Tag: nutbags

The age of entitlement …

Rose Ashton-Weir and her mother, Elizabeth Weir, claim the prestigious school (Geelong Grammar) breached its obligation to teach Ms Ashton-Weir to the standard required to be accepted into her chosen law degree.

The pair yesterday launched a law suit in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal against the top private school after Ms Ashton-Weir, now 18, failed to win enrolment in law at the University of Sydney. <Herald Sun>

Dear Marcus …

All in all a very bad night at the footy …

A man barracking for Carlton grabbed Marcus hard around the throat and pushed him back into his seat.

He then unloaded a string of profanities at the startled boy.

Marcus said the incident had ruined his night.

I know how you feel, mate, I have to live with one. And then, then, they go and steal the game with a fluke of a goal, a total accident. Have they no shame?

Not all nutbags are mad …

And having alerted the world to the banger in the bottom spectacular, in which I may have used the word crackers I await in fear and trepidation the arrival of the word police …

MEDIA outlets that broadcast or use phrases such as ”loony”, ”psycho” and ”nutcase” would be censured under a plan to crack down on language that stigmatises the mentally ill.

Headspace, the national youth mental health foundation, wants television, radio and print regulators to adopt tougher codes to penalise those who use mental illness as a derogatory term …

The story is brought to us by Jill Stark, who, depending how wide the net is cast, may have to change her name.

The really useful Julian Disney was beside himself in his haste to further erode Australian freedom of expression …

Australian Press Council chairman Julian Disney said such concerns were ”important and persuasive”, and would be given the ”highest possible priority” in press standards now under revision.

 

More arse than class …

A NORTHERN Territory man may be flown to Adelaide after a party trick involving setting off firecrackers between his buttocks went badly wrong.

The 23-year-old man was at a party in the Darwin suburb of Rapid Creek on Saturday night when he decided to let the cracker off, NT Police said.

“It appears a party was in full progress when a young male decided to place a firework between the cheeks of his bottom and light it,” said Senior Sergeant Garry Smith.

“What must of seemed to be a great idea at the time has backfired, resulting in the male receiving quite severe and very painful burns to his cheeks, back and private bits,” Snr Sgt Smith said.

Alcohol was a possible factor involved in the stunt, police said.

<Herald Sun>.

Live wire …

Nearly a Darwin award.

Two men and a seven tear old girl at Prestons, NSW, pulled up at an excavation, fenced and clearly marked as dangerous, “Live cables below”. In a determined attempt to prove that NSW stands for “No sense whatever”…

Police allege the younger man entered the area with a battery powered angle grinder and attempted to cut into the insulation surrounding the cables.

It is further alleged that as the grinder cut through the cable and struck the live copper wiring there was an explosion.

The 32-year-old man suffered extensive burns to his upper body but was able to return to his vehicle and drive to Campbelltown Hospital.

Suffering injury to 50 per cent of his body the man will be transferred to the burns unit at Concord Hospital and remains in a serious but stable condition.

Newton, no not the genius …

This case “has become a stalking horse for his destruction in the media … Every time this case comes to court it brings more reports in the newspaper. He left Australia to get away from that.”

If you’re unknown and broke you are a criminal, you go to jail, but if you’re rich and famous? You battle …

serious mental health problems …  including post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

Jail? Hell no

a “high-care facility”

Appear in court to face charges of assaulting a taxi driver? Can’t come, on bail in the States. And when Downing Centre magistrate Jane Mottley suggested the matter return to court on August 6, the lawyer for the unfortunate sick person became angry, complaining that US matters would take much longer to resolve and that being dragged back to court was “a waste of court time and my client’s time”. Adding, “I’ve got a man with mental illness being driven mad by this court.”

It’s tough for the rich and famous, just ask his lawyer, the high care facility doesn’t even have a telephone. Still that should keep the receptionist a little safer. Hopefully he can’t have visits from his girlfriend either. Safer for her that way.

The Age has the story.

 

Equal opportunity …

I think a good measure of fairness in society is  be found in the chance that any youngster has of rising to any position in that society.

In an ideal universe any baby born tomorrow could reasonably set its sights on becoming prime minister, a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist.

All too often the biggest obstacle in the youngster’s path is its parents. What chance the unborn offspring of the sixteen year old who, last week, said on Facebook she would taunt her victim until she died?

What chance poor Roisin Fraser whose mother opted to give birth without a midwife or nurse present? NSW Deputy State Coroner Scott Mitchell found that Roisin had died moments after birth due to a “hypoxic episode” and that “her mother chose to rely on her own socio-political views about birthing and Roisin’s chance of life was deferred to that decision“.

Eliana Diskin died on Boxing Day 2000 from disseminated invasive candidiasis, a form of thrush caused by kwashiorkor – a type of malnutrition rarely seen outside the Third World. The coroner Mr. Byrne ruled that the Diskins had caused Eliana’s death by breaching a “fundamental duty of care” in failing to ensure their baby was adequately nourished. Eliana had been fed on rice milk, clearly labelled as unsuitable for the purpose, with some additives suggested by a naturopath.

Survive long enough and your parents are then free to make some decisions on your education. If they choose home schooling and the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum you may learn that the Loch Ness monster exists. She’s a plesiosaur, a living dinosaur, and her existence shows God created the Earth and evolution is bunkum. This may prove a handicap if wishing to study biology.

The unborn should choose their parents carefully … try to avoid the nutbags.