> > Gruen Fail. > > Totally. We should add 'purposefully out of context' to Wil Andersons regime > of jokes which > mostly are: about 'bogans' and/or plagiarised and/or just plain old not funny.
Agreed, but the show is one of the most useless on TV; grandising one of the most dishonest practices of all time, useless comments by people who think it's 'smart' to take advantage of people. I can't quite believe it's an actual show, but nevertheless. On 7/1/10, Les Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Joseph Cooney wrote: >> One man's cheesy is another man's water-boarding - I like that.... > Also (a lot off topic, a few months old, but in the news today), one > countries torture is another countries Waterboarding.. > > From: > http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/torture_at_times_hks_students.pdf >> From the early 1930s until the modern story broke in 2004, the >> newspapers that covered waterboarding almost uniformly called the >> practice torture or implied it was torture: The New York Times >> characterized it thus in 81.5% (44 of 54) of articles on the subject >> and The Los Angeles Times did so in 96.3% of articles (26 of 27). By >> contrast, from 2002‐2008, the studied newspapers almost never referred >> to waterboarding as torture. The New York Times called waterboarding >> torture or implied it was torture in just 2 of 143 articles (1.4%). > && > > > Gruen Fail. > > Totally. We should add 'purposefully out of context' to Wil Andersons > regime of jokes which mostly are: about 'bogans' and/or plagiarised > and/or just plain old not funny. > > -- > Les "It's almost friday and I'm coming out swinging" Hughes > [email protected] > > > -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
