Oh Duh!

Hi everyone,

I read a couple of stupid articles in the age today which is unusual because I usually expect that shit in the Herald Sun.

I’m having trouble putting links into this web site as they screw up the page but it’s basically about the ‘parents jury’ (Sounds scary) who have voted that McDonalds is the most manipulative marketer to junk food for children. I don’t know if they were conferring for hours on that one, but all I can say is NO SHIT. Their main complaint is about the promotional toys that are used to entice kids into their sugary products. One analogy that comes to mind (I think I stole this from some comedian but sue me) is drug dealers give away free crack pipes with their dope. It doesn’t take a marketing guru to figure out that kids like sugar and toys but things have certainly gone crazy nowday’s with all the movie tie-ins like Shrek and Spiderman. Now I’ve never been much into breakfast (Probably due to the fact that I had to eat natalex) but when I was a kid we were lucky to even get crazy whistles in our cereal. Nowdays there’s things like pedometer’s, mini speakers,waterpistols,games, etc given away with junk food which the parents are blaming for the difficulty in buying healthy food. The companies that the jury gave the parents choice award to were the farm pride eggs range and the Australian Avocado, which is a bit baffling because which fucked up kid would say ‘Mummy can I please have an avocado and egg to play with’.

The parents also wanted to ban the junk food ads that are played in between the cartoons or whatever it is the kids watch now. Our health minister responded by saying it was the parents responsibility for looking after the health of their kids. Damm right I say! This is probably a grossly inadequate generalisation but I say it’s about time that at parents get off their lazy arses and force their tubby lard arse kids to go out and do some exercise rather than playing the blame game. I suppose today’s kids are just too soft and flabby, but when I was in primary school I used to get fit by either throwing rocks at cars (weight lifting), beating up kids (boxing) or playing ‘poison’ (atheletics) Hell, nowdays kids can even play the Wii sports games if real exercise if too hard for the fatty bumbalardas.

Another Oh Duh, article in the age, is about how the Crown casino got busted for playing with shortened decks during Texas hold em and a number of other games. The casino was ripping people off? NO WAY! Now wouldn’t you think that crown is obviously in the business of screwing people out of their money and would do everything they could to increase their odds. The fact is that there were a total of 6 breaches throughout the year and in every case it was blamed as a human ‘error’. The most stupid thing about this whole incident was that they were only given a fine of $35,000, which the casino would probably make up for in a couple of hours. Way to go Casino Control Act that will teach them.

Anyway enough sarcasm and ranting from me. Till next time.