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What about a sporting chance?

Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Are there not some wonderful things going on at the moment to make a thinking person’s brain tick over?

How about this...

In Paraguay the managers of a supermarket are being investigated over allegations that they locked the doors of their on-fire building so that people couldn’t get out without paying.

It may have saved the company a few thousand pesos/ingots/alpacas or whatever their currency may be – but it did sort of kill 283 of their loyal shoppers.

I guess that’s a rewards programme to die for!

And how about that Sydney security guard who got a bit pissed off with being beaten by a robber and allegedly shot him dead. One would suggest that was a pretty poor target chosen by that particular scumbag.

Now as a regular critic of Australia’s commercial television crap-purveyors one has to wonder why the new Communications Minister Helen Coonan is opposed to letting another mob loose on to the unsuspecting public.

Could it be for artistic reasons? Or saving us from more Channel 9 dross dressed up a quality programming?

One would suggest it has more to do with an upcoming federal election in which the current media powers will play an important part in influencing the oiks of our society with platitudes and barely concealed lies. (Intelligent folk please note the non-hyphenation of barely and concealed.)

And how about this for complete and utter wankism:

The English soccer association is considering sacking the current England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson because he had an affair with a woman.

I don’t wish to be cruel to sporting types – chuckle, chuckle, chuckle – but how on Earth can he be criticized?

For goodness sake the woman was willing – a big plus in my books given the number of alleged rapes and assaults involving football and sporting stars in recent months.

There was obviously some feeling between him and the person – unlike the punch-drunk attitudes of cretins who think that because they are sports heroes that entitles them to treating women like objects they can have buddy-buddy sex sessions with.

If the cultured and urbane Eriksson goes, then how many low-class English/Scottish/Australian/New Zealand/South African/American/Irish/French/German sporting tossers will have to go to?

Hey, maybe world sports will collapse and leave the way open for Olympic tiddly-winks!

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