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!