pet peeve … food morons a/k/a bogans a la carte

god almighty, spare me from the food morons.

i eat a lot of sushi, dear reader. love the stuff. lean, good portion sizes, relatively cheap, fun, different.

i was standing in one of my local sushi joints the other lunchtime — konichiwa all at Mr Sushi at the Ashmore Pitstop — waiting for my favourite dishes to swing round on the train track. in a nearby booth sat a classic set of bogans a la carte. three blokes and what can only be described as a chick. bleached blonde, boob tube, long fake french nails with the obligatory gold sparkles.

Miss Sophisticate picks up the menu and waves over one of the sushi builders.

‘Oi’d loike this,’ she said. ‘Only without the roice. Oi don’t loike roice.’

so let’s get this right. hungry. doesn’t like rice. in the whole universe of fast food and takeaways, picks sushi joint. naturally.

similar thing happened the very next day at my other favourite sushi house, Sushi Train at Labrador. Two — i’m guessing — schoolies sat in the booth next to me.

one pulled a plate off the train and proceeded to drown it in — i kid you not — an inch-think layer of mayonnaise. but at least she chose an actual sushi dish to do it to.

her mate asked for a bowl of rice and a bottle of teriyaki sauce. that’s it. need i say more?

go home, children. go home and have a Chiko roll.

hackney woman says what we’re all thinking

these riots aren’t about the GFC v2.0, or even about the man that was shot. this is just Gen Y fuckwits thinking they can get away with a bit of fun and games and a free tv or two. england is fucked.

official happy hot dog man. i am speechless. i am without speech.

Bill Maher, Jane Lynch … the Weinerlogues

i am still utterly stunned and amazed. for a start, Jane Lynch is a comedy genius.

a little rant about homophobia and a certain kind of man

Let me paint a picture for you. My local servo. 9.30pm on a sunday. I wander in to buy a soothing bucketload of chocolate, as you do. At the counter is a bloke and he’s ranting on at the young fella behind the counter.

He’s banging on about the flood levy and what a fucking unAustralian slag that Julia Gillard is, giving all that foreign aid to the bloody indonesians. I’m mildly amused about this as i just happened to have written about it in my latest blog post over at goldcoast.com.au — you’ll be unsurprised to learn that i was expressing the opposite view, however.

Now this bloke is what i call an ‘eighties man’. He’s probly knocking on 60′s door but he can’t quite bring himself to give up the Grecian 2000 and let a little gray into his life. Either that or he really needs to update his toupee. He’s got that big bushy mo that tells the world he’s never gone down on a woman and never will if he’s got anything to say about it. He irons his skintight jeans to a knife-edge. He’s got his CFMEU polo shirt on and his knuckle tatts say ‘love’ and ‘hat’ cos he lost his little finger somewhere. Probly up his own ass because he looks the type who would love to take it up there if he only had the balls to admit it to himself.

He then proves me right by switching his rant to the Greens and their gay, anti-fishing agenda. ‘first thing they’ll do is ban all recreational fishing down the east coast of australia,’ he opines. “second thing they’ll do is let the gays get married.”

By now, of course, i’m standing behind him in the queue. I lean forward and say quietly:

“careful mate, there’s a big old lesbian behind you, within touching distance.”

You’d think i’d rubbed an ice-cold dildo between his arsecheeks he moved that fast. Off he scurried and just before he walked out the door he yelled:

“You can listen to me, girlie, i don’t care.”

Well, he certainly told me.

Arseclown.

sarah palin’s part in gabrielle giffords’ shooting

OMG … world’s drunkest man

79 countries who think it’s okay to execute gays

this from maddowblog:

A new U.N. resolution condemns the arbitrary execution of whole classes of humanity, from street kids to indigenous groups. It was to have included sexual minorities, but a bunch of nations balked at protection for LGBTs. The UN General Assembly then approved an amendment that removed them from the list.

God bless the UN, increasingly useless, increasingly controlled by fucktards and evil people.

Here are the 79 countries who voted to reserve the right to execute The Gay:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brunei Dar-Sala, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Indonesia? seriously? after all that money i sent you? the Maldives? sink into the ocean, then, you bastards. South Africa? Really? jesus, just when you think a place is getting civilised.

well, at least i know where not to spend my tourism dollars, now.

oh FFS

this is why sometimes … not often, admittedly … i get embarrassed by what i do for a living.

the real test, editorially speaking is, if this had not been about a transgendered victim, would it have rated the front page. it is, after all, just a yarn about a grubby domestic dispute.

knowing the newsroom as i do, i’m willing to bet the answer to that question is no. the only reason this got the treatment it did is because the victim is transgendered.

disappointing. depressing.

wtf of the day


i don’t even know where to begin.

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