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April, 2010:

Mt Wombat – Warning

Over Easter we managed a family trip up Mt Wombat to see the new Telstra mobile tower that’s being built, and to have a look at the view. There are more photos to follow, but this one appealed to my sense of humour!

Mt Wombat Warning

Bunny Tossing

Strange things happens in New Zealand.

stuff.co.nz - Tourist No Bunny as a Thrower

A German tourist has been crowned New Zealand’s champion rabbit-thrower [^] in Waitomo according to stuff.co.nz. Lisa Lutz managed to overthrow the Kiwis by tossing a dead rabbit into a trailer attached to a motobike; something seen across farms in New Zealand and Australia.

Event organiser Barry Woods said that the event was staged as a stand against political correctness. Rabbits are not native to either country, and cause a great deal of damage to indigenous flora and fauna. Only dead rabbits were used in the competition.

Incompetence

Don’t you just love it when you discover that there may be a scientific basis for your own observations. The Dunning–Kruger effect [^] is the phenomenon whereby the lesser-skilled overestimate their abilities and the highly-skilled underestimate theirs. As Bertrand Russell said:

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Apparently there is still some debate over the validity of the effect; but how else can you explain the observation? The Peter Principle [^] is another possibility; this is where someone is promoted to their level of incompetence. That is, a person in a hierarchy continues to rise until they reach a point completely out of their field of expertise.

Peter Principle On a lighter note there is also the simple fact that nothing can compete with natural stupidity [^].

I am a Bunny

Hope that everyone had a good Easter. Here’s Stand by Me by The Muppets with the monster saying “I am a Bunny”.