Sunday, October 9, 2011

Hello Australia

I got a rise out of the Ozzies last night.
The great continent was lit up pale green on the stats page for the first time ever.
IN truth I like Australia and I like Australians.
I mean I have even sat on the rock where Banjo Patterson sat down and wrote "The Man From Snowy River".
Hows that!
They just like to win too much.
Anyway the Aussies did win and handsomely.
Good on you boys but wait till you meet the AB's.
Got up early this morning and went for a nice walk.
Very pleasant and not too demanding.
Supposed to rain but ya never know.
I am sitting here waiting for 'from the left and right ' on 9-noon on RNZ at 11.
At least on this segment Kathryn Ryan cannot anticipate the answers and get the researchers to ferret them all out and tell the interveiwees what they are going to say can she?
She also keeps alluding to things when she means refer.
I think she thinks she is a john pilger manque and there is perjoration in everything.
The election is slowly evening out to a photo finish.
John Keys government has not had much luck and if any thing else happens before the election then they will be a bad luck government and the country will toss them out with no questions asked.




Nothing you can do about that.
Driving in New Zealand. According to the anthropologists there is no such thing as national character.
I care to disagree. When it comes to driving on the roads the whole country suffers from a collective case of SMIC. small mans inferiority complex.
Most Kiwis cant do very much except drive a vehicle of some description and they become an extension of the ego. so itsa get out of my fr*gging way whydoncha all. cant you see how important I am? I spent $? buyng this crate so I am worth the equivalent of 10,000 boxes of weetbix. Verbal skills aren't much better. After 30 years of the simpsons the nation has become a collection of slackass smartasses who think a oneliner is more important than actually thinking anything through.
Just listen to the kids.
CAtch them out in a lie and they squeal like stuck pigs. I never said that and anyway what are you going to do about it. Nothing. Nyahhhh nyahhh nyahhhh.
Last but not least the ruling national party are using the same billboards they used three years ago. "Building a better future". Well they had three years and it has got worse.
ya get that.
Bob Brockie who writes a science column in the dompost on Mondays is a dork.


Today he says that Sigmund Freud was not a scientist but merely a dreamer and a fantasist and moreover that it had been proved by logicians in the 1980's.

What a load of cods wallop Bob and you should know that.

What logicians and what proof?

Sigmund Freud has more for humanity than any number of logicians ever have. I suppose you mean Steven Pinker who was a linguist before he tried to become a philosopher and failed miserably even though he wrote books that had no meaning. Bob you stand convicted of reading and believing the commentators rather than the originator and ending up in the same position as the unbelievers you are trying to condemn. This is very slipshod work and places you in the category of those who don't want to believe in psychoanalysis because it means that your cherished individuality, motivations and thought is open to scrutiny and therefore in your own mind open to criticism. This is hardly the stuff of fearless scientific investigation but merely the frantic erection of barriers by a frightened little man.

Dig?

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