Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
What is it with all the anti-news stories about lately? I thought news stories were meant to inform us, to educate and offer us fresh facts and opinions. I can sort of forgive “Words can ease pain, I swear” from the Sydney Morning Herald because I guess while most of us already knew dropping the […]
Ripped from the (old) headlines Read Post »
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 to vent a lot. That’s one of the benefits of having a blog: I can
I have a soapbox and I’m not afraid to use it Read Post »
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 their second warning); A South Islander call-centre worker had a good old nosey through the
In case of emergency … cross your fingers Read Post »
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 just nine days later raped a student in Dunedin. He has the sort of disgusting
What’s a life worth? Not as much as we thought Read Post »
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 and/or factitious” headline: his own … you know, the “heart attack or cold feet” emblazoned
Michael Jackson still in the headlines Read Post »
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 uniform instead of the more common skirts. But (cue Jaws-like menacing music) Netball Manawatu, administrators
The long and the short of it Read Post »
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 back when Trade Me offered up a preview of the site. Yes, there were threads
Trade Me launches new look, users launch tantrums Read Post »
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 and then carry on your merry way to work, infecting all and sundry with your
Swine flu: bad news and senseless ads Read Post »
