Aren’t our MPs, and ex-MPs, a rich and diverse bunch of people? I find it endlessly fascinating, the sorts of issues on which they choose to spend their time and energy.
Take ex ACT MP David Garrett. (Far away – take him – please!) Apparently he comments every now and then on Kiwiblog, and today was there with an unusual complaint (ht: you know who you are). He commented about telling off an Asian-but-I’m-not-racist woman in the supermarket for sniffing fruit. Apparently it’s just not done here. A long and typically “illuminating” KB discussion followed.
Well, just for David, and for any others who share his particular obsession, I thought this little archival piece might be of interest. The making of the rapidly tarnishing “Brand Key” in it’s early stages. Feast your senses on the most famous produce sniffer in all the land…
Ahhh, comedy gold 🙂
This was obviously before Key had his “good kiwi bloke who is one of us” training.
PS: Good to see Garrett is still batshit crazy, but why would he want to remind us?
Haha its an art form to pick good fresh produce…I spoke to a lady once who worked at a fish mart – lots of tricks there 🙂
One of the best Key clips 🙂 like a conehead trying to fit in with humans..
shoot i sniff fruit – maybe i should return to my homeland…no wait this is my homeland.
The difference between spitting and sniffing fruit is miles apart. surely we live in a multi / bi cultural society where some universal standard of behaviours are now accepted
It’s standard practice in The USA to sniff a rockmelon to see if it’s ripe
Maybe he did actually learn something from his many hours of tireless work in Helensville?
And I thought Donkeys only ate carrots.
As a chef I sniff almost everything I buy/cook/eat. There is absoloutly nothing wrong with it. Food is something that should be enjoyed by every sense possible, taste, touch and smell all play a massive part. When you cannot taste a peice of fruit when buying it touch and smell are the best ways of identifying whether it is ripe or not.
This is rediculous
Go for your life and sniff away and I’ll put up with you having your stickies all over the produce too but FFS, don’t squeeze the tomatoes!.
Pot calls kettle a pot.
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Daffy Garrote misses the limelight, thinks Hone gives a shit what he thinks.
Hone vs Garrett would have made good in flight viewing, Hone should have said the babies are seated at the front of the isle.
I’d pay money to watch with the lazy $$$$ on Hone.
Was that woman at 1:30 wearing boxing gloves?
I am a sniffer it’s the best way to tell if Bananas are sweet or not.
I think being a sniffer is better than being a squeezer and David Garrett is just being a raciest fuddie duddie, I beet he would have not nutted out at some little old white lady for sniffing.
only way to tell if a pineapple is ripe, sniff sniff!
Rather have a fruit sniffer than a person that steals dead babies identities.
David Garrett, you are a plonker.
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Do you even think about the things you say and the things you do ?
A few days ago you posted this: Hello TV3 – can you count? which had a headline of;
Then today you post this video, which was last seen on this blog back in September 2007…
(see: John Key’s Porirua market adventure )
So you’re just recycling headlines from a few years ago yourself. What a knob.
you’re a day late and trying to make a point that is completely stupid.
It is pretty damn stupid alright. But I suspect that the effort in explaining the difference in relevance to him would be wasted effort. I don’t think he can make his mind any more flexible than he already has – totally rigid.
It’s quite consistent with burt’s dislike of anything retrospective. I’m surprised he didn’t manage to fit the word into his comment a couple of times.
Ah… Excellent point. Both of these cases had retrospective elements. And burt likes marching boldly forward into the future whilst only ever looking backwards. It s a trait that always seemed potentially painful to me. But I digress.
I guess he can only differentiate the retrospective part, and can’t see any other factors. Quite obsessional is burt – just like his namesake from sesame street.