from one of the most censored countries in the Western world.

Utterly sickening.

You Aussie bureaucratic bastards, they just wanted to eat ratatouille!
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I'm a Celebrity contestants face animal cruelty charges over rat

Winner Gino D'Acampo and his fellow competitor Stuart Manning 'killed, cooked and ate rat' on ITV show

Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 December 2009

Gino D'Acampo, the winner of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!, and his fellow contestant Stuart Manning face criminal charges for animal cruelty after cooking and eating a rat on the ITV programme, it emerged today.

The pair were part of a group in "exile" during part of the series, which meant they had meagre rations of rice and beans.

A lack of meat apparently prompted the contestants to catch, kill and eat a rat.

D'Acampo, a 33-year-old chef, said in the show's video diary, the Bush Telegraph: "I saw one of these rats running around. I got a knife, I got its throat, I picked it up."

The group, including 30-year-old actor Manning, ate the rat...

Chief Inspector David Oshannessy, of the New South Wales RSPCA, said it was not acceptable that an animal had been killed as part of a performance.

"The allegation is that an animal was cruelly treated on the set," he added. "It was a rat that was killed.

"There is a code of conduct in New South Wales that dictates how animals can be used. The killing of a rat for a performance is not acceptable."

The charity sends staff whenever animals are used for filmed or live performances, he said, and had been in contact with the programme's producers before the rat was killed.

When they were told what had happened, they decided to take action.

"Police from Murwillumbah ... issued field court attendance notices to two men aged 30 and 33 for the offence of animal cruelty," a spokesman for New South Wales police said.

"They are due to attend court at Murwillumbah local court on 3 February 2009."

ITV was unavailable for comment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-a...

...the RMA legislation?

Anyway you're likely to be carbon-taxed out of milk for too much farting in the future.

...buy a cow.

The stuff with the cream on the top. Do you realise that there is only one brand of milk available on the market that is NOT homogenised and as you can imagine trying to find any of it is like looking for hens teeth (as the bastards (govt) deem it illegal for one to buy milk directly from a farmer).

...there's only one pie of note, and that's the May's Pie.

Smallish, shortcrust pasty, peppery mince filling. You can down three of them after a hard night and awake Phoenix-like.

Available in Wellington now, I understand. This is how the revolution begins.

...it was legendary.

It's enough to make a bloke weep!

Milkshakes in those metal what's-its! I swear they tasted better in those things. Maybe they tasted better anyway. Full cream milk probably, not this fashionable trim-piss.

Return of the Taihape pie & milkshake across the tea rooms of this land will signal freedom's return! End this euro-fagdom, lattes & pesto qua-sonts... and open cultural experiences. And kick the polish yuppies out!

You can be glad that you're in the UK... and quite frankly, you deserve the food that you get there. I've spat the dummy at quite a few cafe's around the country. NZ is finally becoming civilised into yuppihood, thank God

My god, things have got worse than I thought.

When I landed in Auckland Airport last time, all I wanted was a brewed coffee and a mince pie. That was impossible.

I thought to myself, well, perhaps that's just the airport cafe being silly.

On my drive down to Wellington it was not until Taupo tea-rooms that I managed to get that combination.

I asked a cafe owner why no one sells brewed coffee anymore.

She told me that no one will drink it. They don't want to brew a whole pot of coffee for one person to come along and then have to chuck the lot after an hour.

They prefer the instant Italian coffee machine. Not only can they make one cup of coffee at a time, but they can even charge extra for it.

I never thought the Kiwis would fall for that one.

Where the 'gourmet pie' trend comes from I still haven't worked out.

I haven't seen it outside of NZ so far.

it was some sort of Italian quip.

It's hard even to get an INdecent mince pie. They're all mince and bloody cheese!

And of course, female presenters shouldn't be allowed at all. Hell, they even had one doing rugby commentary till the silly cow remembered what she was here for and got pregnant.

Bring back Crumpy, Sir Pinetree and the Taihape pie-and-cuppa. Real men, real food.

...it's the fact that you can't get a decent mince pie or strong black coffee, that has brought this once great nation of New Zealand to her knees!

Nowadays it's all gourmet pies and lattes and female presenters with names like 'Pippa'.

Gone are the days of the 'Good Keen Man'!

I'm alternating between squealing at the hilarity of this and chastising myself for what must have been very poor diction. Or maybe Marcus has wax in his ears? Or was being knowingly funny at the beginning?

This conversation should get the SOLO dizzy award........

Marcus, Linz wanted to say "Neemia Tialata" - he's an all black.

Yeah, Linz. Real men don't drink tea...or listen to Puccini. Or cry at Mario Lanza songs. Only fags (and Europeans...wait, same thing...) do that...

Oh, wait...

Ya know...the nice thing about being gay is that one can drink tea or whatever without worrying about being called "gay." Being gay allows one to be open to cultural experiences straight men can't, out of fear of being branded a homo. (Romantic music?)

"Tea? What, are you gay?"

"Sure am. What of it?"

Gotta love the irrational fears of straight men. (And with THAT said: Granted, I can't stand some of the "pretentiousness" of those stereotypes, either. But that's an unfortunate package deal.)

"Back to Paul and Pippa and I didn't get to say 'I need a tea or latte'..." (laughter follows from Paul and Pippa)

Go figure?

With beverage stadards like that, I'm surprised Paul and Pippa didn't ask if you wanted a 'tin of cocoa' and 'car tire'!

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

...'give me a tea or latte' like the others had at the end of the broadcast?

Is that a tradition in broadcasting?

The after-broadcast cuppa?

You probably forgot to say it Linz because you wanted a man's drink.

A properly brewed black filter coffee!!!

Onto it.

Aplomb of course is exactly what they don't want. The Head of News and Current Affairs, in his speech at this event, said it was a matter of pride for him that the voice-over leading up to the six o'clock news calls it the "sucks o'clock news." (He also said TVNZ has been "officially braindead for 15 years now"—an allusion, of course, to my parting line. Simon Dallow also referred to it in his speech, saying how honored he was that its author was present. It still pricks at their consciences, in other words.)

The News in Retard.

So unnecessary, tragic and abominable.

But you guys should be making your point to TVNZ as well as here. Our values won't prevail unless we fight for them.

How fabulous! If they had any sense or imagination or aplomb they'd hire you full time, and rock the news.

As Oscar said of self expression:

"Life has been your art.
You have set yourself to music.
Your days are your sonnets."

I channelled Oscar? The truth, of course, is that that impostor channelled me. I told him one of us would have to go.

I fixed it so that not everyone can edit it. When I did that I noticed you didn't have a picture. Can you try uploading it again? If it doesn't work please send it as an attachment to the webmaster.

I think everyone can edit it because it was uploaded as a picture under "other content" rather than a blog post.

Speaking which, where's my picture gone?

of our Linz. I love it! Oh that cravat! Value Swoon.

And in the Sunday Star Times Lindsay makes the 'social' pages:

"Cathy Campbell (who now runs her own PR company)[..] let slip that she and Perigo used to go out for dinner each evening after they'd read their bulletins and get into "all sorts of trouble!" Just what trouble she wasn't willing to broadcast!"

Webmaster: how come it appears I am able to edit Hayden's post? The edit tab appears at top.