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February 2, 2010 10:04 PM Subscribe
Huh. after seeing "sheep farmer and his quadriplegic wife open a brothel." I immediately thought "OH GHAWD" and came in here expecting a major shitstorm.
But upon reading it just seems like this guy started a business on the faulty premise that "selling sex = instant cash, no matter what" without doing any bit of research into the business, the local market or the politics/views of his community.
posted by Throw away your common sense and get an afro! at 12:32 AM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
But upon reading it just seems like this guy started a business on the faulty premise that "selling sex = instant cash, no matter what" without doing any bit of research into the business, the local market or the politics/views of his community.
[...] the hours were terrible and they were not cut out for the work. "We couldn't handle the night work and we don't have particularly good people skills," admits Rohrlach. "To deal with sex workers, you need to have very, very good people skills or you need to be an absolute mongrel. We're not absolute mongrels and we don't have good people skills, so that's where it fell down."This would be complete fail in any other enterprise, "moral" or otherwise.
posted by Throw away your common sense and get an afro! at 12:32 AM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
It's a doco about choices and circumstance in an unusual situation, it ticks a number of boxes marked 'compelling'.
If the doco was about an MBA with a model family and wife, whose foray into the world of business was nothing short of uber-successful, would this make it more interesting for you?
posted by a non e mouse at 1:59 AM on February 3, 2010
If the doco was about an MBA with a model family and wife, whose foray into the world of business was nothing short of uber-successful, would this make it more interesting for you?
posted by a non e mouse at 1:59 AM on February 3, 2010
Wait, I thought New Zealand had the sheep brothels?
posted by ryanrs at 2:01 AM on February 3, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by ryanrs at 2:01 AM on February 3, 2010 [2 favorites]
Wait, I thought New Zealand had the sheep brothels?
Yes, yes, very funny. Very enlightened. Very witty.
People who are actually from New Zealand are mostly too polite to post comments like this one.
posted by Wolof at 4:54 AM on February 3, 2010
Yes, yes, very funny. Very enlightened. Very witty.
People who are actually from New Zealand are mostly too polite to post comments like this one.
posted by Wolof at 4:54 AM on February 3, 2010
Yeah, lay off NZ! Their economy is actually solidly hobbit-movie based. Sheep brothels are, at best, a distant second.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:22 AM on February 3, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:22 AM on February 3, 2010 [3 favorites]
Brothel or no brothel, Chris Rohrlach seems like a helluva guy.
posted by jeanmari at 7:45 AM on February 3, 2010
posted by jeanmari at 7:45 AM on February 3, 2010
Am I the only one who thought for a moment it was the wife doing the brothel work?
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 8:34 AM on February 3, 2010
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 8:34 AM on February 3, 2010
Why would sheep need a brothel?
Oh. OH! Ohhhhhhhhhh.
posted by Aquaman at 8:46 AM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oh. OH! Ohhhhhhhhhh.
posted by Aquaman at 8:46 AM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
A struggling Australian sheep farmer and his quadriplegic wife open a brothel.
That is SO the premise of the next big HBO Sunday night drama series.
posted by mudpuppie at 9:30 AM on February 3, 2010
That is SO the premise of the next big HBO Sunday night drama series.
posted by mudpuppie at 9:30 AM on February 3, 2010
People who are actually from New Zealand are mostly too polite to post comments like this one.
Wolof,
You have got to be shitting me, cobber!
(That was really, really dry kiwi humor, right?)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:08 AM on February 3, 2010
Wolof,
You have got to be shitting me, cobber!
(That was really, really dry kiwi humor, right?)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 10:08 AM on February 3, 2010
It's a doco about...
I have never heard this shortening, 'doco', before, but it has instantly zipped to the top of my movie term hate list, sharing the space with 'biopic'.
posted by gurple at 11:41 AM on February 3, 2010
I have never heard this shortening, 'doco', before, but it has instantly zipped to the top of my movie term hate list, sharing the space with 'biopic'.
posted by gurple at 11:41 AM on February 3, 2010
heh, doco. It's like when I click on a link about some movie, start reading, then go, "Wait, is this in English?...oh, it's Variety, so, no."
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:48 PM on February 3, 2010
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:48 PM on February 3, 2010
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The same story is told of many, many businesses, including farms. The only odd things about his story are his extraordinarily close relationship with his profoundly disabled wife, and that he tried to start a brothel instead of maybe a commercial printery or a restaurant or a taxi company or some other business that he knew nothing about and had no aptitude for.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 10:46 PM on February 2, 2010