‘Disgusting’: Sydney massage parlour slammed for gross sign

 "‘Disgusting’: Sydney massage parlour slammed for gross sign

A Sydney massage parlour sign has sparked a mass debate online, with many calling it ‘disgusting’."

This is another News.com "headline". Apparently, many Mossman residents and News. com readers are offended by the sign, particularly re its message to minors. To me, the sign means blowjobs etc aren't available here, but sports and therapeutic massages are. Maybe, the whingers would prefer something more descriptive like "Blowies and Happy Endings not available here Try the shop at number 69."

It also amazes me that really young kids would be remotely interested in or understand the signs meaning. If they were, that's probably the parents fault.
It looks like 2024 is starting off where 2023 ended. Nothing changes.

Gen Z in Gov't?

 "Boomers in Government have failed us’: Gen Z launches ambitious Australian political party,"

This is a story headline on News.com 13/12/2023.

As a Boomer, I have a little reality check for you. We Boomers grew up immediately after WW2. Many of us grew up in poverty (I know my family did), due to a poor post war economy and in very many cases, our parents were grieving, having lost friends and family in the war. We Boomers were not an entitled generation and worked hard, with low pay to rebuild this country and now, in our old age, are reaping the benefits of it. So, you entitled little, soft, bludging, Gen Z wannabes, get off your lazy arses, get a job and learn to save!

Gutless Arseholes Parading In Public

 Sadly, it's becoming more common to see "activists" such as neo-nazis, Hamas supporters (most of whom parade under a different guises) and other such groups, whose members are so brave that they feel it necessary to cover their faces in public. Yet, the state and federal governments do nothing to prevent it. 

This is why I call the lot of them gutless arseholes.

Protesters should have the right to protest, regarless of why they feel the need to do it, but they should NOT have the right to hide their identities, nor should they have the right to damage public property, assault the public or police for any reason and neither should they have the right to hinder traffic or the public for any reason. These arseholes are NOT special, so they should not be allowed to cause any public nuisance whatsoever.

I think that it's time for both the state and federal goverments to create stricter legislateion to control these arsehole "activists" or protesters. Sadly, apart from just being gutless, our politicicians are also just plain lazy. We are supposed to be a free country, so the parading arseholes should be allowed to protest, but NOT hiding their faces, NOT damaging property, NOT assaultint members of the public nor the police and NOT causing any public disruption. There are already laws that prevent the public from acting in the activities that I have just listed and if we break those laws, we are, or can be, fined or imrisoned, as we should be.\

So, why aren\t the authorities applying these laws to contol these aesehole "avtivists" and protecters? It seems to me that the "avtivists" and protestesters, who feel the need to cover their faces and our politicians, who sit on their fat arses and do nothing are all equally gutless.

Tree hugger Greens senator David Shoebridge

 Greens senator David Shoebridge claimed that Australia was "selling weapons, after weapons, after weapons to Israel", Somehow,, I doubt that Shoebridge has any legal access to senstive national security data, in which case he's just spouting shit to keep himself in the public eye.

My advice to him is to bond with his trees and get rooted.

By the way, in my opinion,  whatever deal Australia enters into with Israel, post Hamas' gutless murder of 1200 women , children (including babies) and unarmed men, is well earned and deserved.

The stupidity of "Woke" and "Politically Correct".

      OK, let's start with the ludicrous "Woke" culture, or lack of it.

ADJECTIVE. Someone who is "woke" is very aware of social and political unfairness. (Collins English Dicionary).

According to the dictionary definition, it just means a "normal" person, whatever that may be. I really can't imagine why normal people need a special term for no special reason. And, of all the words in the English language, why "woke"?

As someone who has passed three quarters of a century, speaking English for more than seventy of them, why would some idiots try to confuse me with a totally un-necessary extra meaning of a simple word?

I have lost sleep over that conundrum. On several occasions, I woke up at some ridiculous hour, after having a nightmare about the use of the word "woke". Having woken up, it took maybe half an hour and a couple of single mat scotches to get back to sleep, only to have woken up several more times, during the night because of the same bloody nightmare. It wasn't all bad, due to the scotch. However, every time I woke up, my getting in and out of bed for more whiskey, woke my wife, who didn't appreciate being woken up.

As you can now appreciate, the misuse of the poor little word, "woke", is detrimental to our health.

 

UNCOUNTABLE NOUN Political correctness is the attitude or policy of being extremely careful not to offend or upset any group of people in society who have a disadvantage, or who have been treated differently because of their sex, gender, race, or disability. ( Collins English Dictionary)

OK, I admit it.
I hereby confess to being totally against the stupidity known as Political Correctness.

That does't mean that I'm homophobic ( just ask my gay friends), nor am I a misogynist. After all, I did marry a woman, who I'm devoted to. Come to think of it, I'm not racist either, as my Vietnamese wife will attest.

However, I do despise the tip toeing we are expected to do in our day to day communication, lest we offend someone who is of a different gender, a different race or has a different sexual bent (pun intended).

It is a fact that, in some way or another, we are all different from each other, so let's call it for what it is. There are men and women in most fields of employment. Policemen and policewomen, foremen and forewomen, waiters and waitresses, stewards and stewardesses (sometimes it's difficult to identify which is which here). Whoa! Was that homophobic? Anyway, you get the idea.

Acknowledging a person's gender does NOT denigrate them. It just tells it like it is. Just a thought. The German language has the gender based der, die, das to identify all objects. Have they done away with der and die? Is everything or everyone just a das now? Who cares?

Recently, in a group of MEN and WOMEN, I told a couple of gay jokes. This horrified several of the group, in spite of the fact that the jokes were bloody funny. In my defence, the jokes were told to me by several of my gay friends who didn't care one iota that I retold them. When I related this incident to them (my gay friends), they fell about laughing.

I also told a very bad joke about a dwarf to a group men and women that I work with. I was told by one idiot that the term dwarf was derogatory. The bloody joke wouldn't have been remotely funny if I had referred to the dwarf as being a vertically challenged person.

All I'm saying, people is it's time to lighten up! Relax and stop tip toeing your way through conversations. If you offend someone, tough luck. Maybe they need to lighten up, too.

 

Whinging Poms and Seriously Bad Sports Indians

Over the past week, I've been reading a lot ot "news" stories about the Australian cricket team winning the world cup. Stupid headlines such as "India ‘deceived’ by Aussie World Cup trickery" and the delusional claims by both English and Indian sports writers and "experts" that both the English and Indian cricket teams were the world's best "on paper" and way better than the Aussies.

Here's a reality check. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM WON BY A COMFORTABLE MARGIN!! So, I suggest to the supporters of both the losing teams that they take the paper, declaring their teams to be the best in the world, tear the said paper, into small, finger proof squares and use them to wipe your collective, bad sports' bums. Recycling the squares is optional.