Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I actually quite like that song. It is about “Mateship” the whole “standing by your mate” thing doesn’t strike me as homoerotic, some of my best mates are women and I value friendship above all else and I do like a good singalong. ;-)
An old friend of mine, now living in retirement in the Blue Mountains, used to clean the John Singleton ad agency in Hunters Hill back in his student days. Singletons had a number of beer and similarly blokey accounts, and cultivated a stable of 'creatives' who reflected that vibe.
One of these worthies would often be working late, and took pleasure in mocking my cleaner friend, calling him 'Maynard', due to his fancied resemblance to a beatnikish sitcom character of that era.
One evening he boasted to Maynard of how he'd recently 'scored' when 'up the Cross'. This 'really beautiful chick' had performed enthusiastic oral sex on him in his car, but wasn't keen for anything else. What did Maynard reckon about that?
"That wasn't a chick", said Maynard. "That wasn't a chick, that was a queen".The guy turned pale, then moved into you're joking, right? mode, before settling on what the hell would you know. But as my friend told it, "He never called me Maynard after that".
So yeah, while Williamson's ditty might strike a grubby mind such as mine as homoerotic, there's no way a straight up & down shop like Singo's would commission anything with that kind of intent.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Michael Meyers,
The economy thing annoys me. ...
I’m not saying that National have handled the economy badly but it feels like any muppet could’ve take the NZ economy out of recession following global financial crisis.Hooton et al will quote figures when it suits, but the persistent mantra, whether it's him, Boag, or Odgers, is lower taxes. The orthodoxy seems to be straight from the "deficits don't matter" 90s Bush era. Bugger the debt, it's lower taxes, and the sacrosanct nature of the grammar zone.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hooton
Thank you.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Michael Meyers,
So if a right-leaning voter such at Matthew Hooten were to defect from National, where’s he going to go? He’s not likely to cross the fence to Labour or the Greens, is he?
When Mark Sainsbury asked Hooten why he'd be voting National despite his having just clobbered Michelle Boag with his insistence that Key was corrupt, Hooten went all hand on heart about it coming down to the economy.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Ah Craig, blue to the core….
I wouldn't wish that blokily homoerotic dirge on anyone. Especially as it was specifically written as hold music for the odious John Singleton's ad agency.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Hooten shooten What a dickwad.
Hooten. Yeah right. The fan dance on Mandela’s coffin guy.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Steve Curtis,
If you had delved down through the comments on Brian Edwards blog like you said, you would have seen classic Slater trying to misrepresent what Edwards said and then Brian doing a ritual halal on him.
I’m not sure what you’re attempting to say here. If you’re making out that I’m trying to hang something on Edwards, beyond his being a bit too full of himself through the whole episode. then please appreciate that I’m NOT. As you’ve probably discovered, there are a number of posts there relating to the Hotchins from that period, with further comments from Whaleoil – or someone purporting to be him. As Hager’s book has revealed, not everything that appears under his byline is necessarily his own work.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Phil Wallington,
Darren Hughes was the electorate MP… for Otaki. He was popular in the district despite its largely rural nature
Hughes has strong local connections. He’s from Levin, went to school there. I believe that the gains he secured for local health care made him pretty popular with a certain sector of the electorate.
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From early 2011, Slater attempting to pin down Brian Edwards and Judy Callingham on their relationship to Hotchin and his wife. You have to delve down through the comments:
For the record can you please state whether or not you or Judy, or any of your associated companies have been or are currently engaged by the Hotchins or any of their associated entities for the purposes of public relations, communications or any other business. -