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Helen Parker

by Helen Parker

01 Dec 06:00am

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Nearly a decade ago, Channel Seven programmers were keen to give a stunning Gold Coast girl air-time. Jacqueline Last, nowadays better known as Jackie O, soon proved the point that being photogenic doesn’t mean you’ll be good on TV.

About as much spark as your average mannikin

Screen presence, that certain je ne sais quoi, is an indefinable quality that draws the viewer in and makes you keep watching. The weird science of video lens calibration that captures you in a sequence rather than a single shot is a unique beast.

Audiences can smell a dud a mile off. No matter how stunning or controversial someone might be, if they don’t have screen presence the viewer will revolt. As they did in droves, when the initial audience of 1.2 million watching Jackie O and Kyle What’s-his-name’s first TV show diminished to just 200,000 near the end of the show. That, after a 1.4 million lead in. Apparently Channel Seven have short memories.

In 2002 Jackie O was then being groomed for a doomed series called Undercover Angels. It was a cute concept based on Charlie’s Angels theme with the three beautiful Channel 7 angels going out delivering good deeds. The show also featured Ian Thorpe. It bombed.

Stubbornly, the network persisted with Jackie O. The men at the top decided that if the viewers weren’t taking a shine to her on-camera then clearly the audience should have more. Some in-house produced channel 7 lifestyle/reality shows at the time had to have a “surprise visit” from Jackie O, which was soon dubbed “scheduled spontaneity” and possibly put her in the running for a Logie for “Best Actor in a Reality Series”.

Jackie and her producer would turn up and give away dishwashers etc to a needy family. Jackie was accommodating, professional and cheerful. It’s hard to reconcile that person with the “cackling enabler” present during the attack on the news.com.au journalist.

The last radio personality to do well with a blockbuster TV series based on their radio show… well, was Bob Dyer’s Pick-A-Box circa 1957. Yet for some unknown reason, TV programmers seem to have their fingers on the auto repeat button and keep shuffling up radio stars for TV. Stop it, you’ve clearly gone blind.

We are told from a young age that “you can’t judge a book by its cover”, but in 20 years of TV and screen-testing probably 500 to 600 wannabe stars, I’ve learned that the old expression is wrong. You can tell a lot from the lines on peoples faces, the way they hold themselves in a crowd, their walk, their tone.

Viewers already know this - and what they detected in the ‘beauty and the beast” duo of Kyle and Jackie O was zero screen presence. People at home told Kyle and Jackie O what TV execs just haven’t quite figured out: these ‘stars’ , to coin an old phrase, “have a great face for radio.”

In some sort of Karmic twist, the journalist that Kyle threatened last week does have on-screen presence. Alison Stephenson is a camera natural, professional and mature well beyond her years. Earlier this year I travelled with Alison to the U.S. to film interviews for news.com.au, Ali kicked goals all the way and held her own with Hollywood heavyweights.

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    • KH says:

      06:22am | 01/12/11

      What, its a woman writing the article so the ‘sisterhood’ (whatever the hell that is) is ‘turning’ on someone? What a load of crap.  A blind man can see ‘jackie o’ has zero personality on TV - she is more wooden than a tree.  The article is merely pointing out that TV networks simply refuse to accept the truth, and persist with this ‘personality’ because they are popular on radio, despite the ever growing list of flops behind her.  Radio and TV are two different things - this woman is only ‘good’ (if you can call it that- its not my taste) on the radio.  There is nothing wrong with that - its a statement of fact.

    • bec says:

      06:51am | 01/12/11

      Horseshit. We’re criticising her for being a terrible radio host and a complete vacuum of an entertainer. I’d round on someone if they criticised her for being female, but this is different.

    • acotrel says:

      07:24am | 01/12/11

      ‘One thing you can always rely on is the ‘sisterhood’ to turn on one another’

      Have you seen the comments that ‘Joan’ makes about Julia Gillard on this forum ?

    • Borg Sheep says:

      07:39am | 01/12/11

      Observer - I am pretty sure Alissa Warren and Helen Parker are individuals and not 5 & 19 of the Sisterhood Borg Collective.

      Resistence is futile, you will be assimula… ooooo new shoes, where did you get them?

    • Shama says:

      09:13am | 01/12/11

      @Observer, still kind of better than the fact that one can completely rely on the “brotherhood” getting into physical stoushes, no?

      On topic, Punchers please put this to rest. We get it. One of your own was attacked. You have responded-over and over and over again.  Please move on from the K&J show. Because we have.

    • George says:

      10:26am | 01/12/11

      @ acrotel

      “Have you seen the comments that ‘Joan’ makes about Julia Gillard on this forum ?  - acrotel’

      Whatever comments they are ‘Juliar’ certainly deserves!!!

    • RyaN says:

      11:06am | 01/12/11

      @acotrel: Have you seen the comments you make about Tony Abbott on this forum. Hypocrite much?

    • Wilma J Craig says:

      11:33am | 01/12/11

      She reminds me of a certain Stick Insect actress ( I’m old-fashioned, non PC & refer to any actor who is known tobe Female as an Actress) who has not made a decent film in years. Just because someone purports to be an actor is slightly pretty or even actually naturally Beautiful (No hair dye silicone-enhanced bosom, botox, plastic surgery ,body-shaping clothes) or some normal-looking guy who has also avoided all that surgery, has his own teeth, un-Botoxed etc. does not make them a good actor!
      The more plastic & phony they look the more wooden, inanimate objects they are.
      Have a look at all those men & women who are classified as one of the ridiculous ” Celebrities” They have had so much work done on them they can’t smile, can barely move their lips, have no laugh lines, no wrinkles-  until you look at their necks & hands where all the wrinkles are to the fore, the crinkly, wronkly claw-like hands smothered in what in my day were called “Liver Spots”. What about those ghastly plastic teeth they all get?
      Thankfully those who can’t even open there mouths spare us that ugliness!
      I would rather watch some cragged-faced Geoffrey Rush or somewhat wrinkly Judi Dench & a few others, which almost certainly excludes all Hollywood-based US actors, than those plasticised dolls.
      They look as stupid as those super fat men & women who squeeze themselves into those ghastly, skin-tight, knitted pants & tops which they think makes them look slim. They don’t, ladies & gents, they make you look even fatter & from behind all you can see, my dears, is great rolls of wobbling fat!

    • Craig says:

      05:18am | 01/12/11

      I think Australian TV simply hasn’t tried hard enough with Jackie Zero.

      They need to play to her strengths, as exhibited during all of the VileKyle incidents - being a willing apologist for misogynistic behaviour.

      Jackie ‘0’ would be fantastic as the host of a spin-off of Australia’s funniest home videos entitled “Australia’s most racist and sexist home videos” where she would laugh along with the audience at the supposedly sexist and racist behaviour of Australians caught on film, justifying their behaviour as “well it’s clear he is really fond of minority groups, but has trouble expressing his emotions” or “he’s actually really considerate - deep down all true women secretly want to be treated like that” or “he’s really got a heart of gold and deep down is a wonderful person”.

      Jackie ‘0’ has all the qualifications necessary to shine - skin-deep beauty and a bottomless well of apologies and support for bad behaviour by men - as she keeps demonstrating on the “Vilekyle and Jackie zero show” on 2DayFM.

      Reply

    • gobsmack says:

      07:40am | 01/12/11

      Sort of like a modern day Denise Drysdale?

    • Jason Smith says:

      08:06am | 01/12/11

      Careful Craig, channel 7 might be reading this looking for new season show ideas.

    • Budz says:

      09:01am | 01/12/11

      @Craig: How was Kyle’s behaviour misogynistic?

    • Direct says:

      01:29pm | 01/12/11

      @Budz, Kyle said things about a woman that she didn’t like, therefore he was misogynistic.

    • Tony of Poorakistan says:

      02:49pm | 01/12/11

      I’d let her blow me. Possibly.

    • St. Michael says:

      04:09pm | 01/12/11

      @ Tony: ... that’s a pretty extreme way in which to try and get her to stop talking, isn’t it? smile

    • TheRealDave says:

      02:11pm | 02/12/11

      she’d probably suck at that as well….

    • St. Michael says:

      02:50pm | 02/12/11

      Now, now, Dave, no need to go mouthing off… smile

    • Freeman says:

      05:50am | 01/12/11

      Kyle and Jackie fans (why does she call herself Jackie O?) give yourselves an uppercut. They are try-hards, they have little personality or talent, they are boring yet offensive.

      Reply

    • Paul C says:

      07:52am | 01/12/11

      It’s actually Jackie 0 - Spot the subtle difference?

    • Bec says:

      09:20am | 01/12/11

      It used to be because she was married to “Ugly” Phil O’Neal (sp?) and it just stuck, even after the divorce.

    • VVS says:

      09:31am | 01/12/11

      Onassis wannabe…?

      Despite lacking the grace, charm, husband, connections etc etc that the real Jackie O had.

    • Tim says:

      06:08am | 01/12/11

      Meeeooooowwwwww.
      Please Punch, no more. You’re now just making yourselves look silly with this revenge seeking against Vile and O.

      Reply

    • Madison says:

      08:43am | 01/12/11

      Agreed. This is unneccessarily bitchy.

    • ByStealth says:

      02:29pm | 01/12/11

      Yeah, it was pretty obvious to me that this is just splash damage from the vendetta against Kyle. For those girls that do like getting the claws out against their prettier sisters her ‘enabling’ of Kyle provides the perfect excuse.

    • Wynston Cruso says:

      03:46pm | 01/12/11

      What Tim said. I think this quote from the great Obi Wan Kenobi sums it up: “If you strike me down now, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

      Give it a rest Punch Team, you’re just feeding the gremlin after midnight.

    • thatmosis says:

      06:13am | 01/12/11

      Jacki who???????

      Reply

    • VVS says:

      09:31am | 01/12/11

      Chan.

    • JC says:

      01:14pm | 01/12/11

      VVS just made my day.

    • Handy says:

      10:16am | 05/12/11

      “O” as in “Off”

    • Danny B says:

      06:20am | 01/12/11

      I understand why Kyle and Jackie O should be taken off the air - I’m surprised Kyle still has a career, to be honest.

      But we’ve had 3 Punch articles on them in the last week or so.  There’s an episode of The Simpsons where advertising hoardings come to life, and Bart works out they’ll go away if nobody looks at them.  This is a similar situation - if we don’t give them press coverage/attention, then they’ll fade away into much-deserved obscurity.

      Reply

    • acotrel says:

      07:27am | 01/12/11

      ‘Bart works out they’ll go away if nobody looks at them’

      I wonder if that would work with Tony Abbott ?

    • cayal says:

      08:57am | 01/12/11

      As much as I use the Simpsons in everyday life, unfortunately this won’t work.

    • MikeS says:

      01:22pm | 01/12/11

      But does it have Paul Ankas guarantee?

      (Guarantee void in Tennesee)

    • James In Footscray says:

      06:48am | 01/12/11

      What’s this obsession with Kyle and Jackie O! It wouldn’t be snobbishness by any chance?

      Reply

    • acotrel says:

      07:29am | 01/12/11

      Anti-boganism ?

    • DaveC says:

      06:57am | 01/12/11

      We get it. She’s a workmate.

      Reply

    • bill09 says:

      06:57am | 01/12/11

      Kyle What’s his name…... Too Good ...!!!..LOL….

      Reply

    • mark says:

      07:11am | 01/12/11

      Got to admire her tenacity to hang in there with a monumental d!ckhead and no discernible talent to draw on. Obviously kept on to make the place look pretty.

      Reply

    • acotrel says:

      07:33am | 01/12/11

      I think I might have seen her, but I can’t remember what she looks like.  Years ago Mad magazine used to represent celebrities as all having big painted-on oversized smiles.  I think it’s bit like that with dollie birds - they all look the same.

    • Robinoz says:

      07:13am | 01/12/11

      I’d never heard of her until last week and who cares whether she fizzles or glows? There are plenty of other channels and talented TV people.

      Reply

    • Dragon says:

      09:28am | 01/12/11

      Yeah, like the Kardashians.. like..

    • Mahhrat says:

      07:34am | 01/12/11

      So nothing on Movember, but - what - six articles on these peanuts?

      Thanks, Punch.

      Reply

    • Abu The Goat Boy says:

      09:35am | 01/12/11

      Mahhrat, Of course there’s nothing on Movember. Firstly it is now December and secondly there was no room in November for any Movember articles due to the need to pay out on What his face and the blonde bit.

      Jeez mate, get your priorities right!

    • VVS says:

      09:37am | 01/12/11

      My moustache was awesome, by the way.

    • Anubis says:

      09:38am | 01/12/11

      Here Here Mahhrat. Obviously the vendetta against Kyle and Jackie is much more important than the 3,300 men who will die this year from prostate Cancer or the 20,000 that will be diagnosed with this insidious disease.

      But you have to appreciate the Piunch teams priorities - after all it was not only a “Sista” that received a mysoginist rant from the vile one, ably enabled by Jackie, but she was also a member of the Limited News team. And you must remember Mahhrat, we were informed by one of the esteemed Punch team that they were working on an article about men’s health and Movember (the Punch team wouldn’t lie to us would they?)

      Like you I am really looking forward to reading that article in the lead up to Movember 2012 (or 2013 or 2014 when they get around to it). Until then we can look forward to many anti-Kyle/Jackie rants, numerous items about what bastards men are and a total glut of articles about how hard done by Womyn are and how worthy a cause are the Pink Ribbon and White Ribon events. Fun times.

      Hey Punch team - I’m sure I’m not just expressing my sentiments here but also the sentiments of many of your readers/participants - Enough of this juvenile name calling and school yard bullying tactics. Get over it and get back to being an enjoyable, yet occassionally, controversial Point of View forum.

      I am not angry that The Punch, like a lot of the popular press, chose to ignore Movember I am just extremely dissapointed.

      (Enhanced and reposted because the first attempt “got gobbled up by The Punch black hole)

    • Anthony Sharwood

      Anthony Sharwood says:

      09:48am | 01/12/11

      OK all you mob banging on about Movember, hold tight. Hold very tight. We have heard you. We have a story coming your way by about 12.30 today ok?A somewhat distasteful story but… anyway, just hold tight

    • Abu The Goat Boy says:

      10:28am | 01/12/11

      Good one Ant. And right in time for Movember. Oh, hang on, no but only missed it by that much.

    • John Smythe says:

      10:36am | 01/12/11

      Ant,

      As what has been indicated over the last couple of weeks, the article should not be presented as a sign that “you hear us”. That alone shows just how little The Punch considers men’s issues as opposed to women’s and vacuous “personalities”.

      Pretty sad really. It’s clear the site is run to generate as many hits as possible. Why else would such trash be constantly portrayed here.

      /shrug

    • gobsmack says:

      10:54am | 01/12/11

      I’ve still got mine.  I refuse to shave it off until Punch delivers on its promise to do an article on Movember.

    • Anubis says:

      12:01pm | 01/12/11

      Hi there Ant. Dunno about the clocks in the Sharwood office but the clock’s here are looking like it’s about 1 p.m Love the story posted at 12.30.

    • Erick says:

      02:10pm | 01/12/11

      @gobsmack - You’re lucky! If Ant had failed to deliver on his promise, you’d have been stuck with that mo for another year, at least.

    • gobsmack says:

      04:03pm | 01/12/11

      @Erick - yeah none too soon.  It’s starting to get itchy.

    • Dom says:

      07:41am | 01/12/11

      Kyle and Jackie O are both dribblers and the people to blame are the people who continually listen in to their dribble.

      No listeners equals no advertising which equals no hosts!!

      Kyle rates himself and says ‘he can call a spade a spade’ - well anyone can do that - we just choose not to!!

      Reply

    • Roscoe says:

      07:44am | 01/12/11

      Surely you put that last paragraph in as a joke right?  A way to get 500 readers to bombard your particular piece of crap writing more than some other online journo’s??

      Who gives a flying #$%^ if some whatsername journo from news.com has better t.v. presence than Jackie O?  I sure as hell don’t hear about this journo raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars like Jackie O does - she’s obviously doing the right thing by her employers.  And before the cries of favoritism pour in, I don’t even listen to her, barely know who she is and what’s more, don’t care.

      Your article smacks of juvenile school yard behaviour.  Get over it.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      07:48am | 01/12/11

      She looks like she’s got cleft palate.
      ‘I must make Lotoya nook like a nunkin nenius.
      Just hope i retire ‘nore 9 goes bust, so’s I get me superannnnnnuat’n’.

      Reply

    • Steve says:

      07:51am | 01/12/11

      I’m confused? Is it mannequin or mannikin?

      Reply

    • Anubis says:

      08:24am | 01/12/11

      So - have we had enough full frontal attacks on Kyle and it is now time for some sniping from the sidelines by targetting Jackie with the intent of a little bit more collatoral damge hits to Kyle?

      Yes Kyle is a dickhead, so is Jackie. But come on Punch team - move on, get over it and return to providing some topical and INTERESTING points of view on other things that happen in this world. i doubt that I am just speaking for myself here but quite frankly the majority of your readers/participants are heartily sick of hearing about this pair of morons and the Limited News vendetta to get them wiped out of the public eye.

      Reply

    • The righteous one says:

      11:33am | 01/12/11

      episode 4 punch versus kyle.  why is she called Jackie O?  is it a parody on Jacqui Onassis or is it, Jackie O, I forgot how to spell the rest or a shorening of Jackie bimbO?

    • Blind Freddy says:

      08:40am | 01/12/11

      Subtex: Helen’s friend Ali is much nicer than that horrible Jackie O in Helen’s opinion.

      Advice: Exclusion. Don’t play with her anymore.

      Reply

    • The righteous one says:

      11:33am | 01/12/11

      thats illegal under workplace harrassment and bullying

    • Alf says:

      08:46am | 01/12/11

      Two words could change her fortunes - Zoo Magazine. When personality fails, a nude photoshoot could change it all.

      As for Kyle…well I guess he is buggered. Nobody wants to see him, even fully dressed.

      Reply

    • johan says:

      08:47am | 01/12/11

      It is the company she keeps

      Reply

    • Aitch B says:

      09:01am | 01/12/11

      @acotrel

      This article is about crap TV yet twice you bring politics into the conversation.

      Could you PLEASE limit your hatred of Abbott, the Liberal Party and all its supporters to articles that at least have some vague association with politics.

      It seems that the moderators won’t so perhaps you could oblige us because you really are becoming a pain in the bum and looking more moronic every day.

      Reply

    • ABC says:

      10:01am | 01/12/11

      I totally agree.  It is getting very tiresome.

    • subotic says:

      10:21am | 01/12/11

      @Aitch B, acotrel is this 70 year old guy whose only pleasure in life is bagging Abbott in every comment, related or not.

      Let the old bugger have his whinge. He’s somebodies grandpaw.

      I rarely agree with him, but I respect his right to be a bloody old Aussie whinger.

    • Lyle Landisands says:

      09:02am | 01/12/11

      Helen Parker has a very 90s haircut.

      Reply

    • neo says:

      09:04am | 01/12/11

      Jackie O may be as witless as Kyle, but at least she isn’t as annoying.

      Reply

    • Frank says:

      09:05am | 01/12/11

      bitching about celebrities penis size is not a conversation…its just trash.. I feel sorry for Jackie O that she has to sit there and watch the Walrus Kyle talk and talk and talk about absolute crap…tbh Andrew Gunsberg is no better in LA…get rid of him too

      Reply

    • gobsmack says:

      10:59am | 01/12/11

      I agree.
      Surely having to sit in the same room as KS everday is some form of living hell.
      She should be canonised not demonised.

    • Dragon says:

      09:18am | 01/12/11

      “Screen presence, that certain je ne sais quoi” Are we talking about the same person here? Cut the cord. These 2 should have been long forgotten by now. Actually, should never have been known of to begin with. Now enough on these degenerates please.

      Reply

    • Arnold Layne says:

      09:23am | 01/12/11

      Nothing against her personally from me but she’s just not very good at what she does, but neither is Richard Wilkins and he’s had a job with Nine for 30 years.

      If we all ignore her, she’ll probably go away.

      Reply

    • subotic says:

      09:27am | 01/12/11

      Jackie O - setting the cause of Australian women back 200 years.

      The Punch - setting the cause of, ummm, wait… hell… what do you call journalism that isn’t really journalism at all….

      Sheeeeeeeeyt

      Reply

    • stenton says:

      10:44am | 01/12/11

      great comment
      and you’re not even 70 years old yet. - GO FIGURE.

      Of course you have no other pastimes than whinging before your time.

    • subotic says:

      11:29am | 01/12/11

      Ah crap, picked me up a Troll.

      Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?
      The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

    • Bob Stewart, the Elder says:

      10:14am | 01/12/11

      Everything in this monologue is attached with glue to politicians.

      Reply

    • ron says:

      10:56am | 01/12/11

      last by name last by nature

      Reply

    • onlooker says:

      11:21am | 01/12/11

      She s a pretty girl, but you can’t base your life or career around looks, we have this bad habit of getting older and there is always some new pretty face waiting in the wings, I have never heard her either on tv or radio, I hope her talent matches that pretty face.

      Reply

    • Sigmoid says:

      12:22pm | 01/12/11

      You forgot Jackie Mitzt Bits’ role in the Mick Molloy news-themed TV extravaganza that aired twice on the NEIN! Network before it was pulled off.

      Reply

    • RoSam says:

      12:40pm | 01/12/11

      Kyle and Jackie 0, what a bunch of losers, they should never have gone near a television program, Remember Ray Hadley he had a TV show called ‘Hadley” complete and utter flop, and they got rid of him pronto.

      Why do these people think they can make it at TV land just because they are radio shock jocks??????

      Reply

    • josh says:

      12:51pm | 01/12/11

      Jackie Oh? is a talentless fool who’s blind defence of Kyle and her uncanny ability to look the other way is at times sickening.

      She has no shame and no morals apparently, it’s amazing and well overdue that the media and general public are finally calling her out on this.

      Kyle is her meal ticket and it is extremely transparent. So much so that she actually reminds me of the little puppy that used to follow and prance around that big bulldog on the old Loony Tunes cartoons.

      Jackie Oh?, it is time for you to have some conviction and stop thinking in terms of dollars.

      Reply

    • Dudley Pryor says:

      01:42pm | 01/12/11

      Stop showing off Ms.Parker and speak English.What does “je ne sais quoi “in English.Please enlighten us ignorant and ill educated peasants.Does it have an English equivalent,if so please inform.I can hazard a guess ,but that is not good enough is it Ms.Parker?
      Please forgive my ignorance.

      Reply

    • VVS says:

      02:38pm | 01/12/11

      Feel free to guess… I’d love a laugh smile

    • Kika says:

      02:02pm | 01/12/11

      what a bitchy article!  How many TV shows have you been a host of?

      Reply

    • ibast says:

      09:35am | 02/12/11

      So far the worst part about having my arm broken is getting a lift with with a woman from work.  She’s nice and I appreciate the lift, but she listens to these two idiots.

      I was actually stunned at how dumb they are.  I knew they weren’t bright, but this is something else.  And not at all funny, despite the time spent laughing at themselves.

      And then 2-day replay the same shit in the evening.

      Reply

    • Justin Patterson says:

      11:44am | 02/12/11

      I think Jackie is really pretty, and has beautiful hair.  I’d rather be around her than someone ugly who has a really good personality or is really smart.  Thats not to say that she isnt also smart and pleasant, but I guess when someone is good looking we like to believe that they have no other qualities.

      Reply

    • TheRealDave says:

      02:18pm | 02/12/11

      Everytime I see her I always think ‘the lights are on but no-one home’.....I think Jackie MacDonald just lost her theme song…..

      Ahh Jackie 0…..looks like the real thing but souless…..

      Reply

    • Papcidio says:

      03:06pm | 07/08/12

      while 12000 is a lot, michael phples eats a lot of carbs and a lot of energy drinks, which also have carbs.  I’m big into cycling, which I only do an average of an hour or two a day, but I’m on a 3500-4500 calorie diet a day.  I’m also 6’4.  So, I can see why someone who works out 6 hours a day would need several thousand more.

      Reply
 
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Advocating risk management is not “victim blaming”

In a world in which there are still people who subscribe to the vile notion that certain victims of sexual…

Nosebleed Section

choice ringside rantings

From: Hasbro, go straight to gaol, do not pass go

Tim says:

They should update other things in the game too. Instead of a get out of jail free card, they should have a Dodgy Lawyer card that not only gets you out of jail straight away but also gives you a fat payout in compensation for daring to arrest you in the first place. Instead of getting a hotel when you… [read more]

From: A guide to summer festivals especially if you wouldn’t go

Kel says:

If you want a festival for older people or for families alike, get amongst the respectable punters at Bluesfest. A truly amazing festival experience to be had of ALL AGES. And all the young "festivalgoers" usually write themselves off on the first night, only to never hear from them again the rest of… [read more]

Light weight

Gentle jabs to the ribs

Superman needs saving

Superman needs saving

Can somebody please save Superman? He seems to be going through a bit of a crisis. Eighteen months ago,… Read more

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