Do gooding PC Greenies
 

I generally hear the comments "do gooder" greenies and PC mentioned by Alan Jones and John Laws. It is always in a derogatory manner. Personally I struggle to relate to what they are on about and think they are tossers.

Anyway lets have some debate.

Re: Do gooding PC Greenies
 

who ?

Re: Do gooding PC Greenies
 

Who dat?

Re: Do gooding PC Greenies
 

You mean 'who are the tossers we're talking about?'

Well, BP, it WAS a bit ambiguous!:D

John Laws and Alan Jones are the 2 biggest talk back radio hosts who seem to have a scary amount of political power for a bunch of idiots.

Ah, right. I don't know them - I listen to Sammy and Jason in the Morning, on Mix106.5! :D

You'd better give us some background - espec. for UK'ers who won't know them at all.

Given up on Oz radio completely. Resorted to recording Radio 4 programmes via the Internet and listening to them on a CD in the car.

Bit of a bugger for the phone-ins, isn't it? :D

Yes, and I missed the vote for the Sports Personality of the Year. Didn’t manage to register my vote for Tim Henman

:D

www.johnlaws.com.au

He is a political and corrupt version of Terry Wogan.

Well, most of this bit sounded okay, apart from 'learn humility by being humiliated, learn honesty by being cheated'. All of this lot happened to me as a kid.:

'Keeping the dream alive is all about hope for the next generation, and the generation after that - our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren.


I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice-cream and leftover meat-loaf. My grandsons, I hope you learn humility by being humiliated. I hope you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed, to mow the lawns, wash the car. I hope nobody gives you a brand new motor car when your 17. I hope you have a job by then. It will be good at least one time if you see a baby lamb born or see your old dog put to sleep.


I hope you get a black eye fighting for something that you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother - by the way it's alright to draw a line down the middle of the room. When he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him. I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and I hope you live in a town where you can do it safely.


I hope you learn to dig in dirt. I hope you learn to play marbles and read books and I hope when you learn those new-fangled computers you also learn to add up and subtract in your bright little mind. I hope your friends give you a hard time when you have your first girlfriend, and I hope when you talk back to your mother you'll learn the taste of soap. I hope you skin your knee climbing mountains and burn your hand on the iron. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and may you feel absolute happiness on your birthday.


I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a cricket ball through a neighbour's window and I hope she hugs and kisses you at Christmas time when you buy her a bottle of the worst perfume money can buy.


These things I wish for you, tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.

The bloke writes poetry and has some country music albums.

I remember when he was on about "snivel libertarians". You should turn him on for a laugh one day. He sings high praise for Telstra but what he doesn't say is that they are paying him $600,000 a year to do so.

Well, shit, BP, it they paid ME $600K a year I'd praise'em, too!!

I would do the same except there is the slight problem of impartiality and the illegality of what he has done.

http://poetry.rotten.com/alan-jones/

I think the photo sums him up.