I just realised I have a ready supply of: blank t-shirts, printable iron-on shirt transfers, skateboards, and insane friends who live in Randwick and who dislike being told what to do by authoritarian civil-rights-abusing governments. And World Youth Day is only a fortnight away.
Things could get entertaining…..
Is there any better way of teaching kids about the importance of conservation and the evils of capitalism than The Lorax?
(Hint: the answer is no)
I’m off ethanol beverages for a month after seeing “Dry July” mentioned briefly in the local rag. I didn’t realise it was a fundraiser for Dreams2Live4, though. I’m just doing it because I often go sans-hooch for anything up to 6 months just for health and self-discipline reasons.
Anyway, it seems funny to be asking people to sponsor you just to not drink; as though alcohol were some kind of vital necessity of life (if you think it is, there’s a word for you). The site reads:
“Dry July challenges people to last a month without drinking alcohol.”
Challenges? “Last” a month? Dear me….
What I might do is work out roughly what I’d spend on impromptu beer or wine purchases over a month and donate it to charity…though probably not a charity that reads like a bad numberplate [SXCDRMS2LV4U2NV].
The Liberal Party can get knotted. I was here first.
Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
“Causing annoyance” could include handing out condoms at protests, or wearing an anti-Catholic t-shirt.
I may have to re-evaluate my plan to print up a “Sola Scriptura, bitchez” t-shirt…. (haha only serious kidding)
And as much as I enjoy getting nekkid in the street, it needs to be because I want to, not at the whim of some paranoid local plod who suspects I have a firearm up my wahoo (unfortunately for any overzealous coppers, the man most likely to engage in that particular activity will be out of the country at the time…).
Pity there’s no new laws against WYD “causing annoyance” on a grand scale to myself and everyone else whose suburbs will be in lockdown for the duration of the Pope Party. I just got off the phone to The World Youth Day Lack Of Coordination Authority (WYDCA) who were, according to their publicity release, delivering parking permits to residents in June (1 hour zones for about 3km around the pope-i-centre). It’s July now. Apparently the permits should arrive this week…maybe….or maybe the week after Pope Day…..like, whatever. Nobody I’ve spoken to in the area has received a permit yet.
I bet the week of the event itself will be even better organised. These new incredibly-ambiguous-and-wide-open-to-abuse police powers are the icing on the turd cake.
We’re getting out of here come World Something-Involving-The-Pope Day.
Telstra are vying for my number 1 most loathed company on account of the continual harassment from them on my mobile phone and borderline-abusive behaviour from their telemarketers. But the practice that Silvia describes is a new low. However, they have stiff competition from Origen Energy for Most Loathed: Origen’s door-to-door salesmen masquerade as consultants or technicians from your existing provider and ask to see your bill to check that “you’re getting charged the right amount” as an opener into signing on with them. This particularly invasive and devious tactic has rewarded them with an earful of abuse from me, and I tore strips off one of these cretins while he tried it on my bamboozled Korean neighbour who thought he had to sign the paperwork or his electricity would be cut off.
Unfortunately I forgot to warn my wife about these vermin and she was cajoled into signing up with Origen while I was at work.
Needless to say, I went spaz.
