I use to like Troy Buswell, but it was when I realised that he cared only about himself that I lost faith. Not saying I’m exactly skinny myself (but I’m only 10kg off my ideal weight now.) That said, the issue was with the ex: maybe I should forgive now, and accept he had good judgment.
Still: maybe chairs are bad for your weight 🙂
via Yahoo News/ The West. If you don’t get the reference, you either don’t live in WA, or you don’t follow WA news. Nothing wrong with that, but this is one of those posts.
In a few elegant words, Tharoor cut to the heart of the issue and it is worth quoting him in full: ”For an Indian mother to hear that her son has been assaulted in Australia, it little matters to her whether he was assaulted because of his race, or because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or because he was the wrong colour or the wrong height, or was carrying an iPod. She doesn’t want her son to be assaulted.
Denver Public Schools apologized Tuesday for what it called a “well-intentioned but highly insensitive” attempt to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Friday’s DPS lunch menu, headlined “In Honor Of M.L. King,” offered students “Southern Style” chicken and collard greens — a meal that some say is an offensive caricature of black culture.
In a statement issued Tuesday night and posted on the school district’s website, DPS spokesman Michael Vaughn said the meal was “highly insensitive in light of certain hurtful cultural stereotypes still harbored in parts of our society.”
This is from a show in the United States called “The Young Turks” on the so called “racist” KFC ad.
According to the guy in the show, the ad is “stereotypical…pushing a stereotype. When I’m thinking race or something…they’re trying to make the target look bad or worse than they actually are…which it does. With a superior race over it….here this drum beat and dance to it, you give them chicken and they become all civilised. This white guy is so civilised, sitting in his own seat…these black folks, a woman putting her but in her face.”
The girl chimes in: “they’re so unruly, uncivilised, so rowdy, jumping up and don, and they can’t sit down unless you give then fried chicken.”
The one problem: both are being racist themselves in presuming that their culture is superior to those from the West Indies. There’s nothing stereotypical in the ad: having both been to Australian vs West Indies games before, and even working many years ago for the WACA, I’ve seen exactly first hand how West Indies fans behave.
So are they saying the way the fans from the West Indies behave is wrong? Because Australians don’t see it as being wrong; quite the opposite, in the cricketing world the West Indies fans are well loved and appreciated because they are so passionate and good fun.
You see, when you criticise other cultures, calling other people “uncivilised,” (like the girl did in the video), you’re the one being racist. I wonder how the Windies fans feel about being called uncivilsed by Americans, and at least one white one at that?
For the record, some archival footage of real West Indies fans in action.
POLICE are refusing to reveal the identities of a man and a woman intercepted at Sydney Airport last week and questioned over the murder of Indian-born fruit picker Ranjodh Singh. The Indian-born pair, believed to be seasonal workers from Griffith, was stopped at the airport’s departure lounge on Monday as they were about to board a flight to Nepal.
Then of course there’s fire guy
News.com.au: “It is understood police are investigating all possible causes of the fire, including that Mr Singh lit the fire himself.”
Sea Shepherd of course claim it was a deliberate attack. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. Thing is though, guys, if you don’t want to be involved in a collision at sea, don’t fucking well deliberately put your boat so close to another.
When Kim Heras moved the Top 100 Australian startups to Younoodle, we completely disappeared, not helped by the fact that we didn’t even have a Younoodle listing.
Completely reinstalled WordPress here. The DB was the most fun: a full import borked the site again, so when with cutting and pasting the key tables from the SQL db into phpmyadmin, one at a time to check if they’d break the site or not.
comments seem to be working, although the template needs some work.
Either way, I no longer have to fear fighting WP every time I try to post here…which means more posting 🙂
I may not be the biggest Tony Abbott fan in the world, but likewise the coverage in the MSM of Abbott’s shadow cabinet appointments today was so bias as to be cringe worthy.
Yeah, remember that the MSM is suppose to report on facts?
So when I hear on nearly every news service that Abbott rewarded the conservative right, how is it that when you read the fine print you see names like:
Scott Morrison.
The member for Cook who only got there by shafting the actual preselected candidate on the basis of left wing interference from Liberal HQ in NSW?
Morrison is one of the leading left wingers in NSW. But he’s a newbie, maybe you can excuse that the media didn’t get that, and that Abbott claimed that he’s a rising star.
No, where there’s no excuse is on an old lefty: Phillip Ruddock, who also got elevated today. The MSM know that he’s no conservative, indeed he’s perhaps the most left wing parliamentary member of the Liberal Party, and has always been to the left of half of the ALP right.
There’s no excuse anymore, because the MSM in Australia has literally gone nuts in terms of bias now. Doesn’t matter where you sit, because EVERYONE knows about Ruddock, it’s old history. The media is perhaps now nothing more than a cheer squad for the ALP…well, perhaps they always were 😉
