The Chaser's War on Everything

CoombellKid · #1 12-09-2007, 06:21 PM

On the ABC at 9pm tonight, should be gooood

regards,CS

Jarrod · #2 12-09-2007, 06:52 PM

it's going to be soooooooooooooo funny!!!!

i can't wait to hear their opinion regarding what happened last week. all the money spent to create a "secure area", and they get beaten by some comedians in black cars!!!

CoombellKid · #3 12-09-2007, 07:06 PM

ooooh yeeeah!

regards,CS

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #4 12-09-2007, 07:17 PM

I sincerely hope that they serve jail time for this. Most found it funny - I'm afraid that I didn't. trust "our" ABC to be behind this sort of idiocy.

Just me...

acropolite (Phil) · #5 12-09-2007, 07:54 PM

It will be one to watch, personally I believe they should be on the Queens birthday honours list.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #6 12-09-2007, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acropolite

It will be one to watch, personally I believe they should be on the Queens birthday honours list.

The sad part is that they probably will be.

Quote:

Originally Posted by News Ltd

Speaking about the stunt for the first time yesterday, Licciardello revealed he and the crew did not realise they had breached the APEC security red zone until they were arrested.

Uhmm.. right.

leon · #7 12-09-2007, 08:05 PM

They were lucky they didn't get shot, I reckon.

Leon

matt · #8 12-09-2007, 08:11 PM

Hmmm.

I'm a little ambivalent about this whole business.

I think I've just grown out of them. Earlier on I found them amusing and sometimes clever.

These days I find them mostly irritating, in an undergraduate university student "look at me....look at me!" kind of way.

I'm with Omaroo on this one.

davidpretorius · #9 12-09-2007, 09:38 PM

i found it funny, but then thought, that they could have been actually shot by the secret service in real life

ferret · #10 12-09-2007, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omaroo

I sincerely hope that they serve jail time for this.

Jail time?!? That's a little harsh.

Is it because they irritate you? If so, I want people who walk slowly at peak hour executed and their names erased from all records, 1984-style.

All people are irritating.

Or is it because they showed that the government flushed $160M on 'security' from which the only tangible results were a 100 pound woman thrown violently to the ground and an accountant having been charged for jaywalking?

Exposing deceit and pointlessness is what public broadcasters the world over do best.

astroron (Ron) · #11 12-09-2007, 09:58 PM

I am not a fan of the show , but it showed that the security services where not doing their job properly.
If you think they should go to jail for that, maybe you should go and live in a totalitarian state where that would happen.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #12 12-09-2007, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroron

I am not a fan of the show , but it showed that the security services where not doing their job properly.
If you think they should go to jail for that, maybe you should go and live in a totalitarian state where that would happen.

China? - They would have been shot.

Russia? - They would have been shot.

USA? - They would have been shot.

Masquerading as Osama Bin Laden near the president? They might have been shot.

Matt said it just right - "look at me. look at me!!" childish crap undergraduate university left-wing television..

ferret · #13 12-09-2007, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omaroo

China? - They would have been shot.

Russia? - They would have been shot.

USA? - They would have been shot.

Surely you aren't using China, Russia or the USA as examples of 'sensible' countries?

You're giving mixed messages here.

You seem to be saying that the Australian reaction is too hard and too soft at the same time. That, my friend, is an oxymoron...

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #14 12-09-2007, 10:16 PM

Those idiots, dressed as the number-one wanted man in the world, could have started the secret service reacting - justifiably some may say - and our own police (and others) could have been hurt by being in the way - their mistake or not. they have never had such a job to do as this, so cut them some slack. If you don't appreciate their effort then I surely do.

USA - not a sensible country? Where's this coming from? Your obvious dislike for one president and you toss the whole nation in with him? Pffftt.

Mike - probably time to close this thread already.

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #15 12-09-2007, 10:16 PM

the show was quite funny but I thought the Steve Irwin Bindi segment was in appalling taste

but thats the show-uneven , edgy, funny, undergadtuate humour ..and only in australia

cant imagine it in or an equivalent anywhere else-except maybe in the UK

GrahamL · #16 12-09-2007, 10:19 PM

I thought it was funny as

... what isn't .. is the fact that despite 170 mil
(our money) getting p##### up against the wall on "security"
with a bit of nouse you can drive up to the front door of the venue

As has been pointed out before this junket could of been held at a much smaller secure isolated location with little cost in comparrison.

Ric · #17 12-09-2007, 10:22 PM

It was a purely Australian reaction to a overblown situation. we are not Americans, we are Australians.

Cheers

ferret · #18 12-09-2007, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omaroo

USA - not a sensible country? Where's this coming from? Your obvious dislike for one president and you toss the whole nation in with him? Pffftt.

It seems that someone is making an assumption.

Let me make one:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Those idiots, dressed as the number-one wanted man in the world, could have started the secret service reacting - justifiably some may say - and our own police (and others) could have been hurt by being in the way - their mistake or not. they have never had such a job to do as this, so cut them some slack. If you don't appreciate their effort then I surely do.

Therefore you think babies should be shivved in the shower of a maximum security jail.

Absurd isn't it?

Actually, I don't have a problem with Bush. He is no better or worse that any other survivor of the brutal US presidential preselection process.

Intelligent design taught alongside Evolution - not sensible
Invading the country next to the one with the real danger to the US - not sensible
Leaving the poor to drown during a hurricane - not sensible
Bill O'Reilly getting massive ratings- not sensible

I was talking about the country, not the president.

h0ughy (David) · #19 12-09-2007, 10:39 PM

yes it was funny that they showed a gaping hole in security, they can be humorous sometimes, but I agree its a stunt too far. Take the mickey out of anyone and get away with it - priceless

but pay a heap of money and get these loonies to show it up in a few minutes - disastrous - that only means they haven't spent enough and they will plough more money into "water trucks" and thats not for road construction or watering plants in either.

well that does me......

norm · #20 12-09-2007, 10:47 PM

I hope we Australians haven't lost our sense of humour. We all need to lighten up.

That said, it will be interesting when they go to court. Throw Pat O'shane as the magistrate and wait for the fireworks and the police uproar!