Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
see, Tom has his moments
And he never post LOL cat pics.
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I can't believe so many have skirted around it:
Slatergate
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"Cut the crap"
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"John Key's National"
Somebody in the National Party's marketing department must have done a global search and replace, producing such niceties as "your John Key's National candidate"
+1 to refute, #dirtypolitics, Gamergate, TeamKey
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deadeyed duplicity
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Sacha, in reply to
funny that
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This was new to me & Russel Norman today. ARSE CLOWN. .
You have to look it up in the urban dictionary.
Amazed I didn't hear it this year. Maybe one for 2015.
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Screaming Left-Wing Conspiracy-Theroist
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Tumultuous.
I'm starting to cringe ever time I read or hear it in the MSM, as if they've been running some kind of inside competition to slide it into as many reports as possible.
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Sacha, in reply to
Screaming
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Long beaten to nominating "dirty politics", I'm just going to vote that it will be the eventual winner.
The only other suggestions I have are TPPA and denial, although today's "procedural abomination" probably deserves merit.
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Sacha, in reply to
Long beaten
never whipped
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BenWilson, in reply to
This was new to me & Russel Norman today. ARSE CLOWN
It's at least a decade old:
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Probably a little obscure but.....
OIA
Chop chop
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I've noticed this year that nobody criticises any thing - they slam it, according to the MSM.
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swearwolves
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
If Dirty Politics had no real effect then why is it likely to be top of the list? Why is it still being discussed, still being referenced, and still affecting the political process and media in NZ? It's now a core reference point for everything else that happens. That's huge.
I liken the current situation to just after when President Nixon was handily re-elected in 1972, despite the nascent Watergate scandal. It was when the full after-effects of Watergate made their presence felt that he was in real trouble, and I suspect the same will happen here.
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Josh Petyt, in reply to
Me too, but I fear we suffer from wishful thinking.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
the 'tum' essence...
Tumultuous
+1
it's a swell word -
To moult is to lose feathers,
a Tumulus is a burial mound,
thus this goose is cooked,
while they make mountains
out of molehills,
them chickens are home,
to roost in peace...Tumult really does describe Parliament
under National though:a loud, confused noise, esp. one caused by a large mass of people. Confusion or disorder...
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Sacha, in reply to
yay, a non-politics word
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Sacha, in reply to
it's a swell word -
To moult is to lose feathers,
a Tumulus is a burial mound,beautiful.
cheers -
It's been with us all year (first case in December 2013), with no end in sight.
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Push back
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
and still affecting the political process and media in NZ?
Is it? Really? What has actually changed?
Sure, we discuss it. And yes most folks here think it's one of the biggest political events for decades (including me). And yet it has changed nothing. Same govt, same media hacks, same bloggers dishing out lies, same TV commentators, same dickheads on The Panel, same urgency.
And as far as I can tell the majority of kiwis are just fine with that.
I totally agree it will almost certainly be WOTY. But that apparently doesn't count for anything outside this bubble.
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Can someone explain why pffft was listed as a contender. Its been posted a few times so i'm guessing it refers to something or some incident.
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