Narnia & tails wagging dogs

Narnia and tails wagging dogs this morning.

C S Lewis's classic was a favourite of my daughters both in the book form and the original television adaptation. Little did I think that the rather tubby girl in the TV version would crop up twenty or so years later trying to protect stupid molluscs in the South Island. The leader of these dickheads is a twelve year old girl who I last saw in a wardrobe chasing lions and witches. The only difference is that the original was scared of the Wicked Witch of the South and the current incarnation is a soul mate of Helen Clarke. This nonsense about a 'spy' in the midst of the snail brigade is almost beyond belief. At $100 a week we are hardly talking Aston Martins and vodka martinis here, are we? A conpany is protecting its interest against a bunch of know it all hippies who are patently breaking the law and they are giving beer money to a spotty youth to give them some info as to the activities of this bunch of scrotes. This corporate behaviour is now reprehensible and the bloody greens are demanding that heads must roll. We have had ample evidence in the last day or so that the warped thinking of these idiots is at last being given the short shrift it deserves by the majority of this country. One would hope that they would just go away and realise they are not wanted by people who want to get on with htheir lives and do something useful. I think I'll go and invent some sort of Mortein that you can spray over the irritating inconsequential pests of the world. I'd have no shortage of places to use it.

Tails and dogs. Burger King have been hit by this big time. I would no more eat one of Burger King's offerings than ingest a rock but they should not have to put up with the sort of crap they are getting from the Advertising Standards Authority at the moment. You know the drill. They have a few billboards/TV adverts/newspaper pages - who cares?- featuring women of child bearing age clad in chaste bikinis. The receive eight -just the eight- complaints and the adverts have to be pulled. Nuts. What of the thousands that find such images provide a little light relief to the tedium of a day in the People's Republic of Aoteoroa. Well they can sod off 'cos a handful of prudes have their finger on the pulse of what works in this looney bin and can get their way at the penning of a letter. Is Daniel Carter wearing less than his full playing strip removed from public view? No. But if I find his Jockey clad image deeply offensive how far will I as a middle aged, Anglo Saxon male get in getting it roused. I'll let you work it out for yourself.

I don't want to put ideas into people's heads but if I were a devout muslim I would not want the current crop of Sunsilk adverts to continue as I really should not be looking at a woman displaying her hair before men that are not her husband. Screening old movies (I watched The Italian Job on the plane) showing people smoking should be stopped forthwith. There was mention in Sideswipe this morning of condoms. This is a column that might be read by children. Ana Samway to the stocks - all it would take would be a couple of complaints. Stop this nonsense.

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