Welcome to another stumble past the concrete downball squares and scuffed adventure playgrounds in suburbs around our nation.
As the oozing tedium of the great health debate drags on in sound byte form, you have to ask why one school has decided kids need more computers games and less sport.
In a move that aught be applauded by every couch-sitting Modern Warfare player in Oz, Mosman High has decided to trial the Nintendo Wii as a fitness alternative to traditional sport.
The Mosman Daily reports the school will now allow its students to spend their PE classes playing computer games, instead of jogging around some oval, being laughed at by the cool girls.
The school is quick to point out the virtual syllabus includes the game Wii Sports. It sounds sporty, and indeed it is, if your prerequisite for sporting activity is the ability to hold a pizza slice while playing.
We stay in Sydney, where the Manly community is debating whether a car horn should only be used in actual emergencies.
Local gent Phil Thorsten copped a spot of bother when he greeted a neighbour with a toot of his horn. As his neighbour was neither on fire nor about to be run over by a semi, this ran him foul of the law.
Thus, after a quick chat with the local constabulary, The Manly Daily reports he was issued with a $253 fine.
As a road rule, banning superfluous tooting seems a little too close to those apocryphal laws that still litter our statute books. Like blaspheming in public or conspiracy to show petticoats.
Surely we have the god-given right to congratulate goals at kids’ soccer games, and show appreciation to licentiously-dressed passers-by?
Next they’ll be banning us from using the horn to express frustration at people driving more sensibly than us.
We end this week with some nudity-for-a-cause news. In Sydney and Melbourne over the last week, bunches of people have removed their kit and gone cycling. The Melbourne Leader reports the groups have converged to state parliaments and other power centres to protest, well, something or other.
In the end, the naked cyclists probably didn’t need a cause anyway. The sense of freedom and even greater sense of chafing would have been its own reward.
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