When I was a kid, a remote controlled television set was to me cutting-edge, state of the art technology. Changing channels without getting up from your chair, merely by pushing a button on a battery-operated device was the stuff of science fiction. A TV screen changing just like that *clicking fingers*? This was surely material limited to Star Trek or Lost in Space! I would imagine Major Don West pulling a trick like this on the Jupiter II, and then Dr Smith would later steal the remote for his own unscrupulous gain, whilst the robot and Will Robinson would object, and the robot would be denounced as a 'Bubble-Headed Booby'. A television set operated via remote control was for the more wealthy of us.
We didn't have a remote control in our house. That job fell to me. I would be sitting on the floor playing with my farm animal set (in my mind they were in a classroom, not a farm), or reading something random from the encyclopaedia (this is why I tend to kick arse in trivia games), and either Mum or Dad would say, 'Turn it over, Simone.' So the remote job fell upon my shoulders, and I would put aside my plastic horse or the encyclopaedia, and shuffle on my bottom to the television, and change the channel. I didn't have to ask what channel they required; we only received NBN Newcastle or the ABC. So 'turn it over' just meant put on whatever channel wasn't currently playing.
Now I am an adult, and have a house with remote controlled technology. They're a good thing, these television remotes. They enable you to change the channel when there is something on the television that does not appeal to you. The technology is pretty widespread and accessible to everybody. Of course, if you can't find your remote because it's found it's way down the back of the lounge, you have the option to get up off your date and use your finger to change channels. This is a very easy thing to do, and it's an option I would respectfully (well, not respectfully actually) suggest to all those people who have signed the change dot org petition seeking Channel 7 dismiss Andrew O'Keefe from his role as a host on Sunrise. I seriously cannot believe someone would start an actually petition for this. Look, okay - disclaimer: I actually rather like Andrew O'Keefe. But even if I didn't, I would definitely not be starting lame-arse petitions. I'd use what evolution gave me, ie opposable thumbs and free will, and change the fucking channel! When I saw this in my newsfeed yesterday, all I could do was groan, 'You're fucking shitting me, aren't you?' Well, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. It seems lately all people do is bitch and whine and sook about stuff they don't like, and then seek to have it banned. I HATE Adam Sandler movies, and I HATE Everybody Loves Raymond, so what I do is this funny little thing called - and I'll type it slowly - doing something else rather than watch. Hell, O'Keefe is a more enjoyable host than Koch; Koch asks questions that leave me feeling soiled, kind of like your questionable uncle asking you if you've started wearing a bra yet (whether you're thirteen or thirty-seven).
So my point is - don't like Andrew O'Keefe? Change the channel. Not too difficult.
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