Posts by Hadyn Green
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20,000 leagues under the sea is dull dull dull
Agreed. Though I love me some HG Wells
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I'm only surprised they don't go the whole hog and use a handheld camera and lower grade visuals, for extra "authenticity".
TVNZ already do that with footage from overseas. It looks like they're with shooting a cellphone.
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Crusoe swims naked to the wreck then fills his pockets with biscuits
I thought everyone had those "secret pockets"
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I'm very pissed I missed Wall*E, but my vote for worst film is John Carpenter's Vampires. Why would you put your name on something that bad?
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Every news report about giant squid absolutely has to mention the 90cm pre-hensile penis thing.
Prehensile?!
Isn't it one of their arms that just happens to also have a sperm-shooter?
That Giant Squid at Kelly Tarlton's
Wait. What squid at Kelly Tarlton's? I just figured you meant the one at Te Papa
What is the point of crossing live to a reporter standing in front of a building, telling us what might or might not be going on inside that building, when exactly the same information could have been conveyed from the studio?
Oftentimes they are crossing "live" to a reporter in the newsroom.
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Lord of the Rings sucks ass.
Phew, that felt good.
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Naming scandals by adding -gate to the end of a related word
I long for the day when a politician is caught having sex against a farm gate, or taking bribes to relax standards relating to gated properties or soemthing, forcing the media to start writing stories about "Gategate".I was bitching about that the other day, and about how pleasant the "Winebox Enquiry" was because it wasn't "Moneygate" or something as ridiculous.
Reporters who say "Look!" when crossed-to live
"What's situation there [insert name of reporter on scene]?"
"Look Simon! the situation is this..."
Simon and the rest of us are not drunkards you are having an argument with down the pub. You don't need to tell us to "look" because, as it's TV, most of us already are looking. And we're looking at you Mark Sainsbury [main culprit]Sports presenters who make fun of the sports they don't like
If I hear Andrew Saville say that anyone who plays or watches baseball is a fat man who chews tobacco and touches his crotch a lot I'll... I don't know, write a blog post or something. -
Like the man at the Springbok test at the Caketin, who, when he heard a young girl screaming, asked loudly if there were a bunch of English rugby players around, and if there was, could they shut her up.
*Actually stunned*
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And that game that stops all the time and has too much whistle? Does NOT have breaks long enough to show a replay. I'd really like TVNZ to work that out.
I think that's because it doesn't really stop all the time and when it does the breaks are really short.
They should be like the professional wrestling (which I never watch myself) and have picture-in-picture replays
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It really is stupid. We're just going to wait until someone gets kicked in the head by the fullback, and then we'll ban them for 20 weeks, rather than just telling them not to do it now, and then backing it up with an ordinary penalty/penalty try if they do it.
Totally agree. Considering a head-high tackle will result in a ban of some kind (even if the person who received it wasn't hurt) because it's dangerous play.
"Well if it's a penalty that prevented a try being scored, shouldn't it be a penalty try?"
"Well, good point."I wasn't sure if they had penalty tries in league. Do they get to take the kick from in front of the sticks?