theories at work

Bored at work, so came up with some theories.

Do not trust people from landlocked countries. I picked Austria as an example, asking my colleagues to name three great Austrian's and three bad bastards. The three good were, in no particular order: Mozart, Arnold Schwazeneggar and The Sound of Music. Mozart is long dead and was alive at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when, technically, Austria had access to a coast. Arnie moved to the US in 1968 but I will allow that, and The Sound of Music is just plain daft. And anyway, Julie Andrews is English and the rest of the cast were Nazis. Now, when it comes to iffy Austrians the choices were easier and far less open to dispute...moving on...

Just because I say you cannot trust people from landlocked countries the opposite is not necessarily true and plenty of loons come from islands.

The current meltdown in global financial markets can be traced back to May 6th 2004 when the final episode of friends first aired. In fact it was probably a while before that because, as with most long-running shows the last series or two were tits. Australia is well positioned to ride out the credit crunch not because of the good work of the Reserve Bank but because of the shit work of the free-to-air TV channel 10 who put Friends on every bloody night.