tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9705639471332065312012-01-25T23:06:48.944+10:30The Swearing-est Blog on Teh Intermaweb. Probably.Stig Martyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05767291384078839307noreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970563947133206531.post-78144284824198484132012-01-25T21:28:00.006+10:302012-01-25T23:06:48.957+10:30

Margaret Court was once a very talented tennis player. From my good friend, Wikipedia: In 1970, she became the first woman during the open era and the second woman in history to win all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year. Court won a record 24 of those titles during her career. She also won 19 women's doubles and 19 mixed doubles titles, giving her a record 62

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Christians are cute, aren't they? Especially when they think they've thought of an argument nobody's ever thought of before.

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Firstly, I just want to apologise for not posting anything for ages. I've been busy arguing evolution with a deluded, fraudulent moron, moving house, new employment, new computer, new cameras to play with, spending time with my two beautiful children and participating in protests against a hate-filled group of street preachers.One of these street preachers, Joshua Corneloup, is apparently suing

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I'm a massive fan of Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls. I'm not quite sure what it is I like about the show. Perhaps it's seeing how someone can survive in extremely bleak conditions, maybe it's the gross-out factor of watching a man eat a variety of insects, reptiles and arachnids or maybe it's just because I don't experience enough people drinking their own piss in my day-to-day life. Either way,

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Dear Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard,Fuck you.Yesterday you revealed you're opposed to gay marriage. And the reasons you give? Firstly,I think that there are some important things from our past that need to continue to be part of our present and part of our futureSecondly,I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not

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On the issue of marriage, the reality is, there is a cultural, religious, historical view around that which we have to respect. And the party's position is very clear that that is an institution which is between a man and woman.-Penny Wong, Meet the Press, July 25, 2010Respect? We have to respect some antiquated religious view on marriage? Why don't we respect the religious view of female genital

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Every Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, I tune in to Triple J and listen to Dr. Karl whilst driving from job to job. For those of you outside Australia, Triple J is a nationally broadcast, commercial-free radio station that only plays Top 40 crap when it's being ironic. They're often the first to play bands that the commercial networks "discover" a few years later. You know, when any cred that band

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RELIGIOUS leaders have used their Easter sermons and messages to condemn the rise of atheism, with Sydney Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen describing the philosophy as an "assault on God".So begins Miles Godfrey's article today on the news.com.au site. Dr Jensen goes on to say we atheists...seem to hate the Christian GodWell, fuck me, he's right. When I sit down and actually think about it, I do

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Yes, yes you are.With a big thanks to my pal Timmy; the only true Christian I know.

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One of the truly shit things about living in Australia is all the media attention Australian Rules Football gets. I fucking hate it. Both the game itself and the fervour in which it's discussed and argued about in our papers, our televised news and our workplaces. Hell, you can't even go to the local shop without overhearing some inane conversation about our "national game," usually discussed at

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Those deluded young-Earthers over at Answers In Genesis have begun a campaign encouraging Christians to speak out and boldly declare their unwavering belief in their god and their holy text. They've dubbed this little crusade I Am Not Ashamed, which, to me, insinuates they were once rightfully ashamed in believing the universe was created in six days by an all-powerful god some 6,000-odd years

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I spent the weekend at WOMADelaide photographing various bands, acts and people. It was my first time at the festival and I'll definitely be back next year.Something about WOMAD reminded me of my childhood in the '70s; a place where everyone got along, where young mixed with old, rich with poor, where children ran around barefoot, unsupervised, happy and safe...Sadly, I grew up. I know life isn't

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The Pontifical Council for Culture has announced that it is creating a foundation to focus on relations with atheists and agnostics. The president of the Council announced the initiative on Wednesday as a response to Pope Benedict's call to "renew dialogue with men and women who don't believe but want to move towards God."You'd think Ratzinger would have some idea of what an atheist actually is.

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The title of this post is the search phrase Andrew Bolt used in Google to find any references to vicious personal attacks against him for his climate change scepticism. The second result on the third page (it's dropped from eighth result on the first page since yesterday) is a photo I uploaded to Flickr on April 29 last year. Up until yesterday morning, that photo and the attached rant had been

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Hey all, Flickr seems to be playing tricks so I'm posting here. It's just cut and paste from my Flickr page for the time being, but I'll give you all the back story a bit later...EDIT: 22nd February, 2010.As of 10:02pm, Adelaide time, this photo has been viewed 478 times since its initial upload. 330 views have come today via Andrew Bolt's blog. In his article, he infers that I'm a cyber bully. I

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I'm almost certain any Australian reading this blog will know who Eddie McGuire is. For those of you who don't, and for the benefit of my overseas readership, here's his Wikipedia entry.Eddie "Everywhere" is currently hosting Channel 9's coverage of the Winter Olympics and is doing his best to ensure we all discover how little knowledge he actually has on anything other than football. He's not

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There's a State election coming up here in South Australia and by typing this sentence, I am now breaking the law. I can break it even more by saying Mike Rann is a pompous, reactionary twat and Isobel Redmond is a last-gasp, please-save-the-Liberal-party-from-imploding masochist. How am I breaking it? By not publishing my real name and full address with this post.Well, I'm not quite breaking the

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Hmm, they've had a bad earthquake in Haiti. What's that? Another one? Man, those poor souls must be really suffering. How many dead? 100,000? Sheesh! They really need some help. What shall we do? How shall we help these poor people?Hmm...Ooh, I've got it! We'll send them solar-powered Bibles! Yeah, that'll give them some comfort and ease their worries. They still need to know that God loves them,

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Most of you are aware of my disdain for local "news"paper, The Advertiser. For a while now they've been featuring a segment called Confidential. It's essentially a bit of a gossip page. No actual news of any note, more a who's-fucking-who, which-quasi-celebrity-was-spotted-eating-at-some-restaurant, look-which-old-local-who's-done-well-overseas-is-back-in-town-praising-the-city-of-their-origin

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Things are not great right now.

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I'm a big fan of flickr (check out my photos in the side bar on the right). The inspiration I get every day from photographers the world over is truly immeasurable. The talent out there gobsmacks me. However, it's always bothered me that photostream is one word. Still, what would I expect from a website that omits the e in flickr? I guess if flickr arrived on the scene in the last couple of years

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What's not to love about The Onion?Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.Check out the rest here.

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My beautiful daughter arrived yesterday, December 21, 2009 at 9:25am. She weighed 3.71kg (8lb 2.8oz) and looks like she got most of my partner's genes. Which is a good thing.

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Who's Richard Cohen, I hear you ask? He's the founder of International Healing Foundation, an "educational and counseling" organisation that supposedly "heals" homosexuals. In the following interview, Maddow tears Cohen a new one. Well worth the watch.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Welcome to the second installment of Stig Martyr's Passage of the Week™. This week we take a look at that classic song by Boney M, By the Rivers of Babylon. The lyrics for this '70s disco staple are lifted from Psalm 137. It's a shame that the song didn't include the Psalm's last verse, verse 9:Happy the one who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock!*Yeah, that crazy Old Testament

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Took a few snaps the other evening as the sun was giving its best light. Click these hyperlinked words to see the rest of them. Photos, that is.

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I've decided to start posting my favourite passages from the Bible. I'll endeavour to post one verse/passage a week. Some will require an angry, elitist rant, others, such as the first of the series, below, will require no explanation whatsoever.So, here it is, Stig Martyr's Passage Of The Week™:1 Timothy 2:11-15*11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman

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...and the world is better for it.

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Oh dear, here we go again. No wonder my country's going down the shitter. The knuckle-scraping masses are so easily led by mainstream media that it's becoming increasingly easier for our government and big business to gently bend us over then violently rape our arses with splintered cricket bats before we even realise it's happened. The fear perpetuated by our mass media has the great unwashed

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I came across this article today, fellow Teh Intermawebsters, and nearly wet my pants in fear. It seems witches have set up an altar on Mt Ainslie in Canberra (Australia's capital city) and have been performing black masses aimed at casting spells on Australia's Federal Parliament. Fuck! No wonder my country's going down the shitter. It's those pesky witches getting all

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Greetings, fellow Teh Intermawebsters, I've been meaning to do it for a while now, but I finally submitted my site to the Atheist Blogroll. For those of you who've never heard of it, the Atheist Blogroll is a service provided to the Atheist and Agnostic blogging community. The blogroll currently maintains over 1000 blogs. Membership is limited to Atheist and Agnostic bloggers. Blogs on the roll

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Whilst flicking through the daily rag today (September 30, 2009), and it is a fucking rag of a paper, I couldn't help but to be drawn to the picture on page 55 of a smug-looking Wal King, Chief Executive of construction giants Leighton Holdings. It seems Wal received a remuneration package of over $AU12.5 million last financial year. Sucks to be me, huh?The accompanying article states that Wal,

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Where The Wild Things MarrA small boy dreams of working with The Smiths' Johnny Marr and so embarks on an adventure through sessions with Talking Heads and Bryan Ferry before finally encountering his hero during the making of the second Electronic album. Here he turns tail and flees as fast as his stubby little legs can carry him before Bernard Sumner can tell him how beneficial he found Prozac

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The first time I went out with fellow Flickr buddy Claude, we wandered into Market Bazaar here in Adelaide. It's a little shop full of records, knick-knacks and old cameras. We spent a good hour or so toying around with some sleeve-face photos, some of which were so-so and some of which were fucking hilarious. Here's a few of the better ones...

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A good friend of mine is one half of Rock Chick & Science Geek. For those of you who live in Adelaide, especially those of you with children, I highly recommend you go see one of their shows. And take the kids along, of course. Well, take the kids especially. Their latest show, SPLISH SPLASH SPLAT plays this weekend at the Odeon Theatre in Norwood. I asked David (Science Geek) if he'd be keen on

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I love Keith.

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For those of you who don't live in Adelaide (a fair amount, I would imagine), we've been having a lot of trouble with hoon drivers of late. Being on the road pretty much all day every day, I see my fair share of dickheads on our roads. Considering the appalling loss of life recently, I've become less tolerant of young, hopped-up fucktards putting my life and the lives of many innocent people at

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Here it is, my first xtra normal movie. Hope y'all like it...

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Despite being an atheist, there are still a set of rules I try to live my life by. A modern '10 commandments', if you will. Here they are...1. Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.2. In all things, strive to cause no harm.3. Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty, faithfulness and respect.4. Do not overlook

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I did a job today on South Tce. in the city. Yeah, working weekends sucks balls. I finished my job and was on the way to the next one. In the park across the street some elderly ladies were doing Tai Chi. A little further up the road, near the corner of Hutt St., a few Aboriginal youths were just sitting around talking. I was in the left turning lane and a car pulled up next to me. A Commodore (

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Check out the rest here.

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Click the picture to see it full size...

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Every photo I took on the night. Taken with a Nikon D80 with both the 50mm f/1.8d and 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II lenses. No processing on any of the photos. The black & white shots at the end are using the D80's in-camera black & white setting. Incidentally, the song is Happiness by the amazing Goldfrapp.Stig Martyr's New Year's Eve from Stig Martyr on Vimeo.

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Greetings, fellow Teh Intermaweb users. We recently got Foxtel installed at the Martyr's house (that's "cable" for all you American folk). Mrs. Martyr convinced me that it was a good thing to do and boy was she wrong. As it turns out, her dreams of watching endless hours of bad '80s sitcoms (she's abnormally obssessed with them) have been quashed by yours truly Bogarting the remote and watching

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Greetings, fellow Teh Intermaweb user. My name is Stig and I am an atheist. I like watching TV, playing sport, listening to and playing music, writing, reading good books and taking photographs. For the last of these "likes" I use a snazzy digital SLR camera made by Nikon. It's pretty. It takes nice pictures. Some of these pictures I'm quite proud of. I upload these pictures to an account I

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Publican: You'll have to move your chair.Me: Why's that?Publican: You're blocking the aisle.Me: (looks behind chair to metre-wide gap between it and chair at next table) What, this aisle?Publican: Yep.Me: Are you kidding? There's miles of room there.Publican: We have to keep this aisle clear for wheelchair access.Me: (looking around and spying not one wheelchair) You got a lot in here tonight, do

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A few days ago a 78-year-old blind flamingo, creatively named Flamingo 1, was bashed, allegedly, by four teens at Adelaide Zoo. The four youths, two aged 17, one aged 18 and one aged 19, are to appear in Adelaide's Youth Court on November 13 and Magistrates Court in February respectively. As is often the case in matters such as this, there has been a huge public outcry, mostly fed by talk-back

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So there I was, watching television on a week night and Friends came on. I'm not a huge fan but I'll tolerate an episode if I'm too lazy to find the remote or - and isn't this a sign of the times - can't be fucked getting out of the comfortable position I've found on the lounge to physically change the channel at the TV. Or if nothing else is on. Or if my partner's decided that no, we're watching

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I was watching Sports Tonight last week and noted actor, womaniser and hooker fucker, Hugh Grant, was being interviewed by a journalist as he traipsed the fairway whilst competing in the Dunhill Links Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament at St. Andrews golf course in Scotland. Man, longest opening blog sentence ever! Anyway, he wasn't having that good a round, the poor bastard. He commented that, and I'm

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The Americans go to the polls in just over a month. Sam Harris, the consummate voice of reason, has this to say about Sarah Palin. Read it. Harris reflects my sentiments, only far more succinctly. That is all.

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That is, the useless, life-threatening organ in the bowel proving there is no God rather than the supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.I had mine removed in the early hours of Monday morning. Talking with the surgeon the following day, it was "quite pussy" (as in "with pus") and it was

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I've alienated yet more people on Flickr. This time, a conservative Iraq veteran.It all started innocently enough; I was reading the comments on a contact's photo and came across Pathdoc1701's comment about tax day if the Democrats win the next election being the equivalent of removing duct tape from your head. I tried and tried but couldn't let it slip by. I had to comment back. I normally

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Not even a month has passed since my previous Lying for God post and yet another example rears its deluded, deceptive, oxygen-tubed head. It seems, dear Teh Intermaweb user, that Australia's believers have been duped. Yet again...Up until Saturday, Pastor Michael Guglielmucci was suffering from incurable cancer. Up until Saturday. So, what happened? Miraculous healing? God finally answer the

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It's that time of quadrennium when we, dear Teh Intermaweb user, sit back and watch 16 (+2) days of this planet's finest vying for glory and national honour against the rest of this planet's, um, viers. That's right, it's The Olympics. Or, to phrase it correctly, The Games of the XXIX Olympiad. For fear of being sued, or at the very least, receiving a strongly worded email from Channel 7, who

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Dear fellow Teh Intermaweb users, I just wasted two hours watching the absolute worst movie ever. EEEEEE-VER! I was actually in physical pain... When I wasn't laughing out loud at the hilarity of the "actors" doing their absolute best to avoid ever being cast in another picture.Before I get to why it sucked arse more than nailing my scrotum to the head of an angry crocodile, I just want to

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Like my previous post, this one deals with an email forward. Once again it found its way to my partner's inbox via a relative of mine and once again it's a blatant crock of horse shit. However, this time it's (apparently) from that wonderful collection of deluded hatemongers, fundamentalist Christians. Here's the email...IF SOMEONE HAD A GUN HELD IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE AND ASKED YOU IF YOU

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I've been meaning to write about this for quite some time and have now finally decided to do the research and find the truth behind a pretty big email petition circulating Teh Intermaweb. The following email found its way to my partner's inbox. It was sent to her by a relative of mine, but not sent to me for reasons I won't bother going in to. Anyway, here's the email...It is worth it, even if it

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Last year I wrote a letter to an Australian PC magazine that won me a year's subscription for being "missive of the week". To provide you a bit of background, here in Australia we have one major telecommunications company, Telstra. They were once wholly government owned and operated, much like our power, gas and water. A few years ago, Telstra sold just under half of its value in shares but was

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Those of you that know me are probably aware that I'm an atheist. Well, I like to refer to myself as an informed atheist. That is, I don't go blindly saying I don't believe in God just because I haven't found a creed or belief system I can embrace. My belief, or non-belief, stems from an inquisitive mind, a background in a pentecostal (or evangelical, as the Americans put it) church, innumerable

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I thought I'd impart some rock wisdom to any of you humble folk that may have aspirations of being in a rock band. And scoring chicks in said rock band. Essentially the only reason guys want to be in rock bands. Really.Lesson 1: Guitar. 1a. Buy a guitar. And not a shitty $100 Korean piece of shit, I mean a real guitar. The more money you can spend, the better. If you can afford a Gibson Les Paul,

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Last year my partner and I broke up. She found a new place and our son went to live with her. It wasn't an awful, heart-wrenching break up, just one of those "we're really not happy, are we?" type break ups. I was left with the house we used to share and the considerable rent that came along with living in an inner city suburb. And child support. I was only just getting by so I advertised for a

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Was going through some old news links I saved and came across this little story.KISS, please fuck off back to the '70s when glam was cool and sex was unbridled and great to watch, unlike Mr Simmons' recent efforts here and here (WARNING!!! NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!!). Guess the old adage is true: Old rockers never die, they just KEEP COMING BACK FOR ONE MORE FUCKING TIME, TYING UP RECORD COMPANY MONEY

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Whilst I was waiting to turn right onto Payneham Rd from Lower Portrush Rd a few weeks ago, a car came around the corner, lost control in the wet and slammed into the fence of the church on the corner. Nobody was hurt but there was a lot of damage to the fence and undoubtedly the front and bottom of the EF Falcon that lost control. All this happened a mere 5 metres away from me but I didn't see a

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A friend of mine has an 18 year old mate who's banned from at least four establishments for getting drunk and starting fights. Banned from four pubs at 18! Seriously, what the fuck is going on?I'm nearly 36 now (fuck me, seeing it written doesn't make me feel any younger), and when I was 18 I used to go to pubs and watch bands or go to the occasional nightclub and perve at chicks. I was a

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I started smoking when I was 14. I gave up two days before my 21st birthday and started again two years later. Now, a tad over 10 years later, I'm finally giving them up. I'm kicking the habit, starting afresh. There's something comforting about smoking, something homely that I'll miss. Cigarettes have got me through some pretty tough times. But I know it's the right thing to do, not the least

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Recently, I've been involved in some frustratingly sad discussions with several people I know in relation to Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians made back in February this year. For those of you outside Australia, our Prime Minister formally apologised to the stolen generations and for the past mistreatment of indigenous Australians on behalf of the Australian people and its government

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Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, recently made some comments about the cover of an art magazine that depicted a naked 6 year old girl. Obviously, this began quite a heated debate here in Australia about what is art, what is porn and where the fuck that very fine line between the two actually is.It's quite commonly known that the art world is anything but a breeding ground for paedophiles.

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