Just Deserts
Yes I have weaknesses, and Shortland Street is one of them. Hey when working at 11 pm doing poll analysis, you need something on in the background!
So anyway, for those who do watch it. Wasn’t it great seeing Callum get his just desserts yesterday. The actor does a great job makes the character so loathsome.
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July 15th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Arrggghhh. DPF watches Shortland St, and even worse, cares enough to talk about it. I’ll have to rescind everything nice I’ve ever said about you, and probably change to being a Labour supporter.
How can you possibly watch that drivel? That is one of the most annoying things about being overtaxed – knowing that I am being overtaxed so as to fund dross like that in the name of some sort of cultural improvement – god knows how that works.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
This is sad .. VERY sad.
Mind u .. admitting your problem is the 1st step.
There are meetings you can go to next.
Richard
July 15th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Come to think of it, I simply cannot understand why some, apparently intelligent adults, also enjoy Harry Potter. Honestly mate, do you also enjoy the Care Bears, Bill and Ben or Bob the Builder? Jeez … females your age who still take their teddies to bed are rightly reviled. SIGH ..I shouldn’t judge … YA GIRL!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
As another correspondent pointed out some time ago in another thread:
It’s “just deserts”, even though it’s pronounced as if it were “just desserts”.
Apparently, in this expression the “deserts” comes from the same root as “deserve”.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
DPF
Sometimes you really worry me.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Yes the dirty lefties are not the only ones who want to tell you what it’s acceptable to think (or watch) around here mate.
And valuable money was wasted on this worthless art you call “Shortland Street”. Oh the ignominy of it…
July 15th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
“Sometimes you really worry me.”
Me too. Following on from most of the stuff produced by Hollywood, Shortland Street in NZ (and most of the stuff that has its origins in government funding) is Gramascian in nature and intent. Its fundamentally just a device for the subliminal conveyance of socialist/ pseudo- liberal ideology to the chattering classes and or the mindless minions that progressive elitists wouldn’t ordinarily mix with. Mr. Farrar and others probably believe I’m taking it too seriously, but the fact is that television is in many households and in terms of moral guidance, the real parent. That’s why so much of NZ society is such a violent crime ridden disaster. Its no coincidence that rising rates of violent crime and general immorality coincide with the growth of television as an entertainment medium and social influence in the home. (see Sensible Sentencing crime graphs)
July 15th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Shortland Street is on par with Big Bear in the Blue House. Both these shows require an IQ of an ant and the patience of a saint in ordered to be viewed in their entirety.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Just remember that Shorty Street is not real.
Unlike Constipation Street, Wingenders, Daze of our Lives, Everyday Farm, The Wrong and Stupid, Dumb and Away, The Bold and Ugly.
I am glad that I work, keeps me away from all that wholesale rubbish.
FFS
July 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I suppose Burying Brian is going to lead to a spate of copycat killings too???
(Mind you, I’d almost want to kill someone after watching such shite TV – more blue gel filters anyone? ‘Cos everyone knows the light is vivid blue inside a suburban bedroom at night… )
July 15th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hmm David, is there a chance you have been around politicians too
long ?
July 15th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
SHORTLAND ST.
“Me too. Following on from most of the stuff produced by Hollywood, Shortland Street in NZ (and most of the stuff that has its origins in government funding) is Gramascian in nature and intent”
Yup. RB is right… Nauseating political correctness, grubby moral relativism and a total lack of any – even remotely – endearing characters.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
“Its fundamentally just a device for the subliminal conveyance of socialist/ pseudo- liberal ideology to the chattering classes and or the mindless minions that progressive elitists wouldn’t ordinarily mix with. Mr. Farrar and others probably believe I’m taking it too seriously, but the fact is that television is in many households and in terms of moral guidance, the real parent”
Again, I’ll concur with RB; television not only reflects the values of a society, it also LEGITIMIZES them. Feigning that one understands and appreciates “low in base” behavior is not enlightenment and fulfillment, it’s giving into barbarism.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
RB, much as I’d like to think Shortland Street was in fact part of an evil conspiracy – because that would at least suggest there’s a synapse still firing somewhere in telly land – sadly I suspect that if you said to anyone involved with Shortland Street that their show was Gramascian in intent their reply would encapsulate a denial that they were, in fact, trying to win a Grammy but they had high hopes of landing another Qantas Award for favourite programme :-/
July 15th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
dude! shame on you!
im gonna summarise the plot for next week.
A good looking white doctor who dates an obese brown nurse, will become addicted to drinking/drugs/gambling or another vice. the fat pc nurse will then help to solve his problem.
just like in real life
the end
oh almost forgot – look for the introduction of a transexual albino next month
July 16th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Might I suggest The Hollowmen on ABC instead?
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/hollowmen/#/watch
July 16th, 2008 at 6:39 am
What Redbaiter said. That program is pc garbage.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Agree with Redbaiter and LabourMustBeLiquidated. Shortland Street is clearly an important component of a long-term program to turn New Zealand into a socialist gulag propagated by scheming socialists hidden in our TV bureaucracy. So DPF what are you going to do in November, when John Key orders all communist propaganda taken off the air?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Farrar has the female gene.
The only thing worse than a 1/2 hour of shortland crap is a 1/2 hour of coronation street.
Even that campbell guy is better
July 16th, 2008 at 7:40 am
If you have that kind of time surely Outrageous Fortune would be more satisfying. Last night’s episode must become a classic.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Grant S: “a total lack of any – even remotely – endearing characters.”
That’s exactly what I’ve been trying to put my finger on as a reason I despise the appalling bloody thing. Everyone in it is the sort of unsympathetic twat I’d go on the wagon to avoid if they drank in my local. They’re exactly the sort of people who, if you once started hitting them, you’d never stop.
Wreck: “The only thing worse than a 1/2 hour of shortland crap is a 1/2 hour of coronation street. ”
Steady on – at least the Coro cardboard cutouts can manage at least two facial expressions each. And the writing occasionally rises to poetic heights.
July 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Sorry right-wing conspiracy theorists, but your tax dollars don’t prop up Shortland St. It gets no charter or NZ On Air funding — it’s purely funded through commercial avenues (ie advertising due to high ratings). The free market at work, I’m afraid. Presumably enough NZers like this dreaded rainbow-nation PCness at 7pm to keep it running …
July 16th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Callum who? got what?
sorry, I must be missing something, I thought SHortland Street was the place that Ernst & Young have offices in the Axa Building .
Am I missing something?
EVERYONE else here seems to know what you are talking about David.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:15 am
“Sorry right-wing conspiracy theorists, but your tax dollars don’t prop up Shortland St. It gets no charter or NZ On Air funding — it’s purely funded through commercial avenues (ie advertising due to high ratings). The free market at work, I’m afraid. ”
I for one never said Shortland St. was presently state funded. I’m aware this circumstance changed a long time ago. What I said was it “has is origins in state funding.” Meaning it started off so. Remedial reading lessons might help avoid any such misunderstandings in the future.
“Presumably enough NZers like this dreaded rainbow-nation PCness at 7pm to keep it running”
Nothing to be smug about. Really just an indictment of NZ society, but more so the education system. But that’s another Gramascian socialist balls up. Anyway, good to see that universally TV viewership is dropping. As far as entertainment goes, its mostly just utter mind rotting crap right??
July 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
dudethatabides – you are an awesome, awesome operator, and I can only stand and admire. I’ve never seen ratbiter backpedal before. Let alone backpedal so completely. Let alone backpedal after just one comment like your 9:27am. Nice.