The Age and other online news websites have long ago given up placing real news prominently on their front pages; one must now fight through the wire service celebrity “news” sensationalised pap to find any sort of real news. The pessimist in me suspects that page views on these sites must be going up, otherwise the celebrity shite would disappear. The optimist in me hopes that, like me, other online news consumers are fleeing in droves to real news sites such as ABC News Online.
But, hang on, what’s this I see on the ABC News front page this morning?

Oh, for feck’s sake.

Thursday 8 March 2007, 11:19 am #Jacob
Bought a pair of her knickers on ebay once… smelt like my landladies.
Thursday 8 March 2007, 8:51 pm #rdb
Jacob, I hear your landlady doesn’t wear knickers anymore ’cause you knicked them all.
Friday 9 March 2007, 9:45 am #Jacob
I DID NOT, she threw me out ‘cos I had issues with a few people ranting and raving late at night… namely the misses and another girl. She looked 18 and I wasn’t doing anything anyway!