… are equal and opposite. I thought it was Newton’s third law but it may have been Darwin’s.
Shamelessly filched from VisualConsumer.
Hot Toddy …
80 ml Whiskey
60 ml fresh lemon juice
1.5 table spoons honey
cinnamon and cloves to taste
250 ml boiling water
The key ingredient is the alcohol, and if you’ve had enough of it (and you’re into rugby) you can substitute urine for the boiling water.
Balls …
The Soccer World Cup has been enlivened by a little more cannibalism.
After the incident the Uruguayan press rushed Suarez with one question on their lips …
“Like chicken”, he replied.
Meanwhile, if you’re wondering what to buy him for his next birthday, may I recommend …
To attain the heights of international performance on the soccer world stage is no easy feat. Parents of aspiring players, or even aspiring parents of reluctant players, be warned … the acting classes alone will cost you a fortune.
Honour killings are morally justified …
The Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas was looking forward to this …
Uthman Badar, a Sydney-based Muslim speaker, writer and activist, will deliver a presentation titled ”Honour killings are morally justified” and argue that such acts are seized on by Westerners as a symbol of everything they dislike about another culture…
Joint founder and co-curator of the festival Simon Longstaff said the idea is one he had consistently nominated for six years, because the point of the event is to push boundaries “to the point where you become extremely uncomfortable”
Mr Badar is an Australian spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group described by the festival as “global advocacy group working for positive change in the Muslim world via the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate” – a state under sharia, or Islamic law.
… but it’s been cancelled.
Must have been a push back by all those moderate muslims.
Pastafari …
Egyptian justice …
Peter Greste given a 7 years sentence for doing his job.
Al Jazeera English managing director Al Anstey said the verdict “defies logic, sense, and any semblance of justice”.
“Peter, Mohamed, and Baher and six of our other colleagues were sentenced despite the fact that not a shred of evidence was found to support the extraordinary and false charges against them,” he said in a statement.
Although one of the first places on earth to develop a civilisation, it’s pretty hard to see any semblance of one there now.
All strength to Peter and his family.
Parkour …
Ah, the French, they’ve given us so many things, Saxophone reeds, Benedictine … and now parkour. A picture is worth a thousand words, you will quickly get the idea from this classic of the genre (no need to watch it all, it gets a bit tedious) …
David Belle, and Sébastien Foucan are in the video and along with Raymond Belle are credited with its invention in the 1980’s. The name is derived from “parcours du combattant“, the classic obstacle-course method of military training. With skills like these it is impossible to imagine any obstacle that could hinder a French army retreat.
It’s come a ways since then …
If only I had discovered this in my youth … I’d have become a trauma specialist.
Truth in advertising …
From the Ozwinds webpage …
… and yours for only $97
Must say, I’ve been a satisfied customer for many years.
America waking … ?
Just when Obama had lulled them to sleep …
The shame …
Robert McGee is the worst person in the world … <Check it out>.
The obvious limitation to a debate about the R word would appear to be not knowing which R word we are debating.
And it seems not to be unanimous, not quite everyone believes Robert McGee outranks Rolfe Harris, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Julian Knight for the title.
Neshaminy High School senior Gillian McGoldrick doesn’t think her principal, Robert McGee, is the “worst person in the world,” but when it comes to allowing the use of the school nickname “Redskins” in the school newspaper, she thinks he’s dead wrong.
Dead wrong to allow the school nickname to be used in the school newspaper? Quite so, it’s a racial slur, so offensive that it’s a school nickname. In fact Ms McGoldrick will be unhappy to see the word in the Poconorecord report quoted above, she prefers R——-.
Neshaminy, by the way, is in Pennsylvania, not far from Philadelphia.
Reminds me of a story, an Englishman, an Irishman, a Scot and an Australian got into a discussion. I’d tell you about it but it is sure to offend someone.
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