'Dogs ate my car' - NT News (oh how i hate thee)

Well it is a local newspaper, I suppose we each have such articles in our papers as well. Wandering packs of destructive dogs and run-down electrical cabling are the sorts of issues that can effect the community. However, yes, I do agree that if such articles are on the front page then either: nothing else happened that day--in which perhaps we should be thankful that things are running smoothly--or as you suggested, there is some seriously misconstruing of priorities to have wandering dogs on the front page over more important local issues such taxes and the politics of the area : )

 

This struck me as hilarious for some reason.

*Makes note never to be on life support at Royal Darwin Hospital*

 

Gah how I hate the state/territory papers, ours here is sensationalist bullshit too, the day I could officially no longer handle it was when Leighton Hewitt and Beck whatever got married and their picture was all over the front cover... WTH! THAT'S WHAT EFFEN TABLOID MAGAZINES ARE FOR! IT'S NOT NEWS!

 

Hmmmmm do you mean me? Well yeah, Darwin is a rough place. It's also an interesting place. I had some good times there, and met some amazing people from all different cultures so I don't feel completely comfortable bagging it out.

As for local news? Yeah, Townsville is just as bad.

Unfortunately, news used to be about reporting the facts. Now it seems the purpose has been switched to entertainment and human interest. The Australian isn't bad though.

 

I'm interested in the Mango Chucking.

Do people, like, keep a big pile of mangoes next to the door to fend off marauding auto-eating dog packs and other threats to personal property, or was that guy just super prepared for disaster or was he baking a mango tart?

 

Ooo lucky. We get them occasionally here, but they're rarely in season.

I had a mango-on-a-stick once. Very frustrating. Every time I tried to bite it, it spun around and around. I ended up very sticky and unfulfilled.

 

No actually, I left it there. First I was swarmed by bees, which swelled my face to 8 times it's normal size, and then over the years little bits of debris... candy wrappers, autumn leaves, starbucks cups thrown out of speeding car windows, doghair, etc. have accumulated on my face. It's a very distinctive look.

 

I don't want you to worry unnecessarily... I did of course wash off the mango juice 20 years ago when the mango-on-a-stick event occurred, and confess openly to making up the accumulation of debris

My face is unscathed, except of course from the normal ravages of age.
:ml:

 

Hahahahahahahaha. That was smooth. Nicely done :becky: