Allergic reactions:  Shortness of breath, redness, swelling, sweating, dry mouth, shaking.
The funny thing about those symptoms is I get ALL of them while exercising.  I think I am allergic to exercise.

It got me thinking about who coined the phrase ‘Fun Run’ and thought that nobody would notice that running (for the majority of us) is not fun.  It’s like saying ‘Fun Pain’.  That will never work because it doesn’t rhyme so how about ‘leprosy ecstasy’. 
Nobody wants leprosy but what put an exciting word that rhymes next to it and people start to think “hey, I might try that”. 

What? It works for the Fun Run people doesn’t it??

Most unisex ‘trendy’ clothing stores have a separate male and female section on opposite sides of the store.  You walk in, look at both sides, spot your desired clothing line and head that way.  The problem lately for me is telling which side is which.  Personally I completely blame this on the retro trend of 80s and early 90s clothing becoming ‘cool’ again.  Bright colours and loud emblems make distinguishing between male and female clothing that much harder.  I have a number of problems with this:

1) Fluoro colours are offensive and should be reserved for truckers shirts (in reality anyone blind enough to not see a 150kg man when backing up is not going to notice fluoro anyway).
2) 80s clothing was NEVER cool, even in the 80s.
3) Spandex should only be worn by pushbikers for both comfort and to confirm their homosexuality.
4) I now often find myself picking up shirts going “Large? This is not a large?  Ohh… this is a chick’s shirt” before heading to the OTHER side of the store for the men’s stuff.

Personally I think the 80s was just a really bad hangover from the 60s and 70s drug taking and should not be relived.  I am not the only one engaging in retro bashing however - it goes as high as the High Court of Australia.  There was a recent uproar about naked photos of young children by ‘artist’ Bill Henson being on display at an art gallery.  The High Court had to come out and defend it’s purchase of some of Henson’s artwork 28 years ago.  Entitled Boy the series is a sequence of five black and white photos depicting a boy running towards the camera in three shots and sitting with his mother in the final two.  The funny thing about their defence was when a spokeswomen for the High Court said:

there “was no nakedness” in the shots and that the worst that could be said about them was that the mother had 1970s hair.

See? Even the High Court agrees that the past should be left dead and buried.  ‘Nuff said.
Article in the age with High Court’s statements:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/high-courts-soft-spot-for-henson/2008/05/27/1211654031701.html

I was given  “The Trivia for the Toilet” book recently after my girlfriend found out I have a tendency to pass the alone-time on the crapper with a good read.  I will post some of the ones that interest me as I come across them.

In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as tremble with palsy and mix up their words.  Such behaviour gave rise to the familiar expression ‘mad as a hatter’. The disorder, called hatter’s shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt.  Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioural symptoms.

The funny thing about 21st century men who work with clothing for other men is they also tend to be excitable and exhibit strange behaviours.

 Coincidence? I think not!

Editors note:  While Google Image Searching for “trivia for the toilet” the first page had a couple of pictures of the book as well as this:

What do these girls have in common with ‘trivia for the toilet’? 
Don’t ask… just don’t ask.

A recent story in the Courier Mail caught my eye because it was blasted with the headline “FACEBOOK MURDER”.  I was hoping to pick up some pointers on how to kill facebook myself because I have been suckered into signing up and can’t stand the stupid site - the only useful thing is sharing pictures.  Basically people need to understand that if I haven’t talked to them in the past year or so and didn’t talk to them during high school/uni there was a very good reason and nothing is about to change.

The article was unfortunately not useful to me in that sense but instead was about a facebook meeting that lead to a murder by an ex-boyfriend of some artist who lived at West End.  The funny thing about this article was this particular quote:

Neighbours heard screams during the night but did not investigate because of frequent disturbances in the street.

Sucks to live at West End apparently, at least with all the screaming going on at night.

Despite being apathetic to screaming they do react to murder:

Sarah’s violent death stunned the peace-loving, creative community of West End.

Anyone from Brisbane who is familiar with West End would know to be truly accurate that sentence should have the words ‘peace-loving’ substituted with ‘pot-smoking’ and the word ‘creative’ substituted with… well… ‘pot-smoking’.

Frighteningly one of the murdered girl’s friend Ms Walker “was particularly shocked after the murder of another close friend, Kunal Singh, just five years ago.“  Here’s a tip to Ms Walker’s other friends - delete her from Facebook immediately.  And while you are at it delete your own account and help bring down Facebook from the inside!!

Courier Mail Article:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23822922-952,00.html