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Snow Falls Outside of Sydney, Record Cold in Brisbane

Published on October 23, 2008 in Australia in the News, New South Wales and Queensland. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Could you imagine what the reaction would be if this was a record high temperature instead of a record lows?:

COLD southerly winds blowing up from the snow-capped Blue Mountains have given Brisbane its coldest October morning in 32 years.

The mercury fell to 10.6 degrees in the City just before 5am, more than five degrees below average for this time of year.The previous lowest for October was 7.3 degrees in 1976, although Brisbane also recorded 6.3 degrees in October in 1899 at a now-disused weather station.

Amberley had an even colder start waking up to 6 degrees and Stanthorpe shivered on just two degrees.  [Courier Mail]

Here is what is happening just outside of Sydney:

Thoughts of summer have been temporarily bumped to the background, after snowfalls in the Blue Mountains this morning.

The Bureau of Meteorology confirmed reports snow had fallen in the mountains, and said there had also been falls at Bombala on the Far South Coast and at Cooma in the Snowy Mountains.

Temperatures in Katoomba were as low as 2 degrees this morning, which was enough to bring snow, BOM senior forecaster Jane Golding said.

“There are some thunderstorms at the moment, that’s what’s bringing the snow … the ground could be covered [with snow] in those places,” Ms Golding said.

“The situation we’ve got at the moment is an upper trough moving through, so the air in the upper atmosphere is very cold.

“There’s also a surge moving up the coast bringing cooler air at lower levels – the combination of those two things is bringing the snow.”

Snow in October has been reported less than five times in the past 50 years, weather service Weatherzone said.  [Brisbane Times]

I’m sure global warming will be blamed for this in some way.

“Sex Club” for Six Year Olds Busted in Brisbane

Published on September 12, 2008 in Queensland. 0 Comments Tags: .

This is just incredible and sickening at the same time:

THREE boys aged six ran a sex club at a Brisbane state school demanding and receiving sexual favours from Year 2 classmates.

One outraged father claimed yesterday the school did not bother to tell him for more than a week that his son was involved.

He spoke out as similar stories emerged at state schools on the Gold and Sunshine coasts and Cairns, which indicate the sexual abuse of young students by other school children appears rampant.

The Brisbane father said his son was one of a trio seen performing various sex acts in a toilet block.

“The teachers interrogated the kids and made them write out statements without our consent,” he said. “The boys wrote down that they belonged to a sex club.

“The teachers didn’t make contact for six days. They sent me an email and said, ‘Sorry, we’ve been busy’.

“We believe older children were also involved. I want a full police investigation.

“I was on the phone for hours being fobbed off by the Education Department.”

His revelations came as uproar was sparked by yesterday’s Courier-Mail story, which told how the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl by a young classmate was dismissed as a “childhood experiment” by a country school principal.  [Courier-Mail]

What is even more incredible about this story is that this is not the first time a six-year old has started a “Sex Club” in Australia:

THE Education Department has investigated claims a six-year-old student ran a “sex club” at an eastern suburban primary school, involving up to up to half a dozen grade 1 students.

One mother said her son, also six, was asked to perform a sex act, and that the alleged perpetrator also exposed his genitals to students.

Following an investigation, the department has admitted that the student exposed students to sexual conversations and proposed activities, but denied the existence of a “sex club”. The alleged perpetrator received counselling.

The mother has been unable to make a police report because the law states sexual assault by a child under 10 cannot be prosecuted.  [Brisbane Times]

Read the whole thing because the school in VIctoria this boy went to also bungled the investigation of the “Sex Club” last year just like the Brisbane school did this year.  The first thing that comes to mind when I read something like this is how does a six-year old learn or know anything about sex in the first place?  Obviously someone must have shown these six year olds videos or oral sex being done in order for them to replicate it in school.

Cranky and the World’s Hottest Burger

Published on July 19, 2008 in Humor and Queensland. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Here is an email I received today about the “World’s Hottest Burger” at the Off the Wall Diner in Brisbane, Australia. Enjoy.

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Dear sweet arseraping jesus i will make this report VERY quick because just the memory of the burger is giving me bowel cramps.

First of all the burger in question can be found at the “Off The Wall Diner” at Wellington Point in Brisbane.

Secondly, before it gets served to you you have to put on rubber gloves.

Finally, it was not so much a meal as a physical assault.

I swear to god i have never been in so much pain in my life. i was mentally prepared for the burn and had decided that no matter how hot it turned out to be i was just going to open a can of “harden the f*** up” and keep eating. So here’s how it panned out…

4 of us head to Wellington Point around 2pm for a cruisy Saturday lunch. Me, Thommo and our two better halves.

We know that drinking beer won’t help the burn, but just for psychological backup we have 2 6 packs of Little Creatures. We drink 1 6 pack on the way to the diner. We start on the other as soon as we arrive.

The 2 guys order the megadeath burgers to much laughter and derision from the kitchen of the diner. The 2 girls order sensible burgers.

We are downing the beer like water before we even see the burger so we run across the road and grab another 6 pack from the pub.

The girls burgers arrive and they are awesome hand made giant patty motherfucking things and I’m starting to get REALLY hungry.

Our burgers arrive, with rubber gloves and a recovery kit consisting of a big drink of milk and a bowl of yogurt. The challenge remains that if we can finish the burger without resorting to the recovery kit we get our names on a plaque on the wall…

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I start eating, and eating fast. I stick with my game plan and ignore the burn, just push through the pain.

2 things happen immediately to my body.

1. I get violent hiccups as my body tries to reject the molten lava i am putting into it.
2. I begin crying like a little girl.

Not to be discouraged I forge ahead, quickly shoveling the burger into my mouth. I begin to descend into my own little hell. Staff come out and are watching us eat and are egging us on. I can barely notice anything except the immense pain in my mouth, eyes, ears (yes my ears were ringing) but most importantly in my stomach…

And this is the problem.

The burning mouth, the crying, the ringing ears I can handle. But now with less than a third of the burger to go my stomach seizes up and refuses to let me put anything into it. I take a deep breath and look for my can of “harden the f*** up” when I notice that my mate Thommo has stopped eating his burger just beyond the halfway point and is wandering aimlessly up and down the street.

He has honestly lost the plot and is walking around in circles.

I decide I can’t be defeated and manage one more bite before my stomach explains at this point that it is about to return to me everything i have just eaten at high speed.

not being able to face the prospect of vomiting back something that hot i pull off my gloves and admit defeat with 2 mouthfuls to go. The staff can’t believe I have got this close and not finished it but at this point i really don’t give a f*** because i have just started to hallucinate.

No exaggerations here for the next 15-20 minutes or so as we just sat there i was completely off my face. it is one of the strangest drug experiences I have ever had (thats a BIG call). The closest thing I can liken it to is the feeling you have when you are coming off an “e” and you are really jumpy, agitated, spun out and trippy.

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Can i recommend this burger to anyone?

No f***ing way.

Should you go and try it anyway?

Absofu**inglutely!

And about 2 days later…

it is now almost 48 hours later and i have just had my second shower for the morning.

second shower? why have 2?

because i am still shitting white hot torrents of molten steel and i need to cool down my puckered, torn and abraded sphincter before it decides to go all “china syndrome” and melt through the crust of the earth to the core.

i swear to god all i have eaten in the past couple of days since the “event” is stomach and anus friendly food like yogurt, and ham and salad rolls and yet here i am at 6am on Monday morning wondering why i have just been fisted by someone with a handful of broken glass and gravel?

the burger was evil. and it’s evilness continues to taunt my bunghole.

shame on you for wanting to try this boobmeister. shame.

… and finally, a few days after that…

lol thanks for your concern f***er

it lasted until tuesday night (i had the burger on Saturday lunchtime) and i had my first *normal* crap on Wednesday morning.

my mate i went who also tried the burger with came good on Tuesday morning, but he admitted by “good” he meant he wasn’t bleeding profusely from his anus and eyeballs at the same time.that burger was all f***ed up.

now go try it.

Has any readers out there in Queensland ever seen this place and tried this burger because I’m curious if this is actually true or not?

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