Tomorrow is debatable too.
But you certainly don’t need to watch the over-produced mess; just be a resultist afterwards.
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I’m glad I watched that.
Fake quiz shows where all the contestants are ‘comedians’. Every answer needs a joke applied, everyone laughs. And so on and so forth.
ABC seems to be full of these.
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Or the last decade.
Or maybe the next.
You forgot the bit where they stop the show so that someone - usually the very unfunny Will Anderson - mugs some scripted “ad lib” joke to camera to even yet more laughter.
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SBS Celebrity Letters and Numbers was appalling. For a start, they were all as funny as a fart in a phonebox.
Just leave that to 8OO10CDC.
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I’ve always wondered why these “comedy” shows recycle the same crew. Dave Hughes. Peter Helliar and Wil Anderson, who’ve always been funny as testicular cancer. Jimeoin, who’s been doing the same routine for 30 years. Andy Lee, who is absolutely nothing without Hamish.
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I apologise for my previous remarks. Farts in a phonebox are hilarious if you’re the offender…even funnier if it’s in a lift and your timing is perfect.
Well it got worse.
They wont use Air BnB and said it’s just whatever we find on realestate.com or Domain. We need to inspect property and they (RACV) will help with paper work. We dont get auto approval and can be knocked back.
The consultant who we are dealing with from RACV has said he is trying to reign in the costs that this has blown out by so doesnt want to keep us where we are and that if need be, he will get us to go back into the home while works are going on and have us move when floors are getting done.
My wife tried to say how can she move furniture and go to inspect homes while we both work. Also with the dust and paint fumes, surely its not ok for an unborn baby. The consultant said “we dont count unborn babies as part of the requirements as its not born yet”.
That’s atrocious.
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time to hit today tonight
I suppose this saddens more than annoys me, but our local newspaper here in Portland appears to be in its death throes after 182 years of publishing.
The Observer is Victoria’s second oldest newspaper and its imminent demise, unless a new owner is found, is symptomatic of the times. Advertising has plummeted, readership is down and it’s no longer a viable business.
Like many local folk, I’ll miss it terribly if it does indeed disappear.
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WTAF
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I agree, it will be a sad day if no new owners are found.
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What’s a newspaper cost these days? I saw the age is something like $4.50 now.
So what’s it cost to buy an actual newspaper? Must be less than $100k
Horsham has three, which is weird for a town that size.
The Horsham Times weekly, $1.50.
The Weekly Advertiser, free.
The Wimmera Mail-Times, tri-weekly, $1.40.
The Observer is $2.80 Tuesday and $3.00 Friday (the real estate edition).
I don’t buy physical newspapers any more but subscribe online (same with The Age) at about half the cost of the print edition.
The biggest issue the publishers face is that advertising, for so long the bread and butter source of income for newspapers, has largely moved to social media and other digital platforms.
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Wow! I don’t know how they can all be sustainable.
Newspapers in general are becoming less relevant and dying out everywhere with their most faithful readers being those of the dwindling older demographic.
I can’t see any long term future for them which, although inevitable, is very sad.
Horsham is very keen on its local sport.
Football, cricket, tennis, all the grades and juniors, basketball, lawn bowls, And…l mean I have to imagine Portland is the same, and it’s not like local issues make the metro papers or the regional tv news.
Council, court, how the State Government is screwing us over in particular again, music festivals, arts festivals, field days…oh…lots of farmer stuff, CWA, local musicals and plays…
There’s a lot to put in it, and people are interested.
The WMT has downsized and centralised its printing and sub-editing, and it’s certainly fewer pages than it’s heyday, but it seems to still be going quite well.
People like proper photos, still, too.
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