Wee gripes: loose thinking/loose slots

Written By: - Date published: 11:42 pm, October 5th, 2009 - 14 comments
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This the kind of garbage isn’t usually worth my time, but that’s what wee gripes is for: Why are Key, Henry and Watkins so excited that the Youtube vid of John Key’s clowning on Letterman has more hits than the vid of Obama on the same show?

For a start, Obama’s vid has more hits.

Anyone who believes that the 150,000 views of Key’s vid are potential American tourists doesn’t have two brain-cells together or, more likely, chooses not to employ their critical faculties due to a combination of wishful thinking and innate dopiness.

Why has Key got 150,000 hits? Because Kiwis went to Youtube to check it out. The media made a huge deal out of it. They even put the Youtube vid on their sites. Check out the stats.

Now I see the Christchurch Casino is going to use the PM’s image and his ‘loosest slots in the Pacific Rim’ line to promote themselves. And Key’s cool with it. Apart from false advertising on the loosest slots bit, what is the world coming to when your PM is shilling for a gambling company?

Life meet farce. You look the same to me:

14 comments on “Wee gripes: loose thinking/loose slots ”

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  1. SHG 1
    6 October 2009 at 3:38 am

    I won’t hear a bad word said about rubgy!

  2. luva 2
    6 October 2009 at 5:28 am

    Ignore it.

    You really need to get some perspective if this trivial thing makes you angry.

    I am no Helen Clark fan but she used used to make some righties so angry and bitter no matter what she did. Their hatred and opposition was more often than not irrational. She would say boo and they would have a problem with it.

    This kind of irrational hatred is starting to inflict the left if this is anything to go by John Key went on a talk show and some people are excited about it.

    So what. Let them be excited. It is no reason to gripe.

  3. Tigger 3
    6 October 2009 at 9:36 am

    Key’s rationale for being ‘okay’ with the casino advertising is this: “”If you look at the numbers who go to Las Vegas or any other gaming destination, if we could get a percentage of those to come down to New Zealand it would be great for everybody.”

    Does he honestly think people going to Las Vegas to gamble will come here instead? He is delusional.

    • Pascal's bookie 3.1
      6 October 2009 at 10:11 am

      “Does he honestly think people going to Las Vegas to gamble will come here instead?”

      They’ll be stocked when they hit Christchurch.

      • snoozer 3.1.1
        6 October 2009 at 11:02 am

        stoked or shocked? 🙂

        • Pascal's bookie 3.1.1.1
          6 October 2009 at 11:07 am

          Neologism!! 🙂

          • Tigger 3.1.1.1.1
            6 October 2009 at 1:46 pm

            Key’s priorities are so upside down. He’ll happily shill for a casino but won’t grow a moustache for Movember. “The organisers of this year’s event said Mr Key had expressed his support but said his job prevented him from growing a moustache.”

            Any truth to the rumour that Key refused to do it but put up Judith Colins and Kate Wilkinson in his place?

            • Maynard J 3.1.1.1.1.1
              6 October 2009 at 2:19 pm

              As if we have not had to suffer for long enough with righties attacking Clark for being a man. Good to see that it has rubbed off, and thanks for your little contribution to making this place a little slice of kiwiblog at times.

              I am getting pretty sick of reading this type of shit.

            • Tigger 3.1.1.1.1.2
              6 October 2009 at 3:49 pm

              JM – I never attacked them for being men – that is clearly your reading of it. I was joking that Key would put up women to do a job he should front for but won’t for some pretend reason…maybe the joke wasn’t well written but you read something in there that wasn’t intended.

            • Maynard J 3.1.1.1.1.3
              6 October 2009 at 4:12 pm

              I thought you were saying they had moustaches, actually. But sorry if I read it the wrong way. Just been getting cranky recently with the type of comments that the Left used to get up in arms about.

            • Tigger 3.1.1.1.1.4
              6 October 2009 at 4:20 pm

              No fair enough, it was a poorly constructed joke upon reflection and I should have focussed on the point – which is that Key’s priorities, in my mind, are loopy.

  4. ghostwhowalksnz 4
    6 October 2009 at 9:38 am

    The Letterman beat up just served to hide the reality of the Obama ‘meeting’. I thought he was going to the White House and having 40 min of face time with major issues discussed. Turns out he got handshake at two meet and greet functions, along with 70 other world leaders.
    No wonder they made so much of the Letterman event.

  5. randal 5
    6 October 2009 at 10:44 am

    at least the government of Samoa has told the nats that they dont want their ghoul patrol turning up for their private moments.

  6. Adders 6
    6 October 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Q: “. . . what is the world coming to when your PM is shilling for a gambling company?’

    A: “From the moment a government encourages its citizenry to finance the state by gambling—which means by idle dreaming—instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis.’ (J.R. Saul, The Doubter’s Companion—A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense’, 1995.)