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tonight viewers would have seen and heard a TV1 newsreader use an interrogative in the item about a Beluga whale that purportedly talks.
At the end of the piece Peter Williams said, " it sounds like Homer Simpson, doesnt it."
Now he could have said, I think It sounds like Homer Simpson.
i.e. speak for himself.
But no he had to use an interrogative.
that is the New Zealand way.
Browbeating others either directly or indirectly to agree with the interlocutor.
Its rife everywhere.
no matter that interrogatives are dishonest, disrespectful and an invalid mode of argument.
Still everything is done wrong here.
Take smoking cessation.
the real deal is that you have to feel it (the pain) to heal it but no, the whole thing is wrapped up in browbeating and co-dependency and oprah style gifts if you obey.
the driving theory is that it is possible to repress the urge and it will go away.
not so.
hmmmmmmmm.
sorry to pick on you guys but you just aint doing it right.
The only thing not done wrong in NZ is safety in the national airline because if it weren't subject to international scrutiny it would just become another rough and ready kiwis can do anything job with all too predictable results.
anyway the point is this.
How can newsreaders or commentators on teevee deal with something like the lance armstrong cheating and dishonesty case if they are just as dishonest as he is?
You know people in NZ think they have a choice about everything and nowhere is this better illustrated than in the Piano movie.
The premise is that the protagonist has a choice whether to speak or not.
But mutism is a serious psychological disorder and not some ginmick for the movies.
Eveybody in NZ believes that if they say it is so then it is so.
At the end of the piece Peter Williams said, " it sounds like Homer Simpson, doesnt it."
Now he could have said, I think It sounds like Homer Simpson.
i.e. speak for himself.
But no he had to use an interrogative.
that is the New Zealand way.
Browbeating others either directly or indirectly to agree with the interlocutor.
Its rife everywhere.
no matter that interrogatives are dishonest, disrespectful and an invalid mode of argument.
Still everything is done wrong here.
Take smoking cessation.
the real deal is that you have to feel it (the pain) to heal it but no, the whole thing is wrapped up in browbeating and co-dependency and oprah style gifts if you obey.
the driving theory is that it is possible to repress the urge and it will go away.
not so.
hmmmmmmmm.
sorry to pick on you guys but you just aint doing it right.
The only thing not done wrong in NZ is safety in the national airline because if it weren't subject to international scrutiny it would just become another rough and ready kiwis can do anything job with all too predictable results.
anyway the point is this.
How can newsreaders or commentators on teevee deal with something like the lance armstrong cheating and dishonesty case if they are just as dishonest as he is?
You know people in NZ think they have a choice about everything and nowhere is this better illustrated than in the Piano movie.
The premise is that the protagonist has a choice whether to speak or not.
But mutism is a serious psychological disorder and not some ginmick for the movies.
Eveybody in NZ believes that if they say it is so then it is so.
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