No, no, no, no!
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:05 pmI am getting another cold! Why??!*
Obviously it's all the people sneezing over me on the train. Handkerchiefs you bastards!!
Watching the ABC tonight, which is the Australian government channel that has less sex than the other one, they have a great show called the Gruen Transfer that dissects advertising. Tonight they are looking at Road Safety adverts, and by jingo they're intense. Good! I say. Having nearly been killed myself several times and lost several of my nearest and dearest to speeding and law-breaking drivers I say make the fuckers feel bad every time they watch television! And then fine them, take their cars and break their kneecaps. Alas, the last is not on the agenda of any Western government.
This was the one that I was most impressed by, it was first screened at 3 minutes, simultaneously on every commercial channel in Victoria. It's very very good. But, it's very very hard to watch if you're one of the people who's been on the receiving end of the damage caused by speeding drivers. It made me happy to see such an effective personalisation of a problem that is often just swept aside as government revenue raising through speed cameras. But it also made me happy that I don't watch commercial television.
On a cheerier note, pudding recipes for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pushdragon! NB, if anyone not in Oz wants to make them, an Australian cup is 250mL, an Australian tablespoon is 20mL (US and UK use a 15mL tablespoon).
* It's the Pope, isn't it? Well, nuts to you, il Papa, I still think you're wrong on homosexuality, birth control and how cashed-up your World Youth Day needs to be!
Obviously it's all the people sneezing over me on the train. Handkerchiefs you bastards!!
Watching the ABC tonight, which is the Australian government channel that has less sex than the other one, they have a great show called the Gruen Transfer that dissects advertising. Tonight they are looking at Road Safety adverts, and by jingo they're intense. Good! I say. Having nearly been killed myself several times and lost several of my nearest and dearest to speeding and law-breaking drivers I say make the fuckers feel bad every time they watch television! And then fine them, take their cars and break their kneecaps. Alas, the last is not on the agenda of any Western government.
This was the one that I was most impressed by, it was first screened at 3 minutes, simultaneously on every commercial channel in Victoria. It's very very good. But, it's very very hard to watch if you're one of the people who's been on the receiving end of the damage caused by speeding drivers. It made me happy to see such an effective personalisation of a problem that is often just swept aside as government revenue raising through speed cameras. But it also made me happy that I don't watch commercial television.
On a cheerier note, pudding recipes for
pushdragon! NB, if anyone not in Oz wants to make them, an Australian cup is 250mL, an Australian tablespoon is 20mL (US and UK use a 15mL tablespoon).* It's the Pope, isn't it? Well, nuts to you, il Papa, I still think you're wrong on homosexuality, birth control and how cashed-up your World Youth Day needs to be!
