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Cyclists, you have been Warned

January 18th 2012 01:14
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shane warne
Australian media services are in a frenzy today with follow-ups to the story about Shane Warne having a roadside altercation with a cyclist.

Warne, who has dual A-list celebrity status for services to cricket and services to men's hair, was driving home on Tuesday when he was forced to look annoyed at the antics of a cyclist. Some reports suggest Warne may even have gesticulated.


There is no argument that the cyclist was a hoon. He apparently approached Warne's car from behind, grabbed hold and helped himself to a free ride for some distance. When Warne reacted, the cyclist rode past the vehicle and braked in front of it, holding up traffic.

This, of course, created a potentially dangerous situation. Authorities really must look into keeping the public at greater distance from A-list celebrities.

The situation also raised important questions about the inability of modern journalists to recognise a Ferrari. "I do not own a Ferrari," said Warne, in response to the initial story which claimed that's what he was driving. "I own a Mercedes and a Chrysler," he elaborated.

Further disturbing developments emerged today after Warne created a series of Tweets, not one of which contained a reference to sex. Instead, Warne went on a Tweet rampage against the unfettered freedom of the public in terms of access to roads while mounted on bicycles.

This is a sensitive issue which has been simmering, at sub-celebrity level, for some time. Now that an A-lister has taken a stance, however, the Twittersphere is abuzz.


One media report today said Warne's view had received support from "B-listers" Lara Bingle and Holly Valance, as well as from celebrity journalist Tracey Grimshaw. This raises further serious questions, such as whether B-listers should be mentioned in the same story as an A-lister and, crucially, whether it implies that Tracey Grimshaw is a C-lister.




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Another Latham grotesquerie

February 4th 2011 05:53
: Vyoos news
mark latham

VYOOS EDITORIAL
Former Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister wannabe Mark Latham says incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard is incapable of empathy because she has no children.

Writing in a magazine column, Latham said Gillard comes across as wooden talking to the public because she chose a life without kids.

This is not an honest opinion. It is the sort of tabloid headline-grabbing, sensationalist sewage which people like Latham rely on to make a buck.

Having famously failed at a real job, they get a peroxided agent and a botoxed publicist and proceed to play the tabloid celebrity game. What you do is bad-mouth people and take extravagantly opinionated stands on any issue which suits your purpose, and watch the offers come in to appear on mindless TV reality, talkback and tabloid affairs shows.

Having your thoughts ghost-written for the redneck press and your (paid-for) picture appear in the front cover of supermarket shock sheets are the next step up the slimy slope.

It's a living. If you're outrageous enough, you can create your own cult. Think Sarah Palin.

Common sense and carefully considered opinion have no place in this game. Snipe, gripe and shoot from the lip. Hit hard, and as far below the belt as you can reach, before running to the next make-up call, via the bank.

It's like the bad loser on a football field, the guy whose side's getting beaten so he gets defensively angry. Nothing is his fault.

Gillard is a winner in the political game at which Latham proved a blundering no-hoper. Look at the scoreboard, Mark.
news.com.au




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kyle sandilands

He's brash, he's a judge on Australian Idol and he got his first job in radio after lying on his résumé about working with Triple M. In September 2006, he was named by Zoo Weekly as Australia's most hated identity. He's Kyle Sandilands, Australia's answer to Gordon Ramsay.

He is in the news again after being accused of falsifying his Twitter follower numbers. How low can a man go?

The accusation has been made by Leon Hill, who runs a social media marketing company called uSocial. Hill was widely quoted by news sources when he called Sandilands and his 2Day FM radio show co-host Jackie O "Twitter wankers" after their Twitter following increased by 30,000 in 18 hours.

Hill's initial comments that the new followers were fake were made after he analysed some of the followers and found that most had no photos and few or no updates. The ones that were updating were doing so "with either their name, or an illegible grouping of letters".

Hill said most of the followers of the Twitter account were fake and that Sandilands and O were using a script or computer program to "create accounts and then follow their own".

"In my professional opinion, something funny was going on," Hill said. "I've seen this stuff before and to me it's quite obvious. Since all the publicity has come out about this Twitter issue with Kyle and Jackie's account, their followers have ceased to increase at such an alarming rate."

Sandilands has responded by threatening to sue Hill for slander.

According to Hill, "He stated that he'd taken on bigger people than me and won so he would have no problem taking me to court. He also said that I should think about moving my money overseas just in case I had a `retarded kid' over here to support as he intended to ruin me.

"He was quite calm, but very offensive as we've come to expect from him."

On their show on Monday morning, Sandilands and Jackie O said they believed the massive increase in followers was due to the fact that they were placed on a "recommended list".

This post first appeared on my Salient Point blog.

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Grimshaw and the pig

June 12th 2009 00:08
The celebrity spat of the year just got juicier with the news that Tracy Grimshaw has been asked to pose nude for an erotic magazine.

In case you are not up to speed with this story, which has chased swine flu off the front pages of the less credible newspapers around the country, here's a quick review: Gordon Ramsay, a grotesque parody of a celebrity chef, was interviewed by A Current Affair, a grotesque parody of a television current affairs show, hosted by Grimshaw


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Blog writer wanted

June 3rd 2009 01:10
remington typewriter

Candidates should be female, aged 29-39, and resident of Melbourne, Australia.

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rachael finch miss universe
You can take the girl out of Queensland ...

And now for the latest developments from that font of wisdom and common sense, the Miss Universe community.

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