Posts by Joe Wylie
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to mark taslov,
Right, no less than Andrew Geddis was recently given arseholes over that very distinction.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to andin,
arsehole too boot
I'm sure I once read somewhere that down in Texas, kicking arses is known as "doing the Lord's work".
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Hard News: But seriously, drug policy, in reply to BenWilson,
I guess a reasonable comparison is suggesting that NZ could dominate the world in growing parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Do any countries even import those?
Most of the non-gourmet supermarket dried varieties of those four are imported.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
the Prime Minister could probably be photographed “shooting little kittens in his garden with a shotgun”, and still be popular.
Gareth Morgan would lead the cheer squad on that one.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to WH,
I know more than you ignorant dupes, enough to burst your complacent bubbles. You may queue to kiss my enlightened arse
Mmm. Maybe.
Yes, until the sheer volume of obtuseness became an impediment to navigation.
For conversational purposes I’m an agnostic, so it seems to me that atheism and theism are just different kinds of unsupportable assumption.
Yes again. Making a strident belief of unbelief can be as risible as its opposite. In some cases it can be an absolute toxin to creativity.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to WH,
ridicule other users
You mean Ugly Truth? A nick that says 'I know more than you ignorant dupes, enough to burst your complacent bubbles. You may queue to kiss my enlightened arse".
Faced with this kind of pest, PAS's shortcoming isn't the debatable wankishness of its habitues. It's the lack of a Facebook style zit-squashing blocking feature.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to ,
See that, I just spoke the word of God.
Darn tootin'.
Thanks to the interhosen, we got more popes than catholics. -
This buffoon probably won't be the last refugee from Slater's foundering trollfarm to crawl ashore here.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
hat said, it was “unwise” of Collins’ sister to get involved with the media. Maybe it’s genetic.
That’s certainly one of the hoops the article’s author invites its readers to jump through. One thing’s clear, Collins’s sister has been taken advantage of, in that she plainly doesn’t understand the implications of going public in the way she’s been set up to do.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Most of the jobs I first had were ‘make-work’ schemes; student job schemes, and ‘PEP’ schemes. The jobs paid relatively well, and the dole wasn’t as financially tough, nor as filled with nastiness and petty obligations, as it is today.
‘PEP’ schemes were bankrolled by central government, and usually administered by local authorities, who effectively provided bridging finance. Under one of the largest PEP employers, the then Auckland City Council, PEP employees were covered by the awards of the Northern Local Government Officers Union, and were paid accordingly. As Colin Scrimgeour predicted, Muldoon really was the last socialist Prime Minister, if you weren’t too fussed about social justice.