Slothfulfillment

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Medium
Sloth:	Very High
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	High
Pride:	Low

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

I am too lazy to work out what sloth means.

Thanks James and Jams

Hillary's Running Mate Plans Run Aground

Ex-Governor Spitzer had a very telling self prophecy directed towards Obama earlier in the campaign that “he won’t be able to shuck and jive out of this one.”

Well put! Even in his wet dreams, he wont be escorting Hillary to the White House.

One less Super Delegate for the Clintonistas.

If it is in the news it must be true department

Now I am pretty open minded, but this one strains credibility. Great story all the same.

An American woman became stuck on her boyfriend’s toilet seat after sitting on it for two years, Kansas police say.

It is believed the 35-year-old woman’s skin had grown around the seat, with police still considering whether to lay any charges against her boyfriend in the bizarre case.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

The woman’s boyfriend said he brought her food and water and asked every day to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said.

"According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

Police are curious why the boyfriend waited two years before calling them to report that "there is something wrong with my girlfriend".

Macquarie National News

Who Says Local News is Boring?

Aussies the most vain?

Australians use cosmetic surgery on a higher per capita basis than Americans, forking out over $300 million for botox and the like last year.

There's been a 30 per cent growth in the industry last year, with the biggest growth in anti-wrinkle treatments mainly botox.

Other people chose to have dermal filler procedures to plump up lips, while some favoured laser treatments for scarring or hair removal.

And it's not just women, physicians have reported a 10 to 20 per cent increase in male clients last year, mainly seeking botox, acne-scarring treatments and facial vein surgery.

Botox, Beer and Barbies. All Aussie Icons? What would Crocodile Dundee say?

The Good Life II ?

Not since Felicity Kendall and her goofy husband dug up the back yard have I seen something so nutty in the self sustainability/home gardening department.

Fresh from Bag's Department of Nutty Ideas and Wrong Thinking, we have do it yourself bread making. Not the store bought packages in the bread maker, but plough the back yard and scatter variety.

Baker and organic food campaigner Andrew Whitley believes the answer lies in your back garden and that it's time, as he puts it, to "bake your lawn". He is launching the Real Bread Campaign.

"If wheat makes bread why not grow bread just like you grow vegetables. We think of it as being a massive prairie-style enterprise but it is just a plant like anything else. It's like grass.

I think that this is a more sensible scale.

Medical Round Up - Sexual Health

My sister in law is a medical representative and keeps me up to date on what is going on in that field. Here is her latest update.

In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.

The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiff drink'. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.

Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

And now proof that sperm can think.


Thanks Dr Merhnaz

Get Entrecard See the World

One of the interesting impacts of Entrecard is the increasing range of countries from which, people visit this blog, even if it is just to drop a card.

Hello World.

Star Wars Meets the Avengers

If Star Wars was made in the 60s the intro would probably look like this. Very creative school project.

Thanks Duncan

Communist Republic of Barnsley 1 Nouveau Riche Ex Communist Republic of Chelski 0

I wonder what sorts of odds you could have got for any of Cardiff, West Bromwich Albion, Barnsley or Portsmouth getting to the semi finals of the FA Cup, far less all of them. What a great competition. Barnsley last reached the semi finals ten days before the Titanic sank. My friend Daniel who grew up there reckons it is the most significant day in the history of the town. Who said that there was more to football than life and death?

Would you rather be a Chelsea player or an England Cricketer or Brendan Nelson today? Or just for James, how about an English Rugby Player? I am a bit surprised that he was surprised by Scottish reaction to that kind of win, ugly or not it was a win over the Auld Enemy. As always, very sweet.

Try this one on the next unwanted telemarketer

Bush Killing Fields Montage

All Servicemen killed in Iraq.

Photo Hunt: Different

There are so many ways to look different.

photohunt

Fucking Elocution Lesson

Don't listen if you get fucking offended by the multiple uses of the very useful work fuck.

Thanks very fucking much to Ian the Entrecard Dropper Extraordinaire. He has this Drop Ranking, which I have never seen before Deeply committed - Deadly serious. A drop master

This Makes Televised Darts Look Cerebral

Strike 100 and Banzai to The Purple Turkey

Greenwashing Spreads to Beer

Not content with brewing crap beer, Fosters have decided to tackle the touchy feel green beer market. Not the lets get pissed St Patricks Day variety, but the latte sipping variety.

The new brew is, unimaginatively, called Cascade Green, and not only have all the greenhouse emissions, from the growing of the hops to the recycling of the green bottle and label, been included, but it's low-calorie, too.

Cascade Green's carbon offsets come from burning off methane gas from Tasmanian landfills and converting it to electricity, but will not include methane emissions derived from the beer's consumption.

The Fosters-owned boutique brewery is confident its rigorous certification process will stand up to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's clampdown on misleading environmentally friendly claims.

But does it taste any good? Gag!

My Love is Like 124,000 Red Red Roses

An Iranian woman has successfully claimed on her dowry with a court ordering her "stingy" husband to come up with 124,000 red roses which he promised in her dowry. Iranian women can claim on their dowry at any time. I wonder if she will get them all at once.

Not so romantic!

Lucky Escape for Lufthansa Plane

I have been in some pretty rough flights and landings, but nothing like this. Lucky! I suppose situations like these are why pilots get so much training and earn so much.

Australian Mortgage Holders Weep

Homeowners on variable interest rates in Australia face their gazillionth rate increase in the last year today. It must be excruciating, especially with more predicted in the not to distant future to rein in rampaging inflation. We are fixed for five years, which is good. My sister in law is selling their family home, which they worked very hard to get into because their period of fixed interest ends shortly. The revised repayments are unaffordable. This for somebody who lends for a bank. She knows what she is talking about.

This at a time when housing affordability is at its lowest for a generation and their is a huge under supply of affordable housing. Many of the factors driving this are external, with huge pent up demand for many Australian resources contributing to inflation.

At least it is not as bad as in the US.

At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community’s 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were in foreclosure as of late last year. Vandals have kicked in doors and stripped the copper wire from vacant houses; drug users and homeless people have furtively moved in. In December, after a stray bullet blasted through her son’s bedroom and into her own, Laurie Talbot, who’d moved to Windy Ridge from New York in 2005, told The Charlotte Observer, “I thought I’d bought a home in Pleasantville. I never imagined in my wildest dreams that stuff like this would happen.”

In the Franklin Reserve neighborhood of Elk Grove, California, south of Sacramento, the houses are nicer than those at Windy Ridge—many once sold for well over $500,000—but the phenomenon is the same. At the height of the boom, 10,000 new homes were built there in just four years. Now many are empty; renters of dubious character occupy others. Graffiti, broken windows, and other markers of decay have multiplied.

McMansions as McSlums? as predicted for many years by James Howard Kunstler in Clusterfuck Nation.

The article addresses some of the underlying factors.

If gasoline and heating costs continue to rise, conventional suburban living may not be much of a bargain in the future. And as more Americans, particularly affluent Americans, move into urban communities, families may find that some of the suburbs’ other big advantages—better schools and safer communities—have eroded. Schooling and safety are likely to improve in urban areas, as those areas continue to gentrify; they may worsen in many suburbs if the tax base—often highly dependent on house values and new development—deteriorates. Many of the fringe counties in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, for instance, are projecting big budget deficits in 2008. Only Washington itself is expecting a large surplus. Fifteen years ago, this budget situation was reversed.

This is ironic, because I lived in Washington DC when this was indeed exactly the opposite. People were fleeing the city with its corrupt and semi bankrupt municipal government, dangerous neighbourhoods and urban decline. Huge commuter communities were sprouting up anywhere with land and within a 1-2 hour commute of Washington. Not too bad when interest rates were low and petrol was around a dollar a gallon. Changed days now.

Another thing the article hints at and which is a growing trend here in Australia is the increasing numbers of people living alone in fairly large houses. There is a huge imbalance in the efficient use of the current housing stock.

Tricky issue, with no easy answers.

Is Mark Nicholas Unctuous?

Important issues such as whether Mark "GQ" Nicholas passes the mark as lead cricket presenter for Channel 9 here in Australia. I had to look up unctuous, but it would be hard to describe him better. Australia would have to be nine wickets down with 50 runs to get in the last two overs of a one day match for Nicholas to call the match as "in the balance".

I always thought it was a bit odd having the most polished pommy accent being the main media cheerleader for the Aussie Cricket Team on television. Sort of Richie Benaud, who was the voice of television cricket for me when I grew up, with a lot less class. That said, the resident Brit on the ABC Radio commentary is Peter Roebuck, who, more knowledegable, is still very annoying. He only has a cameo role however.

This person knows how to gauge Aussie opinion on this one. Not saying he is biased, but I have to agree with a lot of it. Aussies are passionate about the cricket team, but I doubt that they are looking for a cheer squad of one to state the bleedin' obvious. Insincerity does not go down too well here.