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Mayday Mayday Appeal

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Good Friday Appeal 
Donate now to PlanetFarkthat

A charitable message from the Director of Profiteering, Innovation, Donation Wealth Creation and Ethics at PlanetFarkthat, a commercial charity intent on saving..

Time is running out. Donate now before its too late.
To those who have already donated, thank you and please consider the following:

If you double your pledged amount, your goodwill gesture will be acknowledged on the “Planetfarkthat” social media channel.

If you triple it, the Director will donate 50% to aid the Nepalese earthquake victims.

If you quadruple it, he will donate 50% to feed the homeless.

If you quintuple your donation, he will donate 50% to help sick children live and help sick adults die.

If you sextuple your donation, he will buy a poppy farm to commemorate our dead soldiers. Then he will harvest the opium to kill pain in people and kill people in pain. The Director says the global demand for this alkaloid and its derivative generate massive profits and with these profits he can then fund all the other charities and bleeding hearts asking for money.
He can save.. with your money.

Farkthat. Give time. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran did.

Poppy you are a duplicitous flower
Will we see bunches of you at their funerals?
Didn’t think so

aP

Who Am I

Budge

I used to be PC but found it bland

I’m not into Pop Culture
I’m not into Polite Conversation
I’m not into Predictable Cliches

So Who am I?
I turned to my PC friend for a straight answer
I plugged it in, turned it on and when prompted, typed: whoami

And there it was. The answer, in black and white
planetBudge/Administrator

 

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Bird Week not Bush Week

Budge

It’s not Bush week. It’s Bird Week

Birdlife Australia have made Oct 20th – Oct 26th Bird week and have launched a website to catalogue the vast array of birdlife amongst us. Just like a census, but for birds.

Accuracy will be an issue though because if a “Bird in the hand is worth 2 in the Bush” there could be some double ups.

 aP

Metadata Explained

Budge

Please Explain…..A message for our Politicians

Metadata is just data about data. Simple

Tony Abbott’s letter envelope analogy worked albeit a little clumsy.
But poor old George the luddite Brandis was lost at sea when asked by a journalist to explain the concept

It’s data about data. Simple as that

Pleased to explain

 aP

Banksters

Budge

Which Bank Con?
Comm Bank Con

Can Con

Be sure to check out my opinion and appraisal of The GFC

What caused the GFC? I’ve created an Excel Workbook that contains a number of worksheets to help make sense of the hysteria.

Download the Excel workbook and "Enable Macros" to make use of the hyperlinks. 

Goto: The Global Financial Con

Broken Voice

Budge

This is a Community Service Announcement

Joel Madden, frontman for band Good Charlotte and star of The Voice has hit the headlines for possession of a joint. But it was no Record Haul. No charges are likely given the woefully small amount of  Wacky Tobacci involved†¤….Gee, what a revelation. Drugs in the entertainment business!!……and at the other end of the spectrum we have a justice system that failed to protect Jill Meagher from a brutal murder by a savage on parole. Then the community erupts with outrage at the gross negligence of the legal system and demand answers so this travesty never happens again.

But you don’t need to look too far for answers. It’s us. We are to blame. We call the Police too quickly and too often for petty grievances or trivial matters. So instead of keeping killer rapists locked up, police resources are diverted into chasing down red neck racists having a rant on public transport.

Get vocal but Get Real. Use the Police resource wisely.
Think before you Dial.

aP

†¤ Woefully small by Rock star standards

 

Dreamtime

Budge

Background

The whole racism issue never seems to go away, especially in sport. In recent days much has been said about the Indigenous AFL superstar Adam Goodes. To make my point, I bring into the story AFL player Adam Cooney to represent the Anglo Saxons and use his surname as the basis for the vulgar reference, “Coon”, a term once used to describe Indigenous folk.

 

I had a dream. And in that dream a football match was played.
It was Round 19 Sunday August 4th 2013 at Etihad Stadium.
The Western Bulldogs versus the Sydney Swans.

The stage was set as two Brownlow medallists prepared to do battle. But the much anticipated contest had been overshadowed by concerns from some very nervous people in the media. Especially the commentators. They felt the Cooney Goodes match up was too risky to call. Nobody wanted to risk being vilified for innuendo or a perceived racial slur. It could be career ending. But there was no getting around it. Another slip of the tongue could result in a riot.

The 2013 Indigenous round had been a disaster and served only to perpetuate the very thing it was trying to eradicate. The AFL needed something, anything to put a stop to the bigotry still evident in our game.

And in this dream there was a solution. Adam Cooney and Adam Goodes looked at one another. They realised they shared more than a name. They were the same. They were both human.

They shook hands, returned to their respective teams and played a game of football

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Planet of the Apes

Budge

News of Eddie McGuire’s on air brain fade for suggesting that an indigenous AFL superstar be used to promote the King Kong  movie has bewildered everyone on Planet Earth. And not just Earth. His mega gaff  has gone inter galactic and created quite a stir on the Planet of the Apes.

Comparisons to humans have outraged many in the Ape kingdom. The Apes have gone…. well, they’ve gone completely ape shit at suggestions linking them to the human sub specie.

The Primates rallied to debunk the lineage myths of Intelligent Design and Evolutionary Theory. They concluded the Earthlings had a self destructive regressive mindset. Not the hallmarks of Intelligent beings.

The War of the Words will continue to divide. But Deeds shall unite.

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Make a Wish Foundation

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I’ve just written to Make a Wish Foundation asking they help our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, carry herself in a more dignified, statesman like way

Specifically, I wished for :

1/ No More Tears
2/ No More Trips and Falls

They sent me a Bottle of Shampoo and a note saying I was allowed only one wish. Otherwise they would’ve called themselves Make a Wishes Foundation

So I wrote back
Told them No More Tears was a 2 in 1 Shampoo Conditioner
They conceded on a technicality and granted my second wish

They sent me a *Slater and Gordon Personal Injury Claim Form

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*Julia Gillard has a law background and at one time worked for the high profile no win no fee legal firm, Slater and Gordon 

Senator Nick Xenophobic

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X marks the spot. Senator Nick Xenophon is the second Australian diplomat in less than a week to earn the title…Prisoner X

Australian Senator, Nick Xenophon was detained at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur airport earlier today. Malaysian Immigration Officials said that a database technical glitch was responsible for putting the Senator on their “Watch list”

The database was interrogated at length. Many lines of queries run and every time, the same answer. Next to the checkbox labelled Political Persuasion was “Xenophobic”

Further investigations by Malay authorities revealed the Diplomatic incident occurred because a data entry clerk had incorrectly entered the Senator’s name as”Xenophobic”

The data entry clerk has been fired. By a squad of 12.

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The Cabinet File

Budge

Background :

Two politicians from the Katter Australian Party (KAP) have bitten the dust for making inappropriate and bigoted homophobic comments. The first casualty was Tess Corbett. She has withdrawn her candidacy for a Senate seat after she linked homosexuality with pedophilia. And Queensland Senate candidate Bernard Gaynor was suspended from KAP after stating publicly his disapproval of gay teachers educating his children.

and I take the story from here

The Mad Hatter, founder of KAP, has outraged the community with the following very crude off coloured joke: ” What type of file do you use to make a hole the size of a ten cent piece into a hole the size of a twenty cent piece?…..a Pedophile.

He further added to community hysteria when asked about his attitude towards gay marriage. Specifically, about Cabinet member Penny Wong and her relationship with partner Sophie. He smugly remarked that two Wong’s don’t make a right.

The cantankerous Mad Hatter took exception to all the media attention. He didn’t understand what the fuss was about but acknowledged it was a public relations disaster. In an effort to salvage something for KAP, he sold the party message promising to keep Australia from sinking by plugging the ALP holes. “Get on board with KAP” was the slogan. Who was he kidding. He had no idea how he was going to plug the gaps.  Anyway, if this day was a sign of things to come, the party would implode  before the first sitting of Parliament as more gaffs and redneck vitriol would sink his dream. His Cabinet could very well end up looking like the “Penske file” popularised by Jerry Seinfeld.
[The Penske file was an empty file carried around the office by someone wanting to look busy]

A wave of nausea swept over him as he made the connection. Indeed, his KAP was a proxy Penske file. Because if he was honest with himself, what did he really stand for? Nothing. Nothing that made sense anyway.

He shuddered, then shook his head to will such thoughts away. He grabbed his Akubra and made a dash for the exit leaving the journalists scratching their heads.

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Switch Bank

Budge

Can'tCan

planetBudge responds to the 2012 “Can’t” Commonwealth Bank campaign with their own Can story
It’s called Switch Bank. 

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Switch Bank

WestpacWestpacWestpac

Can’t…take it anymore?

Cunt….feel like something’s missing?

Count…you “o” it to yourself

Country…Australia’s first bank

Can…Switch back to the future

Can….no missing letters

Can….make it count

Can….Switch back

Switch Bank. Westpac.

It all adds up

aP

Jason Aka Manson

Budge

What do you get if you cross a Lion with a Dog and a Hero with a Villain? …..Jason Aka Manson

Background

This is a tribute to Jason Akermanis, the champion Western Bulldogs AFL footballer sacked in 2010 because his team mates felt they couldn’t “trust him.” Weeks earlier he got the public offside by stating he didn’t think AFL culture was ready to embrace homosexual players into it’s ranks. And in 2006, he was sacked by the Brisbane Lions after a fall out with coach Leigh Matthews.

Aker was no Saint but the Western Bulldogs treated him like a Demon. Hence the Charles Manson reference.
In any event, Aker’s book “Open Season” should make for an interesting read.

Alain de Botton

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An Evening with Alain de Botton
This video is the best 64 minute insight into humanity.

“Few thinkers have succeeded in bringing the world of ideas beyond the ivory tower with such clarity and grace as Alain de Botton. In an event that extends one of the Wheeler Centre chief themes for the year, de Botton brings his light touch and intellectual pirouettes to religion. In his only Melbourne appearance, he discusses the provocative ideas in his latest book, Religion for Atheists, arguing why atheists and agnostics should stop mocking religions and steal from them instead”