Indicates Mr Boyle with a pointed teaspoon, “Jesus, listen to me; I need a smack over the head. That sounds as stupid as something you’d say.”
Archive for the Observation Category
Returning to Earth with a Crash and a Bang and a Column of Smoke
Posted in Observation, Ridiculous curiosity on April 11, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Elephant Named Brain Damage
Posted in Fitness, Journalism, Kickboxing, Observation, Real Men with tags Alexei Kouznetsov, Alzheimer's disease, Andrew Rule, Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boxing, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Derek Boogaard, Dr Ann McKee, Francois Botha, Golden Glory, Joe Demicoli, Kickboxing, Lou Gehrig's disease, Mike Bernardo, MMA, Parkinson's disease, Rick Rypien, The Fighter's Factory, Wade Belak on April 1, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Herald-Sun newspaper dated March 2, 2012 featured an article about head trauma in sports, written by Andrew Rule. You can read it at:
Let’s face it; head injury is the big fucking elephant in the room at my house. Continue reading
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Aboke Abductions
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags Atrocity, Joseph Kony, LRA on March 18, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleSomething interesting I found while surfing the ‘net. To give you a taste:
The Aboke abductions were the kidnapping of 139 secondary school student females from St. Mary’s College boarding school by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army on October 10, 1996, in Aboke, northern Apac District, Uganda. The deputy head mistress of the college, Sister Rachele Fassera, of Italy, pursued the rebels and negotiated the release of 109 of the girls. The Aboke abductions and Fassera’s dramatic actions drew international attention, unprecedented at that time, to the insurgency in northern Uganda. Continue reading
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A Open Letter to the Western Detractors of Kony 2012
Posted in Journalism, Observation with tags Child soldiers, Iraq war, Kony 2012, Srebrenica on March 18, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The late 20th-early 21st century sees a world in which 60% of its inhabitants live below the poverty line. The ‘Kony 2012’ campaign, regardless of who runs it or for what reason, ostensibly seeks to make famous a man who presses children into sex slavery or warfare. Continue reading
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Sam's Comment, or Showing Jarrod Who's Boss
Posted in Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, A Room of One's Own, Betty Friedan, Cat's Eye, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, Dermott Brereton, George Negus, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Henry Handel-Richardson, Judith Herman, Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Sam De Brito, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Lost Boys, Tim Winton, Virginia Woolf, Wilbur Smith, Yumi Stynes on March 5, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleEvery time a woman responds to something I have written on this blog relating to feminism, she claims she can’t understand it [see ‘Why I do Not Call Myself a Feminist]. I think Sam’s comment, however, is the most astute and insightful I have received here. I wanted to feature it as a post in its own right – because of its perspicacity, but also because I guess I need to talk about the grinding of this particular axe. Continue reading
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Feminism is a Distinctly Single-Edged Sword
Posted in Observation with tags Ben Roberts-Smith, Dermott Brereton, George Negus, The Circle, The Footy Show, Yumi Stynes on February 29, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/9raw-the-circle-mocks-war-hero/xk30y8q
In case you missed it: Yumi Stynes, professional dick-head, recently described Victoria Cross winner Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith as ‘brainless’ in relation to a shirtless photograph of him in the pool. George Negus went on to ponder whether or not he was a ‘dud root’. Continue reading
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Why the Internet is Truly Awesome
Posted in Observation, Reading, Ridiculous curiosity on February 8, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Question: What’s the difference between an instrument and an implement?
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Mr and Mrs Creosote
Posted in Observation with tags Alan Joyce, Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Holden, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Mortein, Qantas, Strike breaking on February 8, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Icons: Part II
Posted in Fitness, Observation with tags Andrei Rubelev, Barbara Kruger, BodyJam, Capitalism, Jerry Seinfeld, Les Mills, propaganda, Proverbs of Hell, William Blake on February 1, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
My favourite Arts Degree joke was written on the toilet paper dispenser underneath the Melbourne University Union Building; “Arts Degrees: Please Take One.” Continue reading
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Happy Thought for the Day
Posted in Observation with tags Pastor Martin Neimoeller, Tank man on January 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“First they came for the communists, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the Jews but I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to stand up.”
-Pastor Martin Neimoeller
Theme Park at its Darkest 