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Wedekind's Lulu in an opium den

Rise like possums

King crisps

These King crisps from Ireland state that they are 'simply superior'. This is a very surprising statement considering the competition in Ireland given by the leading manufacturer Taytos.

In my opinion Taytos crisps are far superior, in taste, colour and quality of potatoes used. I am therefore wondering in what way do King crisps think they are simply superior, and in comparison to what. Obviously they are superior to any Australian crisps, but this is not hard as all Australian crisps (chips) are generally vile.

This is not an issue which is causing huge amounts of visible community anger here in Canberra, but certainly there is a sense of simmering tension. Whether that tension boils over into scenes of violence that nobody wants to see, is a matter of some conjecture.

Considering that Canberrans must travel to Sydney (as I did) or other State capitals to get these crisps (above) in speciality stores, is certainly a factor in controlling public disquiet. Most Canberrans are not even aware that there are foreign crisps available to be bought in Australia.
If they were aware of the quality that is available elsewhere, they would almost certainly be digging up the firearms they buried during the gun buyback of 1997.

If they then discovered there was a brand of crisp claiming to be simply superior, when quite clearly they are not (in a like comparison), it is almost certain that there would be a crisis of confidence in the whole structure of Australian society.

I am not saying that King crisps are going to cause such a crisis as was caused by the failings of the US Subprime market, but certainly when confidence in institutions is shattered there is always the chance of a catastrophic economic meltdown. While collapse of the Australian markets will not seemingly have an effect on the rest of the world, apart from a reduction in the price of some raw materials, I think King crisps should try and stem wild speculation.

This is how the votes fell geographically.

You may note primarily where tax money is generated is blue, where tax money is expended is red. Just saying.

Dog fight

Labour savages idealism, while Tories stand by.

Picture: DEREK BLAIR

Bigmouth

This Charming Man

Mr Cameron has said his favourite Smiths song is This charming Man. And here he is in front of Salford Lads Club, a spot you should know. So why ponder life's complexities when you can vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton.

Brown's favourite song is Keep Right on to the End of the Road by Sir Harry Lauder (1916). It's OK but you can't dance to it.

Do we really care what Clegg's favourite song is, thought not. Well anyway, for what it is worth from Facebook we have this selection of his favourite artistes: Jonny Cash, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Prince, Macy Gray, Schubert, Bach. His favourite books include a JM Coetzee, so he can't be all bad, though he is still the son of a banker.

Baron Pearson of Rannoch has no findable music tastes and Nick Griffin prefers folk music.

And you may say, is it important what music they listen to? And I would say, yes, it is vital.

Kiki De Montparnasse, 1922
by Man Ray

Biggest moth ever

Now this is a big moth. For size comparison, see the dead normal sized moth on the ground. This moth was the size of a small bird, I kids you not. A moth like this would not be eating your clothes, it would be out wearing them. It is not dead just apparently resting. I am loathe to move it on, as you would be.

Update

I got back from the shops, and it was gone.

Update 2

I checked the Internets it was probably a Giant Wood Moth. It is a shame I didn't see it fly away, apparently its wingspan is 10"

Outside the Canadian High Commission

That's my baby



If the media are not interested in the story, they are at least interested in nudity



Seal slaughter

New York

Bon voyage Clare




These streets will make you feel brand new
The lights will inspire you

Fair isle

I received in the post the most marvellous gift. A Cream original



A hand knitted fair isle vest

Edgar Loves Martine

Google suggests 89 Million results can't all be wrong





Happy Valentines day, baby





What does this make you

Lucky:



Very Lucky:



Not so very lucky:

Baby jeebus it gets worse. Senator Conroy now wants YouTube to self censor on the 'governments' behalf. See here and here.

Sensibly it appears YouTube (Google) has initially said no to Conroy's demands.

Conroy initially introduced his Internet filtering censorship legislation with the stated intention of combating child pornography, a reasonable thing to do, with some support. However as all the experts and the netterati then went on to tell him, his Internet filter plan would do nothing about it. But still he persisted.
As the YouTube filter plan shows, his plan had nothing to do with pornography, it is about political and social censorship. It is about banning and filtering things that the 'government' doesn't think is suitable for Australians to see. That is information on:
Illegal computer downloading/hacking etc.
How to make drugs/bombs
How to commit various crimes
Euthanasia materials
Abortion materials
Pro-ana and Pro-mia materials
BDSM and fetish lifestyles
Hate speech
Direct action political campaigning
Whistle-blowing materials (such as WikiLeaks)
etc. etc.

Now you may not support many of these activities and most are unpleasant, but that is not good enough reason to ban them.
As everyone knows, YouTube is very strict on what is made available on its site and is very proactive in deleting pornography or other copyrighted or illegal content, thus there is no pornography or generally illegal content on there. What the 'government' is wanting to have removed therefore is not pornography as it continues to claim but videos by such Australians as Dr Philip Nitschke. It is a censorship regime being planned that is only matched by dictatorships. And no this isn't a conspiracy theory.

Tips on dietary advertisements

Tip #1 : Ignore silly adverts
Tip #2 : Bellies are hot
Tip #3 : Maybe get a haircut




Tip #1 : Don't be silly
Tip #2 : Flat is not 'sexy'

Tony Blair speaks the truth, again

Mike Huckabee -

I don’t pretend for a moment to understand American politics very well and I certainly don’t understand British politics but why so many of these inquiries? There’s been four and they’ve all been relentless, they haven’t really mined any new ground

Tony Blair -

I think it’s partly because we have this curious habit, I don’t think it’s confined to Britain actually, where people find it hard to come to the point where they say we disagree – you’re a reasonable person, I’m a reasonable person but we disagree.
There’s always got to be a scandal as to why you hold your view. There’s got to be some conspiracy behind it. Some great, you know, deceit that’s gone on, and people just find it hard to understand that it’s possible for people to have different points of view and hold them reasonably for genuine reasons.

So I think there’s continual desire to sort of uncover some great conspiracy when actually there’s a decision at the heart of it – but there it is.

As usual Blair makes sense, you may loathe him and believe that he went to war for oil or somesuch nonsense, that just makes you a conspiracy nut and an idiot.


And on another point, why oh why, is Clare Short still allowed out in public.

In a nutshell

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