elections, plans and things

Well. finally. election time is over. I must say my least fav time of the year....or time of the year every 3 or 4 years. So not the point. I just have this thing about stupid people. can't stand 'em. I dislike stupid people voting for people who aren't stupid. no. they just have something wrong with them that makes them want positions of power but not help people.

No. that's not true. i have met some pollies who were quite nice and seemed to want to help. I guess it is just that the nature of the game has made them seem fake and wishy-washy about stuff.

So not what i want to talk about. I want to talk about why should never have live twitter feeds displaying in the background while your election counting program is on. My mother stayed up for HOURS and watched them. They were on all the channels (even SBS...which i found quite unnecessary).

This is annoying because the FIRST THING the news man anchoring the "panel" and channel nine said when the show opened was: "this is going to be too close to call...we wont know until tomorrow".

*pause*

so i guess that is why they had to have HOURS of panel discussions then.....bastards.

getting back to the twitter feeds. mum was watching to read the twitter feed. she said it was the best bit. Her favourite was one that said:

"some one call for a doctor...i think one of the panel just twitched...they aren't all dead"

*snort*

so if you are going to live feed...you probably need to say to the guy checking for swear words that perhaps anything insulting as well. Or maybe the guy who had to check for swearing (come on...this is twitter people....and politics...you can't tell me every 3rd or 4th tweet had swear words in it) had the same thought and HATED that his Saturday night was being spent checking the twitter feed for swear words

*grin*

so things are a little slow here. coming up to school holidays and i am just dead on my feet this semester. need a break. which i am not going to get.

Still planning my plan.

Hi to Katrina (the slightly elder) wish i was there. Hi to the guy i talked about penguins with. Yes they are just awesome (i don't like any animals usually...my cat doesn't count).


best get back to my sunday afternoon....of not doing much and listening to my neighbours mow there lawns...take care!

politics and stuff....

So we are having this election. Thing. It sucks. I dislike everything about it. Not that i dislike politics but i don’t like people treating me like an idiot. Also, that races are run today like some reality show. Because they are soooo based on reality. I mean does anyone believe they weren’t manipulated by Master Chef and dude, that was just cooking!!?

What doesn’t suck is Maree (12) and her experience of learning about it. Politics.
Yesterday her class elected her the prime minister. And in her own teary words:

“they then dumped me and voted someone else prime minister like 15 minutes later. They hate me. I am not talking to them anymore”.

If you follow Aust Politics does this not sound awfully familiar? The things is that she has no idea that she is was an example of:

(a) Life imitating art (or in this case school class project imitating almost real life)
(b) irony
(c) a class of kids who had NO IDEA just what they were imitating or why it was funny

Seriously i had to stop to wipe my eyes on the way home....and try not to make it seem like i was laughing at all. She was devastated. And she def did not understand when i told her that Mr Rudd knows exactly how she feels.

Don’t worry about Maree though. We talked on the way home today and they are all best of friends now. They made her minister of “arguing with people”. Don’t you wish that was a real portfolio?

*sigh*

Only ....well the election is sometime this month so, not long. And i have class photos and a dance spectacular to get through first. So you know. Busy.

I have also been busy planning things. Well, being tired and a bit grump as well. But mostly plotting my come back. Haven’t finished plotting yet. Let’s just say it is almost fiendishly clever.

*wave*