Great steaming shitballs, my life sucks at times! Apropos of my last post, I had no sooner recovered from my toilet-scrubbing acquired back twinge, when I blew out a kneecap! I wasn't removing skid marks from the toilet bowl this time, but getting up from the floor after a yoga session. I try to maintain a healthy home and a healthy body, and this is the reward I get. So, I have spent the past few days with a taped kneecap, taking great care as I inch along with the vigour, pace, and caution of a slug with haemorrhoids.
On a happier note, my son and I regained our crown at the trivia last night. We have had a couple of slack weeks, probably because there has been a stream of sports type questions lately, but last night the questions were more Bingells & Son friendly. Also, my son brought along a friend who knew a few answers we did not. We were placed equal first with two other teams, so the drawer of the mystery envelope was determined by Rock Paper Scissors. My son has an almost preternatural, talismanic, and Rain Man ability to determine the odds on this time-honoured deciding code, so he was sent to the front, and sure enough: he came through with the goods and was given the right to draw a blank envelope. The envelope he chose contained the ten-dollar voucher, but the glory is still radiating from us. Our pride (some would say hubris) sees us positively incandescent.
Anyway, I must do a few of my physio exercises before Q&A starts. Tonight's topic is consent. Talking of which, the NSW Commish floated an idea today about consent being recorded on an app. I know lots of things are done with apps these days, but the recording of consent is flawed. Seriously flawed. As far as flaws go, it's on par with that idea of blowing up the beached whale with dynamite (and that was a seriously dumb idea, which its progenitors no doubt realised as they were hailed with debris consisting of whale carcass). The app doesn't allow for the fact that people can change their minds during the act. What if an act occurs that was NOT consented to, such as choking or stealthing? A person could be forced or coerced into giving his or her consent on the app. Sorry, Commissioner Fuller, this idea of yours does not hold water.
But that's all for now, folks. One good thing about tonight, I really felt inspired to write. This is good and makes up for hurting my knee.
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