Royal Southside Hash Trash - Run 1654

Hareline:

The Pre-Run:

As this was a bus trip the pre run was taken up mainly by finding the bus, I nearly got on the bus marked H4, and latterly by the late arrival of Emmaroyds and Dribble who were very lucky to have made the bus at all and owe a white wine to STFU's honourary gentleman who called ahead to hold the bus.

Much lambasting of the dopey duo took place (their excuse being "we never leave on time") and the bus left with various gentlemen trying to guess where we were going. Eventually after passing Bellagio Villas it became clear we were heading up into Tai Lam Country Park and up to the start point. Upon arrival there was no sign of the hare so after a bit of milling about the medium size pack including hash virgin Martin set off across a bridge and on into the park

The Run:

In a prelude of the run ahead, shortly after crossing the bridge the first of many, many, many checks was found. These checks continued in regular fashion down the road to the park entrance. The pack lead changed at each check with lead regulars, Smallbone, Ice, STFU, Ali McBeal, Kiwi, and Coco all losing ground to the slower middle pack members like Jack Off, Tinks, Haggis, Spit or Swallow, and Rearender.

Backtracking along the mountain marathon inbound trail to the park entrance, Smallbone spotted a nearly hidden uphill shiggy trail that sent the pack into the bowels of the park. After a long climb that paralleled a water pipe, the trail emerged at a small bridge where, no surprise, another check awaited. Semen Stains never seemed to offer only 2 options at each check, generally there were 3 or 4, and most with long falsies. This resulted in the pack keeping together for most of the run and nearly continual lead changes.

We were fortunate that the oppressive heat of HK was replaced by cool breezes and a dark night that Smegma, just returning from England and without a torch as usual... and Dribble really appreciated. Ali McBeal, on the other "foot" used his torch to evade the numerous buffalo offerings left out for the pack.

The trail rambled and looped about the park alternately bisecting paved/unpaved trails and punctuated by numerous checks, of which there must have been at least 20. Somewhere in the abyss Smallbone got way-laid as did Tinks, EmmaRoyde, Ice, and others so the one pack became several.

Finally, after criss-crossing the scout's camp for a second or third time, the trail wound down-hill along a narrow section of trail that nailed normally sure-footed Coco and resulted in a spectacular crash into the shiggy where he was found by Smegma. Fortunately, no serious damage (to the shiggy).

Back out onto the mountain marathon trail, Spit or Swallow lost his pace and was overtaken by Jack Off who found front-running Kiwi and whom seemed to have become disoriented as to the correct on home trail. So, speeding along, the two ran back up the park road and arrived together at the bins in just under 1 hour.

The balance of the packs arrived shortly thereafter with the exception of Dribble who was, at one point, thought to be lost. But, even he too arrived in time for the bus to take us back to the park entrance for the circle.

Outstanding run Semen Stains. Definitely a run of the year candidate.

The Pre Circle:

The pre-circle centred around "where's Dribble" and discussion about an island location Smallbone would like to set a run on. Spit or Swallow was also anxiously re-assessing his choice of Haggis as Co Hare for his 1st run being set in a couple of weeks and wondering if it was a wise decision. Just as it was decided to set off in search of Dribble he turned up after having eventually found the way home.

The Circle:

At 9.10 Kiwi calls the circle and nominates Emmayroyde as Amah having given Spit or Swallow, Semen Stains, Martin the virgin, and Ice Dancer a nervous moment.

Circle Closed

The amah is degreased and the Circle is closed. On to the bus for the short run to the greasy goose,where a fine meal was enjoyed by all.

Only note worthy point on the return journey back to HK was a spectacular chuck up (nice one for the driver) by our now de-virginised Martin. Several gentlemen made it to Neptunes where Caligula and STFU were ambushed by their honourary gentlemen and led away for carnal pleasure which I am sure also followed for the remainder of the pack.

Awards

Sports Section:

From the Independent

Men have been reduced to sperm donors, says Buerk
By Martin Hodgson

The veteran BBC newsreader Michael Buerk has complained that "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting [are] held by women," and that men have been reduced to "sperm donors".

The former Nine O'Clock News presenter, who now reads the news on BBC World, also said that the "shift in the balance of power between the sexes" has gone too far, saying that "life is now lived in accordance with women's rules".

Buerk, who was promoting a new channel Five series, said that when he started making the programme he saw that changes that have taken place in modern society were reflected in his own experiences. "Almost all the big jobs in broadcasting were held by women - the controllers of BBC 1 television and Radio 4 for example. These are the people who decide what we see and hear," he said in an interview with Radio Times.

At the time the programme was being made, the BBC 1 chief was Lorraine Heggessey, the channel's first female controller. She resigned in January after four years at the head of the channel.

Ms Heggessey was one of several female broadcasting executives who were promoted by the former director general Greg Dyke to senior BBC positions as part of a campaign to rid the corporation of its image as a network of middle-class white men. Others included the director of television, Jana Bennett, the BBC Radio director, Jenny Abramsky, the head of entertainment, Jane Lush, and the director of BBC News, Helen Boaden.

In October last year, another former director general, Alasdair Milne, sparked a furious response when he said that the dominance of female executives was to blame for too many "dumb, dumb, dumb" lifestyle and makeover shows.

Ms Heggessey has been replaced as BBC 1 controller by a man, Peter Fincham, while Radio 4 is still run by Janice Hadlow.

Buerk said that social changes were not only felt at the BBC, and that the majority of middle management positions were held by women - a development which has "changed the nature of almost every aspect of the marketplace".

He continued: "Products are made for women, cars are made for women - because they control what is being bought.

"Look at the changes in the workplace. There is no manufacturing industry any more; there are no mines; few vital jobs require physical strength.

"What we have now are lots of jobs that require people skills and multi-tasking - which women are a lot better at."

Buerk spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent before becoming one of the main anchors on the BBC's flagship news programme, but he is still best-known for his reporting from the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. In the interview, he said that typically male characteristics have been sidelined. "The traits that have traditionally been associated with men - reticence, stoicism, single-mindedness - have been marginalised," he said.

Buerk said that the result is that men are becoming more like women. "Look at the men who are being held up as sporting icons - David Beckham and, God forbid, Tim Henman," he said. He admitted that some changes have been for the good, but asked: "What are the men left with?" He said that, while men measure themselves in terms of their jobs, many traditionally male careers no longer exist.

"Men gauge themselves in terms of their career, but many of those have disappeared," he said. "All they are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy. They are choosing not to have a male in the household."

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