October 09 2009
Dog Lingerie and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:58 am
Mailbag: “I wondered if anyone else noticed in the photo, page 5 of the Aucklander, 8th October, the crossing person mysteriously hovers inches above the ground.”
A step too far: dog lingerie.
Vanity Fair: Answer this questionnaire, made famous by Marcel Proust and find out which celebrity you most resemble.
Strange news: Read about one gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot here.
Celebrity: 25 Things Even My Best Friends Didn’t Know Until Now by Yoko Ono, includes this:
In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them.
Read more here.
Crisis of competence: Misspelled protester signs.
Dumb products: A hair colouring brush? This is a have…
Video link: Worst viral ever made.
Video: Female Who Wants to Be A Millionaire host objectifies man in uniform. Embarrassing!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:31 am
To be fair the guy is kind of hot…a bit clean cut and skinny for my liking but I can see why Meredith V likes him.
Proust – I am 96.9% like…Hugh Hefner? Fortunately I am only 6.1% like Yoko Ono.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Good God, that lady in the last clip makes me ashamed to be a woman. Although, why did he feel the need to wear his uniform? I can understand funerals etc as a sign of respect… but a gameshow? Poser.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Millionaire: Hey wow, it’s a woman behaving like….a man! I’m shocked!
October 12th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Re Ima: Do you really think one of the male millionaire hosts would have gotten away with this. There would have been an uproar.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I’ll agree he is hot, but if a male host behaved like this he would have been fired. Americans wear their uniforms because their proud to serve, it’s frowned upon and probably not permissable to do it here, I think in all countries you have to make a formal request to your superiors to do something like this in case you embarass them
October 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Ima Vegetarian – if a man did that he’d be sacked, while she’d get away with it. You can’t have it both ways.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
This is fail on many wonderful levels. Why is the guy wearing a uniform? Is he on duty? Or is he showing his patriotism and pride in serving his country by wearing it everywhere? He walks a fine line, between being seen to be patriotic, and being seen to be using his uniform to promote himself.
Regarding the interviewer, if she is trying to be funny, she fails miserably. Yes, if the roles were reversed this would have caused at least a minor stink.
I’m cynical however and believe most of these shows are scripted, so if they are, it means there were others who thought this was a good idea. If so, i’m not sure which is scarier, their incompetent judgement, or their inability to make me laugh even with such fertile material…
October 12th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
What a cheap tart! She made an absolute fool of herself. You could tell he was embarassed for her behaviour. Thankfully the Australian version is comical, dignified, and GREATTTT TV! Get rid of her.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
If the host had been a male and the contestant female the guy would have been hung, drawn and sacked immediately. I’ll bet that any attempt to punish her in any way would be called sexism. Equality swings both ways.
As for his uniform, I suspect that because he was being introduced as a Navy pilot then he would be required to wear his dress uniform.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:02 am
If you thought it was scripted watch it again. Her skin flushes on her face. She’s hot for him. Imagine what she said off air. She’s clearly a confident lady who speaks her mind. I’m also guessing she gets on well with the other people on the other end of her ear piece and they were winding her up. They got to her good and we saw the effect of it.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I’d be pretty pissed if I was him and this wasn’t planned. How is he meant to get right answers with her distracting him like that! Then if he gets an easy one wrong he looks like an idiot! If I was another contestant I’d be pissed about the wet willy thing – gee I wonder what the answer is… as she comes towards me with her ear… giving the contestants (even the cute ones) the answers must be against the rules, right?
October 13th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I thought it was funny, she was awesome, good on her! Very entertaining.
October 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
The cougar is OUT! He is mighty good looking and I’m glad she spoke for every horny chick and gay guy out there.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I agree with Tim and SteveDenver. Besides she’s pretty cute herself!