Sideswipe: Wives of top-end gynaecologists

National Business Review motoring editor Peter Gill gets carried away with a sexist stereotype in a story about the VW Golf.

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Rachael was in St Luke's shopping centre and saw a distressed, elderly couple sitting in their car with their wheel clamped. "They were parked in a disabled spot and were displaying their disabled card to say they're allowed to park there! The man said they had found someone who said they were sorting it out - that was an hour ago. I tried calling the number on the form in their window." She said they were still there two hours later, after the car park attendant's mistake. What happened St Lukes?

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The ANZ World Visa advertising campaign, which has taken over bus shelters all over the city, is making Julie uncomfortable. "I've noticed two of these bus shelter signs now that say, 'In a perfect world you'd be in a more perfect part of it'. There's one in Mt Roskill and another in nearby Wesley. Is there a pattern to where these less perfect parts of the world, according to ANZ, are? I'm guessing they didn't put one up on Paritai Drive?"

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Previously unseen BBC memos have revealed the regeneration between actors in the Doctor Who TV series were based on bad LSD trips. An internal memo from 1966 shows that producers felt the regeneration should be a "horrifying experience". They said: "He re-lives some of the most unendurable moments of his long life, including the galactic war. It is as if he had had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect." (Source: BBC.co.uk)

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A scooter rider's response to yesterday's reader and Revenue Gathering 101.

1. The only reason you can't see the bus lane sign is you have taken the photo from the footpath, it is perfectly readable from the road.

2. There are 100 bus lane signs along that stretch of road, ok maybe not 100, maybe that is a hyperbole equivalent of the "giant" tree?

3. People who "zoom" in my experience also tend to be people who don't look before pulling out directly in front of someone travelling in their (designated) bus lane at 50km/h. Just because you need to cross over the lane, doesn't mean that you don't have to make sure there is clearly room to do so. Just because you don't want to slow down doesn't mean I don't exist.

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p>Today's Webpick: Watch in awe as this man re-enacts how a vicious dog came at him for a TV news crew. You must see this! Go here.





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