Things that bemuse, perplex, befuddle and flummox you

[AndyP]

Clear plastic at that.

To prevent stabbings from the regular drinkers of it, I assume.

[sms316]

Had a game today with a random army dude who was a bit on the loose cannon side of things. Conversation turned to fake cans and he then shows me a pic of his daughter.

"She's 23, and I didn't pay for them".

Facebook friend request sent.

[Ron Burgundy]

Lance Armstrong.....????http://m.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/la...425-zqz7c.html

Putting aside the obvious issue of him being a massive drug cheat, I think he's got a point. Virtually the entire peloton was on the gear in those days, particularly the early years. Chances are the other big contenders from that era would privately consider that his victories were legit. He may have cheated, but he just did it better than the rest of them and he still crossed the finish line first regardless.

[Daves]

Putting aside the obvious issue of him being a massive drug cheat, I think he's got a point. Virtually the entire peloton was on the gear in those days, particularly the early years. Chances are the other big contenders from that era would privately consider that his victories were legit. He may have cheated, but he just did it better than the rest of them and he still crossed the finish line first regardless.

Yeah but that still only makes him the winning Cheat on the day(s). Giving him any credit for them would be a total taint on the event, its history and the genuine winners imo.

[dc68]

Genuine winners? When was the last "clean" winner?1935?

[3Puttpete]

Every pro cyclist is on the juice.

[LeftyHoges]

Cadel? Surely he wouldn't cheat. After all, he's one of us.

[3Puttpete]

In a sport where they all juice he beat them all.

How could anyone suggest such a thing?

[Johnny Canuck]

KJ getting a Jetspeed is the golf equivalent of Grunt going to LA.

[Daves]

Watching Golf Getaway (yeah, I know it is shite! but they play some nice courses), and seeing them hit their shots into the bunda time after time, and then seeing them play their next shots from the middle of the fairway, or on the green! Yes I know, lots of shot have to be played just for the camera, but you are filming in HD guys, we can see the ball flight you know!!??

[Jackson]

Watching Golf Getaway (yeah, I know it is shite! but they play some nice courses), and seeing them hit their shots into the bunda time after time, and then seeing them play their next shots from the middle of the fairway, or on the green! Yes I know, lots of shot have to be played just for the camera, but you are filming in HD guys, we can see the ball flight you know!!??

Awful show, how the hell did those two mugs get the dream job of going around the country playing the best courses in each state?

[Lagerlover]

I loved the look that older one of the two got from Michael Hill when they visited The Hills...very awkward...that scraping the dog shit of your shoe look, priceless.

[MegaWatty]

I loved the look that older one of the two got from Michael Hill when they visited The Hills...very awkward...that scraping the dog shit of your shoe look, priceless.

Or the I just realised that my fly is down, as I walk into school with eleventy billon mums around, look. You know, the one I had to today...

[Lagerlover]

So no offers then mate?

[Courty]

how the hell did those two mugs get the dream job of going around the country playing the best courses in each state?

Look at the credits... the tall, skinny one is credited as writer/ producer/ director. I bet when he pitched the idea to potential sponsors he didn't mention that it would be hosted by two choppers.

[MegaWatty]

Kids socks that aren't in the washing machine when you remove everything but miraculously appear in the next load.

[PerryGroves]

I'm watching the golf and there's an advertisement for http://www.strongchoices.qld.gov.au. If they are going to advertise, wouldn't it be better to target Qlders rather than the rest of us who.......don't really care.

[goughy]

Us qlders are over it too. Talk about a propaganda machine. I get the stuff in my Twitter feed and can't get rid of it...

[AndyP]

What's wrong with LNP/anti-Labor advertising using tax payer dollars?

[goughy]

Nothing really, since I'm sure Labor do the same thing.

[Ron Burgundy]

What's wrong with LNP/anti-Labor advertising using tax payer dollars?

Nothing wrong with it. All governments do it. Only issue is that they're doing it in an attempt to show popular support for asset sales. However the results of the survey have been released and asset sales are only the 54th most popular option. People overwhelmingly chose raising taxes on big business, which the government will never do. Cue the government saying it's not a poll or a real survey and the results are immaterial. Can't understand why the ads are still running if it's an entirely pointless exercise.

[jimandr]

Nothing wrong with it. All governments do it. Only issue is that they're doing it in an attempt to show popular support for asset sales. However the results of the survey have been released and asset sales are only the 54th most popular option. People overwhelmingly chose raising taxes on big business, which the government will never do. Cue the government saying it's not a poll or a real survey and the results are immaterial. Can't understand why the ads are still running if it's an entirely pointless exercise.

Ron, you've stolen my thunder but I'll comment anyway.

I saw the ad yesterday and immediately thought advertising on Fox must be very cheap.

I clicked on Perry's link, and it took me back to my recent working past. The NSW railway do something similar every time they are about to change the timetable. I had the enjoyable job of collating the public responses once.

Government organisations go through the pretence of public consultation to gain demonstrable support for things they intend to do, so they can justify their action by either saying 'we listened to the people' or 'we consulted first and not many people objected'.

I did wonder what the unstated agenda behind it was, and asset sales does make sense. It always perplexed me when you see governments promising extra spending and debt reduction at the same time. It either means a tax hike or asset sales. The old chestnut of eliminating waste and duplication and improving government service efficiency simply doesn't deliver the savings required (even if these things are necessary, and sometimes they are necessary).

[Gollfer69]

I don't wish to make light of a stressful situation but here's the latest from the news feed about a siege down at Tugun. A father is holding his son as hostage.

HE father at the centre of a siege and hostage situation on the Gold Coast has made a list of demands. Neighbours say the 42-year-old man has demanded cigarettes, two bottles of coke and a pizza.
Heavily-armed SERT officers remain on scene trying to being a peaceful end to the standoff.

[PeteyD]

Wow. It is an abduction though.

[Gollfer69]

This place has seriously gone bad.
I'm not sure of the social media news things amplify all this trubly but it seems we have half a dozen nasty things happen every ****en day.