They bore your bum off, don't they? But I rarely watch TV, use my DVR, just to avoid all that crapola/ads of any kind.....and fast forward right through them. Glad it's behind you!
Have to admit I've had a ball with it really, it's just 'formal' bullhs**t that I can't stand. I'm addicted to verbal jousting on forums and politics is slightly less hazardous than religion to argue about so it's been a constant source of cannon ammo for us.
Politics here has been a cross between a soap opera and Game of Thrones for the last 6 years.
There's been blood and tears and plots and coups and treachery aplenty. Great cast of goodie two shoes, brainless buffoons and hissable baddies all played by shameless hams on our payroll. Pure prime time fare worthy of HBO.
We've got a poncy PM who preens about being able to speak Mandarin to impress we plebs. His problem with that is that the Chinese find it patronizing and highly insulting as he's terrible at it and it's the equivalent of listening to Desi Arnaz doing Shakespeare.
He blubbered like a girl on live TV when he 'got stabbed in the back' and banished to the back bench dungeon by the 'Red Queen' who then became PM and went on to make a viral speech about how downtrodden the women running the Country were by the mysoginist men in Parliarment. All that after leaving a trail of blood and entrails through those same men on her way to the top! Surely the most awesome display of hipocrisy in OZ history. (Warri won't agree.
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The poncy PM though turned the tables on her by sabotage, leaking Party secrets to the media, scheming, and plotting revenge, and finally repurchasing the allegiance of the very same people who had backed the Red Queen to oust him, to in turn oust her. So we've got the flea back again. There is sooooo much more to it but you'd need to have seen the show from ep. one to fully appreciate the plot.
Then there's the man who would be 'king', the Opposition leader, who is want to 'do a Putin' and parade his physical fitness as a better attribute for being our glorious leader than being able to string a sentence together at all. He's a failed priest with all the charm of an inquisition magistrate and the charisma of a thug.
If you came in late,
https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/1760-Another-NZ-article-about-drugs/page2 for a pic. of him in his red budgie smugglers... won't inflict it on the unwary.
We've got a great support cast, even one that looks a bit like Sarah Palin and is about as bright, she couldn't even handle being minister for Sport! But there's too many characters to cover, and you'd have to live here to fully appreciate the drama of it all.
It's been the Greatest show on Earth!
