Unquestionably the best ever.
Monthly archive: February, 2006
Back for 2006. It has never been a brilliant show, but this year it has been particularly poor. Why couldn’t Ten have given a second chance to some of the better shows axed from Nine (<cough>Micallef Tonight</cough>)?
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Move over, Chuck Norris; Rob Kerin (the South Australian opposition leader) is The new Man. Check out these Facts*:
- When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Rob Kerin.
- Rob Kerin doesn”t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
- There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Rob Kerin has allowed to live.
- Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Rob Kerin.
- Rob Kerin does not sleep. He waits.
- Rob Kerin is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
- Rob Kerin counted to infinity - twice.
- There is no chin behind Rob Kerin’s face. There is only another fist.
- When Rob Kerin does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
- Rob Kerin is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
- Rob Kerin’s hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.
- There is no such thing as global warming. Rob Kerin was cold, so he turned the sun up.
- Rob Kerin can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
- Rob Kerin doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
- Rob Kerin gave Mona Lisa that smile.
- Rob Kerin can slam a revolving door.
- Rob Kerin does not get frostbite. Rob Kerin bites frost.
- Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching anelection marathon on Satellite TV.
- Contrary to popular belief, Australia is not a democracy, it is an Robtatorship.
- Is Rob. Is Good.
*5% original content. All capitalisation intentional.
idents.tv is a blog of television idents from various countries (including Australia) and it is very good, with downloadable videos and usually some commentary. Very nice if you’re into all of this design and branding stuff like me.
Many Muslims are violent pigs that have no right to live in modern society. That seems like an awfully bigoted and inflammatory statement (and it is), so let me qualify it. I’d like to think that the majority of Muslims are regular people, but there is certainly a vocal minority (particularly in the Arab world) that like to make death threats and set things on fire.
I am of course talking about the whole Danish cartoons controversy of a few months ago. The violent negative reactions that resulted are pathetic and profoundly disturbing, considering the cartoons were intended as a comment about freedom of speech and the position of Islam in secular Western society.
If you’ve got a problem with the cartoons, that’s okay. Perhaps write to the newspaper that published them and ask for an explanation. But that would be too sensible, wouldn’t it? Death to Denmark and the Jews (wait, what?).
I’m sick of turning on the television and seeing a story about violence being perpetrated in the name of Islam. It’s not fair to the people who are targeted, and it’s not fair to the ordinary Muslims either—I know this, but I still can’t help being biased against them. It makes me feel like all Muslims are violent pigs, and I’m far from alone.
Maybe this is what the sentiment was like in the Arab world back when the Crusades were going on. Isn’t religion great?
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