But I thought the government liked locking up children.
'I don’t like heavy- handed regulation but the business community is always saying to me, “let us self-regulate”. Well, here’s a great opportunity for Channel Ten to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid programme off the air'.
'It makes me very concerned if there are these kinds of incidents on television and I think we do need to get to the bottom of them.'
'I mean, I think it is very regrettable that Camilla was made to cry and made to feel that she had done the wrong thing and somehow or other was responsible for these guys getting evicted.'
'This show legitimises behaviour that is not acceptable anywhere in our community and this latest incident is disgusting and degrading and, quite clearly, this is not a community standard that's acceptable and, you know, Family First is calling for Big Brother to be pulled.'
Haven't you fuckos got more important things to worry about?
494 days til the next election.
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*applauds*
Shame we can't frickin' text them out.
Was I the only one who got a bit of a giggle out of Steve Fielding calling for "Big Brother to be pulled"?
Heehee.
That was probably the most stupid post you have ever made on this blog, Fits, just for its sheer quantum leap of logic and complete failure to grasp the issue.
Up yours Demble, she's on the money here.
Not only is she on the money, Demble, our hostess has made a number of gloriously stupid posts that would put this one in the shade by any criterion.
I guess the turkey slap was a logical extension of her earlier argument with Perry over a teabag.
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I'll get my coat.
Well said Fits. To have these politicans pontificating about what they claim is a moral issue when their own policies are completely immoral, is basically pretty damn sickening.
Imagine if everything that happened in the detention centres was broadcast on television?
Tukeyslapgate would pale in comparison.
your brain is a strange and brilliant beast, ms fits. that is the perfect illustration of the emptiness of any moral claims this government seeks to make. morality matters on stem-cells, gay unions, abortion, but is absent on detention, homelessness, indigenous mortality rates.
the irony is compounded by the absurdity.
oh darlin, when i read those quotes in le paper this morning i immediately wondered what you were going to do with 'em.
cause i knew you had to do something with 'em.
and today you've outdone yourself.
beautifully done.
Thanks for adding a bit of perspedtive to a complete non-issue.
Oh, and I think Demble needs turkey slapping.
and perspective...
Brilliant.
right on sister.xoxoxox
How could you accuse our beloved Lying Rodent of double standards?
Won't someone think of the turkeys?
And thank heavens for people like you, Fits.
absolutely with you on this, ms fits.
also you were in MY dream the night before last. similarly companionable to your waitressing one. we were at the gym, just hanging out. my beloved looked at me kind of strange when i told him i'd had a dream about you in return for yours about me.
*Standing fucking ovation* Ms Fits.
A picture tells a 1000 words and you have just posted the perfect essay about the phoneys running the country.
If you were a student of mine, I give you an A+.
Personally, I've always felt that Big Brother would be a much more compelling "social experiment" if they took the Darwinian natural-selection metaphor more literally. If they locked them in the house and let the dim-witted attention-whores battle unto the death, THEN I'd watch. Each week we'd vote for one of these idiots to be removed from the gene pool. Ideally, we'd even be allowed to vote Gretel Killeen out of her hosting gig and into the guillotine as well, especially after those disgusting comments.
But.
No matter how vile I find the whole thing, what worries me the most is the reactionary outcry from our beloved politicians.
I can see how the whole thing makes a great smokescreen for other, more serious issues, and how pollies could get a few brownie points by condemning the show. But calling for it to be pulled from the air is completely out of line. Networks have guidelines and standards and Ten didn't break any of them.
If Channel Ten bows to political pressure, it's political censorship at its worst. Where the fuck does the Government get off assuming that its moralising hypocrisy can override freedom to expression? I really don't want to have to make an Orwell reference here, but come one.
Thank you.
Have people read Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett's comments about this affair over at his blog?
"Until I see politicians or other public figures take on the alcohol industry in a similarly strong and unequivocal way for advertising which encourages sexually predatory behaviour, and against the music and TV industry for screening - in prime children’s viewing time on a Saturday morning - innumerable music video clips which objectify, commodify and sexualise women in a one-dimensional way, then I can only assume those who are currently jumping on the ‘axe Big Brother’ bandwagon are just a pack of hypocrites trying to pick on an easy target to build up their ‘moral’ credentials."
Totally off topic, and I know it should probably be in Friday Q and A, but has bob ellis got one of these.
http://www.dogster.com/
1. 'BUSINESS COMMUNITY'? do they all live in little fucking cottages and look like friendly gnomes?
2. i wish john howard would fucking well self-regulate.
3. won't somebody please think of the white anglo saxon children in heterosexual nuclear families or acceptable variants.
4. if the actual amount of sensible debate surrounding this issue was turned into pure energy and funnelled straight into my genitals, i probably wouldn't even flinch.
Until I see politicians or other public figures take on the alcohol industry in a similarly strong and unequivocal way for advertising which encourages sexually predatory behaviour, and against the music and TV industry for screening - in prime children’s viewing time on a Saturday morning - innumerable music video clips which objectify, commodify and sexualise women in a one-dimensional way, then I can only assume those who are currently jumping on the ‘axe Big Brother’ bandwagon are just a pack of hypocrites trying to pick on an easy target to build up their ‘moral’ credentials.
A good point, but as I have pontificated about on the preceding thread, the thing about a Shakira film clip is that it isn't stealthily packaged as fun family entertainment. On the other hand, the innocent facade put up by Big Brother is like dipping Tip Top White-As-The-Blessed-Jesus's-Teeth bread in GHB and pretending to not know what all the fuss is about. The thing is basically a tits-and-ass and fuckwit generator. But it's got that grinning twit out the front of it giving it an acceptable face.
I don't want it banned, but I want the puss-filled fuckhole of a show off television because it becomes untenable financially. As I've said before (and once again I am personally reeling that Herr Howard and I share a similar view on this), the impact that it has on young impressionable minds is horrendous. I don't really care about its putative effect on Australian drama -- I doubt it's a zero sum game, and besides, AusDram has its own special brand of shittyness to contend with anyway.
Big Brother really is one of the only things that I get all 'o tempora, o mores' about. And not that I have any way of proving it, but I've been saying as much since the first time it leaked onto our screens. FWIW, and for the little I know about her, this Camilla looks like the typical sort of utter tedious fuckhead that self-selects for one of these exercises, and I can't pretend to be interested in her well being all that much.
Plus, Big Brother always makes me think of commercial FM radio. Surely, for that crime alone, it deserves a horrid death.
Anon 4.15PM said: Each week we'd vote for one of these idiots to be removed from the gene pool. Ideally, we'd even be allowed to vote Gretel Killeen out of her hosting gig and into the guillotine as well, especially after those disgusting comments.
Fucking sign me up.
To quote Chris Rock on a different sex-based scandal:
THEY ARE JUST DISTRACTING YOU FROM THE WAR*.
*Not just the actual war, either.
I echo the pats on the back.
Trackback, albeit belatedly.
Hudson, why do you presume Ms Fits commentary is a waste of space?
Has Ms Fits offended you by calling up the morale brigade on their obvious intent of deflection?
God bless, Fitzy.
And yeah, I agree with some of the comments. Don't fucking ban Big Brother. Make me proud of this nation by turning the lurid embarassing shit off and sending it fucking broke!
bravo fits!!
What I couldn't believe is that so many people seem to be defending the fact that two men were involved in holding down a woman so that a penis could be slapped on her mouth and face. Even Kyle and Jackie O were defending the act as a joke and a bit of harmless fun. It sounds more like sexual assault to me.
With Jackie O so often being a self proclaimed representative on womens issues, this reveals her to be the joke that she always was.
Anyhow, on that note:
http://i6.tinypic.com/1z1fqkk.jpg
(warning, adult content)
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bloody hell, exactly!
what a brilliant post Fits. i am instantly jealous that my feeble mind didnt think of it first.
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