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Thursday February 9th 2012

Tiger gives his putter a rest

So who began their weekend listening to Tiger Woods’ heartfelt yet strangely insincere apology lifted straight from the pages of How to Redeem a Massive Fuckup 101?
 
 
 

Yeah, me neither, though every time I flicked on the TV on Saturday I was treated to just a little more Tiger so as the day progressed so I got the whole show in full.
Who were those people in the audience? And how did they train them to remain expressionless throughout. Me, wouldn’t have been able to do it. Even if I’d tried to keep a benign face I’d have given myself away with the raised eyebrow and screwed up nose thing that I do when I am trying to be polite when someone is bullshitting me. But those people wow, they were poker face. Or maybe they believed him and I’m just being evil and cynical.
Wasn’t it bizarre how Tiger refers to his “treatment and therapy“? He almost makes it sound respectable. Never mind that he is undergoing therapy for chasing and landing more tail than every member of  the NRL competition.
However I think the part that most of us find most disturbing about Tiger’s many mistresses is how well, slutty they were. He really scraped the bottom of the barrel with cocktail waitresses, lingerie models, hostesses and porn stars. Yuck. Do you think practised safe sex!
And while I’m on that subject what is a cocktail waitress? We don’t seem to have them here in Australia. Maybe Tiger knew that and that’s why he imported his mistress to Australia just before the scandal broke knowing that there was no local talent.

But back to Tiger’s statement. Can you believe he got all religious? Of course you can. He referred to his Buddhism practice in what must be the biggest understatement of the year.

“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. OBVIOUSLY I LOST TRACK OF WHAT I WAS TAUGHT.”

You think!

Anyway I hope the part about Elin not belting him with the golf club isn’t true. I hope she found the biggest club she could find and I hope she hit him hard. I am actually really liking that girl. Do you know what she did after Tiger released his statement? She went shopping. Admittedly it was for her daughter, but good on her for not hiding away and for using her credit card. And she looks great, great like Princess Diana looked when she and Prince Charles divorced.

I also really liked the way she didn’t stand beside him while he made his crappy apology doing that loving, proud thing that all American politicians’ wives do when their husbands come a) out of the closet b) deny that they fathered an illegitimate child c) have an affair with a cocktail waitress or d) use the services of highly paid escorts.

Has anyone seen The Good Wife? That’s what the main character did, stood beside her cheating, dishonest husband with that pained, yet loving look. But when they left the stage she slapped him, hard, and that’s really about as good as that show got. Been a real letdown since. I wonder if Elin slapped Tiger, hard? Hope so.

Anyway everyone’s trying to jump on the bandwagon now. The mistresses want an apology. Yeah, like that’s going to happen especially since they had no idea what they were getting themselves into!

And what’s an apology worth anyway? Get your PR team to write it, practice it so many times (pregnant pauses and sincere looks included) that you can’t possibly mean it and then deliver it to a room full of crash test dummies. Hmm, words are cheap.

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