"I'm all right Jack", says Dick Smith

This* was dragged up in the 9 News tonight.

Dick Smith's million dollar challenge, he wants someone under 30 to come up with some ideas to make the world more sustainable. He blathered about rampant consumerism, this millionaire as his enormous, and no doubt very expensive, personal helicopter was towed into its hangar.

Yeah, Dick. You can piss on the fire, your toast is cooked. How did you make your millions - so it wasn't rampant consumerism?

*And reading that Singo's not much better.
I have a population plan. Shut the friggin door to all and any who won't fit in.

I've put paragraphs in this but the formatting is mucking up. Sorry!

Poor little rich girl

Some people who should know better really do have too much money for their own good and much too high an opinion of themselves.

The smell of av-gas and grease was distateful to Ms Precious, so the groundcrew and refuellers were instructed that they had to stop whatever they were doing and make sure there was no smells while Precious walked the 30 feet from her plane to her car....

And even if this young man wasn't mentally disabled, what kind of star/celebrity with a reputation for being a compassionate, caring person treats people like this?

Don't bother reading the 500-odd page book, read this review!

So, what's she got to hide? It will all come out in the end, especially with these restrictive rules she has for her employees, and even anyone who comes into contact with her!

Thanks to Minicapt!

Not a clue bat

Unfortunately.

Interesting

Do you think that the face is not shown 'cos they're not quite sure which one to use?

The old real, early, normal one, or the one resembling The Phantom of the Opera?

A Jackson impersonator....

Imagine a cross between Jackson....

and Flacco!

A vain little twerp

OMG

I've just noticed Kevin's comb over!

Check out the picture here...

Famous death

Will he be buried in his full stage costume? (Question by Kerrie-Ann K)

Hello? He wore costumes all the time, whether on or off stage. How can anyone see the difference?

Musing about the overload of MJ on all the magazines at the newsagents, I wondered aloud whether to buy one... Then said, "Hmm. No. Don't need that." Then said to the young girl at the counter "Did you hear, Michael Jackson died!" As if I was astonished.

She didn't get my nuanced sarcasm, and asked if I'd seen any news reports. The young fellow at the counter got the picture, as she did when I said I'd seen it all, and was over it.

Speaking of plastic....

When I heard that the family and Al Sharpton were organising the funeral/memorial ceremony for MJ my immediate thought was, "He's just died and now the circus begins."

Now I've seen reports on TV that tickets, yes, tickets to the MJ Memorial are selling for $1,500.

WTF?

They should shoot these scalpers. (Update: The tickets are free and are being drawn in a lottery.)

Though judging from the people interviewed who adored MJ there'd be some silly enough to pay that much to attend a memorial service.

That's disgusting.

Narcissist celebrity conspicuous compassion

Have your spew bag ready.

Now, let me remind the reader that we were in bloody Africa. There are many lovely things about Africa, and especially about South Africa. Still, continent-wide, the standard for a good day there is pretty set:

• Do I own nothing?
• Is my flesh rotting?
• Do I have to sleep near or on feces?

If you can answer no to all three questions, you have had a good day in Africa!

Here 'tis.

Thanks Minicapt.

David and Kim

Just watching the cooking session on this programme.

David's his usual halfwitted* self.

Kim has proved her ineptitude trying to cut tomatoes.

It's a good thing there's television for these fools to have a job. A well-paying job.

Did anyone else see it?

*Here's two examples prepared earlier, remember the placebo and the bladder episodes.

It's not as if she's short of a quid

Dysfunctional family doesn't quite cover it.

Jack Marx on the same subject, comments are good.

Two fat ^^old^^ ladies went to a concert (we almost look like Clarissa and Jennifer*!)

Bloody brilliant.



























Except... More later. I have to think about what I want to say.

*and if you think I'm going to post the unflattering pic of two fat ladies taken by a short bloke in the motel looking at the chins and up the nose, you've got another think coming!

Pammy's in the house, upsetting the sponsors

The letter and accompanying video - addressed to Albert Baladi, the managing director of KFC's Australian parent company - claims the fast food chain's suppliers scald chickens to death in defeathering tanks.

Probably totally unaware of the treatment of animals in Australia.

"When I enter the Big Brother house I won't have my legs broken or be scalded to death in a tank of hot water. It's cruel."

Didn't she freak out when she found out what Ugg boots were made of? And then throw them away?

Like I said in the labels....

Update: Here you go, do a bit of research, Pammy. Specifically,

Bird Welfare

The conditions under which broilers are housed and the way that they are managed during their growing phase, transportation and slaughter are set down in several government/industry endorsed Codes of Practice designed to safeguard their welfare.

The industry has developed a model welfare audit program, which covers hatchery, breeder rearing, breeder laying, grower, and the pick-up, transport and processing sectors. Several companies have incorporated elements of this welfare audit in their own quality plans. All companies incorporate elements of good practice for bird welfare in their grower manuals.

High standards of bird welfare and high levels of flock performance and economic performance are not incompatible – quite the contrary, they go hand in hand. It simply makes good economic sense as well as being in the bird’s best interests to ensure that flocks are maintained in an environment in which they are thermally comfortable, protected from injury, fed optimally and kept healthy. As an example, given that feed represents in excess of 60% of the cost of producing a live meat chicken, and most feed is consumed in the latter stages of the bird’s growth when the bird is bigger and consuming more each day, it simply doesn’t make good economic sense (nor is it considered by the industry as acceptable on welfare grounds) to have grown the bird out to such an advanced stage and incurred all these costs to then allow it to die of some disease, or to be injured on route to the processing plant so that it cannot be used for saleable product.

Therefore, all measures described elsewhere to ensure that chickens are kept in conditions which optimise their comfort (in terms of temperature, humidity, air flow and air quality), in which they are provided with water, shelter, and a high quality diet that exactly matches their physiological needs, and which optimise their health have just as important effect in terms of bird welfare as they do on the overall efficiency of the farming operation.

When producing chicken meat in a welfare-friendly manner it is also important that the birds receive prompt and appropriate medication and treatment to prevent and treat diseases if this should become necessary, and that they do not suffer any unnecessary pain, distress, fear or physical injury. It is also important that sick or injured birds that can not be adequately or successfully treated are culled quickly and in a humane manner so that they do not suffer. While the chickens are reared specifically for human consumption and they therefore at some stage have to be slaughtered, the industry is mindful that they should be slaughtered in a humane manner, and all birds are stunned (rendered insensible to pain) prior to slaughter.

Industry has three strong motives for looking after the birds in their care in a welfare-friendly manner:
• Out of respect for the birds themselves, so they do not suffer.
• So that they grow as well and efficiently as possible and they are not damaged in the process.
• In recognition of and respect or community attitudes and expectations with respect to the humane treatment of livestock farmed specifically for their consumption.

There are links on the site to the Domestic Poultry Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals and Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals on Land Transport of Poultry.