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That depends on which church you belong to.
To be fair to Anne, she specified that you don't need to to join a church or religious group.
Also, Mortlock is a centre, he most certainly doesn't scrum down.
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It's a pity that it doesn?t seem to affect those ones that live bad lives.
Who knew that being evil would stop you from getting the flu?
Please excuse me while I find some old ladies to mug.
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Also, Mortlock is a centre, he most certainly doesn't scrum down.
I was going with 'scariest-looking Australian rugby player' though. Because it's an Eeeeeevil Scrum, you know?
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Who's that big Aussie rugby player?
Matt Dunning? The one with no neck?
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And if you do live a good life, ask the Lord for His Protection. Not God. The Lord.
Is there some power struggle going on Up Above that we need to be made aware of?
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To be fair to Anne, she specified that you don't need to to join a church or religious group
She's clearly deluded. Everyone knows you won't get to heaven unless you have a pastor/bishop who has a boat and drives a late model car.
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Maybe she means Auckland's new Lord Mayor?
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Snerk! Who's that big Aussie rugby player? Mortlock? He can be part of The Evil Scrum of this Earth.
Mortlock is the Evil Wizard Gargamel, Jed Thian says so.
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I was looking for the name of the guy with the rosy cheeks who used to throw in for England, who always to my mind looked like a naughty schoolboy?
But I found this:
Shock horror: £2 for a Rugby World Cup match in Invercargill -
When I beheld Anne's masterpiece my first thought was that it was a parody written by a PA reader. But the Evil Scrum detail just puts her in a class of her own.
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Which I think is something that needs to be fully tested on some really stupid TV show.
Call Paul Henry!
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I'm sure there's a reality TV show in this swine flu. I'm picturing a tropical island, two teams of Z-list celebrities, and a lethal virus. The teams battle it out to infect each other, and each week the person with the most points gets the Tamiflu.
Two words: Ratings. Winner.
Greatly improved if the lethal virus is not actually affected at all by Tamiflu. Ebola would do it.
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for the evil scrum, that is
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Oh yes! He's a definite candidate for the Evil Scrum.
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Who was the French player who scored the winning try against the ABs in the 2007 WC? He must be a contender for the Devil Incarnate, badness through and through.
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Who was the French player who scored the winning try against the ABs in the 2007 WC? He must be a contender for the Devil Incarnate, badness through and through.
I dunno if that was Sebastien Chabal, but if anyone's playing for Team Evil it's him.
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You're way ahead of me, Emma. (I was wrong, he didn't score the winning try at all).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3404622842780097822 -
I think you mean Yannick Jauzion. But it was Damien Traille who threw the forward pass to Michalak (who then found Traille for the try). But that's irrelevant, it's the administrators who appointed the referee that should be at the bottom of the evil scrum...
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Oh thanks for those reminders Carol, you got any footage of the under-arm ball :-)'
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Chabal is cool.
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The Guardian's Simon Jenkins has a slightly different take on all this panic.
A couple from Airdrie who caught the flu on holiday in Cancun are getting better. That tends to happen to people who get flu, however much it may disappoint editors.
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There is officially nothing that irritates me more than the idea that this is a media beat up. It isn't. The WHO for one is not in the business of spreading panic in order to help newspaper sales.
Bloody hell.
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That tends to happen to people who get flu, however much it may disappoint editors.
Well put. It reminds me of Editing The Herald, where it was suggested that one story could have had the headline "Boy coughs. Gets better".
There is officially nothing that irritates me more than the idea that this is a media beat up. It isn't. The WHO for one is not in the business of spreading panic in order to help newspaper sales.
True, and I think that Poneke's take on this is ridiculous to the point of being dangerous. People are getting sick and people are dying, and even if we only know for sure of 9 lab-confirmed deaths, a new virus which can be transimtted between humans is cause for serious concern. On the other hand, this has been the catalyst for some eye-wateringly contentless blather in the media.
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What I followed in NZ (bearing in mind I wouldn't be caught dead watching the news on TV) has been pretty good, actually, in the circumstances. But I think the Goldacre article quoted upthread has it exactly right - you always get vaudeville in the media, even for entirely genuine stories.
The US coverage looks fairly insane, judging it from the Daily Show excerpts. But then they have 24 hour news - the kind of environment where journalist felt they had to sex up even the election of the first African American president through fake holograms.
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