Garthwatch

Ha. Cuts mooted for Britain's armed services make ours seem paltry by comparison. Ome report I read mentioned disbandment of the RAF and amalgamation into other services.

One for gummi and neil



www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10688278

He's looking at you, kids.

LOL. He is such a moron.

Fuck this is teh most awesome column from Garth in AGES!

I heard Garth got his first pubes last summer....

on the subject of obvious research results

as part of my gf's research, she looks that the effectiveness of health promotion interventions. As part of this, she looked at the effectiveness of various televised anti-speeding advertisements.

When she was interviewed by university media about her research, the one quote they highlighted was her saying that her research shows that men speed more than women. Now, obviously her research wasn't designed to test this, but this fact was still in the data. This fact is nothing new, it wasn't the most interesting thing about her research, or even very interesting at all, but this is the fact they chose to highlight.

Now, when joe bloggs reporter trawls university press releases this quote ("men speed more than women") is often as far they go in their analysis of the research. Joe bloggs reporter then files a story saying, "new research as university X shows men speed more than women".

And then the public, and the garth georges of the world get all shitty because their tax dollars are getting spent on discovering things what are commonsense, when in reality, this isn't what the research is about! it was just bad reporting.

garth gold

http://tvnz.co.nz/media7/s5-e28-video-3958384

Skip the first part to get right to Garth action - though the first part is interesting

seen on tv last night

fair din kum kaiwai he is

lol bob d that was pretty fkn awesome

So fuckin hilarious!

"I stand by everything I write"
"But Garth, you didn't write most of this?"

he also said his antagonist's poll isn't scientific which it isn't

but at least it was his 'poll'

so inaccuracy, so long as it is your own work, is better than regurgitating a source that you neglected to acknowledge?

thats painful. I cant keep watching him fluster his way through that. whats wrong with his chin?

haven't read original survey but how is it inaccurate?

100 opinions > 0 opinions...

Possibly. In this case supposed to be representative of a whole province but garnered only from city: 60 percent male 40 percent female. No idea as to demographic cross section of society.

The best thing about that interview is you know Garth had worked out the audience were laughing at him.

Cue a vengeful attack in his column sometime soon...

Garth better watch out there are poeple keen on taking his old batshit insane columnist title away from him

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10693684

today's "Abortion at the root of pension problems" is simply well... garth... he's a national treasure

Lol I read that, the murder of over 400,000 unborn children since 1974 is directly responsible for super issues... THEY WEREN'T GIVEN A CHANCE TO PAY TAXES!!! Funny how the far right are opposed to government spending exept where their pension is concerned, although I did like the part about Muldoon's pension scheme being the biggest election bribe in history.

I saw that yesterday. Sweet Jesus. Linking abortion to superannuation issues- wow with absolutely no rational or supporting causal link OF ANY KIND. I knew this guy was a grumpy nutbar but this is a new record of craziness. Yay herald:-/

http://www.boganette.com/2010/12/garth-georges-christmas-album.html

HOLY CRAP THEY GAVE HIM A NEW YEARS HONOUR!!! Member of the Order of Merit.
That's insane, although I guess he does share the views of Prince Phillip...

fucking what?

I shit you not:
MNZM: Mr Garth Edward George, of Rotorua. For services to journalism.
http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=49

like his GST on online sales line today

I liked his 'PHO's should be obligated to be open on weekends' bit. I wonder who actually wrote that though, given how moderate and calm it was. :>

Now he's made it he has two options, calm down and act with the dignity his title requires or die

I thought his rant on retail workers was pure straight grumpy old bastard genius!

not to mention Philistine district councillors

go the george

The GST on online sales thing today was interesting BobD. Just checked it out.

The issue I have with retailers crying poor us over all the stuff that gets bought online is the fact that most brands are a complete an utter rip-off in NZ for no reason than they're trying to make much higher margins than retailers do most other places. Time and time again I ask stores if they'll match an online price (shipping included) and they often say they can't even get the item at that price for wholesale. So, either they're rorting people or their (often Australian) suppliers are rorting them.

I once had the offer of some headphones at cost from Sennheiser. When I said they were still cheaper to buy from an online shop they said I was wrong. When I showed them the first whole page of google results proved I was right they changed tack to the "oh, but you don't get a warranty.. bla bla".

Another case in point: Nike Drifit tennis socks. In NZ they're $25 per pair. Online at plenty of places they're US$13 for 3 pairs. Including shipping they're still less than half the price and work out about NZ$9/pair. Local Nike shop's response?: they're fake. They're actually from Nike's own website.

I have no problem at all supporting local retailers but, when the item is easily available online, you should ask them to cut their price: I even pitch it as such: I'm happy to support local but the price disadvantage of normal retail is too much.. A few times they have done so. Buying a Outdoor Research jacket I got 30% off this way. After that I still go into their store to check stuff out and sometimes buy. Most brands could learn a thing or two from this attitude.

I support those who give the best service at the best price in a manner that is a user friendly experience for me (not them) and that is very rarely physical retail in NZ...

that bloody cone

*shakes fist*

every business should have one

Oh he's back baby, in a big way!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10714531





Nice one Herald, nice incitement to violence.

Wow, just wow!

It's INCREDIBLE that this shit gets published...

That old chestnut, which ignores the fact that unlike the Casey "The only thing Chuck Norris is scared of" Heynes example, most bullies are bigger abd stronger than their victims hence why they are able to bully them int he first place. So while the stand up to a bully advice might be favoured by our grandparents, doing so normally results in a proper hiding from a bigger kid and often his mates as well.

I wonder if the herald editor is like the sunday paper one who admitted he didn't read Laws articles before they went to print?

stay classy bully bashers and people from the past

Yeah, similar point from DimPost:

"All the research into bullies shows they tend to be confident, socially popular and highly aggressive, and responding to them violently is likely to lead to an escalation in the level of violence they inflict on their victim. Also, what kind of newspaper publishes a column advising children to dislocate each others jaws?"

Christ that was dismal. LOOK I DON'T READ EVERYTHING, NOTHING IS MY FAULT.

funny that laws is the only one of the old crop of opinionaters that the star times has kept on

his particular style of news is the framework news media here is following - tabloid shite... opinion dressed as fact and with plenty of bile

*shakes fist*

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10716000

RAH WOMEN

"We spend, for instance, millions on what is euphemistically called early childhood education, which is really nothing more than glorified babysitting, millions more on the domestic purposes benefit and millions more on providing maternity leave."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10717561

can't see too many here disagreeing with him this week

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10733860

so utterly predictable today. Yawn, old man hates youger generations, resistant to change.

old plagiarist - lets call him what he is shall we

a cheat... a low down pice of scum cheater

hows that fit garth old boy

http://hot-topic.co.nz/lazy-old-garth/

and a hypocrite to boot



Where there's smoke there's an earner
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/garth-george/news/article.cfm?a_id=10&objectid=10642968

Paul Thomas replies



http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10734365

GARTH GEORGE trending on twitter

surely warrants a revive

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10773262

good times

ABORT! ABORT!

garths fans broked the herald site...

And he's up to his old trick of copy and pasting. I thought granny had a policy against plagiarism.

Maybe now at the end of the year would be a fitting time to bid the old fogey farewell and wish him well in his dying.

Today was the first time I have read anything of his - I hope this isn't a typical piece from him? Atrocious!

Fuck me I hope he has just learnt the fine art of trolling.

Completely typical. He's a cranky old Christian bigot who hates that it isn't still the 1950's.

But what of THIS:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10775664

"As I sit down to write this, my last column for the Herald..." !!!!!!!

still but a mouse click or two away via BOP Times and Daily Post tabs on Herald site

The most hilarious part of that piece is that even as he writes a lament for his unheralded (see what I did there) profession he still goes on to berate his fellow journalists for their sloppy state of dresswear these days.

Bye Garth.

Weirdly enough I've probably read more of his columns over the years than any other herald writer..

And even weirder he chooses to leave on a point I can agree with (although I'm sure I would disagree with him on the cause of, and solution to, income inequality in NZ).