It's of no surprise of course, that Valentino has fans all over the world - and rightly so.
What is a little surprising though, is that when asked who he would like to be if he wasn't a hugely successful movie star (and the man of many a woman's dreams...), Brad Pitt replied, "Valentino Rossi".
It seems Braddy boy's a big MotoGP fan. He has visited Rossi in his race pit several times. Lucky bastard! (Pitt, not Rossi).
(Wouldn't mind being Rossi for a few days myself...).
Monday, October 20, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
A FAMILY AFFAIR
The Bathurst 1000 was run yesterday. A V8 "Supercar" (as they like to refer to them) race which has over time achieved unparalleled adoration from fans. The race of races.
Bathurst Council, however, seeing the potential for money - (mmmm...loads of lovely money which they can use to buy hookers, go on overseas trips, bleed the system like a MF), have along with those easily led cretins in the world, promoted the race meet as...a family affair.
Bring your caravans, your 4000 dollar tents with barbecue, and worst of all (fucking nightmare in fact…) your kids. Yep, they’re not going to fuck up the weekend! I can just hear it, "Excuse me...do you mind not using that kind of language in front of my child".
Have you ever considered you dopey fuckin bint, that I (and others) may not love your wittle bundle of fun as much as you do? That the wee brat running around screaming actually annoys me (us) more than my swearing (at a race meet!!!) does, you?
Not to sound overly cranky, but it’s a motor race we’re talking about here. It’s not for families. I mean, really, it’s for gangs of blokes – not "gang" gangs, as would be typically imagined, but groups of blokes, beer, semi-naked girls etc.
Having a great ole time.
But his whole “family” thing seems to be at the heart of everything and no better place to see it nauseatingly demonstrated than morning fucking TV. Those news shows with the pretty presenters, the females (though they’d rather go to the sword than confess…) dressed in teasingly slinky clothes.
Hey, don’t blame me – I have to look a the women as sex objects to combat the aforementioned stomach-churning “family”… … bollocks!
A family affair indeed. FUCK OFF FROTBATYLDWY.
And stay the fuck away from my motorsport with your brats!!
Bathurst Council, however, seeing the potential for money - (mmmm...loads of lovely money which they can use to buy hookers, go on overseas trips, bleed the system like a MF), have along with those easily led cretins in the world, promoted the race meet as...a family affair.
Bring your caravans, your 4000 dollar tents with barbecue, and worst of all (fucking nightmare in fact…) your kids. Yep, they’re not going to fuck up the weekend! I can just hear it, "Excuse me...do you mind not using that kind of language in front of my child".
Have you ever considered you dopey fuckin bint, that I (and others) may not love your wittle bundle of fun as much as you do? That the wee brat running around screaming actually annoys me (us) more than my swearing (at a race meet!!!) does, you?
Not to sound overly cranky, but it’s a motor race we’re talking about here. It’s not for families. I mean, really, it’s for gangs of blokes – not "gang" gangs, as would be typically imagined, but groups of blokes, beer, semi-naked girls etc.
Having a great ole time.
But his whole “family” thing seems to be at the heart of everything and no better place to see it nauseatingly demonstrated than morning fucking TV. Those news shows with the pretty presenters, the females (though they’d rather go to the sword than confess…) dressed in teasingly slinky clothes.
Hey, don’t blame me – I have to look a the women as sex objects to combat the aforementioned stomach-churning “family”… … bollocks!
A family affair indeed. FUCK OFF FROTBATYLDWY.
And stay the fuck away from my motorsport with your brats!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
NEWS IN BRIEF SUNDAY 12TH OCTOBER
There's not a great deal in this weekend's Rag. Unsurprisingly, the current financial crisis takes up most of it. Turns out, the mammoth 700 billion rescue package may not actually be enough. Ouch.
I should point out, though, that the rescue packages from the various governments (US, British, German, Icelandic...to name but a few) aren't a product of the goverments' benevolence as they would have one believe. No, this is taxpayers' hard earned money that is taken from them.
And now it's being used to protect banks. Banks. Remember them? Those MFs who rip us off at every turn.
Now they're in trouble and good old Joe Blogs is having to bale them out. Then, when they reright themselves, it'll be back to stroking their benefactor.
Is this the definition of irony?
There's a piece inside the Rag which tells of "$7 Trillion wiped out by mad panic". Global shares it seems, have taken a battering. The US market fell by 18% - the worst weekly performance since 1914 apparently. The spite in me takes a certain amount of satisfaction from the knowledge that the rich aren't so rich anymore (mind you, they'll survive - they always do).
Britt Lapthorne, the Australian backpacker, has been found in the sea off the coast of Croatia. The headline of the story says, "Murdered and dumped at sea...). Further reading reveals that she was missing her arms too. A shark taking the limbs has been discounted which goes to add a rather macabre element to the already disturbing story. The parents are as one could imagine, devastated.
Returning to an old story, there's a small side piece entitled "Risk to obese mums". This article tells of the 45% increase of diabetes in the last ten years. Experts attribute such an increase to two things - women having children later in life and obesity. Frankly I think the later childbirth thing is simply to soften the blow for the fatties. I can't possibly see how having a child in later years can cause diabetes but obesity on the other hand is well known and proven to cause just that.
"Aww, don't vilify the fatties...it's not their fault. (Let's give it to the bastard smokers instead!!)"
Further in...a bit about the US Government investing heavily in banks, therefore extending the 700 billion package, and in effect nationalizing some. As I said, interesting times ahead.
Sarah Palin's in the news again (mind you it's an election year so she'll be in there every day for the duration...). This time she's accused of abusing her authority when she attempted to have her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, sacked by using her husband's contacts in the Governor's office.
Yeah...whatever, I'd still eat chips out of her pants!
The Pope has offended Jews apparently - by supporting declaring his controversial WWII predecessor Pius XII, a saint. Controversial because he refused to condemn the Holocaust.
The Pope offending someone??? Surely not!!!
That's about it. Some domestic stuff for which I can find no interest, the pretty people at parties, and that's all folks!
I should point out, though, that the rescue packages from the various governments (US, British, German, Icelandic...to name but a few) aren't a product of the goverments' benevolence as they would have one believe. No, this is taxpayers' hard earned money that is taken from them.
And now it's being used to protect banks. Banks. Remember them? Those MFs who rip us off at every turn.
Now they're in trouble and good old Joe Blogs is having to bale them out. Then, when they reright themselves, it'll be back to stroking their benefactor.
Is this the definition of irony?
There's a piece inside the Rag which tells of "$7 Trillion wiped out by mad panic". Global shares it seems, have taken a battering. The US market fell by 18% - the worst weekly performance since 1914 apparently. The spite in me takes a certain amount of satisfaction from the knowledge that the rich aren't so rich anymore (mind you, they'll survive - they always do).
Britt Lapthorne, the Australian backpacker, has been found in the sea off the coast of Croatia. The headline of the story says, "Murdered and dumped at sea...). Further reading reveals that she was missing her arms too. A shark taking the limbs has been discounted which goes to add a rather macabre element to the already disturbing story. The parents are as one could imagine, devastated.
Returning to an old story, there's a small side piece entitled "Risk to obese mums". This article tells of the 45% increase of diabetes in the last ten years. Experts attribute such an increase to two things - women having children later in life and obesity. Frankly I think the later childbirth thing is simply to soften the blow for the fatties. I can't possibly see how having a child in later years can cause diabetes but obesity on the other hand is well known and proven to cause just that.
"Aww, don't vilify the fatties...it's not their fault. (Let's give it to the bastard smokers instead!!)"
Further in...a bit about the US Government investing heavily in banks, therefore extending the 700 billion package, and in effect nationalizing some. As I said, interesting times ahead.
Sarah Palin's in the news again (mind you it's an election year so she'll be in there every day for the duration...). This time she's accused of abusing her authority when she attempted to have her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, sacked by using her husband's contacts in the Governor's office.
Yeah...whatever, I'd still eat chips out of her pants!
The Pope has offended Jews apparently - by supporting declaring his controversial WWII predecessor Pius XII, a saint. Controversial because he refused to condemn the Holocaust.
The Pope offending someone??? Surely not!!!
That's about it. Some domestic stuff for which I can find no interest, the pretty people at parties, and that's all folks!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Hardly Valentino I'll admit, but let me put it this way - what he is feeling as he's crouched over his mighty Yamaha M1, I'm feeling on the lesser yet still perfectly adequate ZX. (It matters not what one races - as long as one races...).
Concentration, focus, heart-pounding excitement. And a single-minded desire to push the man and machine to their absolute limits.
Nothing compares - except maybe a fighter jet but I haven't had the pleasure so who knows...
HOW MUCH # 2...
In an earlier post I talked about the enormous figures being used nowadays to describe the global economy - tongue in cheek but as with most humour, an element of truth lies within.
Well, I heard a news report yesterday concerning America's "Debt Clock". This is a clock that records America's current debt level (which is so large it's almost incomprehensible...).
The current debt has reached such epic proportions that a digit space has had to be added to the already 14 spaces currently in use. I only saw a flash image of the clock so don't know if they display the cent figure, i.e. two more digit spaces after a digital point. One would understand if it was considered pointless - much like the fazing out of the diminutive "penny", or one cent. These figures, ironically, so tiny that they become effectively unusable - but for the sake of accuracy, they might remain pertinent.
Regardless, it's "the other end" of the fantastic figure that concerns this post.
And with this new space comes a new title for yet another level of numeracy.
"Quadrillion", apparently. I have no idea exactly what this "number" represents but as the previous highest was a trillion, and in maths quad represents four...
Mind you, current logic jumps a level, instead of a thousand million it's a billion so by that logic, a thousand trillion would be, what, this new quadrillion?
So for example, 4 thousand trillion would be 4 quadrillion.
See what I mean? When one speaks in this almost foreign tongue, the amounts represented are just "silly money" as they might say. Monopoly-like figures that have in part lost their meaning.
What's next? After quadrillion?
Well, I heard a news report yesterday concerning America's "Debt Clock". This is a clock that records America's current debt level (which is so large it's almost incomprehensible...).
The current debt has reached such epic proportions that a digit space has had to be added to the already 14 spaces currently in use. I only saw a flash image of the clock so don't know if they display the cent figure, i.e. two more digit spaces after a digital point. One would understand if it was considered pointless - much like the fazing out of the diminutive "penny", or one cent. These figures, ironically, so tiny that they become effectively unusable - but for the sake of accuracy, they might remain pertinent.
Regardless, it's "the other end" of the fantastic figure that concerns this post.
And with this new space comes a new title for yet another level of numeracy.
"Quadrillion", apparently. I have no idea exactly what this "number" represents but as the previous highest was a trillion, and in maths quad represents four...
Mind you, current logic jumps a level, instead of a thousand million it's a billion so by that logic, a thousand trillion would be, what, this new quadrillion?
So for example, 4 thousand trillion would be 4 quadrillion.
See what I mean? When one speaks in this almost foreign tongue, the amounts represented are just "silly money" as they might say. Monopoly-like figures that have in part lost their meaning.
What's next? After quadrillion?
Saturday, October 04, 2008
TWENTY-NINE YEARS OLD...EIGHTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
I'm talking of course, about the sensational Valentino Rossi.
Starting as a fresh-faced 16 year old in the 125 class, he spent his inaugural year learning the circuits and machine.
Second year he won the championship, becoming the youngest ever rider to win it. Record number one.
Next year he moved to the 250's. Again, the first year was spent learning the machine.
Second year he won the championship,
Then he moved to the sought after Premier class, at that time the vicious 500cc machines, which were all but guided missiles.
...Learned the machine, next year...well, you see where this is going.
Then he defended it the next year which is the true sign of a real champion.
He has won 6 times since, including five on the trot; 2001, the final 500cc race before the change to the MotoGP, 2002 and 3 then the switching of manufacturers from Honda to (the struggling at the time), Yamaha, and 04 and 05 followed. This winning spree also saw the machines develop from the 500s to the updated MotoGP machines which are (now) 800cc four stroke machines. They were 1000cc but deemed by the authorities too fast so the cc was reduced. Then motorcycle development being in perpetual motion as it is, saw the 800's being quicker than their larger, (therefore heavier) cousins.
And along the way he has broken record after record, including the revered title of most races in the Premier class, held since the 60's by Giamaco Agostini.
He now has but one record to chase - the most wins over all classes, a record held also by Agostini at 123. Valentino has 88.
So all hail Valentino; he is beyond question the most successful motorcycle pilot of all time - and still only 29 years of age.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
SIR RICHARD'S AT IT AGAIN
Yep, after, (successfully it must be said) taking on credit card institutions and the established airlines (British Airlines in fact were found to have acted unprofessionally when they attempted to prevent Virgin from operating - and were fined appropriately...) Sir Dicky, has now entered the fitness market.
And in typical fashion, and what we've come to expect from the great man's Virgin brand, he is offering a pay as you go fitness club without any of the extortionate exit fees that members have been charged for years.
I have a lot of time for this self-made millionaire.
More power to ye, Sir Richard.
And in typical fashion, and what we've come to expect from the great man's Virgin brand, he is offering a pay as you go fitness club without any of the extortionate exit fees that members have been charged for years.
I have a lot of time for this self-made millionaire.
More power to ye, Sir Richard.
lRISHMAN STILL IN COMA
Twenty-nine year old David Keohane, an Irishman holidaying in Australia was out drinking with friends at the Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs on Friday the 8th of August.
By 3 AM on the Saturday morning he was found unconscious on the street nearby. He was rushed to hospital where he slipped into a coma.
His parents flew him home to Ireland where he remains in the same condition. To the credit of his spirit, when his parents agreed to have the ventilator switched off, expecting him to pass away, he continued to breath on his own.
We can only hope.
A 20 year old Towelhead has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and faces other charges including robbery (the reason for the heinous attack). His skanky (probably Towelheaded as well) girlfriend has also been charged with hindering police and concealing a serious offence.
The police are searching for, and are confident of locating, a second man. No doubt another fuckin Towelhead.
This is why I don't go to bars - especially the notorious Coogee Bay Hotel which has a well-known shocking reputation for such acts of violence from its patrons.
Here we have a young man just out for a drink with friends, completely unaware of his immediate future and then...this.
Out of nowhere his life and that of his family and friends, is shattered.
Towelheads! Why don't you just fuck off back to you own country. (In all fairness though, this sort of behaviour isn't exclusively the domain of Towelheads - more young men of any creed - a fact of which I've always been aware, from the first day I went to a bar).
However, in this case it WAS a Towelhead so...I stand by my contention to send hem back to their own country.
I truly, deeply hate people like this and given the chance would beat them to death. Tell me I'm wrong!
By 3 AM on the Saturday morning he was found unconscious on the street nearby. He was rushed to hospital where he slipped into a coma.
His parents flew him home to Ireland where he remains in the same condition. To the credit of his spirit, when his parents agreed to have the ventilator switched off, expecting him to pass away, he continued to breath on his own.
We can only hope.
A 20 year old Towelhead has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and faces other charges including robbery (the reason for the heinous attack). His skanky (probably Towelheaded as well) girlfriend has also been charged with hindering police and concealing a serious offence.
The police are searching for, and are confident of locating, a second man. No doubt another fuckin Towelhead.
This is why I don't go to bars - especially the notorious Coogee Bay Hotel which has a well-known shocking reputation for such acts of violence from its patrons.
Here we have a young man just out for a drink with friends, completely unaware of his immediate future and then...this.
Out of nowhere his life and that of his family and friends, is shattered.
Towelheads! Why don't you just fuck off back to you own country. (In all fairness though, this sort of behaviour isn't exclusively the domain of Towelheads - more young men of any creed - a fact of which I've always been aware, from the first day I went to a bar).
However, in this case it WAS a Towelhead so...I stand by my contention to send hem back to their own country.
I truly, deeply hate people like this and given the chance would beat them to death. Tell me I'm wrong!
THE WORDS THAT GAVE US THE MOST TROUBLE
A list of words that in a poll of 3000 people, they found the most difficult to pronounce (they couldn't spell them either).
Phenomenon,
Anaesthetist,
Remuneration,
Ethnicity,
Philosophical,
Provocatively,
Anonymous
Thesaurus
Aluminium
Regularly
February
Particularly
Prioritising
Pronunciation (yeah - seriously, and hilariously)
Prejudice
Facilitate
Hospitable
Onomatopoeia
Aside from the last one, these are not difficult words to either pronounce or spell. Now, being that I have had a reading age above my actual age since day one, one might argue it's easy for me to say but I would maintain that anyone with even a modicum of education wouldn't find these difficult, and it just illustrates the woeful state of the modern day education system. (Governments for years have been reducing the pass marks so they can boast about how many students are passing exams. The result? Well, see for yourself. A nation of clots while the powers that be congratulate themselves).
It's a worry - and bloody phone text is almost singly responsible. That and spellchecker on computers. I don't use it myself - I have it switched off - because I can spell - because I was taught when young.
I must add, however, that I'm not infallible and do on occasion let the odd one past the keeper as it were but...fuck it, I'll just blame this poxy blogger!
Phenomenon,
Anaesthetist,
Remuneration,
Ethnicity,
Philosophical,
Provocatively,
Anonymous
Thesaurus
Aluminium
Regularly
February
Particularly
Prioritising
Pronunciation (yeah - seriously, and hilariously)
Prejudice
Facilitate
Hospitable
Onomatopoeia
Aside from the last one, these are not difficult words to either pronounce or spell. Now, being that I have had a reading age above my actual age since day one, one might argue it's easy for me to say but I would maintain that anyone with even a modicum of education wouldn't find these difficult, and it just illustrates the woeful state of the modern day education system. (Governments for years have been reducing the pass marks so they can boast about how many students are passing exams. The result? Well, see for yourself. A nation of clots while the powers that be congratulate themselves).
It's a worry - and bloody phone text is almost singly responsible. That and spellchecker on computers. I don't use it myself - I have it switched off - because I can spell - because I was taught when young.
I must add, however, that I'm not infallible and do on occasion let the odd one past the keeper as it were but...fuck it, I'll just blame this poxy blogger!
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED...?
Some...TWAT has recently come out and said - with a straight face it must be said - that fatties should be allowed to claim their obesity on Medicare. (Medicare is the public health system - funded by the taxpayer).
I've no idea who the twat is, and could care even less, frankly, other than to display my derision towards him/her. But once again we see shocking discrimination. Fat bastards, who cost billions to health systems the world over, are being treated with kid gloves. "Aww, the poor fatties - it's not their fault - they have an illness, they can't help it; we must help them".
Well I'll tell ye what - first let's help them GET THEIR FAT ARSES OFF THE SOFA AND AWAY FROM BUNS AND CAKES. Like a buddy of mine said a while ago when some fat chick claimed it, "was water retention" that caused her obesity.
"Water retention, eh? More like cake retention". Hahahahaha!!!
But seriously though; once again, a disease (of the mind - and voluntarily in my opinion) is being treated with sympathy while the poor, much maligned smoker (who in fact costs LESS by comparison) still has to put up with vilification and those deeply fuckin offensive images splattered all over the packets.
This is the definition of discrimination. I'm going to find me a sharp American lawyer (because this type of lawyer only exists in the good ole US) and sue the fuck out of the government.
I've had enough. And I'll say one more time - how can one facet of society be forced to endure such oppressive criticism, yet the other, which now surpasses the former in terms of costs - not to mention needing TWO seats on public transport (trains, buses, planes etc), doesn't?
Anyone? Can anyone at all out there explain this to me? (A rhetorical question of course because there simply is no explanation for discrimination).
Y'fat tubs of lard.
I've no idea who the twat is, and could care even less, frankly, other than to display my derision towards him/her. But once again we see shocking discrimination. Fat bastards, who cost billions to health systems the world over, are being treated with kid gloves. "Aww, the poor fatties - it's not their fault - they have an illness, they can't help it; we must help them".
Well I'll tell ye what - first let's help them GET THEIR FAT ARSES OFF THE SOFA AND AWAY FROM BUNS AND CAKES. Like a buddy of mine said a while ago when some fat chick claimed it, "was water retention" that caused her obesity.
"Water retention, eh? More like cake retention". Hahahahaha!!!
But seriously though; once again, a disease (of the mind - and voluntarily in my opinion) is being treated with sympathy while the poor, much maligned smoker (who in fact costs LESS by comparison) still has to put up with vilification and those deeply fuckin offensive images splattered all over the packets.
This is the definition of discrimination. I'm going to find me a sharp American lawyer (because this type of lawyer only exists in the good ole US) and sue the fuck out of the government.
I've had enough. And I'll say one more time - how can one facet of society be forced to endure such oppressive criticism, yet the other, which now surpasses the former in terms of costs - not to mention needing TWO seats on public transport (trains, buses, planes etc), doesn't?
Anyone? Can anyone at all out there explain this to me? (A rhetorical question of course because there simply is no explanation for discrimination).
Y'fat tubs of lard.
ONE IN FIVE UNFIT TO BE A PARENT, EXPERT SAYS.
This is the headline in an article in the Sunday Rag. And it refers to the claims of former Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley (Professor in what - talking shit??? An indication of the type of cretin chosen to be Australian of the Year. Tim Flannery was another one - he's a climate change freak).
She starts of well to be fair and frankly I agree - some people simply shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Stanley, an advisor to PM Kevin Rudd (another knucklehead who as it happens, in his short 6 month tenure as PM so far, has had 16 overseas trips while he rubs shoulders with the other world leaders - not to say HE in fact is a world leader), goes on to claim some parents lack the means or the life skills to adequately raise children.
So far so good, Fee.
But alas, it doesn't last. As she goes on to drop this spectacular clanger and with it, loses any semblance of credibility. You ready?
I quote:
"What we need is"...(brace yourself...) an AL GORE for child development".
Sweet Jesus.
Dear God.
In the name of...
Ms Stanley? Just keep your fuckin mouth shut love because if this is anything to go by you've got fuck all worth hearing!
Expert my DICK!!!!!
She starts of well to be fair and frankly I agree - some people simply shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Stanley, an advisor to PM Kevin Rudd (another knucklehead who as it happens, in his short 6 month tenure as PM so far, has had 16 overseas trips while he rubs shoulders with the other world leaders - not to say HE in fact is a world leader), goes on to claim some parents lack the means or the life skills to adequately raise children.
So far so good, Fee.
But alas, it doesn't last. As she goes on to drop this spectacular clanger and with it, loses any semblance of credibility. You ready?
I quote:
"What we need is"...(brace yourself...) an AL GORE for child development".
Sweet Jesus.
Dear God.
In the name of...
Ms Stanley? Just keep your fuckin mouth shut love because if this is anything to go by you've got fuck all worth hearing!
Expert my DICK!!!!!
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