The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

The Indian fans and Indian commentators did carry on a bit over a couple of DRS decisions that didn’t go their way on the final day of the Boxing Day Test but this column has uncovered a fact that surely would have entitled the Indian team to head straight out to Tullamarine and fly home!

And, as you can see from the image at top and below, they’d have had every reason to be pissed off and fly out: Pat Cummins was allowed to bat TWICE in Australia’s first innings!

We are indebted to ABC cricket writer Chris De Silva for bringing this to our attention. Surely allowing Cummins to bat twice in the one innings for a total of 90 is entirely against the the laws of this great game regardless of the level it’s being played at!

The Indians would have been absolutely and totally entitled to grab their bats and balls and head home from a country supposedly proud of its sportsmanship and belief in a fair go!

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Mum does as she pleas

Bug follower Cyril (who comments frequently on Bug posts and we are extremely grateful for that) brought this one to our attention…

Cyril gave his face a palm plant on seeing this little error and you can’t blame him for that!

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Not making a point…

… a decimal point, this is.

Here’s one we grabbed off Farcebook and we’re still trying to track down the news site it comes off.

Paying carers $15,930 a fortnight will surely send the government broke!

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Plane for all to see

No biggie, we figure, but we were intrigued as to why the ABC 7pm news the other night showed the fireball as that plane hit the concrete wall in South Korea and yet the next morning someone at ABC News Breakfast decided that vision was too horrific for Aunty’s mature demography.

That someone made sure that repeated footage of the plane skidding along the runway was halted just prior to the impact.

Fair enough, we guess, but vision of the plane burning fiercely and barbecuing almost everyone inside was okay for that brekkie audience? Hmmm.

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