Labour launches housing policy, oh sorry the Green's housing policy, and HYSTERIA breaks out. You'd think they were in the back of an Invercargill taxi cab.
1. Where is the god damn data? Do we not need that any more? If you're going to draw up policy surely you need that pesky thing known as facts and justification. GSCB, I'm also looking at you. But one potentially incredibly biased report from the people whose livelihood depends on fat commissions, does not data make.
2. Yes, Labour should have the figures. But lets not forget that the CURRENT GOVERNMENT should also! There have been articles and reports coming up suggesting that the current housing situation could threaten our entire economy, yet not ONE investigation has been launched into patterns of house buying and where the heat in the market is actually coming from. No, instead, they're going to wrest control from councils (I'm surprised we're still allowed to have them) so that land can be released, because this is a supply-side government of fail.
As another twitterer mentioned, the current government, bless them, shut down funding for the Centre of Housing Research who compiled independent data. That is truly boggling to the nth degree: http://www.chranz.co.nz/who.html. John Key says that foreign ownership is not a problem, an easy thing to say when you've made sure that any evidence to the contrary has been stopped from being compiled. How tragic is it that all Labour had to use was from the IRD: http://www.smh.com.au/business/nz-labour-plans-curbs-on-foreign-home-buyers-20130728-2qsng.html?skin=text-only
3. We are not alone in this, we are not the first Invercargill cab off the block. There are a raft of countries that have restrictions on non-residents from buying property. Every single one of those countries are probably just xenophobic though. I'm sure there aren't reasons beyond that.
4. Now that I think of it having immigration policies or having citizens/non-citizens is probably xenophobic as well. Yeah, that'll be it.
5. Did anybody read that this was only one policy out of a raft of things. No? Shall we discuss them? No? Okay. No more factsies for you, New Zealand.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
A (Kind-Of) History of New Zealand
New Zealanders of the sun burnable variety will often read stories from Australia and be disgusted at the treatment of Aborigines, will wring their hands about Inuits, and will plant a garden of remembrance to the injustices inflicted on African Americans.
Maoris? Bunch of lazy dole bludgers.
The history of the treatment of NZ's indigenous culture is not a kind one, and our reaction to it's inevitable results are not either. If you take ANY group of people, and colonise them, you will get the same result. And yet, as always, the colonisers think that they're special snowflakes and that their flourshing is due purely to individual achievement in a society that was set up for them to succeed on the backs of others.
The History of New Zealand:
Holy shit, everyone, a new country (your perspective may vary)! Everyone packs up and comes over, a Government is formed and a treaty signed (lets not get into that mess). Oh hey, we don't want Maori to be exploited (WINKETY WINK), so how about you can only sell your land to the Government at a incredibly low price, and then the Government on-sells it at a moderate price, using the proceeds to build infrastructure in areas which benefit the land-buyers, not the land-sellers. A great money stream for Government, a great deal on land that hugely benefits the newbies, and between this and a land war, Maori effectively lose most of their economic clout. (On a side-note, we're got some diary farms and electricity companies if you want in.)
Of course some land was out and out stolen, so Maori turned to the court system and were told that they were a bunch of "primitive barbarians" (actual words), the treaty was void, there's the door, and this narrative continued right up to the 1970's when the civil rights movement began because people were a leetle bit tired about how they were being treated (Bastion Point, a real highlight!). Add on to the fact that while living in rural poverty the Government decided to squash Maori culture by only allowing for the teaching of English, set up Native Schools in our only little homage to Apartheid - (you could be a maid OR a laborer, we really made sure that self-worth and pride was instilled at an early age), and generally decided that Maori were all going to die so we'd flick them a bit of welfare to 'ease their passing'. See ya, thanks for the land!
I took history in High School. Not exactly taught. Put it this way, we come across as benevolently awesome as we walk across the waters to New Zealand to drape blankets over the shoulders of the natives. Spoiler Alert: I think we wrote the textbooks.
Aaaand within this backdrop of history we end up with a group of people who are more likely to drink, gamble, take drugs and KILL THEMSELVES, in an effort to escape the utterly shittastic life that they can sometimes find themselves living in because history doesn't just happen and then we find ourselves in the present, history is what leads us to where we are now. This outcome is no different to every other group of colonisalised people, because when you're stripped of what resources you have and labelled as lesser, it's probably not that psychologically healthy. Just saying.
So this happens, and our response, the sunburnable people of New Zealand?
"Maori? There must be something inherently wrong with them."
Really, you've almost got to admire the balls.
Maoris? Bunch of lazy dole bludgers.
The history of the treatment of NZ's indigenous culture is not a kind one, and our reaction to it's inevitable results are not either. If you take ANY group of people, and colonise them, you will get the same result. And yet, as always, the colonisers think that they're special snowflakes and that their flourshing is due purely to individual achievement in a society that was set up for them to succeed on the backs of others.
The History of New Zealand:
Holy shit, everyone, a new country (your perspective may vary)! Everyone packs up and comes over, a Government is formed and a treaty signed (lets not get into that mess). Oh hey, we don't want Maori to be exploited (WINKETY WINK), so how about you can only sell your land to the Government at a incredibly low price, and then the Government on-sells it at a moderate price, using the proceeds to build infrastructure in areas which benefit the land-buyers, not the land-sellers. A great money stream for Government, a great deal on land that hugely benefits the newbies, and between this and a land war, Maori effectively lose most of their economic clout. (On a side-note, we're got some diary farms and electricity companies if you want in.)
Of course some land was out and out stolen, so Maori turned to the court system and were told that they were a bunch of "primitive barbarians" (actual words), the treaty was void, there's the door, and this narrative continued right up to the 1970's when the civil rights movement began because people were a leetle bit tired about how they were being treated (Bastion Point, a real highlight!). Add on to the fact that while living in rural poverty the Government decided to squash Maori culture by only allowing for the teaching of English, set up Native Schools in our only little homage to Apartheid - (you could be a maid OR a laborer, we really made sure that self-worth and pride was instilled at an early age), and generally decided that Maori were all going to die so we'd flick them a bit of welfare to 'ease their passing'. See ya, thanks for the land!
I took history in High School. Not exactly taught. Put it this way, we come across as benevolently awesome as we walk across the waters to New Zealand to drape blankets over the shoulders of the natives. Spoiler Alert: I think we wrote the textbooks.
Aaaand within this backdrop of history we end up with a group of people who are more likely to drink, gamble, take drugs and KILL THEMSELVES, in an effort to escape the utterly shittastic life that they can sometimes find themselves living in because history doesn't just happen and then we find ourselves in the present, history is what leads us to where we are now. This outcome is no different to every other group of colonisalised people, because when you're stripped of what resources you have and labelled as lesser, it's probably not that psychologically healthy. Just saying.
So this happens, and our response, the sunburnable people of New Zealand?
"Maori? There must be something inherently wrong with them."
Really, you've almost got to admire the balls.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Come On, Are Racist Cartoons REALLY Racist?
Inexplicably there are people out there that actually believe that these cartoons are racist. Say what?
Sure, your eye is immediately drawn to the centre of the picture where an overweight man with exaggerated Polynesian features (with his cap turned backwards, the international symbol for low-class degenerates, I've seen Police 10-7), crows about getting handouts (taxpayer handouts!) so he can spend extra money on lotto, booze, smokes and rabid attack dogs, BUT if you stare really closely, and take the time, you can definitely make out some possible gingers (probably the drunken Irish) and they're kind of white, meaning this could not POSSIBLY be racist.
There is also a couple of slim people depicted off to the side, so not size-ist, and it couldn't possible be class-ist because that dog looks like it could be a pure breed. Is inferring that people who find themselves needing help do so because they're low-life shitty parents and we should be repulsed by them really such a bad thing?
So there. Context people, you can't take something as just stand-alone.
Plus it adds to the rich cartoon history of 'telling it like it is':
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Customs Minister Maurice Williamson Extremely Worried, Covered in Fear Pee
Customs Minister Maurice Williamson says he is extremely worried about what laser guns will do to border security with staff being completely outgunned by anyone attempting to illegally cross our borders to get into New Zealand. More worrying is that New Zealanders will be able to escape to Australia in even greater numbers.
Mr Williamson says the lasers can be bought through Trademe or through rogue Eastern European countries.
He says household lasers will soon be able to produce increasingly stronger beams of energy, and the country's borders are extremely vulnerable.
"If people could produce death beams at will that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense."
Mr Williamson says that ray guns within homes will become as common as hairdryers and he has asked his officials to think hard about how to keep up with this kind of technology. There was also the concern that jet packs will lead to a loss of revenue for airlines and make it harder to control the flow of travel.
"After watching a Terminator marathon over the weekend I'm also extremely worried about how our border security will deal once the machines have risen up. I'm currently asking that border staff switch off electronics at the wall before going home at night, just in case.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/132626/3d-printers-a-border-security-threat-minister
Mr Williamson says the lasers can be bought through Trademe or through rogue Eastern European countries.
He says household lasers will soon be able to produce increasingly stronger beams of energy, and the country's borders are extremely vulnerable.
"If people could produce death beams at will that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense."
Mr Williamson says that ray guns within homes will become as common as hairdryers and he has asked his officials to think hard about how to keep up with this kind of technology. There was also the concern that jet packs will lead to a loss of revenue for airlines and make it harder to control the flow of travel.
"After watching a Terminator marathon over the weekend I'm also extremely worried about how our border security will deal once the machines have risen up. I'm currently asking that border staff switch off electronics at the wall before going home at night, just in case.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/132626/3d-printers-a-border-security-threat-minister
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
2013 Knucklehead Awards - Television Edition
The 2013 New Zealand Knucklehead Award winners have been leaked already, only four months into the year. We're pretty relaxed around these parts and as leaky as a geriatrics knickers after a coughing fit.
The Winners Are:
Whether it's Solid Energy, Novopay or creepy guys foisting death cars on the poor, the plucky reporters have run around and got Facts and Truth and snazzy graphics for their Fact Truth Diagrams. The rest of the media has been throwing praise at the show and / or stealing their story ideas to run with, so considering it's a five times a week 20 minute show (discounting ads - must buy more cars) it's having a huge impact.
Well done Campbell Live, you're a winner to me, and also to this fake awards showing that I'm pretending is happening.
Campbell Live comes to you every weeknight on TV3 at 7.30pm. Past stories can be found here: http://www.3news.co.nz/TVShows/CampbellLive/CampbellArchive.aspx
The report on the Tongan ferry disaster gets a second award just for being so awesome. It starts off slow, builds, offers a twist, another twist, BOOM it uncovers that this goes All The Way to The Top. Matt Damon to star, Ben Affleck directing.
Native Affairs screens on Maori Television at 8.30pm on Mondays. Previous episodes can be found here: http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/new-zealand-government-ignores-maritime-dangers-tonga
Josie Barbosa takes information, loads it into the fun spoon, and flies it into your brain before you realise that learning just happened. Russell Brown wrangles a panel of commentators and information is exchanged with minimum of blood shed or set design. All-in-all it's well worth the watch.
Media 3 plays on Wednesdays at 11pm (I told you!). Previous episodes can be found here: http://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/Media3.aspxhttp://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/Media3.aspx
***
If you have Sky I can't recommend BBC Knowledge or BBC News enough. Wait, I can, because there's probably restraining orders and I'll need to stop to eat and sleep. Fantastic shows in particular are Intelligence Square Debate which screens regularly on BBC News, and a must see series of shows called Why Poverty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 and A History of Racism: A History: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070xxl. Horizon and Hard Talk are also good watching.
***
Now that this pretend knucklehead awards show is over everyone can spend the rest of the day pretending to be drunk and secretly slagging off the competition. Did you see what they pretend wore? Hideous.
The Winners Are:
Campbell Live
It has live bits and a Campbell in it. I like a show that starts off all truthful. So far this year it has been taking stories and striking them with the Question Bat until they've flown out of the Answer Arena into the Public Domain Carpark. They've been uncovering a whole lot of stuff, is what I'm saying.Whether it's Solid Energy, Novopay or creepy guys foisting death cars on the poor, the plucky reporters have run around and got Facts and Truth and snazzy graphics for their Fact Truth Diagrams. The rest of the media has been throwing praise at the show and / or stealing their story ideas to run with, so considering it's a five times a week 20 minute show (discounting ads - must buy more cars) it's having a huge impact.
Well done Campbell Live, you're a winner to me, and also to this fake awards showing that I'm pretending is happening.
Campbell Live comes to you every weeknight on TV3 at 7.30pm. Past stories can be found here: http://www.3news.co.nz/TVShows/CampbellLive/CampbellArchive.aspx
Native Affairs
Only a couple of episodes in and already it's shown why it got a real media award last year. They're covering interesting stories and approaching them in a grown-up methodical manner. They also take the horrifying and shocking approach of having panelists on who disagree with each other but don't yell or talk over one another - what the?! Complicated issues are talked out, differing points looked at and nobody has to raise their voice, passive aggressively insult, or fling fecal matter at the other participants. It's almost like people care more about the issues than their own egos. Weird.The report on the Tongan ferry disaster gets a second award just for being so awesome. It starts off slow, builds, offers a twist, another twist, BOOM it uncovers that this goes All The Way to The Top. Matt Damon to star, Ben Affleck directing.
Native Affairs screens on Maori Television at 8.30pm on Mondays. Previous episodes can be found here: http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/new-zealand-government-ignores-maritime-dangers-tonga
Media 3
Since the gods hate me and took away the Daily Show from NZ Screens, this has been the closest thing as a replacement. I do love this show though, but I fear that after making me constantly listen to right-wing commentators this may be an abusive relationship. But no, listening to other points of view is what grown-ups should do, even if their ideas are a bunch of smelly poo-head fart-pants. So put on your big kid pants, and your dvd recorders, because it's on well past my bedtime.Josie Barbosa takes information, loads it into the fun spoon, and flies it into your brain before you realise that learning just happened. Russell Brown wrangles a panel of commentators and information is exchanged with minimum of blood shed or set design. All-in-all it's well worth the watch.
Media 3 plays on Wednesdays at 11pm (I told you!). Previous episodes can be found here: http://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/Media3.aspxhttp://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/Media3.aspx
***
If you have Sky I can't recommend BBC Knowledge or BBC News enough. Wait, I can, because there's probably restraining orders and I'll need to stop to eat and sleep. Fantastic shows in particular are Intelligence Square Debate which screens regularly on BBC News, and a must see series of shows called Why Poverty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 and A History of Racism: A History: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070xxl. Horizon and Hard Talk are also good watching.
***
Now that this pretend knucklehead awards show is over everyone can spend the rest of the day pretending to be drunk and secretly slagging off the competition. Did you see what they pretend wore? Hideous.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Conspiracy Theory! *Throws Cats*
Have you got your tin foil hats on? It's Conspiracy Time! Your favourite paranoid family show.
In July of last year there were reports that Serco, the private company that runs Mt Eden prison, was failing to meet targets and was reported with such apt headlines as Serco Fails to Meet Targets. They failed to meet 15 out of 37 to be exact. Bill English even fronted to media to defend Serco since they were under investigation in England for unsafe practices: Government Defends Prison Contractor.
Now Corrections have released, for the first time ever, a league table on prisons. This has been reported with such headings as:
Private Prison gets a ratings tick
Private Prison fairs well
Private Prison tends to ailing puppy, saves Christmas
Well, you get my drift.
The report, surely, takes the pillow of soothing and places it across the face of the nation. "Nothing to worry about in privatizing our prison system, sleeeeep." BUT, and this is when the tin foil should be reached for, there are some interesting issues with this report and this miraculous turn around where Tolley suggest that we can 'learn something from Serco'.
Looking at some of the angles media have taken with this you'd be justified in thinking that perhaps private is doing better than public. Well, that's not exactly true. Out of 17 prisons "six are exceeding their performance targets, eight are operating effectively and three are needing improvement" - their positions can also leap about on the table depending on whether any instances occur within that quarter reporting. This has just been a snapshot that shows Serco isn't completely sucking along with 14 other prisons. Voxy does a good write-up here.
The table was released with data collected from September 2012 and the year to last December and will be released quarterly after this. It should also be noted that:
Prisons with large numbers of remand, high and maximum security prisoners are treated differently from prisons with more low and minimum security prisoners, and their results are weighted so there’s an even playing field and performances can be compared.
Anne Tolley won't release the raw data. In fact she's told the NZ Herald that they'll have to go through the Official Information Act. The supposed point of releasing the prison league tables was to promote transparency, but on hearing this, and on hearing how the data has been massaged, this seems more like a public relations exercise in order to sell further privatisation down the road.
Are Serco and the Government in talks to take over managing more prisons? All I know is that I can always use extra tinfoil for the Sunday roast.
In July of last year there were reports that Serco, the private company that runs Mt Eden prison, was failing to meet targets and was reported with such apt headlines as Serco Fails to Meet Targets. They failed to meet 15 out of 37 to be exact. Bill English even fronted to media to defend Serco since they were under investigation in England for unsafe practices: Government Defends Prison Contractor.
Now Corrections have released, for the first time ever, a league table on prisons. This has been reported with such headings as:
Private Prison gets a ratings tick
Private Prison fairs well
Private Prison tends to ailing puppy, saves Christmas
Well, you get my drift.
The report, surely, takes the pillow of soothing and places it across the face of the nation. "Nothing to worry about in privatizing our prison system, sleeeeep." BUT, and this is when the tin foil should be reached for, there are some interesting issues with this report and this miraculous turn around where Tolley suggest that we can 'learn something from Serco'.
Looking at some of the angles media have taken with this you'd be justified in thinking that perhaps private is doing better than public. Well, that's not exactly true. Out of 17 prisons "six are exceeding their performance targets, eight are operating effectively and three are needing improvement" - their positions can also leap about on the table depending on whether any instances occur within that quarter reporting. This has just been a snapshot that shows Serco isn't completely sucking along with 14 other prisons. Voxy does a good write-up here.
The table was released with data collected from September 2012 and the year to last December and will be released quarterly after this. It should also be noted that:
Prisons with large numbers of remand, high and maximum security prisoners are treated differently from prisons with more low and minimum security prisoners, and their results are weighted so there’s an even playing field and performances can be compared.
Anne Tolley won't release the raw data. In fact she's told the NZ Herald that they'll have to go through the Official Information Act. The supposed point of releasing the prison league tables was to promote transparency, but on hearing this, and on hearing how the data has been massaged, this seems more like a public relations exercise in order to sell further privatisation down the road.
Are Serco and the Government in talks to take over managing more prisons? All I know is that I can always use extra tinfoil for the Sunday roast.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Review of 3rd Degree
Mate, this is going to make headlines!
Mate, we're going to get flak for this!
I don't care! I aggressively hand gesture to this effect.
But mate, we could end up hunted, on the run, our names besmirchedand our
past buried, forced on the lam with only a handkerchief and a stick for our
belongings.
No mate, the citizens of this country demand the hard answers. I am now aggressively
brandishing this pen.
Mate!
No! You, mate!
*camera pans to a fireplace, fade to black*
So it's with high expectations that I tune in for the first ever episode of
3rd Degree. This is the current affairs show that is promising the hard
questions and soft homoeroticism. These are journalists armed with tenacity,
pens, and scalding water ready to be flung at their guests.
So what stories are being covered on this nail biting, hard hitting show?
1. Taranaki's public enemy number one! Is it poverty? ? Is it the DVD
starring Johnny Depp of the same name which has been number one in the Taranaki movie
charts for the past 14 years?
No. It's a guy who clamps cars.
There's covert filming. In black and white. A pensioner gets angry. This is
serious shit, yo. OLD LADY SPIT!
2. Anna Guy. She's moving on in the world. I think Women's Day did this
already. Anna Guy, in her own words. Apparently there were still some left.
3. Wait, there's no three, four or five?! You're going straight to the car
clamping story? That's it? There better be some hard god damn answers coming up
from some very softball questions being tossed around...
Parking fines, they suck, but clamping cars that's a horrible job, amirite?
Duncan's down with the working class. This guy clamps and he clamps and he
clamps and this is full-on - Guyon leans into camera in a full-on fashion so you know it is.
Hidden camera and old lady is back with her handbag of hate and her saliva
of evil. There are other bits of jostling footage and newspaper clippings pile
up.
There's a showdown happening folks, except without the guns or anything
vaguely interesting. Arrests, corruption, wait...New Plymouth? I thought they
said Taranaki. It's outside Auckland, who cares. High School Geography only
told me about volcanic rocks and tourism in Northland. People don't like the
car clamper, including the police apparently. He winds the window up on them
and has a 'tone'. If I was a cop I'd lob in a can of pepper spray, maybe a
light bit of genital tazing. My instant reaction is the car clamper guy is incredibly unlikeable which means that I'm automatically on the wrong side of this story.
The car clamper guy covers himself in cameras; I hope he doesn't teach in a
NZ High School. The same old lady footage is shown again, a man says that he'll
do everything he can to put car clamper out of car clamping business, Mr Clampy is arrested by police where
it sounds like he's resisting, so that's a very quick clip. The Police, the
newspaper, the majority of the city, all out to get him, so he should probably
join the 3 Degrees staff witness protection programme. It goes all the way up
to the Mayor, dude.
The Major thinks it's because it's the guy’s demeanour, which is fancy
politics talk for he's a twat. Melanie is getting to the bottom of this: the
hard questions. Is the wheel clamper guy a twat? He says no. Well then, that's that.
We find out his background. Is his background twatish? He has a baby, guys. A
baby. Would a twat have a baby?
He has a 'clamping career'? Pretty sure that a guidance counsellor wouldn't
recommend it. He's shown with his Nurse wife and his adorable baby. Are you
going to call that adorable babies dad a twat?! Melanie Reid says: no.
The clamper guy clamps the daughter of a policeman’s car. Dude, that
policeman had contacts. With the rest of the police force, the newspaper, the
majority of the city. And the Mayor? That was the daughter! It wasn't, but you
know the Mayor is involved in this giant conspiracy on a scale this country has never seen
before.
I blank out. Next minute the footage of the elderly woman is back again. Is
she his only customer? There's hours of footage apparently, why the same clip
played over and over again.
I'm going to level with you, I have lost interest. Where's an expert legal
opinion on this? They say that the police don't know the legal position on
this, well thanks to this show neither do I. This is a Fair Go episode for
business owners. Oh, wait, a government enquiry is underway - what does that
even mean?
Question: car clamping is about making sure people can't drive off and use their cars, which makes sense if someone has outstanding traffic fines. But isn't the point of parking restrictions so that car parks are kept free for use by the right people - wouldn't a tow truck then make much more sense? Why haven't the owners of the properties be questioned on this, and also whether he has their permission or not - seems a bit of an oversight.
After the break the Mayor gets a grilling. A third degree grilling. Jesus,
now I have to tune back in, Garner and Espinor are going to cook a human being
on air. The ratings war is a harsh bitch.
Melanie says no in the promo for the next part and has a pen in her hand. She means business.
Ad break. Must buy things.
The elderly spitting lady is back. I think this is a publicity for a new TV3
show that she'll be staring in. Ffwd.
Wait, letter by wheel clampers lawyer says that he believes that the
interpretation by the police was incorrect under the new regime. Does
this mean that there could have been confusion due to new legislation? What's
the new legislation? I shouldn't ask questions I might get the spitting women
foisted on me again as a distraction.
"We've had many complaints about Mr Clampy" "No..."
Shouldn't the follow up been, well let’s see them then? Shouldn't there be a
record? Or would that muddy the black and white waters of a town that's in cahoots?
At this point they should have brought the baby back out because I'm done
with this story.
OH PLEASE! Did Guyon Espinor really just stay that the cops 'effectively said' that if he's
getting beaten up or murdered by an elderly woman swinging a handbag that the
police will stand around laughing mockingly and not offer any assistance? I
think there needs to be an investigation, he says sternly, hands on pocket.
Like me he must have blanked out as well and so forgot the bit in the story
where it says that there is an investigation going on which is why the police
couldn't comment.
A complete change of space - more fluff. Anna Guy story after the break.
She's trying to put tragedy behind her by moving on. I wonder how many more
stories can possibly be spun out of that.
Honest to god, I was going to stick it out and watch the whole thing, but
two seconds into this I realise that unlike the media machine of NZ I have in
fact put the tragedy behind myself and have moved on, and I really can't be
arsed sitting through a twenty minute human interest story on something that
holds no interest for me. But best of luck to her.
ffwd
MATE! Maaaaate! The Dudes embrace.
ffwd
Now that we've finished airing a piece about her moving on from tragedy, let’s
get her into the studio and ask her if her husband killed her brother.
Sensitive. HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR BROTHER FELT AS YOUR HUSBAND CAME AT HIM? I
don't know if they actually asked that, I was still ffwding.
I was thanked for watching. I don't think the thanks was warranted.
Okay, if this is a sign of things to come, nobody is allowed any more pens.
This is not pen waving and biting material. Bring me that instead. Ask the hard
questions on issues that will in fact make headlines, though granted a farting
monkey wearing a suit and juggling a kitten would make front page news in this
country. Aim higher, is what I'm saying. And then you can make serious faces
and yell Mate at each other and have a pen for each hand and I will love you
for delivering what you promised in the promos in the first place.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)