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[Yongobongo]

I don't know if anybody else feels the same way, but it really shits me somebody uses the "that's my money paying for that show, and I don't like the way they treat the matter of (x) SO IT SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF AIR NOW".
(obviously the most recent value of (x) is sick kiddies)

Now I'd just like to put this in perspective:
I don't like the 7:30 report. I don't watch it, and I never will. And it's on the ABC, right? And the ABC is funded by tax-payers, right? So, arguably (a microscopic amount of the funding) I am paying for this show to air?
I don't watch it - so I have the right to get it taken off air, RIGHT?!

NO.

The Chaser have (give or take) around 1 million viewers a week. So that means 1/21 Australians are quite happy for their money to be poured into their show. But I'm sure there are other things the ABC broadcasts that you ignorant pricks who think you are allowed to spoil the 1/21th of Australia's population that watch The Chaser's good time have something you like watching on TV, right?

So why can't you see that you are obviously not the intended audience of The Chaser, and go fuck off and watch ABC Kids or whatever?

You saying we shouldn't have The Chaser on TV just because YOU don't like it is like a drug dealer saying that we shouldn't have a police force because they don't like it.

Also, The Chaser is not solely funded by tax-payer money; it is a joint funded project of the ABC and Chaser Broadcasting (which means it is also self-funded).

</rant>

If anyone else has anything to say on the topic, please do reply. Maybe I do sound a bit stupid saying this, but I really am sick of the bitching, which is quite obviously from people who don't even watch the program, or just watch the program to find something to complain about.

EDIT: Oh, and parents complaining that their kids were watching the show and that it was completely inappropriate, that's why we have a rating system in this country. If you choose to ignore it, you can take all the responsibility. This show is rated for "mature audiences", which neither your children or you fit the description of.

[Adi]

well the Kerri-Anne show isn't on ABC, but yeah...

[Yongobongo]

Isn't it? I'd better fix that up

[Phenolphthalein]

Well, I'm sick of people bitching about people bitching, but you don't see me writing up slabs of text to illustrate the point.

[Majorie]

You saying we shouldn't have The Chaser on TV just because YOU don't like it is like a drug dealer saying that we shouldn't have a police force because they don't like it.

Worst analogy ever.

[Frazzy?]

I don't like army dudes, TAX PAYERS MONEY! LETS BAN THEM. lets have the whole fucking military deported...
ok, I haven't actually paid tax recently, but I did once, can I have half a soldier deported?
also, I hate bitumen, it is hurty when you fall on, ban the roads! or at least have them paved with pillows.

[hammer]

I'm completely over what other people think is artistically tastefull!

for instance -

The Melbourne Arts Centre Spire looks like a nasal delivery device from the movie TRON - enough said!

The Sydney opera house was obvioulsly designed by some stoned person arranging their finger-nail clippings on the floor - I'm surprised the designer didn't eat the clippings

Uluru just looks like a bloody great rock in the middle of no-where - well, it is!

Federation Square looks like a transformer waiting for a bolt of lightning before it changes into something usefull - one day it just may

Canberra's Parliament house has a great big dick on the top - as opposed to what it holds

Adelaide's Rundle Mall has balls, great big shiny balls - someone thought that was artistic, yet in no way sexist

Melbourne's RMIT theatre buidling looks like it was conceived by a drunk architectural student who woke up in a gutter looking at smashed green wine bottles  - quite possible

Sydney Harbour Bridge was probably inspired by someone trying to use a truss - hard to get on, hard to get off, no-one want's to admit using one
 
Even the snake sculpture in the Melbourne county court - for gods sake, I could have shat that out in two weeks after a supply of black jelly beans, some poster paint, and a bag of plaster of paris.
I know that sounds like an unusual diet, but given enough dope, at least I wouldn't have shat out an opera house!


So, from now on, I vote that all ABC funding be given to free-thinking monkeys and elephants, so that they can define the artistic direction of Australia's future by flinging  pooh at a canvas!

At least then we'll be saving a few endangered species, whilst providing employment for the Australian Canvas making industry

Harumph! Harumph!