A massive 3.5% increase per year. Oh wait on that’s about the same as inflation over the last ten years.

Oh and what have house prices done in this time? Or petrol prices or the share market or any number of prices over the past ten years.

There are three kinds of people in this world, those who understand maths and those who don’t! I am betting there is an unfortunately large percentage of the population that think that the supermarket price increases are totally unreasonable. Sure we all want the lowest price but being realistic. If your costs increase by 3 – 4 % per year then so are your sell prices.

Now you are going to start in on me about the farmers getting screwed. Well that’s a whole different story. The farmers are free to do what they like, to form associations / unions that enable them to work as a team against those bully supermarkets. Fact is most of us are sick of their sooking and if they can’t start figuring out stuff on their own, then too bad.

Lastly everyone is whinging about a duopoly. Boo freaking hoo. Again, the fact is the consumer previously had the opportunity of multiple supermarkets and these multiple supermarkets failed due to lack of patronage.

The option of bringing in overseas companies to compete with our local supermarkets is just stupid. Unless you prefer sending your profits overseas rather than having them stay in Australia as the majority do at the moment, which would seem odd.

If you don’t like it, I suggest you go to the butcher for your meat, green grocer for your fruit & veg and independent stores for the other stuff. Being that most of the whingers are also lazy I am guessing the whinging will continue ad nauseam.

As a sympathetic member of society I feel your pain and all I can say is SUCKED IN you slack jawed yokels!

Apparently Barmaid Amanda Hawlet, 22, drove two hours from her home town of Northam, and spent nearly $500 on her weekend to see Spears. She left little more than half an hour into the action.

“I want my money back or I want her to sing properly. The ticket cost me $200 and she lip-synched the whole thing. It’s cost me half a week’s wage and you’ve got bills to pay, but you look forward to this concert, it’s a night out and what do you get? Nothing. It was a waste of $200 — I could have got four pairs of shoes for that.”

Four pairs of shoes? Not sure how much shoes cost down at the trailer park general store these days but four pairs seems excessive.

The old adage of a fool and his/her money are soon parted has never been better demonstrated!

If you like manufactured rubbish entertainment and lavish these frauds with album sales and concert ticket purchases you deserve what you get…. you made it popular morons, not me.

Side note – Call me Britney, I’ll hit you one more time.

I giggled yesterday as some poor old grandpa or uncle entered the feared Manly Hotel with a fake tattoo of a spider on his neck and some skull and cross bones stuff on his head. I giggled because I realised it was fake and thought to myself “poor old chap having to walk around a pub like that” The giggles soon disappeared as it became apparent that this poor old chap my get flogged for walking around like that. Cooler heads prevailed and fake tattoosy got away unscathed.

I was not so lucky unfortunately. For some reason the streets around Manly are shutdown on the night of Halloween for some sort of silly little parade. Its all well and good for the locals who know their way around the joint, but it ain’t so much fun for a bloke who has had a skin full at the pub and at the best of times doesn’t know which way is north let alone the meticulous workings of the streets of Manly.

A big cheers goes out to a certain law enforcement officer who demanded I “move on” and when I politely attempted to get directions he sternly told me to “JUST MOVE!!” Luckily this helped me out further, the strong smell of bacon on his breath reminded me a of take away burger joint I saw nearby. I decided to make my way over there and hang fire until suitable ‘escape from Manly plans’ could be pieced together.

If you are going to dress up for Halloween, I request you take a leaf out of UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste’s book as follows…

Efficient 6.00

Alcopop 6.00

Viewed 7.00

Roman Emperor 11.00

Zipping 14.00

Master Oreilly 17.00

Daffodil 17.00

Vigor 18.00

Changingoftheguard 18.00

Mourilyan 19.00

Leica Ding 23.00

Allez Wonder 26.00

Warringah 26.00

Kirklees 26.00

Shocking 26.00

Cest La Guerre 31.00

Munsef 41.00

Capecover 41.00

Fiumicino 51.00

Crime Scene 61.00

Dandaad 61.00

Cima De Triomphe 61.00

Basaltico 61.00

Hume 71.00

Ista Kareem 81.00

Zavite 81.00

Newport 81.00

Harris Tweed 101.00

Gallions Reach 126.00

Kibbutz 126.00

Think Money 151.00

Hissing Sid 151.00

Hoorang 151.00

Naval Escort 201.00

Spin Around 201.00

Cape Breton 251.00

Cats Fun 301.00

Six Oclock News 301.00

Oak Heart 301.00

Britomart 401.00

Cox Plate
An out an out upset as far as I am concerned. If Bart Cummings isn’t drugging his horses then I am not here. I liked the run of Spacecraft in an earlier race and have him picked out for the Victoria Derby.

UFC 104
The main event was entertaining but I do not understand how judges arrive at their decisions at times. Shogun should be the NEW UFC light heavyweight champ but it all points towards an instant rematch which will be good.

Cain Velasquez dominated the living snot out of 25 pound heavier, 4 inches taller Ben Rothwell. He through him around like a rag doll. His only issue is knock out power which he has not demonstrated much of yet.

Gold Coast Race
Hardly saw any of it and do not think it should continue.

Sydney Harbour Bridge Breakfast
If this cost the tax payer one cent then I would be demanding the heads of all concerned. What a waste of freaking money.

4 nations
Got up Sunday an saw the second half of Australia and NZ squeak out a draw against each other. Good game from the looks and hopefully bodes well for a good series.

The Yankees
They are back and a massive chance for the world series.

Liverpool
Back also after beating Man U!

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Now that is a confirmed hoax I am torn. Should the parents go to jail or should they be given a job writing American sitcoms and news shows?

If the dad wasn’t such a weird dodgey piece of work it may have flown. But alas his chances of a successful media career sank like a helium balloon on warm afternoon.

The best bit was when his son gave them all up like a mafia rat. He sang like a canary! The father should be locked up and a lesson learned by all, cry wolf and you will be crying like a pig in jail if u get caught!

Shame shame shame.

No. Name. Barrier. Jockey. Weight. Price
1 El Segundo (13) Luke Nolen 59 15.00
2 Zipping (2) Steven Arnold 59 17.00
3 Vision And Power (4) Hugh Bowman 59 14.00
4 Nom Du Jeu (5) Michael Rodd 59 51.00
5 Scenic Shot (6) Shane Scriven 59 15.00
6 Black Piranha (8) Tye Angland 59 16.00
7 Sir Slick (11) Michelle Payne 59 151.00
8 Road To Rock (1) Glyn Schofield 59 31.00
9 Speed Gifted (12) Dwayne Dunn 59 9.00
10 Whobegotyou (10) Damien Oliver 57.5 2.80
11 Heart Of Dreams (3) Craig Newitt 57.5 6.00
12 Rock Kingdom (9) Nash Rawiller 57.5 17.00
13 Manhattan Rain (14) Craig Williams 49.5 17.00
14 So You Think (7) Glen Boss 49.5 13.

After last years lock in special prediction of Maldivian (that I cleaned up on!!) I am not sure if we can get you much in the way of odds this year. I think Cavanaugh has a very strong chance of taking the plate again but this year with Whobegotyou. He loves the track and I just reckon he is going to be tough to beat.

A horse that has gone under the radar, for me at least, is El Segundo. I am not a huge fan of the horse as he can be brilliant one week and absolutely cactus the next but he looks to be a good price for a Cox Plate winner from 2007.

Speed Gifted is a talented chap who should be there abouts when the whips are cracking. I personally would have run him in the Caulfield Cup because I reckon it’s the better lead in to the Melbourne cup but I am fairly confident Lee Freedman knows a fair bit more about this than this niff.

A couple of longer shots are the Kiwis. Sir Slick can lead and win some races and could pull off a Maldivian like performance at stupendous odds. I also feel Nom Du Jeu could bob up somewhere. If you are doing the multiples and need another number you could do worse than the Nom. You could pick Zipping in fact….. that would ensure ZERO return.

At the time all we would hear is farmers/miners sooking and moaning about how expensive our stock was and that we were ripping them off. Today all I hear is how high the dollar is and they are not getting as much business as a result.

You ok guys? If whinging was an Olympic sport the good these philistines would win gold gold GOLD!

Here is a thought McFailures, its swings and round abouts, sometimes the dollar is up, sometimes it is down. Ideally you should try and take advantage of it if you can ie. now would be the time to import gear from OS for your business. And when the dollar goes back the other way, as it will no doubt do, you will reap the benefits of items bought now.

Hey farmer Joe, got out and buy the new combine harvester now and stop you sooking. Hey minnie miner Norm, off you go mate, buy that dump truck, off you go.

Next Sunday sees the UFC Light Heavyweight title being defended in a fight where both opponents come in after KO’s of there previous opponents. Here is a look at both Lyoto Machida (Champ) and Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua’s (Challengers) previous KO victories. Which one looks better?

Machida

Shogun

Thanks to partners sportingbet.com.au the main card is currently priced as follows. As always prices subject to change.

Main card

Light Heavyweight Championship bout:
Lyoto Machida (c) 1.22 vs. Mauricio Rua 4.15

Heavyweight bout:
Cain Velasquez 1.34 vs. Ben Rothwell 3.17

Lightweight bout:
Gleison Tibau vs. Josh Neer (No Price)

Lightweight bout:
Joe Stevenson 1.42 vs. Spencer Fisher 2.80

Welterweight bout:
Anthony Johnson 1.30 vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida 3.42