Can Anyone Say "Landslide"?

[maxcelcat]

I'm feeling a bit hopeful and optimistic about the election thing.

If the polls continue the way they are...

And the swing is consistent across the whole country...

We might be talking a landslide people...

A good landslide means at least two terms in office. This has worked a treat for Labor here in Victoria - you win enough seats the first time around, it'd take something drastic to lose the next election... Yay.

And I've been doing my part - I spent a good $17 today on pre-paid envelopes to send out a campaign schedule to my comrades in the Northcote Branch :-)

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Fight the Power

[maxcelcat]

I really am crossing my fingers, since there's really not a whole lot else I can do here. Except perhaps crap on online - there's an idea.

Not sure my faith in the Australian Public will every be, er, very faithful. These are the people who watch "Australia Idol" for example!??!?!?

Re: Fight the Power

[alivicwil.livejournal.com]

hey! I watch Idol :p

Re: Fight the Power

[maxcelcat]

Hmmmm... Ok, I'll forgive you :-P

(I should have sighted some other examples of mass stupidity. Pauline Hansen springs to mind...)

Re: Fight the Power

[alivicwil.livejournal.com]

I should probably confess that I also watch Big Brother.

A couple of years back I was out with friends. One girl I hadn't met before made a disparaging remark about BB, and said "What kind of idiots watch that crap?" My good friend and I both said "I do." Awkward silence. The other girl tried to change the subject, "So how do you two know each other?"
My friend replied, casually, "Oh, we did our first Master's degree together."
"First Master's?"
"Yeah, Ali's almost finished her second, and I'm halfway through my PhD."
The girl did the goldfish mouth for a bit, trying to compute reality-tv viewers with post-grad degrees. Highly entertaining.

So, yeah, I watch shit tv, but I don't really fit into the regular demographic ;)

Re: Fight the Power

[maxcelcat]

I'm impressed you didn't try and justify it as "Oh, I'm just seeing what the stupid people are into. It's an anthropological exercise." :-)

We all have our incongrous tastes. I used to watch a lot of NFL for example...

NFL

[alivicwil.livejournal.com]

apparently the only game in the world where the Network can call a time out to fit in an ad break...

Re: NFL

[maxcelcat]

Yeah, that's more or less the case. Weird weird weird.

If you're watching the international feeds, when they don't cut to the ads, the whole game stops for two minutes and people just stand around... Weird.