I know I’m not exactly one of the most politically correct people you could stumble across. And I can be a bit of a bitch sometimes. Oh, okay, a lot of the time. I’m also pretty opinionated and and tend…
I have a soapbox and I’m not afraid to use it
Category: My latest rant
Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
In case of emergency … cross your fingers
I see there’s another drama involving our not-always-efficient 111 emergency services phone system. This time, it’s come out that police 111 staff have been reprimanded for their failings: One Wellington staffer swore at and was rude to a caller (on…
What’s a life worth? Not as much as we thought
I’ve been quietly stewing for the past few hours about the news that convicted rapist and murder Liam Reid has had his sentence reduced on appeal. Reid is the loser who raped and murdered deaf Christchurch teenager Emma Agnew, then…
Michael Jackson still in the headlines
It was interesting to see Perez Hilton had a post on his blog yesterday covering some of the more “ridiculous and/or factitious headlines we’ve recently come across” relating to Michael Jackson’s death. However, he failed to mention the most “ridiculous…
The long and the short of it
Long trousers and shorts: they’ve both been in the news today for causing a bit of a stir. First up, it’s the shorts situation. It seems there’s a netball team in Palmerston North that has shorts as part of its…
Trade Me launches new look, users launch tantrums
Trade Me has officially launched its new look and you could say it’s the change that launched a thousand tantrums. From what I can see, it’s the same users who were chucking out the conspiracy theories a week or so…
Swine flu: bad news and senseless ads
Now that we’ve had our first swine flu-related deaths in New Zealand, perhaps it’s time the Coldrex TV ad was altered to make it clear that it isn’t okay to take a pill to relieve the symptoms of the flu…
Exit strategies
It was nice to see the Stuff dudes and dudettes put a “graphic photo” warning on the story about the guy who stabbed himself in the neck during his court appearance (especially after the distasteful Michael Jackson photos last week)…
Weekly vent: the Jetstar whingers
Jetstar is playing hardball with passengers who turn up late for check-in and the punters aren’t happy about it. Like most domestic flights, you have to be checked in half an hour before take-off time; international flight usually have a…
Perez Hilton: a day late and a dollar short
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) So what’s up with celebrity blogger and “I’’m currently having my 15 minutes of fame” wannabe celeb Perez Hilton? There was a time when I visited his site daily and…