Sideswipe extra: Something for the weekend

The magnificent swinging pad in Avondale. Photo / Supplied

Local:

Looking for a

swinging pad

in Avondale? Check out this magnificent five beddy the Brady Bunch left 40 years ago. It has bar (with a built-in TV) and enough wood veneer to make your eyes water. (Hat tip Stephen O'Hoy)

TV overseas:

A contestant on Dutch reality show

Who Is The Worst Driver In The Netherlands?

answers the question by

running over the host

. I bet the producers couldn't believe their luck with this footage.

Baby carrots baby:

These satirical ads mock the food marketing clichés - you know, the typical way makers of chocolate, energy drinks, chips and fizz get you to buy -with

sex

,

science fiction

or

extreme sports

) but these ad spots are shilling healthy baby carrots.

A competent and popular Prime Minister:

Are you a John Key fan? According to the TV polls there are quite a few of you. Well now there's a place for you to go and express all that adulation! The site is called simply

We Like John Key

, surely it's not National's grass roots electioneering?

This just in...

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming biopic

The Iron Lady

...

here's a sneak peek

.

Art:

Looking at these photos - a collection of pictures of people aged 0 to 100 - I am struck by a few things. Beauty is definitely synonymous with youth, and how strange it is to see the faces of normal looking people, not the beautiful or the freakish that we seem to only see these days...and no forced smiles. Scroll across for the Women

here

and men

here

.

Social media:

If celebrity tweets were honest...

here's what they'd say

.

Video:

Remember Ansett? Well you'll probably remember this ad then...

(Via

Dan News

)