With the Olympic torch in Australia, it seems like a good time to post this one. The question: How to design a logo? I mean, after all… it’s the Olympic Games and the pressure is on. Lots of expectation; the need to better previous efforts and all that. Who could forget Sid, Olly and Dickhead, Fatso or that all time favourite, Springy! With all that pressure, the Beijing organisers have come up with this:

How did they come up with this I head you ask? I think I have some idea… (more…)

I know this has become a Mac forum, but there is something else gnawing away at me, and not in a good way.

You Melbournians who read this will probably think I am a disloyal Melbourne native when you read what I have to say about the AFL.

Although born and raised in Melbourne, I have never admired the AFL or anyone associated with it besides a few standouts like Jim Stynes.

What person in their right mind would let their kids go to an Auskick session with a bunch of immature bogan criminals like the current bunch of yobbos we call footballers?

The thing that really bothers me though, is that they sometimes get caught, but rather than be made an example of, they receive light sentences, if any punishment at all.

Geelong defender David Johnson escaped conviction over a drunken scuffle with police on Grand Final eve because he is “Geelong defender David Johnson”.

Former St Kilda and Brisbane Lions footballer Steven Lawrence was FINED $5000 and AVOIDED a conviction over a drunken pub brawl. St Kilda forward Fraser Gehrig and Brownlow medallists Michael Voss and Simon Black were also involved in the bar fight and like Lawrence have also avoided conviction.

And who could forget good old Benny Cousins? He should have been forced to go to some sort of boot camp style rehab centre here. Give him to Judge Judy and see what she says. If he is allowed to play the game again, the AFL has no regard for public morals and its followers.

Normal people, actual members of society, would be (and are) dealt with far more harshly. A brownlow medal only means you can kick a pig gut in a paddock with prowess than the other Neanderthals around you. It doesn’t make you a good person.

You don’t need to be a surgeon general to know that fat inactive kids make fat inactive adults creating a burden for the rest of us and the public medical system.

Beside that, who wants half of the population to be unhealthy and unhappy? It’s funny to watch fat people struggle up stairs and take up two seats on a train, but at times it’s inconvenient and sometimes I want to slap that cheeseburger or bucket of chips out of their chubby hands.

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