Give Up?

I've watched as it went from one new code to the other and sat here shaking my head in disbelief at those people who've jumped and:

* complained they didn't know the last move was coming (get your head out of your own arse and look at the font page of your beloved community once in a while); or

* complained and asked when they will get their old posts back, and let me clarify there is a difference between the complaining/expectation and appreciation that it could be possible but there's been a shit load of the former! (You should remember that there was a back-up function which was very easy to use once in a while. If you don't use it, then when your blog goes find another way to get your posts back if they are so important. But why are they only important once they're bloody gone? It's your content don't expect anyone else to get it back for you BUT if they DO, show some damn appreciation!); or

* instead of pointing out bugs in the completely new system some have grumbled "I can't do... A, B or C" ... "I can't scratch my own arse". (For a place that you keep choosing to stick with and have followed the recent problems and I assume you know it is a HOBBY for ONE man, how bout you show a little fucking patience and let the man do his thing and yeah it may not be in the first fucking day but hey you wanted to stay for the community right?)

There have been a lot of other things said too that have made my jaw drop and I've started to pity Keith for all that he must get privately as well as out in the public forums. Quite a few people have been just plain rude and selfish.

Now having said all that I have tried to be patient in waiting for my little problem (and anyone else's who uses a hotmail acc and doesn't want another fucking email addy to keep track of) of just getting into the site. One of Keith's first posts on the new code was about login issues and he posted this comment several days ago: "Even if you registered for WPMU before .. you need to register again for this new script. If you are having issues with getting the verification then please tell me what user name you registered with and I will get that verified for you." The very next comment is from me doing just that, and yet here I am almost a week later still waiting.

You know it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd already decided to stay here for the most part. Most of the blogs I read there have not gone registered or buddy only, I can still read and comment and all that so it wasn't bothering me. Until... Keith gets his little subscriptions working, which is all well and good for the community, but in the process it fucked up the feed for bloglines.

I've got enough shit to contend with offline I don't want to be wasting the little time I spend on here at this point. So if I don't get round to your blogs much don't take it personally. At the moment I've pretty much given up on it but when my life settles back in to some kind of normalcy I'll come back to it. For now I'm going to mirror my life on this blog and become a hermit of sorts, I just can't be bothered.

Much Longer?

Each day goes by with uncertainty hanging over it, still

I'm sick of living and breathing the bullshit, but must continue

I'm beginning to feel like the piece of crap I've been pigeon holed as

I'm running out of steam, confidence, motivation and time

Hours upon hours wasted and all ending with the same result

There is nothing more I could be doing, no magic words to mutter

I just want to crawl into a little ball and cry...

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Still here...

I've been flat out and as much as I'd love to flood my blog with bitching and moaning about my life at the moment (it'd be overflowing in no time) I just don't have the energy. So instead I give you this for now...

Oh and I don't think I'll be moving this blog any time soon so no need to change your bookmarks, again.

While I Was Out

So yeah I've been forced back to here. Design won't be fixed for a few weeks, I can't be bothered spending the time on it at the moment.

While I was away from here I didn't pay any attention at all so upon my return I had a quick look at my stats page. It was a little scary to see where some people had come from to land their little butts here. Just a few search examples:-

* alcoholic donuts (ok not so strange yet)

* how to break stubborn streak in little boy (hmm i'm not so big on "breaking" your kid but ok not too bad)

* small cock support group (just because I mentioned it doesn't mean my blog will be of any use for those actually looking for a group, so why would you click to here?)

* my life lady sweety (this one is kind of sad. Many people are finding their lovers online but most of them use dating sites, this poor sod was trying to google her out of the abyss)

* visine on cock ( my apologies to the lovely LV I think you somehow got caught in the crossfire)

* little dicked grandfather humiliation (wtf? I don't know if this was the grandfather or the grandson but either way how the hell did I make the cut? I even opened the search to try to answer this question and after 10pages hadn't found the answer or me)

* what should be the reasonable size of penis to fuck properly (by now I'm starting to see a pattern and for someone who hasn't had any cock in a couple of years now it is slightly worrying. In answer to the search (in case it's repeated) if you have to google it chances are you're not quite there)

* little dicked bears (this is my personal favourite I must say and I'm not going to even try to work it out)

I'll just have to see if I can improve on these in the future.

Chaser's War on APEC

I decided not to blog about this yesterday as it all came out but since I'm still laughing today I changed my mind. I'll also use any excuse to write something, anything, at the moment.

The Chaser boys are well known in this country and people tend to either love them or hate them. Their "War on Everything" provides a certain kind of comedy and satire which can be hard to find these days and has given them (and the ABC) a regularly top rating TV show. Wednesday's show gave a taste of the humour during the lead up and the beginning of APEC with this:

A few days ago they pulled their first stunt during the APEC summit in Sydney by showing up at a student protest dressed as a horse and copper. A fairly ordinary joke at the expense of not only APEC but the apparently dire state of our equine community (due to a horse flu outbreak) which led to the police being unable to use their horses as part of security.

Yesterday, however, they took it to another level and were rewarded for their efforts. The boys hired three "official looking" cars and a couple of motorbikes and formed their own motorcade. Dressing the cars in Canadian flags and flanking them with guys in suits they headed towards the restricted zone of the city to see how far they'd get. They included in their "disguise" their own "Insecurity" APEC ID badges which were clearly labelled "Chaser's War" and "Joke". There has been $250 million spent on security this week, some of which I spoke of a couple of posts ago. But, as it turns out the fake motorcade was waved through the first police checkpoint and then the second as well. When the team reached the third and final checkpoint just a matter of metres from President Bush's accommodation they decided to turn around. Before they did Chas stepped out of one of the motorcade's cars dressed as Osama bin Laden and stated that he was a powerful world leader and wanted an invite too. It was only at this point that police realised they'd been had and swarmed the motorcade and arrested all 11 people involved.

The publicity is more than The Chaser has ever had before, managing to be among the top stories for both yesterday and today. A poll on a newspaper website asked if the prank was funny and after 28,000+ votes almost 90% said yes. But predictably not everyone has seen the humour, most notably the top dogs in the police responsible for the security this week. They have said today that the comedians were lucky not to be shot by snipers, to which Julian Morrow responded that "lucky it was us and not al-Qaeda". A fair point in my opinion. I found Today Tonight's story last night on the prank rather amusing in itself and even more so when I caught a little of the show tonight too. Since the public has been overwhelming in their support of the Chaser guys TT changed tact and the boy's went from "dangerous fools" to the next big thing. Several "media experts" saying the team could make millions by jumping ship to a commercial station and one going as far as saying the boy's could make it even bigger in Hollywood.

There are a couple of things about the security breach which should be worrisome, not least of which is the fact that the Canadian PM was not yet even in the country. On a day when there was 92 motorcades travelling through the inner city within just a few short hours I would have thought the security actually on the ground would at the very least know which countries delegates were running around the place.

The team were all released on bail last night and are due to face court next month and could face a maximum of six months jail. That didn't stop another three of the Chaser's crew filming in the city again this afternoon. This time they dressed with black cardboard cars, with paper plates for wheels but still adorned with Canadian flags, and kept their "motorcade" out of the restricted zone. The police again took them in for questioning though this time had to let them go without charge. You can't help but give The Chaser some credit!

Just as an aside, a couple of other quick observations to do with APEC:

1) I've been incredibly impressed with Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd so far during the summit. Yesterday during a meeting with the Chinese President and various officials and big business representatives Rudd took to the microphone after Bonsai and welcomed the Chinese in fluent Mandarin.

2) Is it just me or does Bush's slip of the tongue this morning thanking Bonsai for his hospitality during the "OPEC" meeting seem a little Freudian? I mean he corrected himself rather quickly but after telling everyone how important the oil is to Iraq etc etc the other day it just seems to me he has a little too much oil on the mind. Yet not one media outlet has said anything along those lines...

3) For two countries who have NOT ratified the Kyoto Protocol it seems more than a touch hypocritical for Bush and Bonsai to now be claiming climate change is among their top priorities. Another blatant election campaign move by Howard is his attempt to make CC top of the pile for this summit.

Drugs, Sex and David Duchovny; What more could you want?

I've fallen (back) in love with David Duchovny. I've watched the first two episodes of Californication and it's my new favourite show! Before the first ep aired here I mentioned to Phil that I'd be watching it and he voiced his surprise that it was being shown on free-to-air TV here. Well a couple of weeks in and it certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. There was predictably a few people up in arms last week about the whole first scene with the "nun". I was a little surprised that it seemed to blow over relatively quickly.

Until this week anyway. The headline yesterday was "Drugs, sex and vomit prompt Californication boycott call". The article tells of "outraged family groups" who held a candlelight vigil outside the Channel 10 offices as the show aired on Monday night and also of the proposed boycott of not only the show but of the advertisers as well. The writer of this article also asks the question "Should TV script writers continue breaking taboos or should they pull their heads in and focus on less offensive material such as the US series of The Office?" I find the question humorous in itself purely because the original UK series of The Office was a shitload better than the US one. Anyway, the story has since generated 850+ comments, which is pretty impressive considering 3-400 is a lot for a good story on that site. From my reading I'd say a majority of those comments were defending the show and Channel 10.

I find it amusing and a little worrying that people can get so worked up about something they saw on a fictional TV show. I decided to share just a couple of those comments that opposed the show and offer my thoughts on them. Feel free to stop reading anytime now, this was an exercise for my own amusement and distraction...


"Ehat a disgaceful show. If you perverts want porn go and hire at the video shop. Normal people do not want this crap on TV

Posted by: rodger of Brisbane"


First of all let me say that "normal people" don't spell Roger with a d, Rodger. More importantly I'd say you need to get your rocks off a little more often and perhaps that could be done by investing in (or googling) better porn than you currently have. If Californication is your definition of porn than you are very obviously missing out on a lot! I didn't see one cock! Being more sexually (self)satisfied may also help in relaxing you a little.


"Im a boradminded 30 somthing, and I think this show is a disgrace. You cannot prevent children from watching fee to air TV and this sort of trash has no place on free to air TV. Channel 10.....you seem to be on track to rival Channel 4 in the UK...nothing but soft porn, reality TV and nothing of substance. Australia is better than this.

Posted by: benny of perth"

Leaving your spelling and typing abilities alone and going straight to your parenting skills, or lack there of, I would suggest your children should be in bed at that time of night. Failing that I would secondly suggest no TV's in the child's bedroom. Failing both of those options I'd suggest you step the fuck up and PARENT your children. I certainly don't have a problem preventing my son from watching this or any other show on TV.


"the argument "obviously they forgot they can turn their tvs off" is a much-repeated but actually redundant argument. So, do we run shows showing women being abused, beaten, bashed, or the killing of children, then say "if u dont like it, dont watch it"? Surely we need some standards. You can say that till your blue in the face, but what about all the teens who have tvs in their bedrooms? can parents be everywhere at once? Saying "just turn the tv off" takes all responsibillity away from those charged with the responsibility of putting content on our tvs. In reality, it only makes the job harder for those who are trying to raise their kids to have decent morals, and for what? the pleasure of people who like getting free porn on free-to-air tv instead of having to suffer the humiliation of renting it out from the dvd store.

Posted by: anthony of perth"

I think you'll find the shows about women and children (and even men!) being abused, bashed and killed are Law & Order, CSI and various other shows I'm sure you've seen and not complained about. So the simple answer to your question would be "yes, on a nightly basis". Just like Californication they are fictional shows but they seem to cause no objection from the "family groups" and others like yourself. Parenting is up to you and instead of relying on others to monitor what your children do and don't see on TV how bout you take that responsibility upon yourself.

Bloody Fools

I need a brief distraction from my life so I'm not blogging personal or life shit today. Since I watched a press conference a little while ago by two absolute wankers, one of whom is the biggest dickhead holding a position of power in the world today. No prizes for guessing that I'm talking about Bush and "Bonsai" (my fave John Howard nickname) in the lead up to the APEC summit being held this week in Sydney. I'm going to make a real effort not to get into too much serious detail.

Now let me start by saying I don't think the summit itself is a bad thing, in fact it could be quite beneficial and productive given the right leaders but I won't dwell on that one. It also happens to be a timely and handy tool for Bonsai in the lead up to our federal election. He knows this all too well and started off in great form by attending a National Rugby League awards event last night instead of meeting Bush at Sydney airport on his arrival. To a very sporting nation such as ours it was a blatant (and futile) attempt at looking like a "typical Aussie bloke". It may have had a chance of working IF we didn't know just how UNsporting little Bonsai is, as evidenced in this little vid.

There has also been a lot of talk here about Bonsai's choice of location for the summit. Being a sydneysider I can see all the good reasons to hold it here, it is the biggest (and best) city in the country. However, it is not the capital and considering this APEC summit is one of our biggest political events, at least on a regional scale, it would seem logical to hold it in our nations capital. This would also mean a hell of a lot less disruption to residents and would be much easier to provide the required security. As it stands we have a city of four million and the CBD basically in lock-down for a week with numerous road closures, security check-points and no-go zones at differing times. So much so that the city was given a public holiday for Friday and encouraged to "go away" for a long weekend.

With Sydney locked in to host and Bush already in the city the summit is well under way. As I mentioned the first joint press conference was held a little while ago with the two buddies joking and blabbing on about Iraq and how well they are doing. Also mentioning climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which led to an agreement on nuclear energy. That's the word, nuclear, that sticks out to me from the press conference as Bush was forced to try to say it at least a dozen times. I know he's nearing the end of his term and he's been around for years now but it still amazes me that the "hardest job in the world" is held by a man who can not even manage to string a coherent sentence together when facing the world's media! Fuck knows how he does it when he has to write it himself.

Okay I'm already bored with this topic and no doubt so are you. So I'll go back to blocking my ears and closing my eyes in an attempt to ignore the stupidity that is bound to be of abundance this week. Which may even spare you from a proper rant on the topic. Hmm did I even make a point with this? meh who cares...