Posts by uroskin
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I read the Very Important speech our Prime Minister gave this week with the strongest feeling of deja vu.
You mean Mr Key used your website to generate his speech?
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Anything stuffed down Nathan Sharpe's pants is worth looking at.
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I realise that after 6 pages of comments they hardly relate anymore to the original blog item. But for what it's worth, being from a country where everybody considers eating proper chocolate a birthright, the EU had a discussion 9 years ago about pretend chocolate such as what Cadbury sprews out. Continental countries wanted to define the term "chocolate" much stricter than what the sugar and grease peddlers at Cadbury wanted and call English chocolate (surely a contradiction in terms anyway) vegelate.
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I got my first mortgage well into middle age - as a continental European I had never any qualms about renting because you have a far greater choice of places and neighbourhoods to live than when you want to buy - to build a house, which comes with a whole host of other stresses and problems.
When it came to selling the house and buying a new one, the real estate agent handling both sales was the same guy. How schizophrenic do you have to be to get a job like that? -
Of course, Uroskin, it's always easy to be brave with someone else's cojones, n'est-ce pas?
I'm always only brave with my own ones, thank you very much. We have had death threats for showing some programmes (always a slightly more scary experience than being slapped by Tapu Misa) or nasty phone calls for showing Queer Nation at breakfast time.
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I'm still disappointed TVNZ7 didn't have the cojones to repeat the Media 7 show on Friday morning lest it frightened the kiddies and their mums confusing the station with TVNZ 6.
A BSA complaint would have made the station come of age (you're not taken seriously as a TV station if you haven't had a BSA complaint upheld against you).
Lily Allen and swearing feature daily on morning radio such as bFM with impunity. A missed chance for some good publicity, methinks. (and I think the BSA would have thrown out any complaint because the swearing wasn't gratuitous as when in reality TV or a soap but in context of a "serious discussion". -
Watching Media 7 Friday morning trying to catch the swearing discussion (I didn't want to miss that unforgettable swear fest of Shameless on UKTV by watching Media 7 on the Thursday night) I was disappointed the item had been dropped from the repeat due to a fear of BSA reprisals.
It would have been delicious irony if the BSA took the chief censor to task over swearing on TV. If I were on the BSA I would laugh any complaint out of court. -
Swearing on TV: unfortunately Censor Bill has no jurisdiction, it's the Broadcast Standards Authority you should invite.
Swine flu: can we get rid of this moniker? If it's good enough for the Spanish it should be good enough for the Mexicans. BTW Aljazeera is never calling it by its porcine name, always H1N1 -
Or, to put it another way, for so long as prohibition dictates the ugly means of production.
Getting rid of prohibition in a legal sense is not the only problem for politicians. There are the other stakeholders in the illicitness to consider:
- The police, who risk losing their budgets for fancy helicopters to haul in cannabis from forests, undercover cops and other extra personnel (and by extension, the prison service, who risk losing a large number of their clients)
- The gangs, who would be averse to losing the profits from illicit growing, producing and trading
- The moralists, who can't abide anyone imbibing anything for pleasure
- The legal drugs traders (tobacco and alcohol sellers), who don't want extra competition and choice diversification on their patch.New Zealanders in large numbers do like their drugs, legal and illegal. The problem is the irrational dividing line between the two.
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A cruise ship terminal is sorely needed, even though it would be used only 6 months of the year. I'd say keep the red fences anyway, they look good and distinctive and can be used to keep the drunken rugby hordes inside when they can rue another loss against France in 2011.
Waiting every day on Pier 2 waiting for my Waiheke ferry home, it's a cold, draughty and dimly lit terminal - hardly party central at the moment. It is taking ARTNL over a year now just to strengthen a couple of piles under the wharf so redesigning the whole of Princess Wharf to something useful longet term will at least take 5 years. They could always use the old banana shed for a rugby party in the meantime.