WILLIE JACKSON:The X-Factor. Nah, nah, there’s some GREAT talent there! JOHN TAMIHERE: The groups were just GREAT! Out-STANDING! WILLIE JACKSON: There’s some INCREDIBLE talent coming through, isn’t there! JOHN TAMIHERE:Homai Te Pakipaki—what a JOKE!…
Comedy, chivalry and one mouth-breathing cretin. Twenty minutes of Radio Live (Highlights) Monday 6 May 2013, beginning 2:20 p.m. ….
J.T.: What an idiot. What an idiot. Did you hear that? WILLIE: What? J.T.: You. WILLIE: Based on what, FOOL?
…..Commercial break…..
WILLIE: All right, Kane, you wanna talk about X-Factor. KANE: They need an ugly duckling section. Some of those women are train wrecks to look at. Like that white girl with the glasses, nothing to look at but she has a good set of pipes. J.T.: She’s like that girl in Britain. WILLIE: Oh yeah, Paul Henry called her a retard. J.T.: Yeah, Susan Boyle. She could sing. WILLIE: Yeah. Nothing to look at though.
But the most moronic bit comes next, as a moronic caller from Christchurch, commenting about the Crusaders-Brumbies game, goes on to make a comment about the referee….
MOUTH-BREATHING CRETIN: He’s a good referee, Joubert. The best in the game.
WILLIE:[significant pause] Y-y-yeah.
Radio Live, Monday 6 May 2013, ends at 2:45 p.m. I could stand no more of it.
I could only watch its utter and untold beauty, because my sister alerted me to the fact that someone we both knew, with talent had decided to enter and MIGHT be present on that particular night’s episode. (they weren’t) I saw these 3 ‘judges’ – all full of pithy comments, plasticised intellect, and quite obviously ‘in touch’ with their most inner feelings – including those feelings that were augmented by red hair dye that had faded pink. I thought – well maybe one had the credentials to stand in ‘judgement’ given he had success in a similar forum (and lovely tattoos and a cast of thousands in support). Of course – there was this loving family all rarked up to scream rah rah rah as well. I vaguely recall the guy claiming a ‘LIKE’ of Rythym & Blues too.
I think I’d rather watch, and give whatever support I can to the local ‘talent’ I (or rather my sister) knows on the marae.
I also hope that supposedly expert ‘judge’ fucks off back to the GC – or wherever it was from whence he came.
Not sure what’s more breathtaking – your mysogyny, your racism, your lack of touch with popular culture, but at least you’re an equal opportunity bigot I suppose…
I won’t bother asking for an explanation if that was directed at me Pop. The labels you throw are an easy disguise for the lack of anything meaningful.
Well let’s see – you attacked a woman (Ruby Frost) on her appearance and for having “feelings” rather than her ability to judge singing talent (something she would presumably know more about about than you, given her credentialshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Frost ), which is bare-arsed mysogyny at its most textbook. FYI, her hair is died pink, it is not a faded version of the colour of your neck. And your comment about Stan Walker in relation to the GC can only be motivated by generalised stereotypes and cliches in relation to Maori Australians. You, sir, are a pig, and an ignorant one at that.
You’ll have to have the last word of course – but reread. I’m not referring to Ruby or whoever she is (unless she’s an “it”). The cynical “untold beauty”, etc. refers to the plasticky, tacky, slick production values of the entire programme and the way the thing is more about the ‘judges’ (and their respective egos) than the contestants themselves. Contrived bullshit – not even SKIN deep – slippery moisturised pap (I’m not referring to the people). I just caught the end of tonight’s episode – hold your breathe ….. cell phone calls between judges, camera work focussing on Ford labels on the vehicles carrying them and so on.
You have a funny definition of mysogeny. The fact that I don’t regard Ruby’s comments that I’ve witnessed so far as being valid apparently is mysogenistic. My impressions relate to her comments, NOT her person. I’d get another textbook if I were you. As for the GC bit, I won’t even bother since a sizeable proportion of my extended fit the category. I was quite pleased to see Stan win a few years back – it doesn’t mean I have to regard him as a sage or equipped to judge the contestants currently competing, there but for the grace of a God once went He.
As I say …. you’ll NEED the last word – so go for it please!
Oh – I see …. I DID refer to red hair dye fading pink. You might be correct Pop. I’m a mysogenist for thinking it might not be her most attractive look. GOT me! Of course it still doesn’t mean the otherwise attractive woman utters pithy comments and uses rehearsed finger pointing and producer-inspired mechanisms in order to remain pop ….popu….. err popuLAR
btw. Does Joolie Christie have anything to do with this abomination? If she does, I’ve got a very talented Fijian princely fella stifled under the presence of an X-Factor type production team lingering around a certain island (albeit leaving a load of rubbish as their aftermath) to show you
OK, I will. What are your qualifications? Calling her an “it” is just diging the hole deeper, and I wonder how your extended whanua would react to being told to fuck off back to the GC?
Hey – I’M NOT THE ONE CALLING HER AN IT – that’s what your assumption was as you were so ready to associate the comments with her person. The IT is the programme. Otherwise it would have been a her/she had I been referring to ‘her’ – i.e. Ruby the person.
So …. OK now have the last word – there’s 4 litres of Pledge ready to make the going easier (as you’ll see below)
No. 4: Willie and J.T.
JOHN TAMIHERE: The groups were just GREAT! Out-STANDING!
WILLIE JACKSON: There’s some INCREDIBLE talent coming through, isn’t there!
JOHN TAMIHERE: Homai Te Pakipaki—what a JOKE!…
No. 3: John Key: “Yeah we hold MPs to a higher standard.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06052013/#comment-628703
No. 2: Colin Craig: “Oh, I have a GREAT sense of humour.” (TV3 News, 24 April 2013)http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-25042013/#comment-624381
No. 1: Barack Obama: “Margaret Thatcher was one of the great champions of freedom and liberty.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-19042013/#comment-621738
Twenty minutes of Radio Live (Highlights)
Monday 6 May 2013, beginning 2:20 p.m. ….
WILLIE: What?
J.T.: You.
WILLIE: Based on what, FOOL?
KANE: They need an ugly duckling section. Some of those women are train wrecks to look at. Like that white girl with the glasses, nothing to look at but she has a good set of pipes.
J.T.: She’s like that girl in Britain.
WILLIE: Oh yeah, Paul Henry called her a retard.
J.T.: Yeah, Susan Boyle. She could sing.
WILLIE: Yeah. Nothing to look at though.
It gets NZoAir funding right??
I saw these 3 ‘judges’ – all full of pithy comments, plasticised intellect, and quite obviously ‘in touch’ with their most inner feelings – including those feelings that were augmented by red hair dye that had faded pink.
I thought – well maybe one had the credentials to stand in ‘judgement’ given he had success in a similar forum (and lovely tattoos and a cast of thousands in support). Of course – there was this loving family all rarked up to scream rah rah rah as well. I vaguely recall the guy claiming a ‘LIKE’ of Rythym & Blues too.
I just caught the end of tonight’s episode – hold your breathe ….. cell phone calls between judges, camera work focussing on Ford labels on the vehicles carrying them and so on.
As for the GC bit, I won’t even bother since a sizeable proportion of my extended fit the category. I was quite pleased to see Stan win a few years back – it doesn’t mean I have to regard him as a sage or equipped to judge the contestants currently competing, there but for the grace of a God once went He.
GOT me!
Of course it still doesn’t mean the otherwise attractive woman utters pithy comments and uses rehearsed finger pointing and producer-inspired mechanisms in order to remain pop ….popu….. err popuLAR
If she does, I’ve got a very talented Fijian princely fella stifled under the presence of an X-Factor type production team lingering around a certain island (albeit leaving a load of rubbish as their aftermath) to show you