tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post462934262981502718..comments2023-11-13T16:30:40.096+13:00Comments on Editing the Herald: Party on, GarthJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661495023149576052noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-77536607506892324642009-07-25T00:23:36.742+12:002009-07-25T00:23:36.742+12:00I love it when people pull out the 'C' wor...I love it when people pull out the 'C' word. Its so powerful and final. I will make an effort to use it this weekend.martyburnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979727696065408491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-11599965104954767572009-07-24T16:30:28.372+12:002009-07-24T16:30:28.372+12:00The real issue here is which shady organisation de...The real issue here is which shady organisation decided to add ascorbic acid to oranges? I mean, someone must have put it in there, food wouldn't just have acid in it naturally!<br /><br />Goddamn nanny-nature.Bradhttp://www.myspace.com/guitarodactylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-35369133273196420202009-07-24T15:13:54.913+12:002009-07-24T15:13:54.913+12:00But Brad, Vitamin D is an essential vitamin and ev...But Brad, Vitamin D is an essential vitamin and everyone knows vitamins are good for you.<br /><br />Folic Acid is a nasty chemical, I mean, it's a friggin acid! It's obviously evil.gazzajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269126625443588798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-50382706932185678172009-07-24T13:41:16.645+12:002009-07-24T13:41:16.645+12:00Do you think they updated his picture to the newer...Do you think they updated his picture to the newer "Professor Garth" image, so that his faux-scientific babblings might be taken seriously?<br /><br />I couldn't help but notice he didn't mention that Vitamin D is added to milk to prevent diseases like rickets. Do you suppose that is because he chooses do drink directly from the cows udder? On closer inspection, I'm not sure that's a real moustache at all!Bradhttp://www.myspace.com/guitarodactylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-68109772131004528922009-07-24T11:09:14.293+12:002009-07-24T11:09:14.293+12:00Looking at that photo, I now think that it looks l...Looking at that photo, I now think that it looks less like a comtemplative intellectual and more like the evil mastermind from a Hollywood movie deciding exactly how to deal with the captured protagonists.<br /><br />"Do you expect me to talk?"<br /><br />"No, Nanny State. I expect you to die!"Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12661495023149576052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-41302546881870849942009-07-24T11:07:15.449+12:002009-07-24T11:07:15.449+12:00Jimmy, welcome back. This post was 'Coming to...Jimmy, welcome back. This post was 'Coming to America' level good. No comments to make, as they have already been made.<br /><br />On a side note, do you think there is any way we could organise Garth George to be the MC at the first annual EtH awards? To entice him, we can promise a rider that includes a range of different types of meat pie, that the attendees will be exclusively caucasian while the staff involved in putting on the show will be exclusively foreign (but with valid working visas), and that we will all join hands and say grace after his opening monologue but before the first winner is announced.JP Rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11395123373524008060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-56725717609470194172009-07-24T10:25:32.018+12:002009-07-24T10:25:32.018+12:00I like your thinking Paul but if you take it to it...I like your thinking Paul but if you take it to its logical conclusion there'll be nothing left other than the crossword, TV listings, and anything from the UK papers.<br /><br />I wonder if there's a market for a couple of sheets of A4 with just that content... hmm...gazzajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269126625443588798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-32180913856127395912009-07-24T10:07:56.382+12:002009-07-24T10:07:56.382+12:00I find the best way to deal with Garth George is w...I find the best way to deal with Garth George is with a pair of scissors. Not in the Clayton Weatherston kind of way but by simply cutting his article out of the paper and throwing it in the bin. (I suggest you do the same at your place of work)<br /><br />I've actually done a deal with my local dairy owner, who, for a small fee, will cut the article out for me before I purchase it (and don't worry about missing any articles on the other side, it's the herald -- it'll only have an advert). <br /><br />We are now looking to expand the service to include Bill Ralston, Fran Sullivan, Deborah Hill Cone and my favourite media wh*re, Michael Laws.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01293886564546737036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-35967398779676023202009-07-24T08:30:26.301+12:002009-07-24T08:30:26.301+12:00... And the new photo is even scarier than the old...... And the new photo is even scarier than the old one! ...Philipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-58627481307653393852009-07-24T08:29:27.189+12:002009-07-24T08:29:27.189+12:00Garth George scares me. Very few things scare me m...Garth George scares me. Very few things scare me more than he does. The fact that our leading daily newspaper will publish this *e*a***d trash on a regular basis scares me, too. That paper is turning me into a very scared little man.<br /><br />Excellent work, James.Philipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-24850882265973129812009-07-23T23:35:01.895+12:002009-07-23T23:35:01.895+12:00Re: anon
the amount you'd need to take to be a...Re: anon<br />the amount you'd need to take to be at any kind of risk - hidden right near the bottom (and spelled out more clearly elsewhere) is over 1000 micrograms (1 milligram)<br /><br />It recommends that ALL women of childbearing age get 400 *micro* grams and pregnant women 600, which peaks at 1 milligram in women with a history of children with the folate-dificieny issues.<br /><br />In other words, 2 and a half times more than the amount that - if we were actually getting, we wouldn't even be discussing the adding it to bread issue. in Garthmatsh - 27.5 slices of bread a day.Flynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10085535150306390444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-16266753675031180132009-07-23T22:48:39.397+12:002009-07-23T22:48:39.397+12:00And what about this then...?
http://www.newsday.co...And what about this then...?<br />http://www.newsday.com/news/health/should-you-take-folic-acid-1.1241520Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-68067215114007952302009-07-23T21:08:46.226+12:002009-07-23T21:08:46.226+12:00I think I love you.I think I love you.C.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08175253334377056642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-127496459712092962009-07-23T19:56:55.648+12:002009-07-23T19:56:55.648+12:00My favourite thing about this week's column is...My favourite thing about this week's column is still the title. A beautiful, abstract mixed metaphor. It stirs visions.Matty Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-45158770446637740592009-07-23T19:17:25.737+12:002009-07-23T19:17:25.737+12:00It seems likely that the term *headdesk* was creat...It seems likely that the term *headdesk* was created in response to one of Garth's columns.Melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-84051649509638604442009-07-23T17:19:27.263+12:002009-07-23T17:19:27.263+12:00I can't wait for Garth to restropectively upda...I can't wait for Garth to restropectively update it when he gets called on his mistakes...<br /><br />The very idea of subjecting the entire population to this chemical - a word that was brought to the Garth's attention by a thesaurus search for a scary synonym for vitamin - on the off-chance it might prevent disease in 70-odd babies in any year was always utterly incomprehensible - a fact that was brought to the Garth's attention by his outraged imaginary friends in the smoko room in his garage.<br /><br />Particularly since there was absolutely no evidence that the folated bread would be eaten by those for whom it was intended - women about to become pregnant and in the first stages of pregnancy - a claim that was brought to the Garth's attention by closing his eyes and imagining that few people eat bread.<br /><br />We are told (brought to the Garth's attention by the voices that talk to him when he turns off his power of rational thought) that, in order for the folic acid to have the desired effect, such women would have to eat 11 slices of such bread every day.<br /><br />For one thing, how many women know in advance they're going to get pregnant, even if they're determinedly trying; and for another how many know they are pregnant until they miss one, or possibly two, periods - a fact that was brought to the Garth's attention by his long-suffering wife who insisted he include it despite the distate he has for any talk of the ungodly menstrual cycle?gazzajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269126625443588798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-59251416497496366362009-07-23T17:07:25.396+12:002009-07-23T17:07:25.396+12:00In the context of defects with the word 'neura...In the context of defects with the word 'neural' in their name, a phrase other than a "no-brainer" might have served Garth better.Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-59166841008304610182009-07-23T16:58:22.421+12:002009-07-23T16:58:22.421+12:00"How about cyanide in our central North Islan..."How about cyanide in our central North Island meat pies to stop unresearched and bigoted rubbish appearing in our newspapers?"<br /><br />So much win...Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12633616551506978330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-4328820194626366922009-07-23T16:55:54.475+12:002009-07-23T16:55:54.475+12:00Amphetamines in fizzy drinks - shit that would be ...Amphetamines in fizzy drinks - shit that would be interesting.Boganettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07253374355820020132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-34217849424622034932009-07-23T16:38:43.465+12:002009-07-23T16:38:43.465+12:00I know that 'natural' doesn't mean ...I know that 'natural' doesn't mean 'good' - I did do a degree in ethics.<br /><br />But in this case the use of terms like 'chemical' to describe folate, and the comparisons with substances like methadone, is clearly aimed at making people think some foreign, artificial ingredient is being added to our food supply - it's not. As such, I think that it's a more than reasonable point to make.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12661495023149576052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-87620558414843405402009-07-23T16:28:24.855+12:002009-07-23T16:28:24.855+12:00Grrr your new 'preview' thing resulted in ...Grrr your new 'preview' thing resulted in my losing what I wrote already.<br /><br />In summary: Natural doesn't automatically equal good. I'm not on Garth's side in any way, but since you made the point twice, I feel compelled to point this out.Gwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13127784431543135980noreply@blogger.com