I had an enjoyable Saturday afternoon at Wynnum Manly Leagues club punting on the horses in anticipation of the Broncos taking on the Gold Coast Titans that evening. I had never been to the Wynnum Manly Leagues club before and I found their facilities to be very good. Bar / tab staff were friendly and relatively efficient and I could still feel the aura of the great King Wally Lewis as I walked around the place. At one point a horse called King Wally was running in Perth so for an omen bet we had a sneaky go at it, unfortunately the Kings power wasn’t strong enough to get that donkey home.

Oh and a little horse called Apache Cat absolutely annihilated the field in the Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley over 1200m. He gave Weekend Hussler a very solid shellacking before saluting at the great odds of $5.30. Happy times.

The game was good to see but a live but I do prefer to watch league on television. The Broncos looked a little rusty to me and I hope they get things together for the season pretty quickly. They normally get flogged in trials so I guess I should be happy with the win. Good to see a packed house at a local small sporting ground again.

One blight on the weekend was the annoying situation that occurs when using toll roads in this state. I am lucky in that I don’t need to use the toll roads in my everyday life. I can only imagine the frustration of people who are forced to use these things day in and day out.

Can some one tell me why the hell anyone who uses these roads would continue to use the toll booths and pay with physical money. For goodness sakes you slack jawed yokels get a freaking E Toll transponder in your car!

Driving across the gateway on the weekend took and extra half an hour (going North) because 75% of the traffic are trying to fit through 2 booths. I am going to transfer my transponder to on of the army’s new / second hand M1 Abrams tanks and steam role every niffer who is trying to pay for the toll with coin.

Get on Apache Cat and Maldivian next starts!

I have always feared the following events could happen to me in my life time. I doubt very strongly I would have the presence of mind to take photographs or use the sledge hammer, I honestly do not know what I would do. I mean your going in there to crap and seeing something like that would not help the situation.

We had a reasonably large snake round home the other night and luckily it was outside. I stood at the screen door and with a torch tried to “shoo” it away. As I get older I find I am less inclined to like snakes and this just ain’t helping.

First you open the lid.

Next you jump back as he moves to strike.

At this point if it were me I would run out of those toilets screaming like a little school girl!! However, if you were this dude you would teach the snake a lesson for entering the sacred throne room.

Honestly, the people at PETA can get stuffed if they expect any other human reaction. I would just love to see one of those “do gooders” use these facilities prior to the sledge hammer works!

Cheers to Trev… and whoever the brave sole was that took these horro pics.

I have wondered how Muhamad Ali was percieved during his career as a talented loud mouth boxer during the 60′s and 70′s. Was he disliked as much as Anthony Mundine seems to be dislike now? I may have asked this before but I still wonder.

Regardless, Mundine is the man now who is trying to walk the talk and in my opinion he isn’t quite doing it. Last night he dropped to the middleweight division and battled to a decision against former world title contender Shannon Taylor. Taylor in his time was a pretty reasonable fighter but I honestly think the much larger Mundine should have been able to put him away last night. I didn’t shell out the $50 to get the fight on PPV so I don’t know the ins and outs of the whole battle but it didnt sound like a terribly glamorous affair with Mundine winning every round in a foul filled event.

The $50 is a sore point for me as well. Why should I pay $50 to watch a main event fight and a few undercard fighters I have never heard of when I can pay $40 for UFC events that have much higher quality of fights and fitness and put on a much better show. I vote with my feet.

Anyway, this victory puts Mundine in line for a middleweight title fight agains German Felix Sturm which could mean a long delay for anyone hoping to see Green V Mundine again anytime soon. If Mundine beats Sturm it would surely mean a unification bout with the well regarded Kelly Pavlick is no longer a pipe dream and an undisputed middlewhieght champion of the world could be crowned in 12 months. If Mundine keeps winning and Green can’t make middleweight than a ‘Green V Mundine 2′ fight might be years off rather than months off.

Danny Green today has announced his return to the ring. I don’t get this. Or maybe I do and the cynical side of my brain is just trying to deny the fact. I sadly think these athletes announce fake retirements so they can take a break from their chosen sport and enjoy the rest with the comfort of when they announce their return from retirement a huge pay day awaits them.

Green in particular looks to be a prime example of this. He announced his retirement in conjunction with the release of his autobiography ‘Closed Fists, Open Heart’ a marketing ploy carried out to precision. Then, 6 months later I notice a market was available at certain sporting bet company websites on a Mundine V Green fight happening in 2009. Now he is rested and the time is right, he is going to chime in for one of the largest pay days in Australian sporting history.

I do not like this dishonesty. I would prefer people just retire and be done with it or let their talents melt away proudly much as Mathew Hayden did.

With the following exceptions no body is allowed to un-retire ever again.

• Wally Lewis – He could still captain coach the Broncos to an easy premiership this year. Even with bits of his brain gone.

• The Rat Pack – I would pay a lot of money for this group to reform…. even in their current condition (I would bring nose plugs).

• Steve Waugh – There is always room in a team for a sledging master, even if he scores no runs.

• Shane Warne – He can still turn legies 3 foot and chop on with the chicks. Who retires when they have this sort of talent?

• Muhumad Ali – Someone may do him a favour and put him out of his misery (This was suggested by someone else so don’t blame me).

• John Daly – We all need just one professional golfer to look like a complete hacker.

• Warren Buffett – I want him to live to have 1 trillion dollars. On current growth rates this should occur just as he turns 98.

Any of you lot come with any suggestions of who should be allowed to un-retire????

I don’t understand the continuing problem of people who apparently deliberately light fires in high alert conditions. It seems that every time a bush fire occurs the media state that “it is believed that the fire was deliberately lit”. This always leads me to the vision of some niffer pulling up on the side of the road, grabbing a lighter or matches, lighting up a tuft of grass and driving off.

Is this an accurate picture of the meaning of deliberately lit? Or is it people who are starting fires to burn off some rubbish around their house and it gets out of control and spreads?

I have a suspicion that it is the first reason, which is just horrendous.

What I would like changed is that media outlets are not allowed to report that fires are deliberately lit without having first hand knowledge of it. I have a feeling that the confirmation to firebugs that other firebugs are lighting fires and having a merry old time doing it, can be enough to spur others on to do it themselves. Sort of a green light to carnage. It would seem unlikely to me that these separate firebugs all have the same idea at the same time.

One thing is for sure these people should be strung up by their starboard testicle, in my opinion.

I think some of you by now will understand that I have a deep-seated dislike for debt. I am aware of the theories between good debt and bad debt but just don’t care. After all, most of the debt that has bought us to where we are, was considered by ‘the people in the know’ to be good debt. Niffs!

Currently, our government is trying to give money (some of which we have already paid to them in tax, the other money we don’t have) to the people in the hope that these people will spend it on products and service to artificially stimulate the economy. My concern is that I don’t believe this strategy will produce many long-term benefits to us. Individually 950 dollars can’t really do much, but collectively I would have thought this money could do a great deal and still result in the stimulation of the economy.

Do we really need to go into debt to achieve this stimulation? When you go into debt for reasons not of a plan ie. Spending with no plan; then I would consider it bad debt.

It looks as though Mr Rudd has also given the states a large pool of cash to distribute as they see fit which is good, but I am hoping there is more of a plan. The word ‘crisis’ is being thrown around like yesterdays undies, however I would like to think that the word crisis has the same meaning as Homer Simpson gave it ‘Crisatunity ie. Crisis = Opportunity.

Now is the time to spend some of that money that has been put into the war chest and spend it on the nations infrastructure. Build some decent public transport systems, hospitals and industry infrastructure to enable Australian companies to achieve further unfettered success in the next boom which will undoubtabley be just around the corner.

Happy to hear some of your preferred suggestions.

I must make an apology to some of you and no; this is not about Michael Clarke. He remains one of the biggest niffs in world sport. He is the mythic leprechaun of the Australian cricket team and will be missing in action very soon (it has already begun).

Anyway, my correction is for yesterdays rambling about KFC falsely advertising the return of the stacker. I realised my error when I walked into a KFC this afternoon and requested that a stacker be served to me. I was met with a look of pimply confusion from the attendant due to the fact that she didn’t know what a stacker was. Apparently the burger that had returned is called the Tower Burger, not the stacker. If I wanted a stacker I should have visited the local Hungary Jacks instead.

I tried the tower burger and can report it is just a burger. It was tasty to start with but as I ate the rest of it I was starting to wish I had stuck to the Zinger Bacon & Cheese burger I normally go with. The ‘tangy’ sauce didn’t really do it for me and the addition of the hash brown went nearly unnoticed. Also to my surprise the burger purchased did not resemble to burger shown on TV.

I still don’t remember it being ‘here’ before but the fact it is ‘back’ will not sway me any further. It was ok but the ads did the job and pulled ‘another sucker’.