I recently made the following comments on news.com.au Jack Marx Live’s blog relating to the death of Heath Ledger. This was the last of section of the comment.

“Oh and it is sad to hear about Heath…. But I am sure the rest of the 155,000 (average) people that will die on this planet TODAY are just as important.”

I stand by these comments and believe they should not be considered offensive or disrespectful to anyone. You may disagree that is fine…. there is a section called ‘Leave a Reply’ below if you do.

I did rather enjoy one particular comment made in response to my statement.

Miss Anne Thrope replied to Notasmartman.com — Wed 23 Jan 08 (04:10pm)

“Most people are talentless bores and parasites. Why on earth would you assume they’re important? Just because they’re humans? If someone dies and has shown to possess some flare or talent, it is totally reasonable for people to put such a death above the everyday deaths of the mass of yucky humans. All that their deaths mean is that less animals will have to be killed(tens of millions a day) to feed their pointless existence.”

A brutal honesty that must be, if nothing admired.

How do you feel about this sort of thing? Is this an event of epic proportions or are there to many people like Miss Anne Thrope in existence? To caught up in this thing called “Culture” that they can’t remove their head from their own anus and realise that the world is much bigger than what is printed in Who Weekly.

She even has her own website http://www.miss-ann-thrope.com/ and may be a future client of Shirvo’s Spunk Store so we shouldn’t upset her…..

Welcome to the Hall of Fame Miss Anne Thrope, you are home! Please don’t sit to close to Forrest Gump, he is easily lead.

All sorts of people (mainly Butch and Brenda couples) are requiring our sperm to have children (well that’s what I assume they are doing with it….. who knows?). Now, I support your freedom to choose your own sexual preference, to hate men and your choice to live your life totally separate from the male species (a significant percentage of the time this would be preferred). But when you need the “good stuff” I don’t see how you can expect to receive it for free.

It’s the old supply and demand law. Currently, there is a huge demand for the “good stuff”, and a large number of Butch & Brenda’s vying for it. The answer is to turn this little “problem” into an economy. Surely, if they were willing to pay for a service, there would soon be a solution or business if you will. Well spank me silly, I have just had a business idea, “Shirvo’s Spunk Store”. Interested investors should comment back to this story, a prospectus is to be released soon.

It is amusing that for years we have considered useless in the whole “life cycle” by certain groups of people. Fortunately for us men, the shoe is now on the other foot, its time to set our price gentlemen and I reckon the “good stuff” should not be sold off cheap!

Help me out chaps, what do you think would be a suitable remuneration for this service?

Quick! Sell any securities you own, now! Any super that you have control over, direct them to property type investments and get yourself out of the stock market NOW.

PROBLEMS
The debated rise in interest rates are a self for filling prophecy that is just begging become history. In my opinion a large amount of people have over extended themselves financially and interest rates rises amongst other actions will be required to cover institutional losses in this area (FYI the banks don’t “loose”)

We have a bunch of people that decided after RECORD gains on the stock market they should duck down to the bank and get themselves a margin loan to get on the stock market gain train. Bad news kids, the gain train was pulling into the maintenance yard as you purchased your tickets. Best sell them now to the nearest stupid person, if you can find one.

Those “stupid Ahhhmericarns” as the French so eloquently put it, are up to their turkey wings in foreign debt and are also paying for that war on terror which can’t be easy. I suspect a continuation of this philosophy cannot be sustained. Either taxes must be sort to pay “the bills” or another solution should be pursued. In any event, some of these so called ‘people in high places’ are starting to smell what they have been shovelling and she don’t smell so good.

Either way, today is Tuesday the 22nd of January and it is a big day of market declines! (Being posted before the market opens that my fat little friends is a big call.)

ADVICE
Back to my opening comments. You may sell, you may divert into property…. but an indecisive investor is a lost investor. You can no more pick the bottom of the market than the next niff. Stay the course, hold what you have (unless the debt is unpayable, both personally and security wise) and get ready to plonk some money somewhere soon. As a famous late night salesman once put it “buy in gloom, sell in boom.” We are approaching gloom, but boom is currently quite a while’s away.

Well my favourite boxer handed Felix Tito Trinidad a lesson in the sweet science yesterday afternoon in an entertaining afternoon. Entertaining because Mr Jones Jr (yes a distant relation) put on quite the performance of dancing, showboating,

talking and then dominating his opponent into defeat. Jones Jr now eyes a super middle weight world title shot with Joe Calzaghe in Wales. In my opinion, Jones is more than capable of beating Calzaghe and ruling as super middle weight champ until the rapture (good luck Mundine). Entertaining also because Andrew Golota, one time “Riddick Bowe Low Blowing Hero” managed to fight the last 4 rounds of his under card fight with the use of only his right eye. His left had been swollen shut. But that
didn’t stop the big “Polish Punisher” as he relentlessly pursued his opponent to the point of exhaustion. His opponent only made the 12th round final bell by the grace of the ropes. Keep an eye out for Golota in a heavy weight championship fight later in the year.

Lleyton Hewitt was able to beat Iraq Baghdatis in the stupidest game of tennis I have ever heard about. No no, instead of playing the game in normal hours (due to time constraints?) they decide to play it in the middle of the night. Actually, slap me silly, that’s a good thing…. I don’t have to watch that moron Hewitt yell like a twit and point at his head with his whole hand in a reverse SIG Heil. Well done Australian open…. Keep that loser off my tv screen.

Anyone with any punting ability would have joined me in cheering home a little horse called Seachange in NZ on Saturday. She started well, found a nice position on the inside then KICKED away with two furlongs to go to run within a tenth of a second of world record time for a 1200m race. The reward for my efforts, a lazy $600.00 giddy up!!

Well done farmers we are getting a heap of rain and I am very happy for you, I truly mean it. I hope you all had the foresight to get in there and dig out all your dams (during the last drought) to enable you to hold more water for the next big dry. Now that is has rained would it be possible for you to shut the hell up and stop your constant whinging?

I also enjoyed reading the following article (for comedy purposes only), you may as well. Hedonism 101: Men, be tactful, consider placement

I read a recent article about work place taboos. A poll of 5000 workers in the US showed the following highest apparent workplace no no’s.

45% said snoozing at the office
39% said kissing another colleague
22% said stealing from the office (does drawing a wage count?)
21% said drinking alcohol (8 hours without alcohol, is it work or hell?)
18% snooping after hours
4% lying about education (who would do such a thing?)
2% taking credit for other peoples work

Interesting, but totally off base. The 5000 flunkies they chose to take this survey were wearing their skivvies to tight I think.

Here are the top five workplace annoyances that really get my goat!

1. Dobb me in for harassment, sexual or other
2. Dobb me in for not wearing the stupid Hi Vis vest in the warehouse.
3. Walk past my cubicle trying to see what is on my computer screen
4. Have a better looking lunch than mine
5. Borrow my car, and not put the freakin seat back! I snap my knee on the dash every time.

In your experiences what are your big workplace taboos?

I don’t know what to do. I hate that the media continue to report on certain things that I wish they wouldn’t report on. If I write about it here am I perpetuating those stories further? Well to bad, I can’t think of anything else, here comes some celebrity crap.

I am interested as to whether things that seem to make certain people, famous for being famous are pre-planned or just lucky. Was Paris misled as to the filming and release of ‘that’ movie (its not an ice-cream by the way!!!!) or was she aware of it or part of the planning? Are Britney and K-Fed orchestrating this whole ‘she’s broken her brain’ thing to sell albums or is she really off her tree? Does Lindsay Lohan realise she is unattractive and covered in freckles? (a tip of my hat to anyone who explains where Lindsay’s freckles came from). What about you? Do you think these sorts of things are pre planned or just play out naturally?

One thing I am fairly confident of, Corey Worthington did not pre plan anything except a big out of control party. The rest of this media attention is down to a cheap pair of yellow plastic sunnies, a poofy looking jacket and apparent lack of interest in his parents or anyone else’s opinion about his behaviour.

He has even managed to make today’s number 1 spot on digg.com (the largest community-based popularity website). Something many a web master spends hours and hours trying to achieve. Not me though, notasmartman.com supersedes popularity………..aagggghhhrrr That’s it!!! I am a website audience seeking whore and need to get this out!!!

Dear Corey,

I have been forced to watch you for the past few days now and have, giggled at some of your antics, winced at some of your comments, been jealous about the amount of brainless chicks that want a piece of you and celebrated your arrest. All that aside, now I want a piece of you for myself.

Back-yard, boxing ring, pub (oh wait you can’t get in) umm, YMCA, local community park wherever you want to do it. You’re a money grabbing little grub so I herby put up a $10.00 open challenge to fight you, no holds barred one on one.

You may think it’s unfair as I am bigger, wiser than you. But you are prettier and quicker than me. I think it would be a good match up….. I have a record of flogging surfer looking dude(s) and you look like a surfer I would like to flog.

So come on Corey, fight me, FIGHT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment back if this gets back to you and if you want to wake up in your worst nightmare.

Shirvo Jones

In August 2005 Mr. T, Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris went shark fishing 845 miles east of Bermuda and 1,139 miles west of the Azores Islands. After finishing off 10 kegs of Milwaukees Best and 2 barbequed tiger sharks Mr.T asked Vin Diesel to pull his

finger. At the exact moment that Vin Diesel pulled Mr. T’s finger Chuck Norris round house kicked Mr. T in the stomach “for fun”. The resulting flatulence refered to by most as “Hurricane Katrina” has cost over $1.13 billion so far and almost destroyed New Orleans. To help aliviate his conscious Chuck will provide free “Roundhouse Kick” seminars to the hurricane victims. As for Mr. T he will simply pity the fools. Further facts at chucknorrisfacts.com

If any of you out there are lucky enough to have TV1 on foxtel I hope you have had the chance to check out the new season of Stupid Stupid Man. Finally an Australian sit-com that actually makes me laugh!!

If you have broadband internet you can catch a couple of free episodes at www.tv1.com.au/StupidStupidMan I recommend episode 5 ‘The Return’. If you watch it you may even see the seed for the idea behind You Stink!