Reading time: 3 mins What’s funny and what’s offensive? The Aristocrats documentary falls short of any insight into the dividing line, although it’s universally acknowledged that the line is there and can be stepped over very easily, in fact there were two definite “not comfortable with this moments” in the documentary itself: One was a comedian telling his version…
Reading time: 2 mins Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic The Aristocrats of the title are the closing line of a joke, a family act that feature in a joke so disgustingly offensive comedians rarely tell it in public, or at least that’s partly why. The beauty of the joke is that the “act” can be swapped…
Reading time: < 1 min Before my Mum returned to work she knitted. A lot. But I’ve mentioned that before, so let’s move on. Cricket then, and yes there is a link between the two because my Mum spent a lot of time knitting she liked to watch something that she could follow whilst glancing up and down from the…
Reading time: 2 mins America has been on the receiving end of some harsh criticism recently, and a lot of it has been warranted. But who are we to criticise? What do we really know about America? For a lot of us, the occasional trip to a big city or a holiday resort, for others you only know what…
Reading time: < 1 min Congrats to our HR/Office Manager Lynn who’s just given birth to 8lbs of baby goodness, Robyn. Which reminds me of a funny story. In my distant past I used to help out at the local Hospital Radio station (must get that site updated…) on the request show. It’s a fairly simple setup, you wander round…
Reading time: < 1 min Met up with an ex-colleague last night for some drinks and can’t believe it’s been over a year since she headed off to Australia. In fact it turned into a bit of a re-union with Kirsten, Lesley Lindsay and Lelly all showing up as well. Half of last night’s company used to work for “the…