Monday 9 September 2013

So we had an election ...

Australia had a federal election over the weekend.  This resulted in a brand new Prime Minister ... our third this year!!

But this post isn't going to be about politics ... because I think politics is B.O.R.I.N.G.

But there was one little thing that caught my attention ... that I just can't help but mention.

Kevin Rudd ... our outgoing Prime Minister ... as in departing not gregarious ... spent a portion of Friday campaigning in my neck of the woods.

So as I caught up with the news on Friday evening ... I paid particular attention to that story.  Not because it was particularly interesting ... but I wanted to see if I recognised anyone doing a nudie run in the background.

I saw our departing PM kissing babies and BBQing a few sausages ... but I didn't recognise the woman with him.


 Then I came to a sudden realisation that the woman was in fact our local Labor member ... as in constituent not body part ... and I had seen her face plastered excessively ALL OVER our local area for the past several weeks.  Barely a sign post, a fence, a tree or even a slow moving person avoided having a sign stapled to them.  So you might say I was pretty familiar with her face.


Which is why I found my inability to recognise her somewhat fascinating.  Of course this little mystery required some investigation ... and I immediately went in search of clues ... okay, I google imaged her ... and came up with this.


Now I wanted to be fair, unbiased and impartial ... so I then google imaged her major opponent.

Official electoral poster.


Normal, everyday shot.


Now clearly these ladies are both highly intelligent, extremely capable and naturally beautiful women ... who have been photoshopped to within an inch of their lives.

How can we vote for the "real" them ... when we can't even recognise the "real" them?

Of course I would NEVER do anything so vain and superficial.

9 comments:

  1. Woop woop, it's all over! Thank goodness, because it was boring the bejeezes out of me. No more photoshopped posters, no more mind numbing ads on tele, just let's hope we don't have to go anywhere near there again for at least three years!!

    Now all we need is for the football season to end as well . . . :-) xx

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    1. If I saw one more annoying ad on television or got one more money wasting leaflet delivered by Australia Post to my letterbox ... I was going to flip my noodle!
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  2. You don't need photo shop! I would vote for you for anything. Really. Anything at all! Word around these parts is that Hillary Clinton has had a face lift in anticipation of her upcoming run for President. Augh! I just never ends!

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    1. Aww thanks Connie ... If I ever decide to run for anything I'll get you to be my Campaign Manager ;0)
      Hillary Clinton ... really ... I thought she was embracing the au naturel look ... even very strong women seem to cave in to that kind of pressure.
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  3. Poor woman, it must be awful to have people constantly saying, "Oh, I didn't recognise you" and to be a bit of a disappointment. She needs to learn to say no.

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    1. The thing is she looked great the way she really is ...she looked like a real person ... and one that would be 'mature' enough to represent an electorate in Parliament ... it's all so unnecessary.
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  4. serious stuff and then I start laughing at the 'nudie run', my camera photo-shopped me once, without my consent, how rude?, it's all silly nonsense when public,intelligent and valuable women are photo-shopped, for what purpose again? grrrr! x x

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    1. Exactly ... what is the purpose? Just to make the rest of us feel inadequate perhaps??
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