Comments on: Tiger, Tiger Burning… but not very bright!

By: Whiplet

Whiplet — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:31:48 +0000

Is Tiger still playing the 11th hole, or has he retired back to the clubhouse, where his wife is fuming?

By: Little Toot

Little Toot — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:30:22 +0000

Yes Phil, of course I agree … birch him! What right does this cad and bounder have to be filthy rich and talented and not honour his domestic contracts? How dare he breed and recede! How dare he err!
Quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn – it’s his life to screw up and ‘the fool in him’ is enduring more punishment than most psychopths with ‘fresh heads in the fridge’ ever suffer. Live and let live.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:30:33 +0000

Why do we care? Because he’s shown himself to be a total hypocrite that’s why. Trophy wife, trophy family, all a shining facade for the sponsors’ benefit, while he pursues a grubby personal life behind the scenes. I’m glad we now know this. Schadenfreude? you betcha, but warranted this time.
Advice to wife: get out of the marriage with as many millions as you can squeeze from him. Tigers do not change their stripes.

By: Cactus Kate

Cactus Kate — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:03:06 +0000

Add #11 to BE’s list

11. In addition to #9 be a stingy scrooge, don’t shower any gifts on these women therefore giving each one absolutely nothing to lose in telling all.

By: Craig Marshall

Craig Marshall — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:23:09 +0000

In all of this discussion, I wonder how much is credible and how much speculation. It may well be true that Mr Woods has wandered from the straight and narrow, but so far most of the evidence of his erring is self-serving and implausible, or of the classic question-begging kind (or both). Other than hearsay, what do we really know? And why should we care anyway?

By: Clonton Ghoulstones

Clonton Ghoulstones — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:33:05 +0000

So disappointing to see Tiger drive his balls, veering off the fairway and into someone else’s bush. We marvel at the unerring accuracy of his club swing; less so, with the direction he steers his pecker.

By: Craig Ranapia

Craig Ranapia — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:31:56 +0000

Meanwhile, in other news this week, Tiger Woods’ penis did not deliver a major policy speech about Afghanistan at West Point. Shame that — because then the local media might have decided a story with genuine foreign policy implications for New Zealand was worth serious coverage and analysis.

By: BE

BE — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:10:12 +0000

we won’t ask you to reveal your secrets, Brian, but there has been gossip about your hurried departure from Ireland:)

I left Ireland to come to New Zealand to teach German to Kiwis. Pretty bizarre, eh?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:46:46 +0000

I have to say the thing that made me laugh was Woods alleged comment to one of his girl friends; “I have to work hard because I am not as financially stable as I would like to be”. How many billions does one need before being ‘financially stable’?

On the matter of his pecadillos why should anyone be surprised? It’s what men do -we won’t ask you to reveal your secrets, Brian, but there has been gossip about your hurried departure from Ireland:)- whatever their parentage and however little money they have. The disappointment with Woods was his lack of good taste. With all that money could he not at least have found classier and more discreet crumpet? But celebs have shown time after time that money buys neither brains nor discernment. It’s the old story that you can tell what God thinks about money by those he chooses to give it to (I realise this goes over an atheist’s head).

By: Chris Trotter

Chris Trotter — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:42:49 +0000

I have to say, JC, I’m with your determinist spouse on this one. At a certain point, the explanation becomes the excuse – usually when you realise that the person under scrutiny simply lacked the mental and/or moral resources to adopt a different course of action from the one for which he stands accused.

It used to drive me wild, watching Nigel Latta’s Tales from the Dark-side (or whatever his TV show about notorious NZ killers was called).

We would learn everything about the criminal: from his appalling childhood, to his substance abuse and addictions, to the twisted moral universe into which he had drifted. Absoebing this, we would realise that what had happened to him and his victims was to all intents and purposes inevitable.

But, having reached this point, we’d then have to endure Latta popping-up right at the end to deliver his standard little homily about personal choice and responsibility. Arrrgghh!

The French, as they do with most aspects of human existence, have a very grown-up attitude towards all this – and a wonderful saying: “To understand all, is to forgive all.”

Like their food – it’s worth trying.