Social Science Things that please me - Part 2

[perthblue]

People always say this whenever its found out someone is a campaigner.

"he looks like an abuser"
"looks psycho"

Its just confirmation bias... Campaigners look like every other person... Before it all came out everyone would have said he looked like a genuine bloke.

I didnt say he looked like an abuser or psycho, just he was a bit floggy

 

[peternorth]

Similarly but not really, Naya Rivera has been charged with battery. She hit her partner in/on the head.

Def psycho (didn't think she was until today)

 

[iluvparis]

Is anyone really surprised by Burke? I thought it was well known the bloke was a complete ****head/borderline psychotic

 

[Shell]

I had no idea

 

[Scotland]

I always just thought he was the dorky bloke who hosted Burke's Backyard and talked about soils and composting and other dull gardening shit.

 

[Cruyff14]

Similarly but not really, Naya Rivera has been charged with battery. She hit her partner in/on the head.

Def psycho (didn't think she was until today)

Dem bolt ons

 

[peternorth]

Dem bolt ons

 

[Engimal v3]

Tasmania. Best nature in the country by far, and I get to live in it every day. Spring time is a blessing.

 

[Shell]

Tasmania. Best nature in the country by far, and I get to live in it every day. Spring time is a blessing.

Not for much longer tho.. i thought you were moving to Melbourne

 

[Perth gal]

seeing don burkes name being dragged through the mud - a bigger campaigner you will not meet

U met him?

 

[Perth gal]

Never mind i read the lift story..

 

[Perth gal]

Similarly but not really, Naya Rivera has been charged with battery. She hit her partner in/on the head.

Def psycho (didn't think she was until today)

That's a nice dress she's almost wearing.

 

[Engimal v3]

Not for much longer tho.. i thought you were moving to Melbourne

I am! It makes me very sad to leave, but I'm sure I'll love Melbourne too. It's not too far away, anyway.

 

[Shell]

I am! It makes me very sad to leave, but I'm sure I'll love Melbourne too. It's not too far away, anyway.

Yeah i remember your thread on the lifestyle board. Good luck with the move!

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[raskolnikov]

Tasmania. Best nature in the country by far, and I get to live in it every day. Spring time is a blessing.

Tasmania is beautiful but let's not go overboard.

 

[Smoooothy]

U met him?

just the once

 

[Smoooothy]

the episode of the price is right I attended while in LA aired overnight

#celebrity

 

[HairyO]

Is anyone really surprised by Burke? I thought it was well known the bloke was a complete ****head/borderline psychotic

There were certainly rumours that he was an arrogant arsehat. He actually had it written in everyone at Channel 9's contract that they had to appear on his show if he wanted them.

I remember Darryl Summers was the only one to tell him to GTFO.

People always say this whenever its found out someone is a campaigner.

"he looks like an abuser"
"looks psycho"

Its just confirmation bias... Campaigners look like every other person... Before it all came out everyone would have said he looked like a genuine bloke.

A friend of mine back in the early 90s was a concierge at a big hotel in Sydney. He helped Rolf Harris get his stuff to his room and apparently Rolf spent the entire time swearing like a trucker and yelling at his assistant in the lift and on the phone to someone else. Learned a few new words too.

Amazingly, what we see on TV or in the movies is often not what the person is really like.

 

[Shell]

Darryl Somers would have been one scary guy too I'd imagine.

(not in the same way Burke was tho)

Love Daz tho. I did go to a taping of when Hey Hey came back for that brief period. IIRC 2009, just after we had won the flag.

 

[HairyO]

Darryl Somers would have been one scary guy too I'd imagine.

(not in the same way Burke was tho)

Love Daz tho. I did go to a taping of when Hey Hey came back for that brief period. IIRC 2009, just after we had won the flag.

Footy reference in GD. Boo !!



Yeah, I dont remember ever hearing any stories about Summers and a lot of the people from the show still are in the industry so it would be easy for them to come forward.

It never ceases to amaze me. It actually takes a lot more effort to be an arseh*le than to just be polite and move on. I heard a story about an actor who over a 9 month movie shoot never once looked their assistant in the eye. Every day the assistant would go to their hotel or trailer and walk them to the car or set, carrying their stuff, holding an umbrella when it rains, getting them food, etc. Never once looked at. Never once spoken to.

How the hell much effort must that be to never once do it, even by accident. It would have to be something you deliberately consider. "okay, when the door opens, do not look. If they say good morning, do not respond" etc.

Then you have actors who on the first day buy everyone pies and throw a party.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Samantha Armytage is a ****ing campaigner that way

 

[Shell]

We wore our footy gear.

I mean Daz is a massive Geelong fan, and we won it a few days before.

Didnt make one reference to the premiership tho, the big campaigner.

 

[Shell]

It never ceases to amaze me. It actually takes a lot more effort to be an arseh*le than to just be polite and move on. y.

Lol that kinda reminds me of an episode of Frontline.

"Um, arent they high fiving each other, dont they have to be in the studio at the same time?"
"Absolutely not- this is TV, everybody hates everyone"
-Jane Kennedy walks in-
"Jan it says here im high fiving the weatherman"
"You wont be high fiving him darling, it will just appear that way"
"Good because im not touching him"

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Lol that kinda reminds me of an episode of Frontline.

"Um, arent they high fiving each other, dont they have to be in the studio at the same time?"
"Absolutely not- this is TV, everybody hates everyone"
-Jane Kennedy walks in-
"Jan it says here im high fiving the weatherman"
"You wont be high fiving him darling, it will just appear that way"
"Good because im not touching him"

you've got such a good memory