Facebook Divorce
Everywhere you go these days there is a reference to Facebook. Companies want you to 'like' or 'friend' them and people now communicate through it more than email.
The courts even mention Facebook as a banned form of communication when they issue their gag orders. And this ushers in a new trend I can see flooding our divorce courts. People fighting over their money and assets by making references to Facebook entires and friend lists. Will a husband or wife update their status to reflect their pending court battle or will they submit evidence of infidelity by showing Facebook as a source.
The disappointing thing about all this is that the children can access Facebook and long after the divorse is sealed in court documents, the trace of Facebook slander will be there for all to read and snicker at.
I just think people should keep their private lives a little more... private.
Footballers need to take stock
AFL players are some of the luckiest employed people in the country. They are playing the game they love, getting paid for it and they have access to the best gyms, doctors and other health experts around. Yet they are in discussions for more money. More? They are already paid in excess of our prime minister and chief of police, for less important work.
They argue they are the centre of the game as entertainment and therefore should benefit more from the increased TV rights deal. You can't always play the 'centre of attention' card because that simply undermines the hard working people behind the scenes. The trainers, runners, admin staff, promoters and even the unpaid loyal volunteers. Footballers are not the only thing that keeps people coming in the gates to watch every week. Because without the background staff, those players would not be full time players, they would be inna sport like net all that requires another job to keep the bills paid.
Another classic argument is that their football career is over by 32 and if they are lucky to get that far, then they are thrust into the world without an ongoing job and no training. How about getting of your arse and training for a job after football, lime so many players have before them, Adelaide's produced a doctor who trained whilst playing elite football, that was Matthew Liptak. How can a footballer expect to get paid a comfortable amount more to help with the layoff period around 30, when so many workers like those at Bluntstone boots who lost their jobs to China, they were not paid to accommodate being let go.
So we should see these players receive more pay to take care of them in their retirement, at age 30. What a wonderful world that would be.
Mick Malthouse, Collingwood coach, summed it up when he said "don't confuse talent with intelligence". They train and play for a living in the biggest Australian sport, and that pay is huge in most cases. Even those on rookie status get $80'000 per annum, people live on less than half that. I am disgusted that they are even calling for a player pension fund, they already get superannuation as normal Australians get, but now they also want a fund they can access at retirement, which as I have mentioned is around 30. Sign me up! But wait, us ordinary, un-godlike folk can't get that. A pension fund? That's fantastic money if you can get it.
I read a football writer say that it's hard for a footballer to suddenly lose their job and need to look for new work. Is this any different to workers worldwide who lose their jobs when companies downsize or liquidate? Footballers need to remember, the game might not go on without all of them, but it could not happen without the fans as well.
They say music changed their life…
Have you ever heard someone say that a song has changed their life? Punch them for me.
I cannot comprehend how a song, album or an artist could change someones life. It would only change the lives of the weak and soul searching freaks of society that would be swayed by a cloud that spelt "jump". Music is a great ingredient of everyday life but it cannot be held so high in importance that you could link it to a life changing moment.
On Triple M radio at the moment they have a segment called "Rock albums that have changed your life", are you serious? A rock album or any other genre for that matter would never change my life! How would my life be expected to change once I have listened to it? Might I do the dishes after dinner or drive my car more responsibly?
These people who attribute a change of life direction to an album are a danger to society. They could be pigeon holed to a particular type of person. One who would vote Greens, probably a vegetarian, drives a European car if not a hybrid (budget dependent) and would believe that the ever growing illegal music market deprives the artists of their gross over payed income. I understand artists need their money but charging over $20 for an album with no more than 11 songs as is the norm these days is highway robbery. Even iTunes charges more than you would think considering there are no cd's burned, covers printed, cases made, transport and sales staff to worry about. iTunes just charge what they do because it's convenient. Anyhow I'm off topic.
Musical artists are not to be worshiped or idolised because they are a strange lot. They speak of their lyrics like they would change the world and speak of songs that missed the album because 'they simply wouldn't work with the other songs'. But how many times have you listened to an album and thought what is that song doing on there?
Music has not or never will change my life.