ODT Watch | Issue 21

ODT Watch | Issue 21

"A wee trim does the trick"


Why has this never happened to Dan Carter?!


“Error” of epic proportions: TVNZ aired a raunchy condom advertisement during a TV movie about New Zealand’s most high profile rape trials. Sometimes unfortunately placed advertisements can be hilarious … not so much in this case. Anything would have been better than a condom ad: even the Big Save Furniture ads.


Another cute pun from the ODT. On a side note, whatever happened to teaching kids the recorder? We used to blow such a sweet tune on those bad boys.


A 70-year-old man managed to swim 34km in 12 hours and 45 minutes, but apparently the record breaking swim wasn’t exhausting enough as he needed a brewski to “help him sleep.”



This dude’s controversial hairdo has made the front page of the ODT not once but two days in a row, reminding us we can always rely on the ODT for extensive coverage of interesting and relevant news. The kid was forced to cut his hair to make it “less extreme” but to us his “unapproved” haircut on the left looks marginally different to the “approved” cut on the right, further showing how ridiculous this story is as news.
This article first appeared in Issue 21, 2014.
Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Kristen Stewart and Allison Hess.