Posts by giovanni tiso
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So, bugger the old folks in rest homes, the unemployed, shift workers etc?
Oh, come on, as if old folks, the unemployed and shift workers needed soap operas that have been going on since 1975 in order to retain their will to live. Isn't that in fact the stereotype that your correspondent is trying to dispel in her critique of the Close Up piece? We have busy lives, we don't need this, but excuse me while I enlist the help of the Opposition Spokesperson on Broadcasting to prevent a show I like from being cancelled.
I'm all for fiction and drama being part of what a public service broadcaster should provide. But I hope it doesn't mean that we are locked into showing Days of Our Lives until the end of time.
Also, have you considered that perhaps the audience measurements are correct? It seems to me that there wouldn't be any more tapers of these shows than of the average of other shows, given the older and less time constrained audience that is being explicitly suggested.
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But hey, it might be a human rights issue. Somebody page Graeme. You could also try to raise awereness here.
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The stigma that soap opera watchers supposedly suffer from is not a cause that I'm going to spend an undue amount of energy about. Sorry.
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But I fear we may not be hearing too much more of Garth.
Something good to come out of global warming, then?
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Let's do it. It'll probably be less trouble than us all meeting in Wellington at this stage.
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Ah, yes, thanks for that Ben.
I didn't catch the first third or so of the thread so apology if the Niels Bohr anecdote has been brought up already. Here it is, as told by Slavoj Zizek just yesterday on Democracy Now! :
You know Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, quantum physics guy. You know, once he was visited in his country house by a friend who saw above the entrance a horseshoe, you know, in Europe, the superstitious item allegedly preventing evil spirits to enter the house. And the friend, also a scientist, asked him, “But listen, do you really believe in this?” Niels Bohr said, “Of course not. I’m not an idiot. I’m a scientist.” Then the friend asked him, “But why do you have it there?” You know what Niels Borh answered? He said, “I don’t believe in it, but I have it there, horseshoe, because I was told that it works even if you don’t believe in it.”
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Watch for Argentina selecting a reasonably sane group and winning the cup on the back of Maradona telling Messi and co. to do whatever the hell they want.
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So interesting, in fact, that I think I'll write a book abou...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZ
No, no, it *is* interesting hear me out. True, it may be illegal to bodycheck a goalie in ice hockey, but they get regularly crashed into and must be super tough. That women should (if only formally) be allowed to fill that role is noteworthy, given the overall politics of gender segregation in sports.
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On the note of females not being allowed to play men at football. Ice hockey only allows this if the female plays in goal, womens ice hockey being non-checking.
That's really interesting.
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to ladies on omnibuses
I believe it's omnibusii.