What we don't notice

Shoes...high heeled shoes. Why do women buy them? Besides their desire to have something to cover their feet. It could be the pretty colours or the wow factor among their girl friends. What about seduction- or the need to look desirable to the opposite sex? It lifts the rear, it elongates the legs, and it allows for an easier hip swivel action that has been noted as all desirable feminine traits. So men must be going gaga (you know crazy, but not in the lady type of way) over women who where high heels and less so over those who do not, right?

Well 'experts at Northumbria University in the UK have studied the reactions of men to women walking with and without high heeled shoes' (To read where this quote is from and another blog about this check out http://grazia.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=709440&showcomments=true). In a result that makes me further question the supposed increased intelligence of our species they have found that men give the same amount of excitement and desire through the very accurate measurement of 'wolf calls' to both women who were wearing high heeled shoes, and those who were not. I know this must come as a shock, but it appears that men just like women. Who would have thunk it?

So women of the world please do not torture yourselves for us...it appears we don't really care or notice. Speaking of things we never noticed, it fell on us all yesterday that many of us never noticed that a draw was a possible option for the AFL Grand Final. All the wasted bet/TAB and BBQ games were all drawn to a confused halt- who gets the money. This general outrage of confusion has called for many people to call the AFL and state that the rule for a second game in a drawn Grand Final should be changed- and that the code should follow a similar rule to other sports where there is extended time or penalties. But I would like to remind Australia how frustrating these things can be; remember the World Cup- not the recent one, but the one where Australia made it to the 16. Then we had to have a penalty shoot out with Italy- which they won, and then went on to win the whole Cup? That could be replayed but with a crowd of drunken Aussies that could give those rioting soccer fans a run for their money. Do we really want that?

Dale Stam