HAVE WE REACHED BOTTOM YET?

 I saw Tim Wilson on TVOne's Breakfast the other day.

This is an old photograph, taken when he had a real job

He was presenting a 5 minute sequence on 'funny' postings on YouTube!
There were 3 clips.

1. A truck crash in Russia.

2. A pet gibbon stroking a cat

3. It was so unmemorable I can't remember what it was.

Wilson as some people may remember has, for the last decade been TVNZ's political reporter in USA.
He is a journalist and has over the years done some good work.

Now, on his return to Godzone, because the prattish new management has decided to dumb down television news, current affairs and, let's face it - everything, he has been reduced to presenting this shit on the execrable Breakfast programme.

No wonder he looked like a bag of busted arseholes with gaunt, unshaven features and bags under his eyes..

SAGGY EAR LOBES

Men having bloody great discs in their ears. What's that all about?

A new chef at work wears one. What an egg.

Of course what people want to do to decorate themselves with is their business (tatoos, metal studs jammed in every protuberance etc) but I can't help thinking that the real winners will be plastic surgeons in years to come  fixing up saggy earlobes (and other things).

Why don't these turkeys go the whole hog if they want to emulate the Suya Indians?

BANKERS!

Well The National Bank (what a bloody misnomer that is) is going.

I saw a spokesman for owners ANZ on TV mitigating the effect and assuring everyone that they weren't broke.

"We took bottom line profits of one billion dollars last year" this smarmy, smirking Aussi said.
What he meant was that they (an Australian owned bank) took one billion dollars out of New Zealand last year.

No wonder we (New Zealand) is going broke.

A REBEL BECAUSE?

A work colleague's 22 y.o. son (yes he still lives at home) wants to get a tatoo and said colleague asked my opinion on it.
I said that the old arguments of how having a tatoo will be regretted later and that tatoos on old saggy skin look repulsive will have no impact on a young person.

I said to ask him whether he was trying to make a statement or just having a uniform that everyone else has.

Tatoos are so de-rigeur nowadays that they are not having any effect (except raising the ire of grumpy old men and women).
It seems that every young girl has one, especially those repulsive ones at the small of the back (do they know that this originated as a prostitutes ID mark?).

I further said to my colleague that if her son wants to make a statement then tell him to get it on his forehead.

 She looked at me aghast so I softened it and said to tell him that to really make a statement and buck the trend DON'T GET A BLOODY TATOO!

SHORT CUTS

I have another blog - THE CURMUDGEON where I vent my spleen on things that piss me off.

The problem is that it takes time to craft a post and I don't have enough of that since I am working again.
Something comes to mind and I craft a post in it but, by the time I sit down at a computer I've forgotten what I was going to rant rave about say.

Here is THE CURMUDGEON EXPRESS which is a bit like (shudder) Twitter except I won't be telling you what I had for breakfsat or that I like Britney Speirs. I intend to use it to quickly jot down observations and pet peeves.

When I have more time I'll write longer posts on THE CURMUDGEON .