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Soo, anyone see watch Campbell Live tonight? That Gordan Ramsey eh... What a prat.
Steve: My sympathy for the delicate sensibilities of Australian autocue readers is non-existent. Sure, he was a cock but it was really worth the Mosaic wratch of the Rudster? Fuck off.
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BTW -22 degrees Celsius and a clear blue day.
Hell, I envy that weather too! It was fourteen in Sydney today; I'm sure it's been colder, but I can't recall when (recently). Nice place Noosa. I recall it has the most popular state/federal reserve is that correct?
Apropos nothing in particular, I've finally found some time to quickly review NZ news and blogs, it's all got rather unpleasant hasn't it? (there's probably a thread for this rhetorical question).
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Apropos nothing in particular, I've finally found some time to quickly review NZ news and blogs, it's all got rather unpleasant hasn't it?
Weather-wise? I find the cold rather bracing when its dry, otherwise its not much fun. If you're talking about Richard Worth (who's apparently been downgraded from a Scandal to an Affair), well... I really think the folks who "outed" Neelam Choudary should be feeling ashamed of themselves but won't. I expect the usual spectacularly self-serving 'public interest' excuses to be trotted out.
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Sure, he was a cock
And Julia Gillard was fantastic, telling stoneage rudeboy to fsck off back to the kitchen.
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And Julia Gillard was fantastic, telling stoneage rudeboy to fsck off back to the kitchen.
He certainly should piss off to the kitchen and cook me some eggs, because the Aussie media-political complex can trash women without any help from some Pommy shirt-lifter.
Still I thought the crack about "We've all seen how Gordon Ramsay treats his wife" was not only out of line, but a wee bit hypocritical and very dangerous coming from someone whose colleagues might not stand up to much scrutiny in that department.
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C'mon, it was a fantastic putdown.
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And to put Tracy Grimshaw's comment in context, the Campbell Live story has what seems to be her entire couple of minutes of response. Judge for yourself.
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C'mon, it was a fantastic putdown.
Excuse me? Gordon Ramsey's a jerk, but I don't see the point of getting down to his level. Gillard herself certainly sees nothing "fantastic" about her own partner being used as an offensive weapon by political opponents, so you might think she'd avoid cracks about Ramsey's marriage.
I don't expect much from the irony-deficient media moralists of Australia and Britain, but Gillard's got a bit more class.
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In other news, we have achieved word one million.
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Nice use of 'dickish', don't hear that a lot. For future reference, I thought the method in which you got me to stop posting was pretty effective Russell; at least more hush hush and diplomatic. Respect.
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Craig, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's comment was about staying in the kitchen. Dry.
You're thinking of Tracy Grimshaw's statement I linked to above that mentioned Ramsay's wife and is extremely clear about the context around that.
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I recall it has the most popular state/federal reserve is that correct?
It is much loved and its popularity means the place has always walked on the edge of being loved to death.
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i did not quite expect to be the one this time who shouts 'oi, off topic' but here are words methinks to get us back on some kind of (t)rack
That doesn't have the same ring to it at all. So perhaps it's best to stick with absolutes after all. Which brings us to Roman Catholicism, with its absolute authority and absolute Catechism. At this point, the religious politicians will customarily chime in: Roman Catholics have opposed abortion even for child victims of rape and have run institutions where the vilest abuses have been perpetrated on children. So how can catholic teaching remotely be taken seriously?I don't have a ready answer to that, save to say that all humanity is fallible, even Mr Tiller and his murderers. But that is no reason to bin absolutes of faith, simply because people fail to live by them. Otherwise we're binning the absolute that is God - and because humanity is capable both of killing babies that would have survived outside the womb and of killing a doctor who, in apparent good faith, performed such procedures, it seems that such aspirational absolutes may not be a bad thing. Indeed, such moral absolutes might be vital if we are not to descend into an OK Corral between the pro-life and pro-choice movements.
which is why complacenta is of the opinion that 'tis the existence (!) of Roe vs. Wade itself that has made the thing, frames the thing, as non-negotiable, homogeneously disposed and therefore only capable of violently seizing upon those resisting the feel of genuinely self-righteous forceps (MY metaphorical action there)
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(and plz, plz never forget, o chomping-down chilluns, that the relativization of the absolute cannot really be elsewise than the absolutization of the relative - lv frm yr fiendishish frnd, Nanny McPhee)
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You're quite right -- bloody media report I was working off didn't have the attribution quite clear. (Also, is there any reason why TV3's media player doesn't work for me?)
Anyway, I'm not sure there's any 'context' that would justify a crack like that. When you're "outraged" about personal attacks, you might want to stay on that moral high ground.
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I won't try to represent the whole TV3 piece, and I hope you sort out their player at some stage, Craig.
The key point that Grimshaw made very calmly was that Ramsay and his handlers had insisted on her not discussing his recent well publicised infidelity, which she went along with. He then saw fit to dump on her very personally and without the slightest provocation.
So hypocrisy was a big part of the picture, as was Ramsay's general attitude about women which underlay both his infidelity and his treatment of Grimshaw. She said in that piece that she had considered saying nothing (and sticking to that "high ground" I guess) but realised that bullies need to be challenged or they keep behaving that way - so that's what she did, evenly and firmly. In an Australia that has hardly been a beacon of gender equity, that's likely to make quite an impact. Grimshaw only enhanced her mana, in my eyes.
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"..only enhanced her mana"?
will someone here plz unpack for me that very odd description? -
will someone here plz unpack for me that very odd description?
I doubt it. Why would they bother?
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Quite. Not enough mana.
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Mr Ramsay has made a public -onscreen- apology to Ms Grimshaw.
Sorry I havent learned to embed things yet, but it's on the Oz news-sites -
She said in that piece that she had considered saying nothing (and sticking to that "high ground" I guess) but realised that bullies need to be challenged or they keep behaving that way - so that's what she did, evenly and firmly. In an Australia that has hardly been a beacon of gender equity, that's likely to make quite an impact. Grimshaw only enhanced her mana, in my eyes.
Oh, Jesus... those two really deserve each other.
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Ramsay's mum told him to say sorry. Heh.
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do any of you chaps have *any idea at all* of how smug, closed-ranking, self-congratulatory and reeking of this dreadful unspo
ken 'mana' your blog does seem?have another wee snicker on me, why don't ya???
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Trolls who can't even use Wikipedia or Google are just pathetic, aren't they?
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