Could you vote against a ninja turtle?

Bwahah!

I’m a big fan of Pete (number 21): its all that leather which is the deal clincher.

How about a sexy women of the public service?

I know Matthew, #35, and he’s a top bloke. Vote for him!

I bet if it was a sexiest women of the public service, some minority group would whine about it being sexist, or discriminatory, and about how women are more than good looks and a tight body; funny how it is so openly accepted because it is men….I wonder if this is endorsed by the ACT Government?

Tool said :

I bet if it was a sexiest women of the public service, some minority group would whine about it being sexist, or discriminatory, and about how women are more than good looks and a tight body; funny how it is so openly accepted because it is men….I wonder if this is endorsed by the ACT Government?

Yep – typical. Still women whinge so much about this sort of thing that I figure throwing them a bone now and then won’t hurt.

Tool, I think you can get away with it when it has an element of satire to it, which is easier to achieve with a sexy men calender than a sexy women calender. Our cultural heritage of beauty pagents etc (which are somewhat lacking in satire) ensures that people would tend to take a sexy women calender seriously, but the same is not true for the male equivalent.

Tool are you actually upset about the objectification of men in this calendar? Or just upset about a hypothetical question? (I’m genuinely interested in whether any men find this calendar off-putting, or not.)

Cam and Lisa suck… It’s a feeble grab for ratings.

There’s obviously a large number of public servants that populate this fair city and being small time radio announcers they have nothing in common with any of them.

It’s a fail in my opinion.

Neil (No 20) should hook up with Charmyne Palavis – they’re the same colour

Did anyone check out their (apparently unaltered) boilerplate Terms & Conditions?

Tool said :

I bet if it was a sexiest women of the public service, some minority group would whine about it being sexist, or discriminatory, and about how women are more than good looks and a tight body; funny how it is so openly accepted because it is men….I wonder if this is endorsed by the ACT Government?

Yes, I’m sure that all these guys could not have gotten anywhere without their looks…even today, job interviews for men in the public service are just ‘drop your pants and pray they don’t bite.”

(Seriously mate, I don’t think any of these blokes will be crying in their rooms after midnight about how nobody sees past their ninja-turtle/bikie looks)

DarkLadyWolfMother said :

Did anyone check out their (apparently unaltered) boilerplate Terms & Conditions?

Scary that people are still netering a competition that has NO PRIZES, NO END TIME, and has no promoter or agreeing parties.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

COMPETITION AND ENTRY DETAILS

This section will be manually inserted depending on actual promotion.

It will clearly identify:

How to enter the competition.
List PRIZES and associated value.
How winners are selected.
List Permit Nos.
SCHEDULE
1.1 Commencement date and time [Sydney time]: [insert date/time]
1.2 Closing date and time [Sydney time]: [insert date/time]
1.3 Residents of: [limit to State or country]
1.4 Minimum Age: [insert age]
1.5 Limitation of Entry: [insert maximum or “no limitation”]
1.6 Winner selection date and time: [insert date/time]
1.7 Notification: [publication details]

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

1. THE PROMOTER:
This competition is promoted by the Australian Radio Network, [address] ACN [
and [client name, address and ACN] (“Promoter”).

2. PROMOTION DATES:
This competition commences on the date and at the time specified in Schedule 1.1 and ends on the date and at the time as specified in Schedule 1.2.

3. WHO MAY ENTER:
The only persons who may enter and be awarded prizes are residents of the place specified in Schedule 1.3, who have attained the age specified in Condition 1.4 (if so specified), who are not…
7. PRIZE NOTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION:
Winners will be notified by electronic mail (email), or if this is not possible, via Australia Post, using the details provided upon entering the competition, and the name and suburb of the winners will be published as specified in Schedule 1.7.

8. SELECTION OF WINNERS:
The winner will be selected at the time and date specified in Schedule 1.6.

This is my favourite part…

“9. PUBLICITY:

Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Promoter to use winner’s name, suburb of residence, recording of winner’s voice and likeness for advertising and promotional purposes without compensation, unless otherwise prohibited by law.”

where’s the ‘vote for none of the above’ button?

or just vote for mary. ; )

I think they’re mostly adorable!

Interestingly I was reading on wikipedia the other day about a study showing that lecturers were rated almost identically by their students after a full year as they were after meeting the person for just thirty seconds. Also the thirty second ratings were very similar to ratings from a picture alone. It seems that we can get enough of the non-verbal clues through a photograph alone to determine whether someone is a person we are likely to connect with or not.

I definitely find the muscly ones less attractive, though.

sepi said :

Tool are you actually upset about the objectification of men in this calendar? Or just upset about a hypothetical question? (I’m genuinely interested in whether any men find this calendar off-putting, or not.)

Of course it objectifies men. Women like to perve just as much as men do, and allowing them to do this is every bit as nullifying as when men do it to women.

I think objectifying someone is when you cut them up into little body bits and leave the personality and preciousness out. I think there’s nothing wrong with admiring people. As long as it’s respectful.

Granny said :

I think objectifying someone is when you cut them up into little body bits and leave the personality and preciousness out. I think there’s nothing wrong with admiring people. As long as it’s respectful.

Have the police thought about exhuming your back yard?

Lighten up dudes and dont take this calendar thing so seriously. Its just a bit of fun that had bought a bit of entertainment to quite a few public service offices around the city. Whilst there are no future Cosmo centrefolds in there, most dont aspire to be……but just to have a bit of fun. Well, maybe just a couple of the entrants are up themselves.

It raises a bit of money for cancer as well, which is not a bad thing either. An interesting point was that on channel 9’s Today show two or three mornings ago the Men of the Public Service calendar site rated as in the top five accessed sites in all of Austalia, so someone must have been looking at it. According to 106 they got thousands of votes, and people could only vote once….so it must have got a bit of attention in that respect as well. I think a big fault in our public service city is that we do take ourselves too damm seriously.