OrganiSed Chaos

Anonypop sent this to me via email, so he gets the credit….it simply amused me and i thought i’d share :-) I have seen similar versions of this joke at times and it’s always about fishing, but the punchline remains the same…

A young Aussie bloke moved to London and went to Harrods Department
store looking for a job.
The Manager asked “Do you have any sales experience?”
The young man answered “Yeah, I was a salesman back home.”
The Manager liked the Aussie so he gave him the job. His first day
on the job was challenging and busy, but he got through it.
After the store was locked up, the Manager came down and asked “OK,
so how many sales did you make today?”
The Aussie said “One.”
The Manager groaned and continued “Just one? Our sales people
average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?”
“£101,237.64.”

The Manager choked and exclaimed “£101,237.64? What the hell did
you sell him?”
“Well, first I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium fish hook,
and then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he
was going fishing and he said down at the coast, so I told him he
would need a boat. So we went down to the boat department and I
sold him that twin-engine Power Cat. Then he said he didn’t think
his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to car sales and
I sold him the 4 x 4 Suzuki”.
The Manager, incredulous, said “You mean to tell me….a guy came
in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and 4×4?”
“No no no…he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his
girlfriend and I said…’Well, since your weekend’s f**ked, you
might as well go fishing.”

In the last week or so, here in Oz there have been some interesting comments from leaders in the Islamic community regarding women, and yesterday the whole discrimination card was played just to add insult to injury. Now when I say interesting, what I really mean is downright offensive. Women were likened to meat, and it was said “if they are not in their room and decently covered then harm would befall them”. There was much more than this, but it was this particular one that got up my nose. I make NO apologies for what I am about to say people, because I’ve had more than enough.
I recently did a post regarding being “PC” and how sick I was of having to be this way because of morons bitching and whinging about being called what they considered “derogatory” names. Well, here’s a heads up you cretins….comments like those you’ve made recently are the reason people say some nasty things about you!! I for one find it insulting to be first, compared to a piece of meat, and secondly to be told I should be in my room decently covered. If this is how you choose to treat YOUR women in YOUR country, then I can’t say a lot. It is after all, your beliefs, your religion, and your ways. It may not be how we do things here, and I may not agree with it, but that doesn’t make it wrong, merely different to what I believe. But, DO NOT come to OUR country and tell us how WE should live! DO NOT have the audacity to leave YOUR country for a better way of life and then try and change the way WE live, what WE believe in, or what WE think is right, wrong or otherwise. Your beliefs are your beliefs and I will defend to the death your right to believe in whatever you choose. If you had the same attitude towards our way of life and our beliefs, well and good, but you don’t, as far as you’re concerned our way is wrong, that much is obvious to blind Freddy. My question is this. WHY THE HELL DID YOU COME HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE??? If our country is such a den of iniquity why choose to live here? Why not find another country that holds with your beliefs and values? There are quite a few to choose from you know. If you don’t like it, go back where you came from and leave us to live how we want to live. I can assure you, there are few here that would actually give a damn if you did go and you may even find someone to pay your bloody air fares!
The second issuse I have is the discrimination crap you’ve now started on. Some time ago there was a gang rape in Sydney. A young girl was raped by something like 14 youths, who it turned out were Muslim. Now these guys were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in this country and are now languishing behind bars for a long time, as any person, male or female, Muslim or Christian should be for what they did. There is no place in a civilised society for animals such as these and it’s just a shame we don’t have the death penalty here, because there are many who believe that’s just what they deserved. One of the senior Muslim leaders in Sydney has now stated publicly he believes our courts discriminate against Muslims in rape cases. Another heads up for you cretins….they weren’t dealt with harshly for any other reason than they behaved like animals. It has NOTHING to do with the fact they’re Muslims, it has everthing to do with the fact that they used a young woman as their own personal sex slave in a park after having lured her there under false pretences! Each and every one of them raped this poor young female one after the other, took turns with her, however you want to say it. They then laughed at her, made fun of her and threatened her with diabolical consequences should she have the audacity to complain to the law! When are you going to realise the way they behaved is not acceptable here? It may be in your country, but not here.
Our politicians bleat (about the Mufti’s making these outrageous public comments) “we can’t deport them, they’re Australian citizens” Well, heads up for you as well, REVOKE the citizenship and send them back where they came from. You are, after all, the government, you have no trouble passing legislation in a hurry when it comes to a pay rise for yourself, or a new tax to put more into your already overflowing coffers. You have the power and ability to change the law, so why aren’t you doing it when it comes to situations such as these?
The Mufti that made the original comments regarding “uncovered meat” has since apologised. Not good enough from where I sit! Nowhere near good enough. GO HOME!
You may find it hard to believe, but I am NOT a racist. I have no problem with different coloured skin, different beliefs, or different religions. Live and let live I say. But it’s becoming increasingly difficult to NOT hate some of these people. Hate is a strong word, and to hate is, I believe, not a good feeling to have running around our heads. It’s the type of thing that has the ability to create wars, and in the past has done exactly that.
But as the title of the post says “when is enough, enough?”

I have again updated the sidebar, this time to include “Quote of the moment”
I chose moment as opposed to day, week or otherwise so as to reflect my mood or what’s happening in my life at that particular point. I may leave a quote for a week, however it could change daily, or even hourly, just depends on where my head is at :-)

in the middle of this week i did a post that was out of the ordinary for me. it was all negative, didn’t really ask anybody anything, i just spewed forth some of the things that give me the shits…as promised, this post is the reason why..the daughter i will refer to knows which one she is (don’t you sweetie?) and has a feed for posts done here so will have it in her in box on monday…none of them have ever been able to say they don’t know how i feel and never will.
this may take longer than average so if you’re inclined to read it all, go get a coffee :-)
the daughter in question has a boyfriend, and as most people do these days, they have their little love nest. now this particular daughter has had a bit of rough time in her life, and by that i mean a little bit more than your average bear. not giving you too many details but some of it has been downright terrible, she’s had things done to her by so called family members that some people wouldn’t do to their animals. now the people that have done it to her have been pushed to the outskirts of her life to say the least, and rightfully so. there are still some issues she has however that seem to burrow their way into her life, albeit unwittingly and it’s one of these that started the whole explosion that occured earlier in the week. in the last 11 years her father and i have worked very hard to help her through these things, but every now and then there is no getting through to her for love nor money, and this was one of those times.
her boyfriend lent his mobile phone to an aquaintance, not a friend, just some young bloke he knows from work. young bloke send text message to female he knows, they think that’s it….nope! that was just the beginning people.
it seems the message he sent was the catalyst for a chain of events that culminated with myself and said daughter having a decidely heated exchange via email throughout the day on wednesday. it would seem that the text message was sent to a young girl who has been the victim of a hate campaign via the mobile phone network! her father decided enough was enough, it had to stop (rightfully so) the father is employed by an organisation where he has access to resources that others don’t (no he’s not a cop!) he had the number where the text message came from (son in laws number) and he used the work resources that he has to get a name and address after ringing several times requesting SIL call back, which he didn’t because he had no idea of who this guy was…THIS is what caused the problem. he rolled up to daughter and son in laws house, noone home, left a business card requesting they call him so he could speak to them. son in law rings, won’t tell father what he needs to know and leaves it at that..so he thought…daughter comes home and asks the question “how did he get our address?” and this is part of the problem. her theory is if HE can get an address who ELSE can get it??? remember this girl has gone to extraordinary lengths to not let those that have wronged her know where she is, all these thoughts flood back into her head, and we’re back where we were in the dim dark days! enter moi! found out where he worked, told her to settle down, leave it with me, i’d be on it first thing in the morning….upset MY daugher you bastard, not likely!!! ring the organisation in question, spoke to the ceo, did the protective mother thing, told him i wanted something done about this guy using work resources to obtain information he had no right to have! he rings back, tells me i should speak to employee just to get the whole story. being an open minded fair person, i see nothing wrong with this, so i did and the whole story came out…the hate campaign, the changing of numbers to avoid it, his daughter is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and so on and so forth…and i could see what he was saying, but could not for the life of me condone him using official channels to obtain private details about a person. he agreed it was wrong and was quite understanding of that and was prepared to accept any consequences that came of the complaint. he was given a first and last warning, told if he does it again he’s out the door regardless of his 25 years service, it would not be viewed quite in the same way as this time. i was happy with that. here is a guy trying to do no more and no less than poppy and i would do for any of ours. i gave the guy the name of the person that sent the message and as far as i was concerned that was the end of it and told daughter so. nope!! not good enough, she wanted blood, she wanted his job, she wanted her piece of justice, which she is fully entitled to. i said that’s fine but please consider all the facts and why he did what he did and that sometimes it’s ok to let people get away with the wrongs done against you…he is a parent and used any and all resources to obtain the information he required to stop what had been happening. nope!! didn’t give a damn about extenuating circumstances, she had drawn the line on people walking all over her and he had stepped over it and she was going to have her way…i said that’s ok, it’s not something i would do but it wasn’t my decision to make and i would support her 150% if that’s what she wanted to. i then received an email that virtually said it was obvious noone but her gave a fuck abut what this guy had done and she wouldn’t do anymore about it because it obviously didn’t matter that much….that’s when i spat!!! i sent back an email telling her a few facts of life, and she was NEVER to send me an email that said i didn’t give a fuck!! amongst other things…..this started a whole “leave me alone, do not try and contact me until i’ve settled down” thing and she sweated it out until late yesterday afternoon when i sent an email explaining why i had been unreachable…to her at any rate.
it was disappointment, it was hurt over the nobody gives fuck comment, it was anger at her seeming insistence that this guy bleed after having a rush of blood to the head over his daughter hurting. i understand the concern that others could get her address, but those she’s worried about don’t have the intelligence to go about it like this guy. i understand the whole drawing the line thing, but she drew the line in the wrong place and directed all her anger and frustration at the wrong person. instead of directing it at the guy who sent the messgae to start with and the SIL for lending his phone to a vrtual stranger, (which has happened since) she was directing it at a person who could, but for the grace of god, be myself or her father…and i couldn’t get that through her bloody head…all she was seeing was red, people she wants nothing to do with tracking her down through similar channels and having her entire world turned upside down. to top it all off there was not one word of thanks for using the best part of my (paid) working day to sort this out, make phone calls, send emails, all the things that i had done…i’m not one to look for thanks or praise ordinarily, but i was pissed by this point and i wanted something other than crap coming at me via email. I have since received (and accepted) an apology, and been thanked most profusely (which truth be known didn’t really matter that much but was appreciated all the same)
i HATE fighting with any of the girls and this was a bit more than your average argument, thus it put me in THE most feral mood i’ve been in for a long time and it was spewed out in the negative post i did after it all happened. for those who have worked their way through this entire post, thank you
to she who knows who she is, as always, this is the end of it sweetie, there will be no more…at some point in the future if you remember what happened and have taken something from it, that’s all i need
i love you :-)

Most of you would be aware of Anonypop (as Kel has taken to calling him) I liked the name and it stuck :-)
Anonypops real name is Mark, however he is called many things. Some of these are, but not limited to, Smarky Mark, Poppy, Dad, darl, sweetie, super husband, an electrical type person and on the very odd ocassion, you bastard! :-)
This is the most amazing man you can imagine. He’s kind, sweet, considerate, loving, generous almost to a fault and understanding. He will cook, clean, vacuum, do dishes, do washing (including put it out and bring it in), does ALL the ironing, maintains the lawns, takes out the rubbish (without being asked, mostly) helps strip/remake the bed and makes me endless cups of tea.
He loves all the girls unconditonally, the same with the grandchildren, would kill for any one of them if he thought their wellbeing depended on it, will NOT tolerate anyone or anything threatening his family in any way and loves animals to boot (bonus for an animal nut like me) He works a 40 hour week on top of all this and still (for the most part) manages to smile, he has values, morals and ethics of the highest order.
He would do anything for any of us…anything. Nothing is too much trouble, no task too arduous, nothing you ask is too much. If the kids wanted to play on the railway tracks he would (and can) turn the power off and put a barrier on the lines so they would be safe! No exaggeration here by the way. No amount of money is too much for him to offer any of us, and nothing too good for OUR family.
Hmm, you say, too good to be true. Nope, every word the truth! There are downsides to him. He’s a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and provider, but I didn’t say he was perfect because he’s not, and would be the first to admit it.
He snores badly, keeping me awake on many occasions, he can be argumentative to the point where I’ll almost boil over with frustration, he loves nothing better than watching the history channel which bores me to tears (and he LOVES the simpsons which i HATE), can, at times, have tunnel vision, and tends to get snappy when he’s had a (very rare) bad day at work.
Then I look at all the things that I fell in love with, all those things in the paragraph after “you bastard” and NONE of the others matter…not one. They may frustrate me at the time, but love is unconditional is it not? You can’t pick and choose the traits of who you fall in love with, they come as part and parcel of the person and you love them in spite of the things that piss you off. If you spend your entire relationship trying to change what you DON’T like, then the person you have at the end is NOT the person you fell in love with are they?
I love this man with every fibre of my being and have done from one special moment on October 16 1995. We married in Sydney on May 10 1996 and have, in one way or another, been to hell and back together a few times. On those trips I can think of no other person I would have preferred to be with. Some of these trips have been of our/his/my doing others well outside our control. When I’ve done stupid things, there have been no recriminations, only 100% support. When I hurt he soothes. I have only to say “gee i really like that dress, those shoes” whatever the case may be and he gives me his wallet. He would give me any mortal thing I asked for if it made me happy. The moon if it was in power to do so, as he would for any of our family.
What more could a woman ask for?
I love you sweetie…yesterday, today, tomorrow, always
Maureen

I am so over everything having to be “politically correct”. To those who advocate this bullshit, here are just 2 of the things you need think about before you spew out anymore. (It’s ok, I won’t give you too many, your freaking brain may implode!!)

It doesn’t matter whether you call someone indigenous, of middle-east appearance, or whatever other terms you have deemed acceptable, at the end of the day, some of these people DO have darker skin than others. Why is it such a crime to actually say “he/she is black or he/she is dark skinned, he/she is Asian, Arabic, Lebanese, whatever the case may be? Not every time someone says those heinous words is it meant in a derogatory manner, which is how you have reacted. Perhaps you need to look up the word “FACT” in the dictionary. Part of the meaning is “The realities of a situation”. And the reality of this is that some are black, some are white, come from different countries and are different nationalities. Perhaps you need to remove your know it all butts from your chairs and listen to those who are on the receiving end of the inane laws that prosecute people for having the audacity to state facts.
When did gender become generic? Again, let’s turn to the dictionary shall we? Part of the meaning is “general, not specific or special” Now I can’t speak for anyone else but I think I’m special. As are most women and men. HE is a foreman/storeman/spokesman, SHE is a forewoman/storewoman/spokeswoman right? Wrong!! They’re all referred to as spokesPERSON. Where is the harm in mentioning, within a title, job description, (whatever it may) that the person in question is either male or female? In the big scheme of things, does it REALLY make a difference? Yes, everybody is a person, we shouldn’t be defined by gender in some things and equality is a bloody good thing, but get real! This particular instance is the epitome of stupidity.

As I said, these are but 2 of the many asinine situations that have been created by the so called experts.
So where does it end? Will people soon be required to change their surname from Black, White, or Brown etc so as not to offend people who have these skin colours? What about those with a surname such as Foreman? Do they now need to be known as Foreperson? Tell me when that little conversation is going to be held with George can you please. I’m going for popcorn and beer before you start!
Why should we acknowledge different countries and cultures if we’re not allowed to refer to them by their correct name? What makes you think people from China are offended because someone calls them Chinese? I’m Australian, bloody proud of it and will tell anybody who enquires. What makes you think Chinese/Lebanese/Turkish, whoever, don’t feel the same way?
I do not, in any way, shape or form, suggest there is no such thing as prejudice or hate for other cultures in this world because there is, but I have a problem with the way our politicians are going about addressing it. Why is it deemed acceptable for me to be walking down a street in the country where I was born and have shouted at me “hey, you, white trash bitch! We’re so much better than you and don’t you fucking forget it”
And I know it’s acceptable because when I took the number plate of the car involved and went to the police in an effort to have something done, I was told “it’s not illegal for someone to call you white trash, the best we can do is charge them with using profanities in a public place and that’s assuming we can ascertain which of those in the car said it”
Yet I can be held accountable for saying in public that a person is Lebanese,Chinese, has black skin or is a spokesman/spokeswoman as opposed to a spokesPERSON?
Give me a freakin’ break!!!