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So now a second Qantas plane has had to make an emergency landing this week – this time in Adelaide.

Why haven’t I heard anyone ask if these critical incidents (if I use the language we use at work) are linked to the offshoring of Qantas engineering teams? Seems a bit suss if you ask me.

(I promise to go back to pictures of cupcakes and stupid posts soon – something about this week is getting me all ranty and in the mood for heavier posts)

I think that’s what I’d wear if I could get away with it during World Youth Day week. Damn those laws to hell!

I heart SBS for having this as a news article, maybe they need to be added to my Netvibes.

I took the test (which is actually quite good really) and got 26%, making me a Paddington Poofter. Totally not expecting that result since I said I would wear trackies and ugg boots down to the shops.

Take The Bogan Test

Someone’s opinion of the greatest 100 movie posters of all time.

What a rubbish list. “Steve Carrell’s face says it all” is NOT a good enough reason to make the list.

My personal favourite is this one:

Because we ran a Drive-In Theatre until I was 8, we scored heaps of movie posters. I kept this one until a foolishly ruthless cleanup when I was 13. I still regret throwing it out.

This is the best graphjam dot dot dot ever:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etmHaeaNsCw

The concept: a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page, pick an image. c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The questions: 1. What is your first name? 2. What is your favorite food? 3. What high school did you go to? 4. What is your favorite color? 5. Who is your celebrity crush? 6. Favorite drink? 7. Dream vacation? 8. Favorite dessert? 9. What you want to be when you grow up? 10. What do you love most in life? 11. One Word to describe you. 12. Your flickr name

Here’s my mosaic:

If you’re a normal person and you get done for DUI, you’re shamed amongst your friends, family and co-workers.

If you’re a celebrity, you get paid a shitload of money to come to the “arse-end of the of the world” (Copyright, Paul Keating) and look pretty.

Admittedly, Mischa Barton has some talent (when compared to Paris Hilton) but for celebrities who behave badly to be rewarded for their efforts (if, by “rewarded”, you mean “put up with an Australian b-grade attempt at an awards show”), it’s no surprise that teenage girls (and younger) have image and behaviour issues.

Usually when I sit down to read Sunday’s Post Secrets, I get a kick out of reading real secrets, but it’s not very often when one gets me right there; where I feel like I’m reading my own secret:

I remember the times when I wished I could go to the liquor store across the road and hand them a sign with my mother’s picture and “DO NOT ALLOW TO BUY ALCOHOL” in size 38 Arial Bold across the bottom. I remember fantasising that it would be able to actually help.

I still wish it could.

I also wish I could tell my family and her friends to do the same; that they are allowing her to kill herself. They won’t listen. I’ve been fighting this for over half of my life now, so I’ve run out of the anger I need to keep fighting.

I hope the anger comes back soon.

From SMH:

AN AUSTRALIAN man who was a former high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology is calling for the religion to be “totally dismantled” because of the human rights abuses he says it inflicts on its followers.

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He supports the actions of an internet-based group called Anonymous that has launched a wave of global protests against the church.

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Even though he left the church almost 20 years ago, he still does not want his location revealed, fearing harassment from the religion.

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Sea Org members must sign a billion-year contract to the church (because they believe in an afterlife this condition is taken very seriously).

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“I think it needs to be totally dismantled to help save the people in it. It is not run like a religion. It’s more like a cult. My concerns are about the constraints it puts on an individual and the denial of human rights. It is run by fear.”

The more I learn about Scientology, the worse it gets. A million year contract? What nutbags.

This is an interesting list, showing fears from childhood to adulthood. Although, I think they’ve missed an entire section for boys going through puberty. Aren’t boys scared of getting wood at inappropriate times?