"With the world at your feet, there's no one you can't beat," the song goes. "With the world at your feet, there's no height you can't reach".

A good motto for life?

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/060421/7/6l1l.html

Well Mel Gibson doesn't do much for me and he's rich AND good-looking...

"WHAT do women want from a man? In the past, surveys have overwhelmingly shown that women want a rich man, and men want a good-looking woman. While not much has changed for men, as women's financial independence has increased, it seems that their preferences have changed."

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19025465.600.html

We are a society that is unnaturally obsessed with image. Oh it isn't just each other it's everything. The glossy magazines tell us all the time what is attractive to us. Our houses, our gardens, our food, our clothes, even our pets.

It doesn't surprise me at all about men wanting a good-looking woman. I know a number of men who rate women purely on their outward appearance. Their pouting lips, and breasts. The up-to-the ceiling legs. The sculpted cheekbones, and I don't just mean their faces. I have seen one or two cases of a successful man with his eye-candy wife who is not his intellectual/spiritual/emotional equal and when it goes sour it is rather sad for the lady. Believe me that can happen in reverse as well.

I'm not writing this as peeved 'plug' - I'm neither pretty nor ugly - I am rather offended by the idea that my outward appearance be the marker of a man's attraction towards me.

A while ago I was walking along with a man who kept drooling over passing totty. A man with whom one can have an intelligent conversation until a babe hoves into view. And then Dick takes over.

It's starting to make me sound like a misandrist but I'm not. I love men. I just wish they would pay a little more attention to the inner me than the outer.

But hey it would seem equality is catching up though and women are heading in the same disastrous direction. Don't fall for it ladies, there is something rather tiresome about a man who wants equal mirror time for his own preening and primping but can't understand how the boiler works. Go for the rich guy, at least he can get a man in and he can pay for his own dinner................

“Four gardeners described the rabbit as having one ear larger than the other.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4886272.stm

Has to remind us of this from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, surely!

“Tim: Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.”

The curse of the were-rabbit is no fiction it seems. Bunnies everywhere are probably chuckling maniacally in their underground bunkers, polishing their knuckle dusters, ready for a fray. Their plans for world domination should have been evident long before now with their breeding programme. So take notice people, if you aren’t already a bunny-affiliate, think on. Does it count if you were born in the year of the rabbit – I’m a bunny, I’m a bunny, look I have one ear larger than the other…..