What is it about bagpipes?
Every official function I've watched over the last few years has had either a lone piper or a full pipe band as part of it.
I've just watched a group of graduating students walk across Christchurch from the Arts Centre to the Town Hall.
They were, of course, led by a bloody piper.
Often at functions, by the time the stoneage wailing and the pipe band (stoneage screeching?) have finished there is no time for the function.
Why in this English based, multicultural society as far from Britain as anyone can get, do function organisers insist on this bloody Scottish torture at every junction?
The noise defies description.
It is a well known fact that after the Royal Navy, the Royal Airforce and the “Paras” had failed to remove the Argentine forces from the Falklands in 1982 a lone piper was installed, with megaphone, on a hill overlooking Port Stanley. (13th of June, 1982 – look it up)
A great tactic.
The Paras withdrew three miles out to sea and those Argies who could not run/swim fast enough surrendered en-masse to the only Pom left on the island, a deaf gunner's mate who was having a slash when the piper started up, and demanded earplugs.
I myself am on record as stating that far from being best when heard emanating from over the water (an oft told falsehood) bagpipes are far better when heard coming from under the water.
The only time I've ever found the bagpipes even partially acceptable was when a group of four young fellows started playing outside the Christchurch Cathedral last week and for a short time their caterwauling drowned out the incessant, tuneless whistling and braying of a blind lunatic who infests this area and pollutes the whole square.
Surely it is time for NZ to stand up and say enough, we want our own “music” to lead the procession.
I suggest a lone Maori guitarist strumming Ten Guitars – which should, if you think about it take care of the stoneage wailing as well.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Swine flu
Swine flu fever is gripping the world!
Gripping may be the most accurate word here.
In fact it appears that outside of Mexico the new "flu" causes just mild inconvenience and people recover from it easily with zero deaths reported - even among the very young, old etc. who succumb to most "flu" type viruses.
Could this virus be the first overtly racist virus ever detected?
Gripping may be the most accurate word here.
In fact it appears that outside of Mexico the new "flu" causes just mild inconvenience and people recover from it easily with zero deaths reported - even among the very young, old etc. who succumb to most "flu" type viruses.
Could this virus be the first overtly racist virus ever detected?
Saturday, April 25, 2009
new PC
Why, when buying a new PC or upgrading damned near everything in the existing one is a simple, daylong process, not even that expensive anymore does it take weeks to find stuff you already had for the new set-up and why can't I bloody find everything I had?
Friday, April 10, 2009
A new low
Stuff.co.nz on Easter Saturday, 11 April, 2009, has managed something no one thought possible.
It has created a new low in reporting.
A headline on Stuff.co.nz reads "Girl loses limb to out-of-control street racers".
The body of the story, once you get past the pure sensationalist bullshit however states that the girl who was hurt was among a group sitting on the road, drinking just over the brow of a hill and the young male driver, driving a typical young male's car, came over the top of that rise, saw the girl too late, swerved to avoid her, also too late, and ran her over.
The police called to the scene obviously noted the true nature of the incident and let the young man go without charge.
Whether he is charged later makes no difference.
While there is a problem with boy racers the problem is small, most so-called "boy racers" being simply young men and women doing exactly what young men and women have been prone to do since clubs as marital tools went out of fashion, attracting like minded people of the opposite sex for the purpose of mating.
This incident had nothing to do with boys racing and by sensationalising the story with such an ignorant headline just proves how pathetic NZ's media is.
Shame in Stuff.co.nz!
It has created a new low in reporting.
A headline on Stuff.co.nz reads "Girl loses limb to out-of-control street racers".
The body of the story, once you get past the pure sensationalist bullshit however states that the girl who was hurt was among a group sitting on the road, drinking just over the brow of a hill and the young male driver, driving a typical young male's car, came over the top of that rise, saw the girl too late, swerved to avoid her, also too late, and ran her over.
The police called to the scene obviously noted the true nature of the incident and let the young man go without charge.
Whether he is charged later makes no difference.
While there is a problem with boy racers the problem is small, most so-called "boy racers" being simply young men and women doing exactly what young men and women have been prone to do since clubs as marital tools went out of fashion, attracting like minded people of the opposite sex for the purpose of mating.
This incident had nothing to do with boys racing and by sensationalising the story with such an ignorant headline just proves how pathetic NZ's media is.
Shame in Stuff.co.nz!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Teleprompt blog
Obama, the mistake the American people will be paying for for decades continues to make the faux pas his own, the latest being an attack on disabled athletes.
We can reveal that it is in fact the fault of the teleprompter he reads for every occasion.
We can reveal that it is in fact the fault of the teleprompter he reads for every occasion.
What's that again?
This column just needs to be shared if just to remind us that all sportspeople, not just our perennially losing cricketers, are human first, superheros second.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Bloody awful!
I had the misfortune last night to watch some rugby (well I think it was rugby) while eating dinner.
How I managed to keep the food down still surprises me.
What I saw was two groups of players, one group wearing two-tone pink, the other dark blue with yellow and sh*t-brown (after a VERY hard night) highlights.
The fellow who was carried off just as I started to watch looked strangely familiar.
After watching a bit I wondered if he was simply broken-hearted at the play of his compatriots.
I have never seen 31 (32 if you count the carried off fellow)such clueless, direction-less and inept men performing - anywhere - ever.
That TV shows this rubbish in prime time surprises me (although I admit not a lot).
What amazed me though was that a crowd that appeared to be in the high hundreds watched this crap without invading the pitch and showing the pathetic bastards how to f**king do it.
Some were even shown jumping around, cheering (although I suspect this might have been added file footage from some gay mardi gras given the dress and make-up displayed)
In today's world it appears people will watch any old rubbish.
I wonder how long it will be before some bright bastard will come up with a game that is a cross between tippenny runs, baseball and french cricket, pretends it is a true sport and markets it as the new, exciting way forward.
How I managed to keep the food down still surprises me.
What I saw was two groups of players, one group wearing two-tone pink, the other dark blue with yellow and sh*t-brown (after a VERY hard night) highlights.
The fellow who was carried off just as I started to watch looked strangely familiar.
After watching a bit I wondered if he was simply broken-hearted at the play of his compatriots.
I have never seen 31 (32 if you count the carried off fellow)such clueless, direction-less and inept men performing - anywhere - ever.
That TV shows this rubbish in prime time surprises me (although I admit not a lot).
What amazed me though was that a crowd that appeared to be in the high hundreds watched this crap without invading the pitch and showing the pathetic bastards how to f**king do it.
Some were even shown jumping around, cheering (although I suspect this might have been added file footage from some gay mardi gras given the dress and make-up displayed)
In today's world it appears people will watch any old rubbish.
I wonder how long it will be before some bright bastard will come up with a game that is a cross between tippenny runs, baseball and french cricket, pretends it is a true sport and markets it as the new, exciting way forward.
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