Keep LEFT unless overtaking!

One direction or wrong direction?
One direction or wrong direction?

I grew up in the country, my family had horses and quite a lot of acreage, and space has never really been a stranger to me. Some people would call me a country boy I, however would not. I was a round peg in a square hole. The slow pace is nice, but it’s not for me. I will say though, that people in country towns are nice, polite, and they also understand the mechanics of sidewalk etiquette. The irony being that space is all around them, yet the know how to do the footpath Waltz.  Continue reading “Keep LEFT unless overtaking!”

FIFA: Corruption at its finest

When I grow up, I want to be a member of FIFA.  I want to represent my country and collect as much bribes as possible and live large.  Either that, or go be an official in a developing nation, that works too.  But mostly, I want to be a FIFA official, and collect so much money that my puppy can have luxury penthouse apartments all over the world.  Yay FIFA!

FIFA, the world’s most powerful sporting body, and richest, has made the news recently for all the wrong reasons.  And as a “friend” has pointed out, I have painted this fine group with a single prejudicial brush.  Shame on me.

Meh.  Whatever dude, they’re (the ones who have and will be caught – just to cover my ass) a bunch of corrupt a’holes, who deserve to be investigated.  And it’s all falling apart very quickly since May 2015.

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UNREAL – Reality show’s slap in the face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTV_Y5b72Hk UnReal is essentially a show based on the behind the scene action of a dating show very much like The Bachelor.  It is dramatic, well scripted and at times confronting.

We’ve all been addicted to the drama that is The Bachelor, Joe Millionaire, There’s something about Miriam, etc, at one point or another.  But what we’ve often failed to compute is how the producers go about getting the catty sound bites, or how they manage to find the right combination of crazy for the show.

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Bruce Jenner : thank-you for being you

Message 02I never thought I’d ever say “Thank-you for being you” to anyone who was on a reality TV show.  But I truly mean it.  Thank-you Bruce.

Bruce Jenner, the long suffering patriarch of the Kardashian/Jenner clan has officially come out in the recent months as a transgender.  And he’s currently in the process of transforming himself into a woman.

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