saturday night at the movies

peanuts, candyfloss popcorn...

New Zealand and the talent for stupidity

ignorance is bliss...
every time!

CIS Special.. who loves ya baby?

Bang Bang

51 things I didnt know about marilyn monroe

rag banner has teaser, 50 things you didnt know about Marilyn Monroe.

Well one thing I know is that whoever runs the Teeveee into New Zealand has not shown A Marilyn Monroe movie in living memory so why are pushing all this crap onto us in the press?

What the fuck is wrong with the world when they can plaster all sorts of nonsense over the rag but never actually show one of her movies?

And an op-ed piece on Beach Volley Ball.

I can just see the editor yelling print it with glee as he knows full well that a couple of bountiful babes with boobs hanging out will sell more papers.

EeeeeeeeeeevengPooooooooooooost....

Karl over there with his funny old hair does his usual diatribe against te reo this am.

Well back in the day tory party nabob Barry Gustafson showed that in NY kids who were force fed spanish and english turned out to be not much good at either.

However that is not a good reason for dumping on Maori TV.

They have a good news service, first class current affairs and Rugby League from Great Britain.

In toto their programming shows up all the other channels and TVNZ could learn something from them.

Their Satanic Majesties Request arrived in the post this morning,

From The MusicShop780 in Argentina of all places.

Thanks guys and I will give you the 5stars on Amazon when I finish this.

The Dompost must have taken a backwards pill this morning.

Columnist Richard Long calls Mitt Romney, "Mitt the Twit"  and calls JOhn Banks to account  when his own party will not discipline him.

?????

and the PM has run off to Samoa for a week so all the ordeur can dissipate.

Tuesday night on Teevee is NCIS and Hawaii 50. Otherwise it is just the usual rubbish. How many cooking shows can teevee show before the 25% of obese people in NZ is ratcheted up to 50%. A news item on the radio yesterday said we are the fattest people in the world.
Yup.
World Class fat people.
Here,have a strawberry milkshake  to go with that hot pie and do you want chips to go with that?
Checking my stats and the biggest audience is in the former U.S.S.R.
Must be all the pictures of MIGs.
Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau.

a wop bop a loop bop a lop bam boom...or what happened to the music

What happened to the music?

The melodies have become trite and trivial and the changes have become non-existent and the the loud button has been pushed to 11.

In short we have been sold a bill of goods.

can you imagine anything s complicated as Friday On MY Mind,or Afterglow or Uncle Johns Bnad making the charts now.

Its all been dumbed down for dumbasses.

Just look at the bands who appear daily on the Late Show with David Letterman.

I say look beacuse there is nothing to listen to.

They all sound the same and they cant play!

How many of them have so caught your imagination so that you had to race out and buy their offering.

I say offering because they are like infants who have done their first crap in the potty and now they are busy running around seeking approval for exercising their bowel function.

What really irks me is that I personally want to believe that there is something new and groovy just around the corner but the reality is that music doesn't mater any more.

Its the look that counts and how many units you can sell before the next one comes along.

If this is twenty first civilisation then thee is something radically wrong with it.

Pseudo Science

For readers outside new zealand there was a case in the 1990's where a man Peter Ellis was convicted of a whole series of nonsense charges and sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment.

The evidence against him was connected to a book on repressed memories, satanic rituals, and multiple pesonality gibberish and speculations.

all this was nonsense and the worst thing about all this is that there was no one in New Zealand prepared to come forward and say so.

Congratulations to Ellis who would not accept parole and retained his right to seek a pardon.

Today in the dompost , columnist Bob Brockie rightly calls this whole thing pseudo science.

However I suspect Brockie of being a Popperist and anti Psychoanalysis on the basis of the weasel  Karl Poppers logic.

Popper was a little grub who arrived in Vienna in the 1920's and was rebuffed by the Vienna Circle because he wanted to discuss interesting questions instead of  recent scientific discoveries in physics and psychology.

Popper went off and schemed and plotted till he worked out a system to dismiss science and psychcoanalysis to boot.

He Karl Popper was above having his psyche analysed.

He was a perfect specimen.

Anyone who has followed Poppers career will realise that he was anti science and a narrow little man whose main interest in life was getting even with those who had rubbished him.

Hardly a basis for rational discussion and in his last interview he skited about how he had put a spanner in the works.

Even today pure science ties itself up in knots when it comes to cutting the gordian knot with which Popper created to confound and annoy the people who were really doing stuff instead of just talking about it.

Education.

At the moment my mind wont come up with the word for education that means the student is given the tools to work it out for themself.

Heuristic?

Wikpedia is full of post modern blab and the old stuff has gone out the window. I mention this because even though I cant find the word it is still the basis of education in New Zealand.

When I was at school the teacher read to the class but later on in adult life I was a mmeber of a group with a common book and the process was that everyone was allowed a chance to read from the book and hey presto everyone DID want to read.

It makes you thunk.

dont it.

Barack Obama

Nice op-ed piece in todays rag about Fleet Street grilling the Mitt in London in a manner that is foreign to the USA.

It seems like the press in the USA cant ask the direct question but hides everything in a plethora of nonsense that doesn't mean anything.

I dont know if you can put the heat on the press in the US at this stage of the electoral cycle but it seems that the next Democrat is going to have take a new tack entirely if  the inanity is to cease.