The "Decade" That Was
Aspro:
You should get on the podcast and pretend to be Pachter.
You should get on the podcast and pretend to be Pachter.
Lived 16 years in Australia, 19 in the states, and now I'm back here. So yeah, that's what I sound like, a more mellifluous Pachter.
but they did find the mass murdering terrorist Saddam Hussein, and swiftly brought him to justice, along with 1,366,350 other people.
Harsh, but true 
No longer can they say proudly “I am a gamer!” and be laughed at in the face.
And I didn’t even mention the Olympics (we were still recovering from Y2K when it was in Aus), Phelps, Federer or Tiger Woods.
Why did you not mention Fedor?
Oh wow this is epic.
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He mentions himself, there's need for me to!
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This will be done entirely from memory, so if anything is missed you can
blame my brain. However, the reason behind my long term
memory loss is relevant to the decade. No, it is not the rise in methamphetamine use, though that can be
attributed to my weight loss.
Yes,
just as the decade began it was already recovering from the largest catastrophe
in the twentieth century: the Y2K bug. We were all recovering from the fact that the world did not end, and
this took many years and nights of canned food dinners to come to terms with. Eventually, though, we recovered and life went on, but let us please
takes a moment to remember all those who were so deeply affected by this major
tragedy.
Years later a terrorist attack killed over 2,000 American civilians. At
the same time it also appeared as if Saddam Hussein was
harbouring weapons of mass destruction, one of
which was Osama Bin Laden, so America and friends decided to investigate. They
didn’t find Osama Bin laden, they didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction,
but they did find the mass murdering terrorist Saddam Hussein, and swiftly
brought him to justice, along with 1,366,350 other people.
However this led to large criticisms of George Bush, as apparently Osama
Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, and much time had been wasted searching Iraq. A
young man known by his supporters as Barrack “Hussein” Obama was elected. The
entire world rejoiced. There were those that said he got in on the black vote,
but considering that black people don’t vote, and that Obama is only half
black, that would have got him very few votes, so it’s fair to say that he won
fairly. Except for in Florida obviously, where the John McCain “won” all his
votes.
But let’s be honest, that’s not funny, nor is it offensive. It’s boring.
I’m Australian, look at our Prime Minister:
Look at our
old one:
(This was when he foundout Rudd won the election.)
yeah, now you know why voting is compulsory in Australia, because if
it wasn’t nobody would vote. So
let’s talk about something a little more interesting. This decade was a big one
for Australian sport—as it always is, but it wasn’t an entirely successful one
unfortunately. In the Rugby we discovered that if you had one girly player who
was pretty rubbish, as the English would say, at playing Rugby, but good at
kicking, you could use him as a cheating device to easily beat teams who
attempted to actually play Ruggers.
You know, the contact sport where you’re meant to run into the end zone.
Wait, wrong sport—but it turns out that if you get the girly player to shoot a
lot then you can accumulate enough points to beat the team trying to win with
touch downs. It’s a disgrace. Because of this we decided to put a little more
money into football. It had been proposed that we instead transfer players over
from the AFL into the national Rugby team, but unfortunately most of them were
too small, and rumours of a gay-lick sport weren’t too promising for the full body man-on-man
contact sport of Rugby. I mean, anal gauging is as intimate as Rugby players
are willing to get. Besides, they actually played sport with Irishmen.
One for Leo! <3
To be fair, the sport did consist of the Australians literally beating
the Irishmen, but it was still too much of a risk (God knows what STD they
could’ve got from the Irish). So after the failed 2002 World Cup qualifying
campaign the FFA got a rich person to take over and as we all know in football:
rich people get results. Four years later and the rich person hired a Dutch person and as we
all know: Dutch people buy results—or was that Italians? Nevertheless he got them.
Australia got to the world cup, and saw that their strategy of pumping
money into football (instead of pumping the ball long on the field) to help
Rugby may in fact work. Šimunić who was an Australian playing for Croatia
performed many successful rugby tackles during the game against Australia,
though they still lost because they didn’t have a designated kicker as girly as
Harry Kewell. But in the next round Australia faced Italy, and as we all know:
Italians buy results. Plus, they had a lot of girly designated kickers, so it
was never going to be much of a contest.
Croatia had no chance. You know why his mouth is open? 'Dukes is about to ejaculate.
But worse than that after the successful years of Steven Ro“d”ger Waugh
at the head of the Australian cricket team during the Y2K recovery years, Ricky Ponting took over. At
first he continued to bring the Australian cricket team success—but this was at
a time where we were still doing okay with Rugby, so nobody really cared, plus
he was a complete dick. In fact, everyone hated him. He might be able to hit a
ball, but so can a lot of Americans. Wait, we’re pretty good at that too—the
yanks can’t hit balls as good we can in their own sport as we can! And let’s
not even start on the Japanese. I mean, the Americans
are so insecure about their sports that they have to have World Series where
only they can participate. This
isn’t related to this decade, but come on! We might participate in the
commonwealth games out of charity, and we might be competing against ourselves
for gold, but we do let other countries try and win silver and bronze! Still,
you can keep your water polo and lacrosse. The latter isn’t even a real sport.
Err,
yes England beat us in the Ashes. ENGLAND!
But we didn’t learn. We still pumped more and more money into football like the
fools that we were, thinking that we’d still at least win the Rugby League
World Cup! How naïve. (Though at least New Zealand still didn’t win anything—in Rugby union
anyway.) At first it was just South Africa that posed a threat in the cricket—we
could live with that I suppose. We’d still always come first at least, right?
That’s only one position lower than before, but then something happened.
Something unprecedented in modern Cricket. (Apart from Australia losing the
Ashes to England). All those crappy little countries that began their junior
cricket years by playing Rounders started competing with Australia.
Yet still Ricky
Ponting is captain. Sure, McGrath,
Gilchrist, Hayden, Warne etc. have all retired or in the case of Hussey should
have, but I think it’s fair to say that all the blame lies with Ricky Ponting. He is a
complete dick after all.
Well personally I’m pleased. Watching Australia
win everything got pretty boring—that’s right, it managed to make cricket
boring, which is an achievement in and of itself.
Speaking of boring I am going to have to mention Australian politics.
This was the decade that Australia reiterated his strong stance on aboriginals,
both in terms of apologizing to them for stealing their children, and then also
apologising for
stealing their children. Now, neither Rudd nor Howard (the apologist and
non-apologist respectively) of these men had anything to do with stealing their
children, but both have played a part in intervening to stop aborigines beating
their children. My guess is it’ll be another fifty years before someone apologises for that,
though by then there probably won’t be any aborigines around left to forgive
them.
But Howard did many things for white Australians. From higher taxes to
higher interest rates, he single handedly saved the Australian economy, and was
Prime Minister for most of the decade, and some time before it! Probably, I
wasn’t alive then, so how would I know? Erm, I mean I wasn’t following politics, which in
a way is a form of death. To live without democracy is to die, amirite? Or was that socialism?
The Joker.
Ah socialism, this was the decade that heralded the introduction of America’s
first socialist president. Barack Obama, a man of the people, taking money from
his people like all socialist bastards do.And giving it back to them,
as socialism is meant to. Unlike, you know,
capitalistic taxes which just get spent on the war effort. Though not on protective armour, medical care,
or pensions for the soldiers. After George Bush’s reign America was
ready for change, and so far Obama has clearly delivered. From health reform to
winning a Nobel Prize
he’s done more than Bush did. And to those that say that the Nobel Prize isn’t
deserved may I just point out the facts? He’s pulled out of Iraq, and closed
down some detention centres. He’s doing everything he can to stop war. He’s also opened a few more detention centres, is sending 30,000 odd more troops to
Afghanistan to help with the war for peace effort, and likes rap music. Likes rap music? What a despicable man.
America's first socialist president.
Just as Australia was recovering from the Children Overboard Affair (a
computer bug on an asylum seeker ship caused several children to be thrown
overboard by dirty immigrants) Sri Lanka decided to send some Tamil immigrants
to Australia by boat, rather than by plane directly to Melbourne as is the
normal practice. This and the influx of those terrorist Indonesians led to tax
payers having to waste money on comfortable accommodation for them known as detention centres, which should
not be confused with American ones where prisoners are tortured. Here, they
even have the freedom to sow their lips closed! If they had the freedom to do
that back in whatever hell hole they came from then they would’ve stayed there.
Some Australian tourists were killed in a terrorist attack in Bali. At
first it was suspected that an Indonesian Islamic terrorist group was
responsible for it, and in fact some supposed Islamic terrorists were executed
for it, but I have another theory. I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy
theorist or anything, but I think Bias B was responsible for the attack. He openly
boasts about it on his song Bundle of Bees:
“My lyrics are ballistic ball bearing bombs in bags blowing up in Bali.”
Once again, rap is evil. He’s a graffiti vandal as well.
On top of that Schapelle Corby was arrested for smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.
This incident would be known in the Australian media as the Schapelle show. She was a bogan so nobody really cared about her, though she was in
an Islamic country and a woman, so she did have her supporters. Nine of which tried smuggling drugs to her in gaol, but they too
were arrested. A model tried as well, and we discovered just how much she suffered
under the perils of a Bali gaol when she announced that she had converted to
Islam, and when she returned home she said many friends had deserted her when
they learned of this fact. But when you convert to Islam you have to know that
there will be consequences.
Van Nguyen was executed in
Singapore for drug trafficking, but luckily he was Asian and smuggling heroin,
so the Australian public could have a clean conscience in the government not
really doing much to stop him being executed. Just think of all the people his
heroin would have killed anyway. It was probably for the best.
“I don't believe in capital punishment, he was a convicted drug
trafficker and that is to be wholly condemned...don't have anything to do with
drugs. Don't use them, don't touch them, don't carry them, don't traffic in
[sic] them and don't imagine for a moment — for a moment — that you can risk
carrying drugs anywhere in Asia without suffering the most severe
consequences."
Well
said, Mr. Howard, well said. But wait, what about your good friend George W.
Bush? Maybe we should execute him too? Besides, being Australian, I’m sure you
love a drink, and probably partake in a strong cup of coffee in the morning, so
I say we execute you too.
Now I don’t believe in capital punishment, but
you shouldn’t have anything to do with drugs. Don’t use them, don’t touch them,
don’t inhale them, and don’t imagine for a moment that you can have anything to
do with drugs and not suffer the most severe consequences. Unless you’re a
politician.
That’s enough about politicians for the moment. Let me lighten the mood
up by talking about a group of people a little less despicable. The child
predator. Yes, I can just say that thank God for the first six years of the
decade the paedophiles were recovering from the Y2k bug with the rest of us, so I escaped the
molestation that one in four children face today. Yes, it was hard to go
anywhere on the internet without accidentally stumbling onto child pornography,
or walking down the street without being flashed by some man with a beard and
glasses whose mother never told him that she loved him.
Or even worse than that, if your child wasn’t molested, then you had to
deal with all the paedophiles living near you. You had to spend many
sleepless nights in constant vigil outside their house, throwing rocks, with
your picket signs at the ready. It was hard work, and those signs didn’t buy
themselves! On top of that more money had to be wasted on important educational
information to give to one’s child, and they often had to be left home alone on
those long nights spent camping outside a paedophile’s house. What torture it was!
And yet those fat cats in government let predators like Bill Henson
parade through the school, half naked and leering down at our young innocent
children, stripping them naked on the spot and flashing and violating them with
hot lights and celluloid film. And they call that art! Sure, I can see the
artistic value in his photography of the poor disaffected youths—all above the
age of consent. Sure, they might be a little titillating—hey, I don’t know art
but I do know what I like to masturbat—erm, I mean the thought of those paedophiles touching
themselves in the privacy of their own home to pictures of children disgusts
me.
Kevin Rudd himself said that Bill Henson’s photographs were some of the
most disgusting images he’s seen, and he’s seen Alexander Downer in fish nets
and high heels! The man knows what he’s talking about,
I mean considering he’s never been to a strip club and almost passed out, he’s
definitely got the moral high ground here.
One for GG.
Yet it’s clear that the politicians aren’t doing enough to stop paedophilia. Tony
Abbott hasn’t
even been expelled from parliament, and he’s a Catholic!
He's not wearing that giant condom for equal rights.
Oh God, I’m back to politicians. Well I may as well stay with them. The
election that dethroned Howard was a special one. After all the failed
campaigns led by Kim Beazley Labor decided it was time to take a bite out of
the competition, but not literally this time. (Yes I went there.) To do this
they decided not to come up with their own policies, but to put forth weaker
policies of the Liberals (the right wing party in Australia, and you might
think that’s a joke, but it isn’t). The liberals responded by putting forth
stronger versions of Labor’s policies which ironically were their normal
policies. Except with less apologies to aborigines, but
absolutely no more intervention than Labor.
Oh yes, the intervention. I can’t actually remember if I’ve mentioned it
before, but remember how America tested all those vaccines on the black
population before they tested them on the white? You
know, harmless stuff like small pox and malaria, and aids. (They’re practically monkeys anyway, which is
how the rumours of monkeys causing aids came about. It wasn’t some primitive native
copulating with a monkey, it was a white American copulating with a black one.)
Well, this was kinda like that. You see,
now all white Australians (that is, all poor white Australians) can now too
experience the joys of not owning their money, nor even their children in fact.
But poor people are usually paedophiles, or
aborigines, so it’s probably for the best.
Speaking of poverty, dieting became a new world wide craze. Thanks to
advances in medical research it was discovered that obesity and diet led
directly to all health issues. Even issues with glands
and fluid retention which can cause obesity, were caused by diet. This cold scientific fact was proved indisputably through
correlations and causal effects, and other such extensive research big words.
The world reacted immediately, no longer wanting to die at unprecedented ages
like seventy to ninety, they started taking all the diet pills, diet foods, and
surgical procedures they could to help with their health, because nothing is
better for you than anesthesia and drugs and carbohydrates, and the stress of
trying to be healthy.
I said earlier, this decade is like a mini thirty year war, and I stand
by it. Along with the Paedophile Hunts, it’s also got the wars to go with it
too. From the war on drugs, to the war on terrorism, to
the war on war, and the war on peace being waged by Arabs in the Middle East.
Which rhymes, so it’s a great segue:
Music died this decade. As record companies know, before the invention
of the vinyl record there was no such thing as music. It was pretty much tuning
before then—before music could be easily sold and reproduced. (Actually, it may
have been tuning before Jazz, I’m not sure.) Yes, technology is a cruel
mistress. It made these hallowed men rich and famous, and now it just made them
famous, and their fans rich.
You see, with the progress of technology it suddenly became very easy to
steal music from the internet. (Unless you live in Australia.) This meant that
record companies could no longer make their 75% on each CD sold, and they
certainly couldn’t make much money from the band touring! Drastic measures had to be taken. Now and
then they had to sue someone for several hundred thousand dollars, compensation
for the millions that they had lost.
Yet somehow this strategy did not work, and piracy is still rampant.
It hurts
It’s almost as much of a problem as second hand sales in the games industry.
I’m afraid that this problem will continue into the next decade, so I’ll have
to stop now before I depress myself further. To think of all the intellectual
property that has been stolen and raped by selfish, evil pirates.
me.
Speaking of the rape of intellectual property, with video games costing
hundreds of millions of dollars to produce it was time that video game
companies smartened up. Cheap plastic instruments needed to be attached to as
many games as possible to increase profits per game by a few hundred dollars. If not the
game would fail and lose money. Unless it was Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto
IV of course. Which were both sequels. What am I getting at? I’m not sure. What
am I getting at 2: Now it’s getting pretty obvious and un-funny. What am I
getting at 3: just because something is funny doesn’t mean it won’t be done.
What am I getting at 4: ever tried warm milk? What am I getting at 5: motion
controlled edition. Oh whoops, you all stopped reading. Time for another IP
then.
Motion controls swept the games industry. Nintendo bought shares in the
Japanese mint due to the large amount of money being printed specifically for
people to buy the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii. The latter of which is hated in
hardcore circles. Why? Well the largest reasons are two: the first is
resolution. Most hardcore players wear prescription glasses, specially designed
so that they can read the writing on high definition games. Non -high
definition Wii games are unplayable with the glasses on because the writing becomes
huge. This means that they would have to get another pair of glasses, and
prescription glasses are expensive.
The second is the exercise factor. While it’s clear that their thumbs
are quite nimble, and certainly one of their wrists will be too, the rest of
their body is not very fit. Even waggling the Wii-remote for a few seconds can prove almost
fatal, and thus the games are completely unplayable.
But really, worse than that is that if gaming becomes popular, then they
won’t be able to enjoy the same air of superiority as before. No longer can they say proudly “I
am a gamer!” and be laughed at in the face. Now the jock they’re talking to
might discuss Wii Sports with them. Which contrary to their protests, they
probably did play.
The other companies tried to copy Nintendo, but Microsoft’s Natal device
will probably be a failure because there is no feedback. Even with the large
potential for sex games the nature of the device provides (you know, the womb is
near there—eww! Bet you didn’t think about it like that before) without any
feedback from a stimulatory device there’ll be little point in playing rather
than watching. And in the case of Sony’s device a glowing dildo that doesn’t
vibrate is quite pointless. Even if does have a very bulbous point.
But more importantly Heath Ledger died. Many celebrities died of broken
hearts after him. I’d like to go into other cinema and literature related
events, but Heath Ledger’s death was easily the defining moment of the decade.
But let me just remind you of some wise words: “Now I
don’t believe in capital punishment, but you shouldn’t have anything to do with
drugs. Don’t use them, don’t touch them, don’t inhale them, and don’t imagine
for a moment that you can have anything to do with drugs and not suffer the
most severe consequences. Even if you’re a celebrity.”
Oh, and
Michael Jackson died too, and heralded possibly the end of the Paedophile Hunt
as he was widely mourned. It was a sad day when the King of Pop...ular Media
Paedophile Scapegoatary died. I think that title is probably a bit too long to
catch on, though. Speaking of
paedophilia...
Luckily
the liberal Australian Labor government was on the ball and knew exactly how to
protect the Australian nation from moral decay: blacklist it. Yes, as anyone
who lives in Victoria knows it’s actually a far better place to live than
anywhere else in Australia. Especially Sydney. And that’s not a joke. The
reason for this is hardcore pornography is illegal to sell in Victoria, which
means no moral decay. You can safely take a stroll down St. Kilda beach in bare
feet, and not have to worry about contracting aids from some prostitute’s used
needle. Or a Bohemian’s left over man stain.
Australia
thought that the best way to show support for all those scary Asian countries
nearby like Indonesia and China would be to follow in their foot steps.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. And thus the internet blacklist was
born. (As well as the calls for nuclear power and bombs.) Oh, and it was also
for the moral decay prevention, and protection of children. Long live Chairman
Kevin Zedong. (Which rhymes better than Kevin o’seven, so is a better slogan.)
Global
warming also made its presence felt. It was best friends with the global
cooling of the seventies, and was pretty pissed off about how global cooling
had been forgotten about entirely. I mean, the guy had almost cased a second
ice age! Yeah, after being forgotten about Global Cooling couldn’t cope and
OD’d on ice. It was a tragedy. Of
course:
Don't have
anything to do with drugs. Don't use them, don't touch them, don't carry them,
don't traffic in [sic] them and don't imagine for a moment — for a moment —
that you can risk carrying drugs anywhere in Asia without suffering the most
severe consequences.
So
Global Warming started warming up the globe, but this backfired. Like all
celebrities the media used it like a cheap prostitute in St. Kilda. Suddenly
not only was Global Cooling forgotten about it no longer existed! Indeed,
supposedly Global Warming had always been around, since the invention of co’2
in the industrial revolution. I’m afraid it probably won’t be long before
Global Warming too ODs. The last I saw of it was that it was in hiding. Not
from the media, though, from the hippies. They’d hounded the poor thing so much
that it had developed an addiction, though I heard that the hole in the ozone
layer had checked Global Warming into a rehab centre with David Duchovny and
the former Australian anti-Semite Mel Gibson.
Yo Foolz3h, I’m really happy for you, and I’mma let you finish, but
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Thank you, on the bright side of our on field sporting failures this
year we did quite well off it. Australian Rugby players snorted a record weight
of cocaine, almost enough to compete with the amount that Lil Wayne ingests
daily. Which is actually quite a feat. On top of that they also did their fair
share of domestic violence, which according to ads, was an Australian pass
time.
It was the decade of violence against women in Australia—I mean the
decade of violence against women campaigns—I mean the decade of campaigns
against violence against women. As the mantra went: “why bash up a defenceless girl when
you can bash up a bloke? Be a man. Glass other men.”
When this strategy backfired and violence reached an apparent all time
high in the city the Victorian police had to act. They
realised that the reason for the
surge in violence in the city was that nobody was driving home. In the past people could easily get from the city before it got too
hairy, but after numerous drink driving campaigns people stuck around for the
fight.
Naturally a drink driving campaign was then undertaken, but this too
backfired. This resulted in more people being killed on the road, but not in
the clubs. One final campaign was undertaken to reverse this, and in 2009 it
was announced that they would catch any drunk drivers before anyone got hurt.
Naturally hundreds of people died on the road. More than last year too, as
according to a press release from January 2009 2008 had the lowest road toll on
record. Up to date sources are very important in journalism. Which is why Gerstmann was fired,
but not really as that would imply he is a journalist. He’s barely even a
critic!
London also experienced a terrorist attack. This one showed Ghandi’s theory of an
eye for and eye will leave the whole world blind to be correct. Falkland
Islanders planted bombs in buses and trains. It was later revealed that it was
actually Islamic terrorists that were responsible for the attack, which
increased the British population’s support for the war. Which war? Well, there
were a few going on at the time, but they were all after Bin Laden who was
responsible for the attack, so all of them. At least 75% of them according to
polls run by The Sun at the time.
However the validity of these polls have be brought into question,
because according to a The Sun insider, they use the page 3 model vote for all
polls they run, as they’re the only polls that receive any votes.
Keely Hazel, page 3 model.
Even more tragic than Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson was the death of
Princess Diana. Now I know this didn’t happen this decade, but it deserves a
mention anyway. It was tragic for a number of reasons, the first of which was
that drugs didn’t kill her, the second of which was that she missed the age of
the online sex tape. Forget A Night in Paris, Dining on
Diana would have slowed down the English internet more than their own
blacklist. If it her sex tape
didn’t get blacklisted. But it wouldn’t have, because that would imply that
Princess Diana was a paedophile, which she wasn’t. (Right? Though that might explain some of her sons’ behaviour.)
Princess Diana.
That said, maybe it is the best that she did die. She was having an
affair with an Arab man, and probably would have married him if the
relationship had gone on for much longer. Would we really have wanted such a
regal woman to have to live under an Arab wife? That would be like being
married to an Australian rugby player, except that you’d have to wear a burqa while you’re
being gang banged. Which would make it so much worse. For one thing the burqa is very hot and
impractical, so the higher the air coverage on your body when you’re being
forcefully penetrated by a sweaty, smelly, Arab man the better really.
What Princess Diana could have become.
Anyway some say that the media was responsible for her death, and others
say that the British government was. They say that the royal family saw her
affair with the Arab as a betrayal. Which it was, but this is illogical because
the royal family has no power or say whatsoever. More likely it was divine
intervention to save her from the life that was to come. Thank God for God.
Ah, God. Many evangelical atheists would say that God is dead. But
they’re wrong. You see God is in the machine, and the machine of Science is
God. Yes, this decade really got Science as a religion going. Darwin is the
messiah, Richard Dawkins the Pope, and logical rationalism God. Let’s just not
get into who Mary is, though. My guess is a hydra. What other virgins can
produce off spring? Apart from Michael Jackson.
I’d love to go into this more, but I’m afraid Kanye has put me off a
little, and I’m afraid that Anonymous will plant some child pornography on my
hard drive and report me to the authorities. I know they’re anti-scientology,
and so am I! But they’re also anti anti-atheist. Of course I’m not anti-atheist, I’m anti-evangelist, but they
can’t really tell the difference, because they themselves are evangelists.
So if you made it to the end I’d like to congratulate you. You also made it to the end of the decade,
which is as much of an achievement. Almost. The next decade will vindicate Anne
Seitz. And I don’t think she’ll be allowed to give any more speeches at the
Atheist or Sceptics society of
Australia by then. That’s if she’s still allowed to live of course. Her logical
rationality contains a little too much logic and rationality for it to fly with
the logical rationalists.
So this
blog is dedicated to you, Anne Seitz, and to anyone who read this far. This decade wasn’t too bad all in all. There
wasn’t much water down here in Australia, which probably caused global warming.
You see the lack of water means more production of co2. I think. I’ve just made
it passed the 5,000 word mark, so I think I’d better stop. This blog is deader
than Hip Hop.
And I didn’t even mention the Olympics (we were still recovering from
Y2K when it was in Aus), Phelps, Federer or Tiger Woods. I bet I could have made it to
10,000 words if I tried! Now I feel like a failure. It’s ruined the entire
decade for me.
Anne Seitz.
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