December 03 2008
Watching You and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 6:11 am
Have you checked out Google Street View yet? Street View is a new feature on Google Maps for New Zealanders and it gives you a 360 degree, street-level look-see around New Zealand’s cities and towns. Read more about it here. And go here to try it out. I used it to wander around Balclutha, where I lived for 17 years. I haven’t been back for 15 years. It looks so familiar and very rural. When I find the time I am going to find the 30 houses I’ve lived in, visit a few crime scenes and stalk a few celebrities. If anyone finds anything amusing, let us know! (Gif Via)
Ridiculous products: Waistband stretcher…
” Just moisten the garment’s waistband, insert the waistband stretcher, extend the garment to the desired size and let it dry — voila, a more comfortable fit!”
Nostalgia: The very first episode of sketch comedy show McPhail and Gadsby (1980), which ran for seven years and followed their hugely successful show A Week of It, takes on religion. (We were a lot more patient for laughs in those days.)
Parenting: Atrocious advice from Supernanny, according to this US parenting expert:
“Ms. Frost’s approach to family crises is stunningly simple-minded; it’s the narrowness of her repertoire, not merely the constraints of the medium, that lead her to ignore the important questions. She never stops to ask whether the demands of work and kids could be more gracefully reconciled if high-quality, low-cost daycare was available. She doesn’t even inquire into psychological issues.”
Puerile: Christmas ham anyone? (Sorry, I had to link to this)
…And it’s only fair to link to this limited edition pressed felt wall lamp…
Video link: A woman panics when faced with a bovine intruder.
How to beat your wife: A Saudi cleric explains the finer details on a TV talk show.
I recommend you watch the full video here before you comment.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Ahahahaha yeah you wouldn’t want to make her face ugly.
Wait that’s not funny.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
So, according to Mr Anti-Supernanny, “Time Out” doesn’t work. Therefore, if we’re not allowed to smack, and not allowed to put them in Time Out…what DO you do? Not every parent has the foresight of being the attentive, positive-reinforcement Robot-parent society demands them to be. It’s a generation of No-Rules/Don’t Say No/Lack of Risk Management that has churned out the boy-racers and binge drinkers we’re dealing with now.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Sorry, that should be “Over Risk Managed”
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
It seems hard to follow his advice, where can you hit them? maybe a quick light smack to the bottom? but that could be mis-interpreted as a sign of desire rather than a telling off???
just kidding, but really i think if ppl in NZ followed that advice instead of beating their wives to death it would at least be an improvement. Obviously no beatings at all for women, men or children would be ideal!
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Biscuit – we did have boyracers and binge drinkers before the anti-smacking bill you know.
James Dean was the ultimate boy racer!
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Gangelmoo: Yes, the overly helicopter parented children of the 80s and 90s are now our risk takers (without risk management experience). What was the moral panic of a “pedo around every corner” of the 80s is now the moral panic of “there’s child abuse in every smack”.
All hail the mob mentality.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I already have a waistband stretcher. It’s called “an appretite”. *sigh*
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Or appetite, even.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
It says a lot about the our readers; the fact that many of you correct your own typos
December 4th, 2008 at 5:44 am
I don’t really think we should get into it but the smacking bill just closes a legal loophole that allowed people to get away with hitting their kids because they called it “reasonable force”.
The whole “I can’t smack” hysteria of parents is kind of pointless.
December 4th, 2008 at 5:48 am
The local blogosphere is full of pointers to “258 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand” on Google Streetview.
Our [former] Dear Leader and her protection element are shown.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Great, wonderful, just what we need more confusing advice about how to beat your loved ones from the most rapidly growing religion in NZ, if the child is close to the stove and your wife is busy, move the kid yourself you ignorant git, this just made me angry.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
How do we know that video is real? They could be saying anything and someone’s just having fun with subtitles.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:26 am
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI TV) where I linked to the full clip below the embed is a legitimate organsiation. And many reputable news sources report using their translation service for news items…But it always pays to be sceptical on the internet.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I think it’s clear that you can hit a woman about her legs and upper arms (where they won’t be visible outside her berqa and won’t do harm).
Also, it’s sad to see that Helen Clark’s house in Mt Eden isn’t Street-viewed. And I don’t know Key’s address.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Helen Clark’s house in Mt Eden has a lovely garden. *Heavy Breathing*
December 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Our dear leader’s house is here, and here is the house next door that he owns and is slowly letting it deteriorate so that he can demolish it.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
that’s the biggest toothpick i’ve ever seen… it would be better if they just kept their hands and emotional blackmail (& toothpicks) to themselves… arrogant ignorant thinking