BIG week of news. The culture wars continued with its own fusion energy source (meh), the Government wanted to have a crack at my $3 million+ super fund (haha), and World War III continued to just be moments away (boo).
But what about the first round of the NRL season. Specifically the Dolphins.
We mosied down the highway for the big event with our mini crocs in toe and to be honest were prepared to see a bit of a one-sided event in favour of the Bondi heavyweights (who were clearly distracted by the superannuation kerfuffle). Instead history landed on the right side of the good guys and what a win it was. Couple of observations. Firstly Sunday afternoon football is the best type of football.
And it’s even better when daylight savings hasn’t kicked in and everyone is in and out by 5pm.
It’s a shame that it was held in a tropic heat sink – who would have thought Brisbane in early March could be this hot.
It was blindingly steamy and I felt a tad sorry for the poor souls in the eastern stand.
Thankfully for them most of them had taken advantage of the free “phin” hats – a dolphin shaped dorsal fin you were meant to wear but in the heat of the moment all you could see from my shady vantage point was a sea of fans using them as … fans, which they waved vigorously in an attempt to cool down.
The greatest unintended dual use device since the Coke bottle.
Secondly was the call from the loudspeaker to “Go Dolphins!” followed by some weird dolphin ‘click’/muffled kazoo sound that was bamboozling. How does one replicate this sound?
Memo to Dolphins management: Drop this immediately.
It’s weak and plain silly.
I’M SCARED… NOW
Had to have a chuckle at the weekend papers quoting former one-term premier Campbell Newman quaking in his boots over youth crime.
Apparently he didn’t lock his doors in the midst of the bikie wars during his tenure.
Maybe that’s because his security detail did it for him.
It was reported he had in fact had $40,000 worth of security installed to protect him.
That’s the kind of piece of mind we could all do with when innocent people are being assaulted or worse.
But it seems a disingenous position to take, but there’s nothing like the combination of law, order and politics to fan the flames of fear.
