Posts by giovanni tiso
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to 3410,
I thought we were harshing their buzz and they were buzzing our harsh.
The thick plotens.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Danielle,
I’m ABSOLUTELY not telling you how you should feel
Other than implying that the joylessness is something we bring to this thing ourselves, you mean? Not for nothing, I've been peeling my daughter off the school's pavement after two consecutive 11-week terms. People who complain that their harsh is being buzzed don't get a lot of sympathy from me.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Danielle,
Of course you’re free to proclaim how uninterested you are and how terrible it all is in every other post.
Since you've included me in that, I don't think I've ever said a word about the cup on PAS except to react to the relentless (word of the week) complaint by Hadyn and Russell that people should stop being grumpy about it. People have a right and cause to be excited, just as other people have a right and cause to be grumpy. Stop telling us how we should bloody feel about this thing we're paying for and is not insignificantly rearranging our lives.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well, no. The embarrassing Abstain campaign isn’t marketing for the tournament, it’s for a telephone company which isn’t a stranger to marketing balls-ups.
The Sky campaign is for a broadcaster, one of four offering coverage.
Oh come on now. Their campaign is everywhere. I've seen a Maori TV poster once. And I don't much care about who's an official sponsor or who's "the tournament". My point is that two major campaigns thus far have plugged into this idea that the cup is something that we must, as opposite to will, enjoy. I don't think it's a coincidence, or an irrelevancy.
(And, really, it's going to "open with fireworks"? What a world we live in!)
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m not entirely convinced that the “Tories” are that clever, TBH.
On which count? Because the bit you quoted is bipartisan – Labour and National have both bought into the idea that we should use interest rates to guarantee a quota of unemployment and control wage inflation and inflation more generally. This is not up for debate or a matter of opinion – it’s our rolling agreement with the Reserve Bank.
The Tory bit was the idea that beneficiaries should be forced to accept jobs that are offered to them. Coupled with pushing more people on the unemployment benefit (the disabled, women on the DPB) this is going to create a glut of, how shall I put this, highly motivated jobseekers going after a limited pool of low-wage jobs and of course it’s going to further limit the workers’ ability to improve their conditions and thus it will help keep wage inflation down. You’re not giving the government or its advisors in the various ministries much credit if you are suggesting that this has somehow not occurred to them.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
But there’s millions of people who can clean a toilet in this country.
Whether they will be persuaded to do it or not is the issue. You know the line about immigrants “doing the jobs that we don’t want to do”? There is some truth in that. Which is why the Tories want to make it compulsory for the unemployed to accept job offers in order to stay on the benefit. But more importantly, it is also why a guaranteed pool of unemployed people keeps the cost of labour down.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
Because “they” are not very good at marketing?
Another way of looking at it is that the tournament is being marketed - for whatever reason, I don't want to get all Lacanian on your collective arses - as something utterly joyless. The only people who are promoting fun are those in the business of selling alcohol, but then they always do.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Chris Waugh,
It certainly does not seem like an intellectually stimulating job, but there is no reason to sneer at those who do it for a living.
Who's sneering?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
yeah, it is.
That's the thing, though, right: if the RWC is really going to be as much fun as we're relentlessly told it will be, why do they need to represent participation as either a form of military service or abstinence from sex?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
really, I don’t care but I’m sure there are plenty of folks out there who are (inexplicably) equally indifferent to the pending arrival of Torchwood: Miracle Day and the return of Doctor Who.
I have yet to see ads for those shows suggesting that it’s your moral duty to watch them. One I got in my inbox today concerning the RWC – a spin off from SKY’s abhorrent military-themed campaign – ended with the words “Do it now cupcake.” To which I mentally responded “fuck off, arsehole”. Must be my relentless negativity.