Apparently it is not ok to call Welsh people sheep shaggers, some wags reckon it is racist, which is bollocks because everyone knows that name is reserved for Australians.
A man who was fined for racism after he branded Welsh people “sheep s******s” claims he was using a term for people living in the countryside. Read more »
My mother used to tick me off about my swearing, especially on the blog, even on the day before she died she was wagging her finger at me to tell me off for swearing.
Well possibly she was wrong…I actually may be more honest and trustworthy according to this graphic emailed to me via the tipline.
Discuss. Read more »
It doesn’t look like Seve Sharp is winning over their chosen demographic. Cactus Kate isn’t impressed:
Mau has zero comedic timing, she is a script reader, and a pretty good one but I get the feeling she would rather strangle cats and kick puppies down the road than share the stage with Boyed and Mulligan. She should never have agreed to the three-headed format and staying on the show will fuck up her career if the others do not disappear. I do not know why she agreed to do it with the blokes in the first place, but should bail at first available opportunity as she is better than this.
I can’t comment, I don;t generally watch television and if I do it is when I want to watch it not when TVNZ want me to.
What do readers think?
Someone quoted Malcolm Tucker yesterday on the request post as to what I should do with the blog in the coming year.
“marshal all the media forces of Darkness to hound them to an assisted suicide“.
Malcolm Tucker may very well be a fictional character, but I think we need more people in politics with an attitude like this:
via Facebook on the Shit New Zealanders Never Say page.
This image of a comment was posted:
After a bit of discussion Fred made this interesting analysis about why Maori came to New Zealand:
Interesting rewrite of history…discuss.
Boris Johnson gives back as good as he was getting and boy did they hate that. You’d hardly bleep out the word tossers though…
Fair enough to my colleague the Mayor of London: he gives as good as he gets. Pace the guys at Guido, I’m pretty sure that’s an F before the beep, not a T, but frankly, if someone’s yelling “scum” at you as you walk along, you’re really within your rights to call them anything you like.
I am a little disappointed he didn’t do it in ancient Greek, though.
I love language, I love words and I love etymology…not in the pedantic academic way but in way words, and speech and language evolves. Slang and profanity are perhaps the most fun and finally I have found a decent explanation for why:
I see slang as the counter-language. At its heart it’s down, it’s dirty, it’s grubby, it’s tart, it’s essentially subversive. It questions and deals with themes like sex, drugs, violence, rudeness, abuse, racism and so on and so forth. Slang is primarily concrete, but the one abstract that underpins it is that of doubt. It seems to me that slang is always doubting. It’s always questioning, it’s always cynical, it’s always undermining and it’s always been negative. It’s very thematic, which means it’s basically a lexicon of synonyms. There are 1,500 synonyms for having sex, 1,000 penises, 1,000 vaginas and 2,000 drunkards and drink-related words… and so on.
I see slang as Freud would see the Id. In other words, the unrestrained side of ourselves. Slang is the pleasure principle. It evokes it in language, lets us get it out there. It has no morals, it has no party, it has no religion, it’s just in it for the kicks. What I love most about it is that it is ourselves at our most human – not at our best, but at our most real. There’s a nice line in Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds about someone moving from conventional speech to rough, truthful language. That’s what I think slang is – rough, truthful language.
Lessons from the Hillary Clinton school of media relations:
On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State’s handling of the Benghazi fiasco, and Reines’ over-the-top attack on CNN. The emails quickly got personal, with Reines calling Hastings an “unmitigated asshole” before an exchange of harsh words on both sides.
The email chain concluded with Reines writing that Hastings should “Fuck Off” and “Have a nice life.”
Good stuff….we need more of that.
