Offensive little prats:

Posted on December 22, 2011 by KG

This caught my eye early this morning, in an item about record numbers of Kiwis moving to Australia:
‘..Researchers say the transtasman exodus is higher among low-skilled and semi-skilled workers, including tradespeople, than among professional people.
..”There is also some feeling that there is less prejudice over there for Maori, in particular. I think they have a really positive profile in Australia which they enjoy.”
So tradespeople are “semi’skilled”?? This, from some little bimbo who probably has worthless “degree” from a low-rent student mill that turns out clowns puffed up with self-esteem even though they know nothing. Perhaps the person making that comment needs to look at what skilled tradesmen have to do in order to get a qualification. But no, that would mean coming into contact with the semi-skilled peasants, you see….and she’s a professional!
As for the Maori comment….”less prejudice”? Well, maybe that’s because Maori who want to work and make a future for their kids tend to come to Australia. The “prejudice” against maori in NZ perhaps has something to do with the large numbers of dope and welfare sucking violent scumbags left behind.
Jeez–this kind of “news” item irritates the hell out of me.

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21 Responses to Offensive little prats:

  1. Darin says:
    December 22, 2011 at 10:25

    Well what she needs is an education in the skilled trades.I got a friend who’s a ship fitter that would “teach” her,he’ll “teach” anything.

  2. Andrei says:
    December 22, 2011 at 10:29

    It’s the fucking Herald KG – a Fitter and Turner is vastly more skilled than any Herald reporter and that should be obvious to anybody with functioning grey matter.

    In any case my two eldest are there because they have a better life and earn more and I promise they are vastly more skilled than any Herald reporter too

  3. pmofnz says:
    December 22, 2011 at 11:46

    In the same article…
    “a lot from the East Coast that are going to the mines”

    Someone must have the required professional skillsets.

    Now remind me where the most NIMBY anti-mining rhetoric is coming from? Must be the unemployable no-hoping bludging knuckle dragging dross left behind from the same families around those parts.

  4. WAKE UP says:
    December 22, 2011 at 11:49

    There is no “prejudice” against Maori in NZ. What there is, is observation of certain behaviours among Maori, including the deliberate ignoring of opportunity.

  5. Angus says:
    December 22, 2011 at 12:04

    It’s a great thing for young guys to do is get a trade . . glad I did (electrician), so did many mates who became signwriters, fitter/welders, toolmakers and the like.

  6. Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
    December 22, 2011 at 13:53

    I served my time in two engineering trades and eventually ended up with a foreign going chief engineer’s ticket – ie no degree – and like my fellow fitters and fitter/turners etc which is where my own roots lie, I’m proud of my background but don’t get me wrong, I’m not skiting and I don’t care much what other people think, especially as I’m now retired. But what really, REALLY pisses me off is all those twats in the talking trades – you know, the polly’s, the PR wankers who front for the police and all government departments, who say they’re all “WORKING HARD” for their constituents, the tax payer etc. The fucking walking heaps of filth wouldn’t know what hard work was is if hit them in the eye.

  7. KG says:
    December 22, 2011 at 13:56

    Amen! to that.

  8. Mike says:
    December 22, 2011 at 14:19

    Yep I agree with Brooding Log Cabin Nutter. As a diesel mechanic I find it highly offensive to be labeled as semi-skilled.

  9. KG says:
    December 22, 2011 at 14:50

    Yet the same clown who said that would be utterly baffled if her car broke down..or the fridge or the washing machine or even the bloody toaster–she’d need to call a “semi-skilled”person. The class that brings her heating and aircon and roads and transport and clean water and sewage.
    Completely useless–and unaware of that fact.

    • Darin says:
      December 22, 2011 at 15:07

      Funny thing happened to me not too long ago.Went down to my favorite choke and puke for lunch.I an a buddy from another shop met up there for lunch that day.At another table across from the bar waere two local doctors and director from the local Hospital,the Docs are okay guys,but the director has a stick up his arse.
      The girl waiting tables came over and took our order first,walked back to the kitchen and handed it to the cook personally instead of clipping it to the order board.A few minutes later we had our food while the other three still waited even though they were there first.
      Sure enough the Director asked her how come we got better service than they did.She said “two reasons-one they actually work for a living and two they actually give me a tip” :grin:

      It’s amazing what a work uniform does for service.

  10. Kris K says:
    December 22, 2011 at 14:59

    As an engineer I like to think of myself as an honorary tradesman :mrgreen:

    Heck, I work closely enough with them most of the time.

    • KG says:
      December 22, 2011 at 15:03

      Similar mindsets and approaches to the job, innit?

      • Kris K says:
        December 22, 2011 at 15:11

        Very much so – except I don’t generally have to scrape grime from under my fingernails on a daily basis ;)

        My old man was a mechanic, and my brother’s a chippy – just can’t get away from the old tradies even if I tried :cry:

  11. KG says:
    December 22, 2011 at 15:05

    One of the most talented people I knew in my youth was a toolmaker–an amazing guy and what he couldn’t do with metal wasn’t worth doing. Yet that clown in the article probably doesn’t even know what a toolmaker is.

    • Darin says:
      December 22, 2011 at 15:10

      Nor that a Toolmaker/Machinist has a part in every single aspect of her daily life from the computer on her desk to the makeup on her face.

    • Brooding Log Cabin Nutter says:
      December 22, 2011 at 16:13

      I believe the old style of apprenticeship – nothing like the modern version – had a heck of a lot going for it in regards to the preparing of a young person for living a full, useful and happy life too. Instead of debating/piss-up/mutual masturbation clubs at red brick universities where aspirant polly’s learn how to lie, cheat and shag other men’s wives (and boys) etc, the apprentice was personally tutored under a skilled and respected tradesman until he was after a number of years, allowed to take on entry level work himself. But it was the learning about life, giving respect to others and finding one’s place and acceptance in Society that ran in parallel that was equally as important.
      And before anyone mentions it, we were all men too – no fairies or paedophiles were ever heard of, unless seen down the pub on a Saturday night.
      But all that’s gone, swept away never to return because politicians all over the western world see the dumbing down of the populace as a necessity if they, the political elite are to keep their grasp on the handles of power and drag us all down to hell with them.

  12. Katie says:
    December 23, 2011 at 03:08

    Just wait until this little idiot needs a “tradesman”. Let her fix her own plumbing, her own electricity, her own carpentry. I’d love to film it and watch the comedy it would become.

    BTW ladies, if you want to marry a rich man, stay away from the stock broker and marry the plumber, etc… They make more than most college grads.

    • Darin says:
      December 23, 2011 at 04:23

      My brother told his wife once “when we have kids we need to have three-a Doctor,a Lawyer and a Union Plumber-with them we can rule the world” :grin:

  13. WAKE UP says:
    December 23, 2011 at 08:30

    Once again, from George Gilder: “These women have no idea how people live, or why”.