The nation is dumbfounded and concerned and appalled by the growth of Domestic Violence and worse still that there have been 62 deaths this year.
The reasons are multifaceted as are the possible preventative actions. However, there is one over riding first cause - loss of self control.
As with binge drinking, this appears to be a disappearing male personality trait.
Take pride in your life. Self respect is a good start.
Men, if you cannot control yourself then you need help. It 's called self help. First you have to respect yourself and others and get a grip on your boozing and emotions. Control yourself, it isn't easy for many, who may need ongoing professional help, but it starts with you.
It is not manly, it's cowardly, to bash a woman, whatever the provocation. Grow up! Tantrums are for 3 year olds.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
UNGOVERNABLE
Well may Rupert call for a "Snap Election", but who elected the Media? But who would it favour?
Could you imagine running a corporation with a resentful and disruptive management committee? Wouldn't happen, right? because the malcontents would be booted out. How difficult must it be, to be a Prime Minister, when the cross bench nobodies with tiny voting representation and a hostile Senate, muddy the waters aided and abetted by a hyper critical self centred media minus any notion of the national interest. To hell with that, we are here to stir the pot!
Is there anybody out there, who remembers when the print and electronic media reported the news rather than creating it? We now have "journalist experts" who probably have not even run a tuck shop, who don't report, but, who pontificate and speculate on their interpretation of what ought to be, not what is.
Well, I remember when professional current and international affairs journalists reported the political events of the day, without exposing their own political leanings. Not any more, many are curmudgeonly exposing their disdain for the electorate for not listening to their advice by voting in the wrong political party.
It appears that Australia is no longer a democracy, but a minocracy, where the stirrers paddle the cauldron and unfortunately our elected politicians show little leadership in pursuing their goals and to hell with the media. Who really believes Polls announced every other day. What a waste! It's irrelevant mischievious twaddle so far out from an election. Who remembers last week's poll?
Clearly Mr.Murdoch is a punter. But he wouldn't put up with such treachery in his corporations.
Hello media, you don't represent or report main line Australia. Get real, examine your own house and report facts not fantasy.
Could you imagine running a corporation with a resentful and disruptive management committee? Wouldn't happen, right? because the malcontents would be booted out. How difficult must it be, to be a Prime Minister, when the cross bench nobodies with tiny voting representation and a hostile Senate, muddy the waters aided and abetted by a hyper critical self centred media minus any notion of the national interest. To hell with that, we are here to stir the pot!
Is there anybody out there, who remembers when the print and electronic media reported the news rather than creating it? We now have "journalist experts" who probably have not even run a tuck shop, who don't report, but, who pontificate and speculate on their interpretation of what ought to be, not what is.
Well, I remember when professional current and international affairs journalists reported the political events of the day, without exposing their own political leanings. Not any more, many are curmudgeonly exposing their disdain for the electorate for not listening to their advice by voting in the wrong political party.
It appears that Australia is no longer a democracy, but a minocracy, where the stirrers paddle the cauldron and unfortunately our elected politicians show little leadership in pursuing their goals and to hell with the media. Who really believes Polls announced every other day. What a waste! It's irrelevant mischievious twaddle so far out from an election. Who remembers last week's poll?
Clearly Mr.Murdoch is a punter. But he wouldn't put up with such treachery in his corporations.
Hello media, you don't represent or report main line Australia. Get real, examine your own house and report facts not fantasy.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
UNREAL TV OVERLOAD!
Who else out there in the real world has had enough of the Free To Air TV excessive propaganda for their excruciating reality shows? MKR and the Block.
Is there anyone out there, who doesn't cook or build or put a sledge hammer through brick walls, or sledge their work mates? Anyone for watching grass growing? It's called entertainment, ho, ho, the great unwashed must live bloody boring lives to enjoy this force-fed voyeuristic tripe!
The audience is blasted with an overpowering volume of TV selfie advertisements and repeats and sneek peeks. Over and over, to the extent that all you want to do is switch off and make a run for it! Don't these TV marketers understand that we can only take so much. I gave up repetition in Kindergarten - what about you?
Did you know that MKR is a cooking show? However, the focus is on eliminations, backbiting, spite, Oh and you guessed it - cooking. I hope that the young people watching, don't think that's how to behave, when they get a job in the real world.
The Block, get real! What the audience doesn't see, is a big team of tradies, working around the clock, who do the physical work and use their considerable expertise - whilst the contestants prance around, blubbering and being rude and aggressive. Entertainment, bah!
Is there anyone out there, who doesn't cook or build or put a sledge hammer through brick walls, or sledge their work mates? Anyone for watching grass growing? It's called entertainment, ho, ho, the great unwashed must live bloody boring lives to enjoy this force-fed voyeuristic tripe!
The audience is blasted with an overpowering volume of TV selfie advertisements and repeats and sneek peeks. Over and over, to the extent that all you want to do is switch off and make a run for it! Don't these TV marketers understand that we can only take so much. I gave up repetition in Kindergarten - what about you?
Did you know that MKR is a cooking show? However, the focus is on eliminations, backbiting, spite, Oh and you guessed it - cooking. I hope that the young people watching, don't think that's how to behave, when they get a job in the real world.
The Block, get real! What the audience doesn't see, is a big team of tradies, working around the clock, who do the physical work and use their considerable expertise - whilst the contestants prance around, blubbering and being rude and aggressive. Entertainment, bah!
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
THE PEOPLE ELECTED ME PM!
I thought the tear jerking statement by Kevin Rudd, that the "People elected me PM!" would end there. However, Tony Abbott has made the same self centred statement during the current "Spill" media enticed kerfuffle.
Even the most politically illiterate voter should know, that the only people who voted for either Rudd or Abbott were the voters in their respective electorates. The decision does not rest with the Electorate. May the Force be without either of them!
Under Labour, the Caucus elects the PM and for the Coalition, it's the elected members of the Liberal/National Parliamentary Party in the new and/or current Federal Parliament that elects the Prime Minister.
No one corrects this silly statement. It appears that "Joe Blow Voter" out there believes this nonsense. It's time for a get real statement before the next election.
Even the most politically illiterate voter should know, that the only people who voted for either Rudd or Abbott were the voters in their respective electorates. The decision does not rest with the Electorate. May the Force be without either of them!
Under Labour, the Caucus elects the PM and for the Coalition, it's the elected members of the Liberal/National Parliamentary Party in the new and/or current Federal Parliament that elects the Prime Minister.
No one corrects this silly statement. It appears that "Joe Blow Voter" out there believes this nonsense. It's time for a get real statement before the next election.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
WHERE ART THOU ADVERB?
Modern advertising lingo, bah!
I am in pursuit of the disappearing adverb. Why is "Think Different!" (US Apple advertisement) better than "Think Differently!"?
Look at the second phrase, roll it off the tongue and listen, doesn't it sound better?
Now Australian advertisers are joining the Americans in the rotten grammar barrel.
Where are the High School English teachers and University Humanities lecturers and tutors positioned on this? Or is this a post modernist no go area?
Journos. and advertising copy writers. rise up and defend our beautiful disappearing adverbs.
I am in pursuit of the disappearing adverb. Why is "Think Different!" (US Apple advertisement) better than "Think Differently!"?
Look at the second phrase, roll it off the tongue and listen, doesn't it sound better?
Now Australian advertisers are joining the Americans in the rotten grammar barrel.
Where are the High School English teachers and University Humanities lecturers and tutors positioned on this? Or is this a post modernist no go area?
Journos. and advertising copy writers. rise up and defend our beautiful disappearing adverbs.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Long live the generalisation ! "Mega" has almost gone, "Awesome" is almost on the way out. Oh dear, what to over use now?
Despair not, marketers and the TV have come to the rescue again.
We now have the new adjectives of exploitation: "Everyone" and " All Australia!".
To ice the cake however, we also have that titillating TV kindergarten expression: " Sneak Peek"! When scrolling the EPG for what to view or record, we are assaulted with this childish term overwriting the programme content.
To top it all off, the commercial networks over-run their program times by up to 15 minutes. No wonder younger, Internet savvy viewers, with sufficient broadband, are deserting local content in droves to avoid suffocation, leaving the less mobile oldies to their dreary fate.
Don't you love being gathered up by the commercial networks as unfortunate followers of their excruciating twaddle?
Despair not, marketers and the TV have come to the rescue again.
We now have the new adjectives of exploitation: "Everyone" and " All Australia!".
To ice the cake however, we also have that titillating TV kindergarten expression: " Sneak Peek"! When scrolling the EPG for what to view or record, we are assaulted with this childish term overwriting the programme content.
To top it all off, the commercial networks over-run their program times by up to 15 minutes. No wonder younger, Internet savvy viewers, with sufficient broadband, are deserting local content in droves to avoid suffocation, leaving the less mobile oldies to their dreary fate.
Don't you love being gathered up by the commercial networks as unfortunate followers of their excruciating twaddle?
Friday, January 3, 2014
CONTROL YOURSELF
The first step to control this cowardly problem of Alcohol fueled violence is to learn SELF CONTROL. Don't be such a wimp and take your problems out on an innocent person.
Why do you drink so much? What are you hiding from? Wake up! Grow up! Control yourself.
Take up a sport. Join a Surf Club or a Cricket Club or a Football Club, whatever. You will be too tired at the end of a busy day to fight anyone and you will go to bed earlier. It's amazing how exercise and a good diet relaxes you and gets that chip off your shoulder.
Take responsibility for yourself!
Why do you drink so much? What are you hiding from? Wake up! Grow up! Control yourself.
Take up a sport. Join a Surf Club or a Cricket Club or a Football Club, whatever. You will be too tired at the end of a busy day to fight anyone and you will go to bed earlier. It's amazing how exercise and a good diet relaxes you and gets that chip off your shoulder.
Take responsibility for yourself!
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