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Everyone? Obsessed? Come on! Pull the other one, it plays "Jingle bells". Where do your writers get their information? Or inspiration?

On the other hand, politicians should look into the possibilities of using an illustration of two fingers extended for their number plates -- and not in the Churchillian fashion, either.

Yebbut, why should you have to? It's not like you're betting on 1, 2 or 3 in a race. You're choosing only one to win. If he/she/it gets up, then that one is the fair, ultimate winner of the voting process and the others can "suck it up, princess". The preference system was not chosen to elect a...

Gross? Please check the meaning of the word ...

Whatever happened to the old political saw "Vote early, vote often"?

I see that there is also a new explosion of "messages" from Gina et al. re "investment opportunities" in the in box.

Wow! If you take offence at the phrase "bloody proofreaders", then I can only say you have a much more delicate outlook on life than I have. You must admit that some utterances that appear in these pages contain far worse words than the ones I used, both in meaning and sentiment. Perhaps you...

Please tell me why a blank line is de rigueur between pars? It could be a style usage for the publication you're working for. Some do, some don't. I'm sorry, but didn't the lead-in line say before and didn't the text following say after? Any proofreader worth his/her/its salt would have picked...

I used to be a bloody proofreader (for around 45 years), so I know a bit of what I'm talking about. That was what was always said when a blue slipped through. But I doubt very much whether SDC uses proofies, so I guess I'm pretty safe in repeating the old saying. These days, they probably depend...

The lead-in line said she lost it before the attack; head here says she lost it after. Also, the story says she hasn't lost any money after all after the head serang contacted her. Pardon? Bloody proofreaders!

"A lot of garbage ... " -- that's why the goddess made docos and DVDs and movies from the Internet Archive. IMHO, TV is suitable only for snippets of info that directly affect me. Unfortunately, to find such bits of knowledge, you have to sit through mind-numbing "news" and advertisements which...

True, nothing to do with Fran baby. it was partly in reply to the first poat, which said you can't always believe what you hear. I replied because the general idea of these "reality" shows on the cretiniser is that they're presented to the gawpers out there as fact, that the crap being depicted...

Because they're told to by the producers to "spice up" the show to make it more believable -- that they're acting just like real people would in the same situation. Next season of the show, they'll undoubtedly go to air without the bleeps covering up the profanities to wake up the jaded...

So, I take it that you believe that the denizens of MAFS are real people, doing real things in their real televised lives for the world to see?

Yep, just have a look at Married at First Naughty ... as believable as every other "reality" teevee show that's ever been put to air, or ever will. But, still, the lowest common denominator mob laps them up like kids at a free ice cream stall and are drooling for more.

Yair, I used to do time travelling once, I found it took me at least an hour to get to the coast from where I lived. In the future, when Clive 's Trumpet of Patriots fast train advertising fantasy comes to fruition, I'll be able to do it in about 10 minutes. And, when Dutton's fuel excise is...

But what/who is the alternative? They've got you by the short and curlies and they're laughing all the way to their superannuation payout.

Rotsa ruck with trying to "buy" a Bitcoin with a buck ...

"News" on the cretiniser? Last night's effort gave us about five minutes on the death of some Yank actor as a lead-in, surely more important to Strayan viewers than a little bit of floodwater out west? How about Albo's trip-and-recover bit of footwork? Now, that's just about as interesting as...

"Safeguard"? With Bitcoin? Think about it. It's gone up and down more times than Mickey Rooney. According to the wonderfulworldwideweb, one bitcoin is worth 131 thousand bucks Australian today. You'd need a big, big pocket to cart the change from your usual $120-odd Woolies purchase around --...