Posts by giovanni tiso
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glad to hear that job you spoke about came through </assumptions>
Until told otherwise, we'll have to assume it's an international secret agent-type thing. (Seriously, why the mystery.)
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I love the idea of you changing tact. I realise I do that a lot with the in-laws.
And of course you'll be sorely missed, like Tze Ming before you - PA has lost two very distinctive voices.
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I found it last night on my MySky schedule, too. So yay - it is there, and I can rewatch the season in perfect clarity.
Do you get close captioning on My Sky recordings? I could see myself rewatching the wire if it meant being able to flick the subtitles on at key times.
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How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?
I believe this is how.
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What Perigo, George et al. seem to be perfectly comfortable with, is this most disturbing notion that so long as you're wealthy enough, it's perfectly okay to escape serious criminal charges by throwing a big enough wad of money at your victim. That automatically gives you a right to privacy, and to the presumption that you won't do it again, sorry to have bothered you sir, we'll be on our way.
In an odd, very oblique way, it reminds me of the old immigration requirement that you should be fluent in English in order to be granted residence in New Zealand, unless you were willing to pay ten thousand bucks (or was it twenty?), in which case the state was prepared to take your word for it that you were as fluent as the late G.B. Shaw.
Veitch happens to be a celebrity, as opposed to an investment banker, so he'll have a price to pay even if this thing doesn't go to court. And that's not so bad. But it does make you wonder about all those other cases of domestic violence perpretrated by men of means, and it's a most uncomfortable thought.
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As an aside, isn't Broadcast News a great show (great cast particularly).
So was Sports Night, and it certainly made me realise that it would take considerable talent to host a SportsCenter-type show. But the freaking sports news segment on One News at Six? Give me a break. I'll stick to my guns: flash a smile, be personable, don't pick your nose on camera, learn to read off a prompter... you're done.
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I think Perigo's point wasn't so much that Veitch should be allowed to get away with the assault on account of his exceptional talent, but rather that we (the puny public) used this "vile and inexcusable episode" (although it's also "a one off" Perigo reassures us) to take Veitch down. Because he's a "tall, tall poppy". And we're sanctimonious, and even more vile and inexcusable than Veitch.
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I'm slagging the profession in the context of Perigo's quote about the extraordinary level of talent it takes. As for the idea that good television presenters aren't plentiful because it's harder than it looks... it seems to me there's always the exact same number at any one time, enough to fill the available slots. And honestly they all blend into the same presenter as far as I'm concerned. Their chief instruction seems to be "go and be reasurringly bland". But then I also confess to not watching the news on the telly much, and the two things might be related.
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it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Speaking of which, I'm going to punch on the side of the head the next person that, asked by me if they feel like a hot drink, replies "I'll have a coffee, but only if you're making one."
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It's like winning an award for driving to work, or getting the mail out of the letter box.
I'm with you there. Plus he won best TV sports presenter in a field of how many? three? I'm assuming their counting Prime here. And there's a winner a year, so presumably just showing up for two or three years in a row in the evening news gives you a pretty monumental statistical chance of nabbing one of these things.