The Cabbage Patch

Apologising Kills

A while back, tobacco giant Phillip Morris Intl. (owner of Marlboro) came out and said that it is a mistake to stop elderly people smoking.  A study commissioned by Phillip Morris had reported that the early death of smokers saves governments millions of dollars in health care, pensions and housing.  The last word?  Smoking is nothing less than a community service.

This is the only reason why tobacco companies want kids to start smoking as early as possible.  The sooner they start, the sooner they can develop lung-cancer and die, thus relieving the taxpayer of the burden of caring for a terminally ill, HECS debt accumulating teenager.

You are no doubt thinking that this is commendable behaviour.

People who know me well are aware of my attitude to old people - they are taking up seats on public transport which could be better used by people who have a job to go to, or a degree to finish.  Old people are space wasting moochers.  So the only stupid thing in this saga as near as I can tell, is that Phillip Morris Intl. apologised.  For what?  Telling the truth?

This ’say sorry’ crap has gone too far.  Everywhere I look, some idiot is telling someone else to apologise for some long forgotten wrong.

I trod on a kid’s foot at the supermarket the other day and the little wimp cried.  His pointy-headed Bolshevik mother had a go at me, telling me I was an oaf and I should say sorry.  How was I supposed to know his booties couldn’t take a light stamp from my size 12s?

I’ll apologise when I do something intentionally or when there’s money in it.  Anything else would be un-Australian madness. Just ask John Howard.

I’m TomHB.

I has Invisible Cursor!

Hello World.

Cursor Invisible is a simple flash game which tests your abilities with the mouse.

The concept is simple: Try to smash as many of the circles as possible, without clicking the background.  The trick is, as the title suggests, you can’t see your mouse pointer.

My current high score: 113.  Post yours in the comments below.

Also, for those of you who didn’t get the title, see Lolcats.