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Capt. Zero
24th July 2007, 05:33 AM
I don't know I've seen some pretty cool stuff on IFC out of OZ. I guess what I was trying to say, is that already the mass media is umbiquitous in the west and increasingly so elsewhere, pervading every aspect of our lives if we let it. I recently read an article saying that every US citizen is exposed to 2000 advertisements an hour (the actual nos. somewhere in this area). As I have seen with people who spend hours in front of the tube or any mainstream media become tools of that same media, parroting what the've heard. Nothing original is heard from their mouths. After all, we are monkeys from our birthright and monkey see, monkey do. It is much easier to let others decide your opinions for you.
Seen the other day on the bumper of a Hummer: What would Jesus drive?
Obviously people would rather not think.

Bob38S
24th July 2007, 10:02 AM
The lights under the front bar get the generic term of foglights and I still hate them, no matter what they are called. I too live and travel in the bush and I just don't get the need. As for driving lights I have two Super Oscars and two Hella 1357's. Daylight on high beam with the 130 watt headlights.

Sounds like a really great setup - the super Oscars were a little too big for me as they would not fit into the available space on the bar.

As to the use/non-use of "foglights"

"horses for courses" - I guess.

soundman
24th July 2007, 10:03 AM
Ahh quasi religeous bumber stickers.:~
very rarely to they match the "facts".

back to the question
Because Jesus was a poor carpenter........ just like us and his earthly old man ( joseph ) who ran the family business has a heap of children to support.
While he was workinh in the family business he probaly would have driven the old mans ute (pick up) which wouldn't have been flash, thats if the old man let him drive it.

once he went walkabout.... nothin'..... from what we are told he had the clothes on his back and not much more.
Crikey.... he had to borrow a donkey to make an entrance into Jerusalem & it seems he wasn't driving that.
So that would translate to a lift in the back of a ute ( pickup). from memory Simon Peter would have been driving.

Now a real interesting question would be........ how did Jesus sharpen?:;

cheers

Capt. Zero
24th July 2007, 10:08 AM
No doubt quite carefully.:U

Bob38S
24th July 2007, 10:19 AM
To go in a slightly different direction.........

:((

The frequency of advertisement breaks as well as the number of them.
Was laid up for a while recently and watched some TV - out of desperation.......

Daytime TV - could not believe we could have sunk so low in content + intelligence
With a stop/start, stopwatch - time the ads or the program - you will probably be surprised [perhaps not :no:] as to the content when you have the actual figures.

Current Affairs - more like backyard affairs as to who is having it off with whom or who can we stir up for a good camera reaction.

TV stations who do not stick to advertised start/stop times.

Presenters who think they are God's gift to society. :no::no:

ABC TV and their "Clayton's advertisements" which are only self promotion.

The plethora of "reality" shows - if this is reality, we really need a check up. Does anyone actually watch this drivel [no offense to the Friday group]

I could go on but this is probably enough :B

Zed
24th July 2007, 11:06 AM
one of the things that irks me (and there are many) is the sense of outrage that current affairs reporters/prsenters beam to us thru the tube. I mean just who do they think that they are kidding ? Do they really beleive that we believe they are personnally outraged by some @rseho!e missusing a disabled sticker on his car ? HINT - we know they dont give a rats!!!

I think the absolute lowlight was naiomi and the reptile on her khaki shirt at irwins death. I also feel that that other great bastion of integrity Richard carlton was a past master of pretention and pretending to care for the sake of a scandal and a headline.

@rseho!es the lot of 'em. shoot 'em all.

MurrayD99
24th July 2007, 12:08 PM
@rseho!es the lot of 'em. shoot 'em all.


Well, at least, let's take them in for questioning. Can't believe anyone would disagree with that approach. :2tsup:

MurrayD99
24th July 2007, 12:14 PM
.....I have no problem with American culture, American television & even American sport........In America thats fine..... but I'd like to see a bit less of it here.......What realy annoys me is that our media exectutives are so unemaginative, short sighted and lazy...... oH tight too.

It gets so bad some nights that it is imposible to find a localy produced programe in prime time except for the news.
Don't get me started on the narrowness of the style of content thats another thing all together.


cheers

Quite right Sir. One needs to be flexible and to adopt local customs when abroad. Yes indeed. But with regard to local content, we got plenty of that here, but you wouldn't want to watch it (and I am not referring to the Goddam ads that seem to be cheap to produce and nearly free to air - so better make them 30% of content. What happened to $1m a minute. That'd sort things out). Give me 400 channels to hunt through any day. Rant Rant.

Ruddigar
24th July 2007, 01:07 PM
What's your pet aversion?


People who hijack threads. :~







By the way, has anyone got the new Harry Potter book yet? :2tsup:

Gra
24th July 2007, 01:08 PM
has anyone got the new Harry Potter book yet? :2tsup:

wife has almost finished reading it....

Sturdee
24th July 2007, 04:57 PM
By the way, has anyone got the new Harry Potter book yet? :2tsup:

My daughter started early saturday evening and eleven hours later had finished it and then went to bed.

Peter.

Brown Dog
24th July 2007, 05:13 PM
By the way, has anyone got the new Harry Potter book yet? :2tsup:

Is this the Harry Potter thread now ??? :rolleyes:


Cheers
BD:2tsup:

P.S. I finished it Yesterday...good read :D