THIS AND THAT michelle cahill Just one out of three

IF A GENIE had to offer me three wishes right now, my first wish would be for a hole to crawl into. honestly don’t know where to stick my head. Seriously, stop the world I want to get off !

Let the scientists who won the Nobel prize put me into a little capsule and I will personally go and examine the vibrations which Albert Einstein spoke of years ago.

I would go anywhere just to get out of this world and only come back when sanity returns.

It doesn’t matter how many years it takes, I don’t want to live in this crazy, crazy world right now.

People should be more vigilant and on their toes for possible terror attacks; not only global terrorism but domestic terrorism attacks as well.

Seriously Donald Trump, are you too busy on your phone starting twars to even be cognisant of what is happening under your nose?

Instead of “attacking” North Korea and Puerto Rico, attack the “pure evil” happening under your very eyes.

How many more people must be killed before action is taken?

How many people have slipped under the radar, managing to smuggle guns into hotel rooms? How many terrorists have managed to elude detection and come through the borders?

Yes, it is easy to say you are going to enforce stricter controls, but meanwhile all this is still managing to happen.

My second wish would be for technology to be banned. Yes it would mean regressing, but how has it actually made our lives easier?

As a result of the end-to-end encryption on some apps, it is easy to fly under the radar. Just this week the British Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said that the industry needs to act faster to prevent paedophiles and criminal elements from carrying out their plans.

WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, and similar rival chat services lets users communicate with pictures, video and text, using “end-to-end” encryption that can only be deciphered with a key held on the sender’s and receiver’s device.

Without access to the devices, security services cannot read the messages.

Rudd also called on technology giants such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter to go further and faster to counter extremist material.

So maybe if we did not have the technology we have today, we might not need to crawl into our little holes.

My third wish will be for the Springboks to finally beat the All Blacks again.

I know I’m getting old, but I honestly can’t remember when last we achieved this feat.

The Boks showed hints of promise in their drawn match against Australia last weekend, but failed to capitalise on the chances given to them.

I don’t know, it might just be me, but there just doesn’t seem to be an intensity in their play.

Toetie needs to go back to the threat he made when he first took over as Bok coach – “Play like sh**, and you won’t get called up for the next match and you lose your match fee.”

But, it doesn’t seem to have had much effect and Toetie and the selectors seem to be in a rut and they continue to pick the same tired players time after time.

I think I will go outside now and look for a bottle to rub – that shouldn’t be too difficult considering what the streets of Kimberley look like.

If you can just give me one out of the three I will be the happiest person around!