far behind us. Now our lucky if you get a manual in a crappy DVD case and the game is usually some derivative piece of shit that is a rehash of some other derivative piece of shit where you shoot people in the head many times over because that’s what the average Ritalin fueled gamer wants these days.
So I suppose eBay is somewhat of a savior of mine in that it allows me to still get my hands on some classics that I might have missed the first time around.
Living in The Nanny State?
Here in Australia we’ve had a new government for just over 12 months. Typically for a labor government they’ve done a rubbish job. They’ve taken a 20 billion plus budget surplus and put it into the red. Rudd has also fallen for what I call the “chicken little” trick. It’s the alarmist condition that the hippies of the World use to trick us into believing that the World is coming to an end. So now they are going to propose a carbon trading scheme. (Even though as a country we don’t pollute half as much as countries like China or America). And now the do-gooder state is going to place taxes on what they would class as “unhealthy foods”. These do-gooders won’t be happy until we’re all living in plastic bubbles locked away from the world. What a fun bunch…
Really they’ve got to be kidding. Some of these “unhealthy foods” include Vegemite, Blue Cheese and Jams because of there high salt & sugar levels. Talk about a nanny state. They want to control what we eat due to high salt and sugar contents, but things like McDonalds, KFC and Hungry Jacks are exempt. There’s something a bit wrong there isn’t it. Sounds like yet another dumb idea just like the proposed Internet filter.
Obviously Kevin Rudd loves the works of George Orwell. I remember what it was like living in a free an democratic country. Now the hippy communists and there politically correct agendas are filtering through into mainstream politics which means that for us, our lives are becoming controlled more and more. Gone are the days when Australia was a free country, where adults were allowed to make their own decisions about their lives. First there was the Internet filter, now they’re telling us what we can and can’t eat? Next you’ll find that Rudd will be monitoring all of our activities, institute a blanket curfew and execute dissidents. Looks like I’m in trouble. And you thought communism was dead!
Hello!
Welcome to my little area of the Internet, This is the place I call home and where I hope to consolidate all of my online travels and little snippets of life into one easy to manage area. You can find all about me in the about tab at the top of the page. I’ll also be adding various features as time goes on.
