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Perth’s Melinda Buttle fears for Australian youth in the wake of a national tragedy:
Like many other Australian taxpayers, I am outraged by the decision to pull the The Glass House from the ABC. I am a fan of the show, and believe this decision is a mistake. Corinne, Dave and Wil are able to communicate to the youth of Australia and discuss news topics and social issues in a way that is interesting and relevant. With youth disassociation, unemployment and suicide at alarmingly high levels, I cannot believe the ABC has cancelled a program that is so popular and valuable to the youth of Australia.
(Via Dan Lewis)
- If I want comedy involving politicans and obvious observations Ill go to the pub and chat to a few blokes there.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 04 at 02:21 AM • permalink
- When I was growing up we had comedy, and I didn’t commit suicide and I got a job. We had things like Aunty Jack, The Naked Vicar Show, Australia You’re Standing In It and D-Generation. I quite often laughed when I watched those shows. And I got on with my life. What is wrong with today’s youth that they need to be spoonfed their politics and other beliefs by the ABC? And what does the Glasshouse provide that the 2 more popular shows on before it don’t?
Middle class guilt? Just watch the New Inventors, and bet on the “Green” invention walking away with the title every week. Anti-Government jabs? Try Spicks and Specks: usually apolitical, but a show featuring aging hippies, rockstars and other entertainers isn’t always going to manage a half-hour without some implicit or outright criticism of the Howard Govt, or George Bush.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 02:42 AM • permalink
- #3 to say nothing of that dreary enviro-doom travelogue Two men in a tinny, with Tim Flannery and pompous ass Brian Doyle messing about in boats (where’s a Navy Seal when you need one?). Still, that show was worth it for one precious moment, when Tim and Brian were reading a sign, and Doyle managed to make a cretinous misreading of it, which Tim gently corrected. Any normal person, or a professional ‘funnyman’ for that matter, would have made a joke of the error and laughed it off. Not Doyle, whose face went very dark indeed. Full marks to the editor who left that moment in.
- #4 Great example. Talk about ideological stacking at the ABC: well known Tim Blair hater, Tim Flannery gets his own show!Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 02:59 AM • permalink
Most of us tend to not stay home and watch television on Friday nights.
Or Wednesday nights, either, it would seem…
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 03:17 AM • permalink
- The Glass House was not just exceptionally good comedy, it was art. And Melinda should know:
Melinda Buttle
Project Assistant, Indigenous Arts
Arts Grants Funding Program,
Development and Strategy Directorate
Lvl 7 Law Chambers,573 Hay Street,Perth,WA 6000Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 11 04 at 03:26 AM • permalink
- Oh, I see kilo, our private school educated man of the left is backPosted by Whale Spinor on 2006 11 04 at 03:29 AM • permalink
- …and making its usual insightful non sequiters….Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 04 at 03:34 AM • permalink
- No relation…Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 11 04 at 05:04 AM • permalink
- With youth disassociation, unemployment and suicide at alarmingly high levels,
Stupid bint, other than triple J there is a youth disassociation meter? Besides, we haven’t been this close to full employment in a long time.
I cannot believe the ABC has cancelled a program that is so popular and valuable to the youth of AustraliaWhat? The programme helped to solve the ‘youf unemployment’ problem?
Glasshouse promos were so lame I never actually watched it.
Oh, dear. How sad. Never mind.The forced laugh on that chick as the guy on the end (the one with the speech impediment) delivered his puchline was enough to keep me away in droves!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 06:55 AM • permalink
- Nice pick up, Whale Spinor (#9) about Mel’s taxpayer funded job.
Wouldn’t be a hint of vested interest from some make -work State Government apparatchik employed in the yartz, would it?
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 04 at 07:52 AM • permalink
- Lefties really can’t think. This Melinda Buttle person basically admitted that “youth disassociation, unemployment, and suicide” rose to “alarming levels” while this tv show was on the air. I can play the correlation = causation game too.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 04 at 09:38 AM • permalink
- Whine, whine, whine. Cripes, lady, Doctor Who‘s been jammed into the most inconvenient time slot in US history, and nobody’s claiming that it’s causing youth suicide.
Still, we should count our blessings. What if Glass House had been given a government arts grant- and then lost it? I’d predict spontaneous moonbat implosion.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 11 04 at 12:44 PM • permalink
- I have heard many things that cause teen suicide (death of Kurt Cobain, breaking up with one’s SO, being young and gay, using drugs, listening to Judas Priest and Ozzy, being mocked at school, etc.,) but I never ever heard of teens killing themselves over a television show or lack of it. You Aussies have peculiar customs.
- You guys are disregarding the first rule of Leftism: Everything they claim is true is actually just a projection of their own feelings.
Hence, I now expect Melinda to lose her job (assuming she has one), descend into petty vandalism, and finally kill herself. At least that would seem to be what she’s worried about without her precious Glass House.
- I would get pretty cranky when syndicated reruns of Star Trek the Original (And Only) series would get pre-empted on Saturday afternoons by golf, but that’s as far as it would get.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 04 at 04:04 PM • permalink
- #20, Go right ahead, Slammer, “Buttle” sounds like someone out of the Benny Hill Show anyway. Now there’s REAL humour! Maybe the ABC could buy the re-runs to replace Glass House. The ratings would double straight away. And if the budget can stretch to it, why not Some Mothers do Have’Em as well. Hey,Aunty, now your’e smoking, baby!
- #33, Andrea:
You might be onto something there. I seem to recall, anecdotally of course, having some creeping feelings of darkness, numbness and despair any time I happened upon a game of golf being beamed into my head by TV rays.
I wonder if there’s a connection between televised golf and evil acts by those exposed?
- If the yoot of Australia is really like to suicide over the cancellation of Glass House, may I suggest loosening the child-proof caps on the pills for them?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 04 at 05:08 PM • permalink
youth disassociation, unemployment and suicide
Because of a television show being cancelled? Was the show one that taught youfs how to secure employment, meet others and not kill yourself?
Posted by Major John on 2006 11 04 at 06:04 PM • permalink
- If Melinda Buttle likes a TV program, she should pay for it.
I get very “upset” when people expect me to pay for the TV programs THEY like to watch.
Refuce tax-funded TV. Just say TURNOFF.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 08:09 PM • permalink
- #34 No Big Arnie, Buttle is something a man likes to do with a woman. Rebuttle is something the woman wishes the man had the stamina for.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 08:19 PM • permalink
- Everytine I watched 5 minutes of Glasshouse and then turned off I was left with one overwhelming opinion “S…t I could do better than that, our drinks session after work on Friday is wittier than this.”
Maybe that’s the problem youths don’t have after-work-drinks sessions to go to judge Glasshouse against. Then they’d get better humour, reduced ‘dis-association” and no one I know has ever killed themselves whilst at drinks after workPosted by the nailgun on 2006 11 04 at 09:48 PM • permalink
- Mel – a “WA Green Faces Finalist 2006 and a semi finalist in WA Raw Comedy 2006 [who] regulary performs her unsavory brand of confrontational yet lady like comedy” – has a longer letter here where she argues that “logic leads me to believe that there must be some form of political or social agenda that underpins the removal of this wonderful program.” That’s some logic. Mel’s ‘blog’ says that she’s a “comedian, and when I get a chance I sometimes work full time at an office”. Who would have thunk it?
- #33 – Andrea, I’ll simply say this. If Jean Luc Picard ever came across a wibble, he’d simply instruct Number One to call the exterminator and “make it so”, not devote an entire episode to them. I blame the wibbles for everything wrong with sci fi since, from Jar Jar Binks to Ewoks. Cute furry creatures and planet-destroying death rays do not mix. Unless the death ray is first tested on the cute furry creatures. Slowly.
- The Glass House was supposed to be humorous? Gee, the things you learn on this blog, I would never have guessed. Granted, the talentless panelists laughed like the canned crowd at a “Diff’rent Strokes” taping every time Dave Hughes squeaked his unfunny Eric Cartman impersonations, but I’s always assumed I was watching an exploitation documentary about the mentally ill.
Still, Belinda should rest assured that the commissars still have control of the News & Current Affairs Division. They did manage to mention today’s European blackouts on the radio news, but in contrast to the reports on the American blackouts of 2003, it was at the end of the news and without the moralising about government under-investment.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 11 05 at 03:32 AM • permalink
With youth disassociation, unemployment and suicide at alarmingly high levels
With the axing of the Glasshouse, I predict a dramatic drop in the youth – and overall – suicide rate.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 05 at 05:46 AM • permalink
- RexW: “wibbles”? You’re thinking of tribbles. “The Trouble With Tribbles” was a classic comic episode, full of non-PC alarm-raisers like bar fights, Klingon commanders making fun of earth women on board (the “non-essentials” crack), and female Federation officers cooing over the “cute little things.” (Of course, so were the male officers.) It wasn’t deep, but it was fun. Oh, and the end would send today’s furry-animal-loving PETA member screaming down the hall: they starve all the tribbles to death (except one or two) by giving them poisoned wheat. The Next Generation crew would have discovered that the tribble planet was being environmentally exploited by the merchant and ended up with a lecture on the need to keep all planets in pristine condition for all its living beings, or something like that, and Warf would have learned to overcome his Klingon fear of tribbles.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 05 at 10:32 AM • permalink
- #48 – Ahhh… umm… I was cleverly conjuring a subliminal image of Elmer Fudd loose on the Enterprise, shotgun in hand… “Where’s those wascawwy wibbles…”
Or I got it horribly wrong. But I prefer the former explanation.
Worf regularly ate live Quag on TNG. PETA must have been watching “Cooking tasteless vegetarian mush” on their local public access channel when those episodes were on. Or they only save things which are hairy and cuddly. Any day now they’ll join hands round Michael Moore.
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