Tuesday 1 December 2009
Looking forward to Christmas because.......
iPhoon
Looking forward to Christmas, a time when all families behave like the Liberal Party. #spill
The other side of the coin: Usually I don't mind Christmas, don't love it but I tolerate it and look time to spending time with family.
Last year I asked Santa for a baby, I wrote a note and put it on our tree hoping that we may get some kind of Xmas miracle. It didn't happen......
And a final word from a satirical post at Glossy News:
Oh yes, Christmas is coming, just around the corner in fact. The Festive Season of Peace on Earth and Good Will to all Men.
So, are we all prepared for an evening’s visit from our local Church group’s carol singers? Mince pies and mulled wine at the ready, along with a handful of shiny silver coins for the collection tin?
Er – actually no – the Spirit of Xmas, under new E-USSR ‘Scrooge’ legislation and personal household security guidelines, has gone the way of the dinosaur and is deader than the Dodo.
While the sound of carol singers at the door at Christmas is as traditional as stuffing the ubiquitous turkey, since the Treaty of Lisbon has now been ratified and the Brussels bully boys can impose their totalitarian iron will, carollers will be banned from approaching private houses anywhere in the European community.
Householders across the UK are being provided with posters by local council jobsworths that warn carol singers will not be welcome this Christmas because many residents are ‘uncomfortable’ with having groups of strangers knocking at the door of their manky mangers – even if they are posing as Wise Men and bearing gifts of gold, frankenstein and myrrh (WTF is myrrh?).
The posters are to be affixed to windows or garden gates – or hung from a Pit Bull’s collar – informing carol singers that their unsolicited ‘cold call’ intrusion is an assault on privacy and constitutes an act of gross harassment – and further advises that they f*ck off sharpish-like and ply their joyful hymns and festive spirit elsewhere..........
Climate change: how Australia's oceans are faring
The CSIRO has released Marine Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation: Report Card Australia 2009.
Based on the science it is stated with confidence that ocean temperatures have become warmer since the first half of the 20th Century and are expected to become even warmer over our lifetime and beyond, there has been a thirty percent increase in hydrogen ion (acid) concentration in sea water over the last 250 years, sea levels rose 20cm between 1870 and 2004 and are expected to keep rising (with every centimetre of rise expected to take one metre of vulnerable land), ocean wave processes are becoming more variable in certain instances, coastal estuary habitat is starting to change and fish population spatial distribution is also altering, first observations of sea birds beginning to react to changes in temperature and food availability, the East Australian Current is becoming stronger while the Leeuwin Current on the other side of the continent appears to be weakening.
Climate change is happening now.
Report Card PDF download
That's not at house. THAT'S a house!
Largest house in Australia. Share accommodation. Owner seeking new tenants for right-wing suites.New homes are now averaging 214.6 square metres and free standing houses are coming in at a record average of 245 square metres.
So why are bathrooms and loos still so small in this country if living and sleeping areas are obviously getting bigger?
