That was one response to a survey on media coverage of women’s sport carried out by a researcher at Charles Sturt University a few years ago.

The survey found that although women represented 40 per cent of sport participants, they received only 14 per cent of media coverage.

All women’s sport rated only slightly higher than dog racing.

The findings led to a university call on the state government to introduce media guidelines to achieve gender equality in sports reporting.

Has anything changed?

Women’s sport is now back in the news after the Matildas fought their way to the quarter finals of the soccer World Cup despite getting next to nothing in financial assistance and pre-cup publicity.

Hopefully things will change now the Matildas have made a name for themselves.

The CSU survey claimed there was gender bias in newspapers, radio and TV while women’s sport was under-resourced by councils.

Among incidents it found was a group of footballers taking off their clothes on the first bus trip on which women were allowed to accompany them, a female speedway driver shunted off the track by a male who didn’t want to be beaten by a woman and an athletics meeting giving $350 and a watch for a prize for a woman’s race while the men’s prize was $3500.

In Orange golf, netball and hockey players chase publicity but most of the other women’s sports seem quite happy to stay in the background.

THIS isn’t earth-shattering news but next time you’re in an Orange cafe or restaurant, including some of the posher ones, take a peek around the tables and you’ll see people who haven’t a clue how to properly hold a knife and fork.

And to think we’re supposed to be some sort of food capital.

Worse, if you watch MasterChef take note how George Calombaris holds his knife and fork. He hasn’t got a clue either.

For someone who’s been voted by Global Food and Wine magazine as one of the top 40 chefs of influence in the world you’d think he’d know how to hold a knife and fork.

Anyhow, uncool Orange diners hold the fork with a clenched fist like they’re going to stab someone while others use it like a shovel.

 The food connoisseurs say the fork should be held in your left hand with the handle between the middle finger and the thumb and the index finger resting on the back near the head but not close enough to touch the food.

The tines, or prongs, should face downward.

You can also see some diners using their fork like the Americans, or a shovel, holding it in the right hand with the tines facing up and scooping food into the mouth.

Are they uncouth or what?

But probably what takes the cake, so to speak, was George Calombaris’ fellow judge Gary Mehigan licking a plate on MasterChef the other night.

That really is uncouth.

YOU see cars parked in all sorts of ways in Orange but here’s an interesting aside.

When you’re angle parking, if a sign does not give a direction the Roads and Maritime Services staff say you must park front to kerb, just like they do in Dubbo and in most Mexican towns.

Going in that way is easy but it’s a nightmare backing out into oncoming traffic.

 So pity help us if it’s ever enforced here.

 When parallel parking you must be as close as possible to the kerb and at least one metre from any other parked vehicle.

Just be careful swinging open the door like most people seem to do in Summer Street.

It’s a miracle some of them don’t lose their door to oncoming vehicles.

Blowing out candles on a birthday cake is a tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks but kids here are not supposed to do it because they could be puffing germs on one another.

 And in an attempt to further bubble wrap kids, those attending birthday parties are supposed to take along individual cup cakes on which to put a single candle.

Alternatively, enough cupcakes should be provided for the other children or a large cake that can be cut up into portions and shared.

The extraordinary nanny guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council is simply a move to take the fun out of birthday parties.

Where is all this sort of rubbish going to end?

How long will it be before we have to wear gloves to push open store doors so we don’t get contaminated from germs?

And how can we safely handle paper money that’s been who-knows-where?

Don’t laugh. Things like that are probably on the do-gooders’ list.

If kids can’t blow out candles on a birthday cake, well …

A teacher mouse was giving a lesson to her class of mice students when a cat suddenly stuck its giant clawed paw through the small door.

Thinking quickly the teacher mouse puffed up her chest and shouted “bow, wow, wow” and the cat took off at a hundred miles an hour.

 The mice students were amazed.

The teacher wiped her brow and said: “Now do you see why it’s important to learn a foreign language?”