NationStates Jolt Archive

In the spirit of Whittier (or Whitter------- as he latest incarnation may be known), I bring to your attention a Syndrome brought to us by the highly respected Today Tonight current affairs program, of Australia, who's tireless efforts to sink journalism to new lows, is much appreciated by the uneducated and propagandists alike.

According to their "psychological expert" -noting the deliberate choice not to refer to this distinguished gentlemen as a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychoanalyst- Whiny Bitch Face Syndrome, or WBFS affects "all teenage girls" and is characterised by "a non-willingness to participate in family activities, such as Church".... because, heavens forbid in a nation where 95.7% of the population have not attended Church in the past four years, a child might not wish to worship a childhood fable... by which I obviously mean our Lord and Saviour.

But, perhaps I am too quick to judge the bastion of journalistic taste, surely their use of children riding bikes against syn ester music to indicate "our youth are out of control" is an accident, and a recent warning by a myriad of legal figures that the news media is not immune defamation laws, in Queensland, does not indicate a failing on the part of this noble institution.

Then again, maybe it's time Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch and the other pimps of our prostituted media have cottoned on to scary factoid, we, as a society, are willing to tolerate a government that lies to enter a war, who corrodes our civil rights and ergo have no cause to question a deceitful media, who only reflect the dominant values, attitudes and beliefs of our elected officials...

Wait a minute. They actually used the term 'Whiny Bitch Face Syndrome'?

Yeah. The show in particular featured Dr. Michael Carr-Greg, some psychologist or something. He's spoken to my year at school. When his first words were, "My father spent his young adulthood bombing the crap out of the Germans," I knew that I didn't like him.

...

Did I mention that he's a penis?

Wait a minute. They actually used the term 'Whiny Bitch Face Syndrome'?
Yes... unfortunately...

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Did I mention that he's a penis?
It was implied...

So..is that what theyre calling normal bitchy teenage angst these days?

As if its never been like this?

We have to assign a "syndrome" to it now?

You have no idea how much angst Today Tonight causes me.:headbang:

What is even worse is that people are influenced by it AND THESE PEOPLE VOTE.

However I am a strong supporter for universal suffrage but not a supporter of the uneducated masses that are indoctrinated by such trash. (i.e. old people)

So..is that what theyre calling normal bitchy teenage angst these days?

As if its never been like this?

We have to assign a "syndrome" to it now?
No "they" haven't, one idiot, who I'm sure got his psych credits through finger painting in a Mexican community college, has named it...

You have no idea how much angst Today Tonight causes me.:headbang:

What is even worse is that people are influenced by it AND THESE PEOPLE VOTE.

However I am a strong supporter for universal suffrage but not a supporter of the uneducated masses that are indoctrinated by such trash. (i.e. old people)
I've never been for media censorship, until I watched that trash, here ïs a typical Today Tonight headline:

"Immigrants; they marry our women and steal our money"

No "they" haven't, one idiot, who I'm sure got his psych credits through finger painting in a Mexican community college, has named it...


So basically some wanker got a talk-show and professes to know what hes talking about, when clearly, he reeks of asshattery?

Lol, heres something I tyrped up a few months ago, funnily enough on this very same issue. Some of it is out of date, true, but it gives you an idea of the quality of Today Tonight.
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It has been a long time coming, I have harboured this show much malice for a long, long time now. I cannot hold it in a moment longer!



Why??? Why can't we stop the madness that is Today Tonight?!?! This vile, ignorant, pessimistic, sexist, scaremongering load of tripe deserves less respect and care than the cockroaches who live under my fridge. I find it insanely offensive the way they almost completely ignore both the worlds important issues AND THE FACTS! I have seen, despite my limited exposure to this program, an overwhelming number of corrections to previous stories. Unsurprisingly, the stories that often get corrected are the ones which have a little bit more importance upon the world.



To illustrate, I give examples: [Some of these I just saw on the ads, and some I watched the program (despite knowing I would regret it later, I couldn't resist seeing how badly they stuffed it up)]



--TEENAGE HOOLIGANS! Destroying neighbourhoods with loud music, fast cars, and crime.--



Upon hearing this tagline on the ad, I was forced to watch it. As I said earlier, I knew this was going to be a bad idea, but I couldn't help myself. Besides, I needed some facts before I started arguing. This way I know what I'm talking about. Anyway, they showed gangs of people (supposedly teenagers, but how were we to know?) roaming the streets, supposedly being generally unruly. However, upon closer inspection, I realised something: in the footage, the people were doing NOTHING WRONG. Just walking along. I discovered the only reason they looked "unruly" was that it was very amateur looking filming, and the picture was very graining. The type of camera used when people film riots, that’s what it looked like, which is why it looked so bad for them.



Then they cut to some footage of young people (possibly teenagers, possibly older, probably a mix) fighting and chasing and running away from police. I noticed something straight away about this footage... IT WASNT AUSTRALIAN! I saw a police car, and it had the words "Hamburg Polizei" on it. That's right, GERMANS! This was a new low, even for Today Tonight. Funnily enough, they "corrected" this bit on the next episode. Then after talking with an expert (who, as the Chaser team described so well, both handed a document to a receptionist AND took a book off the shelf AND clicked a mouse! This was obviously a very experty expert) for a bit, they showed some footage of drag racing.



Funny thing is this: One part of the drag racing footage was taken from the INSIDE of a car, and conveniently you couldn’t see the speedometer. I'm not even gonna bother explaining about this one. The other footage was a little bit more subtle. It showed two souped up Commodores doing burnouts and then shooting off to drag, whilst the audience all cheered. This was legitimate, only more so than Today Tonight anticipated. This was at Calder Park, where they hold legal off-street drag racing, so that people don't do it ON the street and kill themselves, or someone else. I would have thought Today Tonight should encourage such a show, but apparently not. Indeed, this entire feature article was a sham.



--MIGRANT ENCLAVES! Choosing to live with their own race in certain areas, not even bothering to learn the language. 20, 30, 40 years, so why can't they be like the rest of us?--



I'm sure many of you saw this, so I won’t go into such detail (besides, I must go to bed soon). But basically, all the images showed Muslims (scapegoat of the month, as it were) going to certain suburbs and staying as traditional to their own land as they could, many of them did not speak English (supposedly; they provided absolutely NO source for this information). I found this one of the most offensive things ever. Not only is it just stirring up the racial tensions (ala Cronulla), but it is completely hypocritical! We don't know the Aboriginal language(es), we don't often mix with them, and we certainly don't try to adopt their way of life. So how can we expect others to??



Not only this, as I mentioned earlier, they showed NO PROOF that what they said was truth. Just some random footage and impressive tables and (dundudundaaa!) an "expert". Sure, there are some suburbs with higher rates of non-Anglo people (Box Hill, anyone?) but these aren’t nearly as dramatic as they are made out to be. And just because they live with people who happen to look like them doesn't mean they don't learn english, or refuse to associate with other Australians. Even if they speak their home language to each other they will still speak english to others. We would do the same if we moved country.



--EVIL COUNCILS! The local councils outrageous attempts to deprive this 84 year old pensioner of her right to keep her pension!--



Admittedly, I didn't watch this segment, and I realise what I'm saying may sound a little callous, but here it is. This was an 84 year old, retired, and lived alone but for her 2 cats. She still had some living relatives, but she was quite lonely (again, no proof of this). After her husband died, her pension dropped to accommodate the lower expenditure. She was understandably unhappy about this, we all would. We like money.



But heres the kick: Her husband had been a very successful and intelligent man. He had left her, and only her (apparently the rest of the family didn’t like him, or something) his $3.4 million mansion in Toorak, his small but very profitable business management centre, and all his luxuries (great car, TV, etc.)



They estimated this woman’s worth to be above more than 99% people... in developed countries! And still Today Tonight argued for her sake, thankfully the council refused her extra $82 a week. Call me a communist, but there are better uses for that money.



Well, now I have run out of coherent things to say, I could go on about paedophiles and whatnot but I'd just be repeating the Chasers again. (Great show, best political satire I've ever seen).



I hope you will all avoid this show. And if you don't? I'll stick my teenage hooligan evil migrant pedophile council worker on you!



Over and Out,

Ryan

So basically some wanker got a talk-show and professes to know what hes talking about, when clearly, he reeks of asshattery?
Talkshow? I wish. Today Tonight is the single poorest attempt at news since The People's Daily stopped publishing Mao's Daily Denouncements...

Imagine "The National Inquirer" meets "Fox News" meets a steaming pile of horseshit...

Imagine "The National Inquirer" meets "Fox News" meets a steaming pile of horseshit...

Oi, I thought you didn't like it!

Oi, I thought you didn't like it!
Because of my glowing endorsement...?

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That sounds like the most hilarious programme ever.

That sounds like the most hilarious programme ever.
If only it were intentionally funny, and wasn't the staple news source of hundreds of thousands of voters...

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Don't entirely disband those issues, though. Just because the village idiot says that we're losing the Vietnam War, doesn't mean that we're not.

Don't entirely disband those issues, though. Just because the village idiot says that we're losing the Vietnam War, doesn't mean that we're not.
Maybe. But, I would rather the give village idiot's ramblings a pinch of salt, than the benifit of the doubt.

Any links online to examples (video clips)? I'd love to see some of this rubbish.

You know who really suffers from this? Chloe O'Brien, from 24.
http://www.geocities.com/TwentyFour_fox/Chloe.JPG
If that ain't a whiney b*tch face, I don't know what is.

Liasia']Any links online to examples (video clips)? I'd love to see some of this rubbish.
Check their website out, but have a vomit-bag on hand!
http://seven.com.au/todaytonight

You know who really suffers from this? Chloe O'Brien, from 24.

I hate the way that the assassins managed to kill Plamer, Michelle and Tony and yet failed to kill her. Is there no fairness in the world?

From the Today Tonight website...

[Man Annoyed by Question...?]
Have you been the victim of a serial complainant?

[Picture of Middle Eastern Gentlement]
Do you know someone collecting Centrelink ([sic] welathfare) benefits to which they are not entitled?

[Man Driving Car]
Know someone who may have ripped people off, but continues to live in the lap of luxury?

More on the claimed faith healing of a small boy.

Modern love
Need love in your life? Read the dating rules for men.

Modern dating rules for men
Watch out, girls! If relationship coach Tony Collis has his way, you will no longer be getting romantic gifts from the men in your lives. More...

Junk mail spies
Letterbox-stuffers who fill your mailbox with pamphlets may soon be paid to spy on your property, to see if it needs painting, curtains or lawnmowing. More...

Made in China
While some worry about overseas workers coming into Australia, another looming concern is the businesses that are leaving. More...

I hate the way that the assassins managed to kill Plamer, Michelle and Tony and yet failed to kill her. Is there no fairness in the world?
Phone Channel Seven, I'm sure the Producers of Today Tonight can explain to you how Arab immigrants and their "un-Australian" and "un-Christian" values have caused everything from AIDs, to your plot concerns

I am going to ring TT with some phony stories.

For teh lulz

This was on Today Tonight? OMGROFLOLLERSKATES! That show has sunk to new lows. From your other thread I assume you watch the Chaser- gotta love the Current Affairs section. Mad rampaging Australian youth sitting on porches and riding bicycles are a threat to the integrity of the nation.

Because of my glowing endorsement...?

Yeah, you sounded like a devoted fan... at least, compared to what I would describe it as...

That sounds like the most hilarious programme ever.

It would be if they didn't take themselves so seriously...

That sounds like the most hilarious programme ever.

I agree! From the title to the descriptions given!

Are there any copies of the program on YouTube or similar?

I really enjoy watching Media Watch on the ABC, they love to take the long handled bat to Today Tonight.

You have no idea how much angst Today Tonight causes me.:headbang:

What is even worse is that people are influenced by it AND THESE PEOPLE VOTE.

However I am a strong supporter for universal suffrage but not a supporter of the uneducated masses that are indoctrinated by such trash. (i.e. old people)
May I just congratulate you and award you a perfect 100/100 agreement score.

You even put a more or less underhanded comment against old people in!

Mmmmhhh, TT-Economics:
http://seven.com.au/todaytonight/story/?id=28543
Vegemite's owner, the US food giant Kraft, says it would never happen. But Dick Smith insists Vegemite could end up being made in China.

"The second they can save a few cents by making Vegemite in China, or Brazil or Indonesia, that's what they will do," Dick said.

Last week, Kraft closed down its Melbourne biscuit-making plant with the loss of 150 jobs, opting to set up operations in China.

But Kraft is not alone. Plenty of other Australian manufacturers have done the same.

Chris Spindler from the Australian Manufacturers Workers Union estimates China has stolen 50,000 jobs in the last 12 months, mostly from the auto components industry.

"If government policy remains the same ... I can't see any halt to the loss in the auto components industry and then possibly the car makers themselves," Mr Spindler said.
*continues*

Another thing on that site is
Modern dating rules for men
by relationship coach Tony Collis.
Before we go any further, let's have alook at this relationship expert:
http://www.sfcs.org.uk/images/ant%5B2%5D.jpg
Now ask yourself - how desperate would you have to be to think a guy who looks like this could give you good advice about improving your relationships?

Mull that over, while you read the article:
Watch out, girls! If relationship coach Tony Collis has his way, you will no longer be getting romantic gifts from the men in your lives.

Tony said the world of modern dating has become more complex – the rules of engagement have changed – and, as a result, men were floundering.

"I think a lot of men have the idea that the way to impress a woman, or the way to her heart is to take her out on an expensive dinner, buy her gifts and so on," Tony said.

"We advocate the absolute opposite."

Tony said he wanted Australian men to throw out the rulebook on romance - flowers, lavish dinners, and expensive gifts were out.

Although the approach was not romantic, it seemed to work.

Tony has coached hundreds of Aussies males to find love, by teaching them not to be such saps.

"Genetically and physiologically, I think men are programmed to grab women by the hair, take her to the cave, have his way with her and pro-create," Tony said.
"And society and culture has obviously prevented that and so a man has to learn new ways to affectively achieve the same result."
Bloody Society and Culture! Undermining what it is to be a MAN and not allowing us to drag off and rape any woman we want to - since that's all we want, innit guys? Sod being in a relationship. I just wanna rape and pilllage. But the bloody Feminazis won't let me!
Thank God for brave men like this slaphead Tony Colon here who is standing up against 'political correctness' and telling us to be the mindless insensitive brutes we really are.

btw, how does one 'affectively achieve the same result'?


Oh, and Tony: Tony said he wanted Australian men to throw out the rulebook on romance - flowers, lavish dinners, and expensive gifts were out.
Ah...no need mate. A romantic Aussie male is a contradiction in terms. It's like the unicorn. Doesn't exist. Most romantic thing an Aussie bloke would buy his sheila is a replacement fan belt for her '78 Holden.

Back onto the article:
In the modern world, Tony claimed nice guys finished last, and women did not want the sort of guy who cries at the end of Love Actually.

As a result, Tony encouraged his clients "be cocky, be cheeky, tease them a bit and don't be afraid to start physical contact very, very early".

Tony said the most important thing for the modern man was to not look too keen.

For example, men were apparently not meant to lean in to a woman when meeting her, because it gives her the power to reject him. Instead the mountain should come to Mohammad.

"If you tend to sit back, totally relaxed in your own reality, and you speak at your own volume, which is slightly lower than she can hear, she will be tempted to lean into you," Tony said.
Right. Where to begin.
Who says 'nice guys' are ones who cry at the end of 'love actually'? Maybe they're just nice guys. (actually I very nearly did cry at the end of that film, when I realised I'd just lost 2 hours of my life to that turkey).
Aren't you contradicting yourself a bit here:
don't be afraid to start physical contact very, very early".
Tony said the most important thing for the modern man was to not look too keen.
How can you NOT look keen if you start groping her first chance you get?
Oh, wait. Of course. You don't look keen. You just look sad, desperate and pathetic.

Final bit:
Finally, Tony said men needed to find creative ways to look mysterious because women were inherently nosy.

"If you walked up to her and said something along the lines of, I know something about you that nobody else knows, and then you walk off without looking back, odds are if she's available and she's single, she'll come after you and say what do you mean by that, and you don't have to mean anything, it doesn't matter," Tony said.
No.
Just no.
That would not work. That just makes you look like a prat. A creepy prat at that. Especially if you can't think of something. At best.
At worst, it might look like you are a stalker.


This is the sort of crap they put on this program?
It's better than the Bruno Lawrence 'Frontline' - but that was a comedy.

[Picture of Middle Eastern Gentlement]
Do you know someone collecting Centrelink ([sic] welathfare) benefits to which they are not entitled?


Ooh, there is a video too.

It gets better too. There is some whining about a good white family not getting as much as they should.

TT is the worst peice of **** on aussie TV... 60 minutes (http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/), A Current Affair (http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/) are better but only just...

Bazalonia']TT is the worst peice of **** on aussie TV... 60 minutes (http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/), A Current Affair (http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/) are better but only just...

That's like saying Being drowned in 1,000,000 litres of urine is better than being drowned in 1,000,000,000 litres... not much better.

I've never been for media censorship, until I watched that trash, here ïs a typical Today Tonight headline:

"Immigrants; they marry our women and steal our money"


LOL :p

LOL :p

And that isnt even extreme :rolleyes:

I don't doubt that it exists, except it's not really a syndrome. That's like saying it's a mental disorder, apparently like PMS. I reckon it was some kind of f***tard chauvanistic pig that made that up that doesn't realise it's due to hormone levels changing RETARD! Unfortunately, even though it's now a 'syndrome', it doesn't give us an excuse to behave badly, at least not in the eyes of my male-dominated household. Having said that, I'd be just as bitchy with 2 of my housemates anyway. In fact, they're the only ones that my 'syndrome' affects. Stupid wankers.

I don't doubt that it exists, except it's not really a syndrome. That's like saying it's a mental disorder, apparently like PMS. I reckon it was some kind of f***tard chauvanistic pig that made that up that doesn't realise it's due to hormone levels changing RETARD! Unfortunately, even though it's now a 'syndrome', it doesn't give us an excuse to behave badly, at least not in the eyes of my male-dominated household. Having said that, I'd be just as bitchy with 2 of my housemates anyway. In fact, they're the only ones that my 'syndrome' affects. Stupid wankers.
Wankers, ah? Queenslander?