Another Quick Round of Good vs Evil

The Chaser’s War on Everything = Good
I love it when people who deserve to have TV shows actually get them. The first episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything was on last night for all you slackers (and people from exotic overseas locations) who missed it.

New shows usually take a while to get going, and in my crap-at-reviews-so-why-the-hell-am-I-doing-something-dangerously-close-to-being-one opinion, it was a bloody good start. If you were going to compare it to other Australian comedy shows over the past couple of years… DON’T! Because then you would have to watch The B Team, and nothing is worth that.

You can probably bring it down to the fact that The Chaser folk have brains that work, they have been comedy-ing together for some years now, and there are lots of them. They is knowin’ what they is doin’ y’all. Yeeharrrrrrrrr!

Plus you’ve got to be pretty committed to a joke to put sausages down your pants and walk through a large group of cops with drug sniffer dogs…

Dirty Tricks in Multiple Choice Questions = Evil
For example:

1. The thing that is not the thing of this thing could not be said to not be:

a) that thing that is not the other thing
b) the other thing to the left of the thing under the first thing
c) this thing that is opposite to the other thing’s antonym
d) all or none or not the other of the above

Clearly the highest priority for the sick twisted edumacators who write this type of question is to weed out the people who are too impatient to sit there and read the damn things properly. They are clearly all perverts. Yep.

Ok, so perhaps that’s a teeny tiny exaggeration… (I’ll have to think about that.) The ones I’m cranky about are in a textbook as self-testing questions to help you with your learning. They are about as helpful as… my stunted brain when I’m trying to come up with a cool analogy.

Canadians Aussies winning stuff = Good
Did you see? An Australian got a gold medal at the winter Olympics. How super cool, with our lack of snow and stuff… A lot of people I know are going with the “he was born, raised, trained, etc, in Canada and only just moved here so he’s not really Australian” argument.

I think that argument is tawdry triple tripe with a twist! (That’s a new ski jump that I invented.)

Hello! Migrant nation! To quote one of the few patriotic songs we have:

We are one, but we are many
and from all the lands on earth we come
we share a dream, and sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian

Were those little kiddies in the aeroplane ad singing for nothing? Should we just tromp all over the legacy of the Aussiest bloke of all in our Canadian ski boots?


That is a man that can dance!

So yes, the mogul winning mogul is all ours now! (But if New Zealand ever wants Russel Crowe back they are quite welcome to him)

Technologically collapsing = Evil
The blogger gremlins (or possibly the ghost of Buddy Holly) have stopped me from posting new stuff in here a couple of times this week. I also had problems just trying to read other people’s lovely blogs.

*sniff*

I’ve missed you good blogging people…

Technologically rising like a phoenix from the ashes = Good
The fact that you are reading this (aw, how nice are you?) shows that I am ba-aaack!

The Goodies win again!