Category: My latest rant

Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.

Still paying the price for fraudulent report

Hypodermic needle, vaccination

Twenty-five years ago, a report written by a now-discredited academic and former physician was published, and we are still paying the price for his fraudulent claims. Sadly, even though Andrew Wakefield later admitted his claim that the measles, mumps and…

SeaWorld: Don’t support cruelty

  Just a wee reminder about why, if you’re ever in the United States, you shouldn’t spend any of your hard-earned cash at SeaWorld. And interestingly, in a weird pre-emptive letter SeaWorld’s lawyers sent to movie reviewers before the release…

RIP Paddles…and up yours, Gareth Morgan

Sometimes a news story brings out both the best and worst in Kiwis, and the sad news of the death of Paddles did just that, with kind words from many and an epic and ill-timed rant from Gareth “I Hate Cats” Morgan.

Great expectations

Christmas gifts, Xmas presents

  It seems that the are of receiving a gift has been lost in recent years, as we hear more and more often about people making crazy and often unreasonable demands for gift expectations. There was a time, when a…

Joe Rogan shows his lack of class, culture and clues

Joe Rogan

Spotify’s favourite cockwomble strikes again, this time having a crack at the haka specifically, but Māori culture in general. Joe Rogan (ex-TV host, professional conspiracy theorist, Covid denier and all-round irrelevant twat) took it upon himself to slam the New Zealand…

Hold the front page: entitled brats have a whinge

As a born-and-bred Southlander and a proud Invercargillite, I’m not sure if I’m most pissed off at the whinging couple from Hamilton who didn’t like their Air New Zealand Mystery Break, or at the idiotic, pandering media for giving them their five minutes of fame.

Tenants v landlords not always one sided

We keep hearing about bad landlords, but what about the bad tenants? In response to a report from Renters United detailing the perils of being a tenant, Stuff ran a story giving the other side of the story, because it’s…

Only one pig in this story …

Gareth "Moggy" Morgan

Gareth “Cat Killer” Morgan is at it again, showing us all how to win friends and influence people. And yes, that was sarcasm on my part. Our favourite tanty-throwing political wannabe has had a crack at Jacinda Ardern, comparing her…

How about we worry about the REAL issue

Over the past week or so there has been a good bit of whinging over the planned name of a new organisation that aims to help vulnerable children in this country. The old Child Youth and Family is being shut…