Snoskred - Life in the Country

An absolutely disgraceful display of nastiness is present over at Fox Sports slash news.com.au re the Beijing Olympics. Some people are having a go at two Aussie swimmers who won silver.

Because Australia gets to compete in the Commonwealth Games every 4 years, there are some people who have very high expectations of Aussie athletes. The last Commonwealth Games were held on Australian soil in Melbourne, and we won a total of 221 medals, 84 of those gold. Previous to that, we won 207 total (82 gold) in Manchester in 2002.

We had the best ever medal tally for Australia at the Olympics when we hosted the games in Sydney, and there we won a total of 58 medals - only 16 of those were gold. In 2004 we came home with only 49 medals, 17 of those were gold which was our best ever gold medal tally for an Olympics..

As far as I am concerned just showing up at an Olympic games is a massive achievement. It represents years of training and hard work. Winning a medal regardless of the colour of that medal is something to be incredibly proud of.

The coverage of the games is terrible this year - so Aussie biased, and when the Aussies don’t qualify or get a medal, they barely get another mention. I suspect this is a large part of the problem - the commentators are giving people the wrong idea about what it means to get to the games.

I have managed to catch one entire competition which was the mens 77kg weightlifting. I don’t know if we had anyone from Australia competing, I never saw anyone from here. Even so, I greatly enjoyed watching the competition because I got to see a lot of what was going on and the commentators seemed intelligent and told me a fair bit of the backstory of the people involved.

This was one highlight of a pretty awful coverage otherwise - usually Channel 7 flick from one sport to another often not even returning to the sport you were just getting into, stuff is cut to pieces, it is just bad form. Oh, and enough swimming already. We don’t need to see every single heat of every single race, and please don’t replay one medal win 20 times a day instead of showing us live goings on.

I also did get to see some of the synchronised diving but unfortunately it wasn’t the full competition. I love diving, gymnastics, the synchronised swimming and diving, things like the hammer and the javelin. I wish they would have synchronised weightlifting across some of the classes, that would be cool to see, don’t you think? Especially seeing the various sizes of the different weight classes on the same stage.

I have to say the Chinese are putting on an impressive show. The water cube is wicked with the changing colour LED’s. The opening ceremony was very impressive even though nobody watches that kind of thing. It is a shame about the pollution - I am hopeful this will start them thinking about what they are doing to their environment and how unhealthy it is for the people who live there let alone anyone who would like to visit.

People.

If you see naked children in the driveway of their home, this is not a usual or normal thing. It’s not ok. It means that someone isn’t paying attention to those kids, or that someone doesn’t care enough to make sure they have clothes on.

Why do I mention this? 18 month old twins were found dead in a house in Brisbane this week. And in the story linked to back there appears this comment -

Although two of the boys had appeared naked in his driveway from time to time, Mr Zammit said they looked quite healthy and he never suspected their parents might have been neglecting them.

“They’re kids, they run around and do these things,” he said.

In this day and age, no kids run around naked. Unless you’re living in some kind of nudist camp, if you see this in your neighbourhood, get on the telephone. Even if they “appear healthy”. You might not know who to call, but the police would probably be a good start. There’s also usually some kind of child protective services.

(this blog may contain some language including the F word, just FYI, but I’m mad about this one)

I’d been thinking of making a blog for reviewing other blogs for a while, but one of my favourite bloggers Alyndabear having a nasty blog review experience kicked me into making the blogzreview project a reality.

Anyone can be a part of the team, anyone can submit a review. Ask your readers to write a review for you, because they are the best people to say what they think of your blog. There’s some decent review guidelines there just to keep things nice. These things don’t have to be long, you can just give your reasons why you like a blog. If you have any ideas for improvements that is fine, as long as you give them politely and offer solutions, not just take a shot.

After all, there is NO good reason to treat fellow bloggers like a kick toy, like these so called entertaining ladies with a sarcastic sense of humor. Have a read of some of their reviews. There’s no doubt in my mind those women are flat out bitches with too much time on their hands.

Even worse, they hide the fact that they are going to rip sites apart on their “Who We Are” page. The only thing that suggests to a blogger that they might be nasty is one little line in their how to submit your site page. So a blogger gets there and thinks hey, it would be cool to be reviewed - then the blogger gets the wind knocked out of them with a nasty and evil review. I’m betting that’s how the majority of blogs get submitted to them.

And a quick message to the bitches with time on their hands - you want to snark on celebrities? Fine, no problem. Chances are they’ll never read what you write anyway, and they’ve got a thick enough skin with everything people say about them, it’s not likely to hurt. But you ask bloggers to submit their site for review, and then YOU RIP THEM TO FUCKING SHREDS and you do it supposedly in the name of humor and entertainment. That’s mean spirited, bitchy and downright nasty. Yes, Karma is coming back to bite you in the ass I’m guaranteeing it. You can’t be this mean to people and not have some kind of universal payback looming in the distance.

Who the fuck are you to say things like - “I have to tell you, this blog bored me to fucking tears. It’s so much meaningless…. I don’t know…. drivel” “You and your readers are a bunch of sissy pussies”? Just who do you think you are? Get the fuck off the internet with your nasty ass CRAP. Yes, maybe you can tell, I’m a little annoyed about this one.

I’ll tell you something about being a blogger. It’s not easy. When you blog, you are putting your self out there and anytime one does that there’s a risk that people are going to reject you. Which is quite hurtful to most people, I think - to be rejected in any way at any time. It’s a very brave thing to do. But to take delight in ripping bloggers apart, to *enjoy* it the way you apparently seem to, to BASK in it like that, how cowardly!. People like you are precisely what is wrong with the world today. What are you, in high school? That’s the last time I encountered this kind of bitchy. People have feelings, and you fully enjoy hurting them. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

What I’m looking for in this world are people who look for positives. People who want to change things for the better but do it in a collaborative, collective, useful way. If you’d like to be a part of that effort and you’d like to review some blogs in a pleasant and friendly way, blogzreview is the place for you.

Paris

She’s been seen *in* her underw3ar -

And she’s been seen without it so many times that it’s impossible to find on the internet now, searching for the pictures gets you - 1 - 10 of about 972,000 results, all of which mention the photos but nobody puts them anywhere, probably because people want to keep their lunch on the inside. Trust me, there’s plenty of Paris nak3d cr0tch shots. Thank me for not giving you links to them

Lindsay

The first time And again

Then her stylist figures - if she’s wearing leggings, maybe nobody can tell if she’s not wearing underw3ar. However, the stylist forgot to check if the leggings were not see through. Fortunately for us we did not see any cr0tch shots but these pics were still pretty ugly.

oops she does it again

I am still trying to work out who the heck this chick is, and what she has to do with anything, and why she’s famous at all. Apparently she’s been in some movies. I have not seen any of them, thank god for that. But clearly she’s good papparazzi fodder. Girl, put some f*cking underw3ar on, we don’t want or need to see your ugly cr0tch!

Britney

Then Britney was hanging around with Paris a bit too much, and oops! She made every teenage boy who’s fantasised about her wonder why the heck they ever cared. Britney, you have two children, and I guarantee you this will haunt them all their life. This is pure nastiness.

And now, the really bad news.. ;( As seen here - all three chicks are hanging together now.
Deities, please save us from a future generation of underw3ar-less women (or even worse, underw3ar less teenage girls) and make these women have a major fall out, at which time they regain their brains and put on underwear again?

I’ve edited this post to make it harder for search engines to pick up, but it may be too late.