Did anyone else catch the anti-cyclist tyrade by Magda Szubanski and Julia Morris on Good News Week? Maybe those fat bitches need to stop whinging and get a bike?
Regardless of whatever those fat bitches say, that show can go get fucked in its arse.
I reckon Magda would lose weight if she was in a concentra…
Oops better not say that…
X2
possible lamest show on tv, on par with scrubs :roll:
Haha yeah I saw it.
She really layed into cyclists
I laughed when she said we should get number plates.
If they rode bikes they’d have to get B-Double licences …
… but srsly, wut
Both of those women have lost a lot of weight already (I’m not stalking them, it’s been in the ‘media’ as well as the glossies, uh, apparently) - it’s almost ironic they (and the writers, who are supposed to have a leash on these idiots) have decided to ‘go’ cyclists, including suggesting viewers run them us over and door us, when so many other people, even some of the ‘fat men in lycra’ * on Beach Rd, are taking up weekend riding as part of a weight loss routine.
… a routine that doesn’t involve being ripped off by unscrupulous gym membership schemes scams (“How much does it cost? well, how much do you earn?”) or magical/useless/overpriced home gym machines, advertised on the same network a bit later each evening. Or taking up lucrative sponsorships with Jenny Craig.** (They pay her squillions for the promo, while Joe and Jane Average pay thousands *** for the programme - money better spent on bikes, am i rite :roll: )
It’s a bit of a worry though when the women start baying for blood like that (/patronising sexist pig.) I’d like to see Magda take the 80km/h challenge - stand with her back to the traffic, and have some berk pass her, by a foot or so, at or over the speed limit. But I’d rather see her on a bike. Anyone got a sturdy MTB frame kicking around?
I hope the Amy Gillet Foundation will be having words with Ten - Ten’s a state partner of theirs in SA. Get in touch if you want to raise a ruckus.
sigh
- hopefully a few of which are cycling-is-the-new-golf executives at Ten, responsible for scheduling their appearances on GNW - as well as deciding whether to axe a dying-a-slow-death clip show that rips off an idea made popular online twelve years ago.
** an upset fatty shines some light on Magda reaching her ‘goal weight’: “Magda has now reached her ‘goal weight’ of 85kg/187lb. Now for someone who is 5ft tall, apparently to comply with the BMI (which we all know is bullshit anyway) and come in at the top of her ‘healthy weight range’ she would need to lose another 27kg/59.4lb. At her current 85kg, Magda has a BMI of over 36 and is still well into the ‘obese’ category. Not that I am advocating her trying to lose another 60lb. Just illustrating how ridiculous the whole thing is.” I guess the question to ask is “Have you thought about riding a bike to actually reach a healthy weight range?”, while you’re smacking her with a dislocated car door at 73 feet per second to demonstrate what a dooring feels like.
*** Google scraped Choice recently to reveal six months of programme costs $935.
i was watching and cringed through that whole section of the show, the girls kept on pushing it and not doing the whole bike/car relationship any good or the fact that they could be possibly discouraging people from getting out and getting fit.
i am not going to comment on those two girls who have publically gone through weight loss issues and how they should really think about what they were saying… but I am not going to bring that up… am i?
the crowd was giving a big cheer, but can’t help but think they’re were a few people in the audience that were feeling as uncomfortable as me…
what was said?
On GNW last night, caught the end of it. Magda flipping out at cyclists generally and in particular, fixed gear riders, although she doesn’t know that. Watch til the end.
- Joel
Damn. I knew there was reason I should’ve watched it.
heres the correct link, magdas rant starts about 1:20, but she keeps coming back for more and doesn’t let it go, then julia gets going on it.
winging about cyclists full stop, riding on the road, wanting to run them over etc etc
some classics:
“Its ok if you’re commuting, but riding a bike for exercise??? The road is not your gym, how about I take my car and drive around your backyard”"
“Ï dont want to sit in my car and look at your sweaty lycra bum”
“why ride on the road when there is a bike path”
“what is it about coming into cafes with your tiptap shoes, take off your tip tap shoes”
“when you’re at the lights don’t balance, get off your bike”
“what about those riders that don’t obet the rules fine them, no just take them out”
Why do people hate cyclists track standing?
Are they jealous?
sounded like my housemates giving me shit for riding. but at least i know they are just taking the piss.
What a bunch of total has-beens. That show has been shit since it left the A B freakin C 10 years ago… Channel 10 must have been short of ideas when they resurrected GNW.
Sounds like Magda must have lost some weight of her brain too.
*I do agree with the anti iPhone rant. “An iPhone is like a penis…fun to play with on your own, but rude to bring it out at the dinner table”
The dude behind Magda looks very, very, very unimpressed, so does that Claire chick, and when they show Julia Morris ranting, look at Tom Gleeson’s face. They all look extremely uncomfortable.
The Tom Gleeson iPhone rant was pretty amazing though.
guilty, i get my wife with this all the time and she hates it, kids think I’m a genius.
claire was going to say something at one point and then got cut off by the whole “hating the audience” rant.
iphone rant. spot on.
Maybe Wade at Cycling Tips should challenge Magda and Julia to come out for a morning ride?
I think the guy off Thank God You’re Here doesn’t own a car and rides a lot. Explains his silence during that whole segment. I would have been fuming. In his position I probably would have actually punched Magda in the nose and said: “Well that’s how a car door feels bitch!”.
That iPhone bit was gold though!
Yeah, I saw that.
I still thinks she’s cute in an ugly way… Claire, not Magda or Julia.
would be interesting. like actually put them to the challenge. see how serious they are about fitness and losing weight.
just hope there is a camera there to capture it and them feasting on their foot.