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Stupidity by any other name

Now I have to say there are two classic examples of dufferism going around at the moment and they are literally worlds apart.

First prize for Cretins of the Week has to go to the South African cricket mob that forgot how to count and found themselves again throwing away a winning position and being knocked out of a World Cup.

The Jaapies' (South Africans) inability to work out the difference between a tie and a win - that is scoring 229 to tie and 230 to win - meant on 229 they didn't take an extra run off the last ball of the game.

While the players may have been gutted, imagine how their teachers feel - they'll cop the blame for it you know!

But to this lightning-quick mind the even more silly thing that happened over the past few days was a comment attributed to the director of the Australia Institute research group, Clive Hamilton.

It was on the matter of internet pornography and the need for compulsory filters to knock out exceptionally naughty material so young eyes cannot see it.

Now the internet is a wonderful place - as long as parents sit by their kids and make sure they do not stumble across extreme material. Now that could be too-graphic sex, violence ... whatever.

However to back up the need for compulsory filters - while presumably ignoring the dangers inherit in allowing programmers to control information people are allowed to see - Mr Hamilton said 84 per cent of teenage boys had been exposed to online sex sites.

Apart from the appalling 'exposed' pun, the question I have to ask is - were all the boys exposed to it, or did they spend hours trying to find it?

Show me a teenage boy who doesn't want to see nude women, bare breasts, bottoms and sex acts and I'll show you a lad who has problems.

Anyone who doesn't believe that is a tosser - sort of like the teens who visit porn sites really.

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