A queue of 40 women lined up for the female toilets while there was no queue at all for the men.
Bet it was male town planners who approved the ratio of toilets at this key Queensland venue.
The current situation can only be described as bloody hopeless.
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One Day, based on the bestselling novel, is an insufferably contrived stew of ...
Uptown Never mind that Dex is so bloody hopeless; that's what makes him Emma's project and why she keeps lamely leaving the door open. Eventually, we just lose patience with her, too. This movie is all concept, no soul, as it mechanically puts off what we ... and more » |
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Job losses fuel rumours of BlueScope, OneSteel tie-up
Sydney Morning Herald The steel sector's struggles with the high dollar are well known, but Mr Plummer said OneSteel had also been hit by ''bloody hopeless'' levels of demand for construction in non-mining regions like NSW. He said the weak demand had been exacerbated by a ... |
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Job axings not the last, warns OneSteel
Sydney Morning Herald The steel sector's struggles with the high Australian dollar are well known, but Mr Plummer said OneSteel had also been hit by ''bloody hopeless'' demand for construction in non-mining regions like NSW. OneSteel shareholders will be paid an unfranked ... and more » |
The enforcement of this ban by RNA officials is absolutely bloody hopeless.
MSS Security goons have implemented a "no exceptions" re-entry policy at the wide open exits, leading to families being accidentally split up and taking up to 30 minutes to join up.
Whether its MSS or the RNA, someone must put their hand up for this absolutely bloody hopeless mess.
Adults and children are being forced to wait up to 30 minutes to get in.
Whoever decided to put the temporary show bag pavilion in Sideshow Alley should be given the Royal Order of the Boot by the RNA.
It is bloody hopeless.
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One week on, are we any happier about Wallabies?
The Roar After a week of quality hand-wringing and Oh-my-God-ing from Wallaby supporters, and ranging in ferocity from moderate annoyance to full-blown blood-letting and “sack the lot of them, they're bloody hopeless”, many a curious set of Australian eyes ... and more » |
Jockey Wanderson D’Avila was suspended for a month due to taking a product that made him lose weight.
A CALOUNDRA jockey who is suing a weight loss company after he lost weight on one of its products says it has nothing to do with the money – it is about restoring his reputation.
Former Brazilian champion jockey Wanderson D’Avila is claiming $12,500 in lost income as well as an undetermined amount for loss in reputation and embarrassment from the distributors of the slimming spray SensaSlim Solution.
Mr D’Avila, who speaks limited English, said he took the product after seeing it advertised as being able to “spray hunger away” on the current affairs program Today Tonight.
He said he did not realise that the product – now the number one slimming product in Australia – would also spray kilograms away.
Five days after taking SensaSlim, Mr D’Avila’s horse Short Trip was disqualified from a win on the Gold Coast because Mr D’Avila weighed in 0.8kg lighter than his allotted 55.5kg. He was also stood down from riding for a month.
Mr D’Avila, who has been racing for more than 18 years all over the world, said he had “never had something like that happen to me before”.
“I was embarrassed. I want to restore my reputation as I don’t think it was my fault,” he said.
“I thought it was about controlling weight, I didn’t want to lose weight.”
Mr D’Avila’s Gold Coast lawyer Chris Hannay thinks he has a good case.
“The claims are in regard to his reputation and the embarrassment that occurred as a result of promises made. Promises not to do with weight loss, but with reducing hunger,” Mr Hannay said.
“SensaSlim didn’t specify that by taking away hunger, one would lose weight.
“The promises made didn’t fully disclose the issues that might arise from it,” Mr Hannay said.
“He wanted to maintain his weight which is why he wanted to not be hungry, it wasn’t about getting involved in some weight loss product.”
Mr Hannay was hopeful the case could be settled out of court, but SensaSlim director Peter O’Brien said this would not happen.
Mr O’Brien said while he was not without sympathy for the jockey, “it is a matter we’re going to have to defend”.
“It will open a legal minefield for us if we were to admit liability. Our lawyers have spoken to Tabcorp, $250,000 was invested on that race across the country. There was $100,000 worth of winning tickets.
“If we admit liability, the trainer and owner could sue, the people who backed the horse could also have some kind of class action.
“I’m not without sympathy, but we also believe we haven’t done anything wrong and it would suggest this if we apologised.”
An amateur bee keeper has been stung more than 40 times after trying to move a beehive.
FOUR beers, one ladder, 8000 bees and an Irishman.
What could go wrong?
Or so thought 38-year-old Irish expatriate Andrew Short.
Right up until the moment he realised he was up a ladder, halfway to his roof, in the middle of the night, carrying a beehive, with 60 bees crawling inside his beekeeper's suit.
And then they started stinging.
"A few beers maybe and a ladder, it's a bad combination," Mr Short told reporters.
It was just after midnight on Tuesday when Mr Short came home from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, with a few beers under his belt.
Buoyed by Dutch courage, he thought the time was right to tackle the hive of about 8000 bees that had settled in his Flemington backyard and move it to his rooftop.
The recently registered amateur beekeeper donned his suit and set to work.
All was going well, he said, until he noticed some bees crawling across his veil.
"I was going, 'How did they get out? Maybe they just came home late, because bees come home late too' ...
"And then I realised, he's not on the outside, he's on the inside of my veil."
It was then that he bumped the hive and "all the bees escaped", with about 60 invading his suit.
"But the only problem was, I was up the ladder holding the hive, so the job wasn't done yet, and at that point it was easier to go up than go down.
"So they were there stinging my eyes but I had to carry on to try and make sure that I wasn't going to fall off the roof any more, so there was a little bit of work to do, and then I said 'best to go down'."
At first he wasn't sure they were stinging him.
"There was a stinging sensation but I was going like, 'Is that a bee sting? Surely it's worse than that.' So I wasn't sure if they stung me, but after a while you figure it out, you know, after about 20."
Back inside, he called an ambulance and arrived at Footscray's Western Hospital with about 60 bee stings to his upper body, face, neck, arms and chest but in a stable condition.
His main worry was being too scared to call his wife, who was away for a few nights with their two young daughters.
"She was away, so I thought it was the perfect night to do it, because you can't ask the missus to get involved in lifting beehives, oddly."
Emergency department director Michael Bryant said the main danger Mr Short had faced probably was falling off the ladder.
Inspired by a centuries-old Parisian beekeeping culture, Mr Short is undeterred by his near-disastrous brush with the bees.
"In the high buildings in Paris, you know, how do the guys get away from the missus for a couple of hours? They go up on to the roof and look at the bees," he laughed.
"But there's no big beekeeping culture in Melbourne. It's starting, though, so we'll see how that goes."
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