As we mere morals carry on, regardless of the fact we are on the cusp of years (2015-2016), the world is going crazy around us.

If you don’t believe me think about the following;

   There are exactly 7 days between Christmas day and New Year’s Day … and yet there is a full year between New Years’s Day and Christmas Day.

It’s early days yet, but the biggest thrill on You-tube at the moment is an image of an eight year old scoffing an entire watermelon at the M.C.G. during the final test (Australia v West Indies) – (the green skin as well – which he described as crunchy).   It has already had over a million hits.

To keep things in perspective (and all about cricket) the image follows another highly popular image on you tube and twitter a couple of days earlier featuring a younger boy wearing a mullet haircut that would have made Billy Ray Cyrus jealous.  No real idea why it was so popular, but that’s the modern media for you

It seems the christmas spirit is not within all the visitors to Brisbane’s Chinatown with an eighteen year old on his way home after an enjoyable night out being floored with a coward’s punch to the back of the head by a couplr of hoons leaving him fighting for his life.

Now we have a grandfather killing his grandchild and atempting to achieve the same fate for his wife, his daughter and himelf.

I also notice that there are calls for the Qld Govt. to bring forward legislation to reduce pub and nightclub opening hours and help reduce the violence that takes place on our streets, but the licensed premises owners complain that ‘It ain’t their fault that people get drunk’.   So they should be allowed to trade all day and night, perhaps.    Probably based on the theory that the punters will eventually drink themselves sober.

Drug dealers probably think they get a bad rap too because of the actions of those that buy their goods.

The local daily paper in Qld (tabloid) seems to love its headlines more than the article it is headlining.   Recently they reported on the intrusion into one of South Australia’s major wine distilleries where one and a half million litres of new wine was released onto the floor by persons unknown.

But despite the loss of the company’s assets, the possible loss of jobs, the huge loss to the export market and the incredible job the company may need to recapture its market, the Qld newspaper was more than willing to detract from the fact that is was a criminal action by inserting a headline about spilt wine that was supposedly funny.

They weren’t much more subtle when headlining a story of an attempted stabbing murder of a young Qld couple by an interstate former employer when using phrases such as ‘Baker becomes a Butcher’.    Especially when the story proper is reporting on the woman’s condition in a Brisbane hospital where she is recovering from surgery caused by the attack and how deperate she is to have her young child in her arms again.

Did North Korea drop a hydrogon bomb?    The experts say no … the blast wasn’t strong enough, but what did they drop and why?    The opinion of some experts is that it was only an attention getter … but … .

However, on a much lighter note and easier to digest;

Channel seven Brisbane also seem to have a similar sense of headline humour (though it was funny to see) when the screen board displayed the on screen stats betweeen Dimitrov and Simon at the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament.   There is so much information (sets/games ect:) on display at the bottom of the screen, and so little room, they have to abbreviate the names and, because of this, we found ourselves watching a fine display of men’s tennis between ‘Dim’ and ‘Sim’.   It certainly got me in the mood for a little chinese take away.

Did you hear about the school boy in India who scored 1009 runs and not out in a school cricket competition in India beating the previous record of 628 set in 1899 by an englishman.     The boy hit 59 sixes – and 127 fours and was not out at the end of the innings.

And, have you seen Baby GaGa the 58cm stick insect (a Queenslander of course) now residing in Mellbourne.   PS: Mum’s name was Lady GaGa).

courtesy of the A.B.C.

Well that’s the end of 15 and the beginning of 16 and it seems a far worse place than it should have promised … lets hope things improve in the year of the monkey (chinese new year coming soon to a take-away near you).

Up next: short fat stubby finger poems for you to enjoy.

In the meantime chins up and keep smiling.

See Ya,

Tony