Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Bruce Buckman,
We do it all the time.
Sounds like some kind of of twelve-step program for lockstep liberals.
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Sacha,
scaring centre voters scared of IM
That's the kind of strategic concern that seems to fuel the tut-tutting over Corkery's lack of decorum. Then again, Sabin was playing to the imagined perceptions of Mr & Mrs Whitebread by attempting to link Dotcom to Whaledump. Post Dirty Politics it's hard to see what Internet Mana have to lose by Corkery calling the media out for continuing to follow the Slater script.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Sacha,
At my state school in the Midlands of the UK, we received ‘religious education’. This encompassed the basic tenets of all the major religions. It also gave us an insight into the lives and cultures of those that had arrived
I see great value in such broader understanding – properly taught as part of the curriculum.
Introducing a jealous god to his neighbours. And yeah, it's always a he.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I’d like to see John Oliver get his teeth into it…
Nana Van Beynen at the Chch Curtain Twitcher has given it a soft gumming.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Meanwhile, back in Tennessee
A young girl in Tennessee says she was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed.
In a world with innumerable shades of grey some people can see only in Black and White.
Different cultures? When an old lady in a Berlin supermarket let out with a deafening sneeze, the discreet thing to do would seem to be to ignore it. Instead the old dear came out with a reproving "Gesundheit!", as if to say "You should have said it".
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Michael Savidge,
I see him as somehow earnest and wanting to engage others to consider his views.
With a similar level of generosity the same could be said of Penny Bright, who probably would be all over this place given the opportunity.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Kumara Republic,
I could always dust off my visual Swiftian salute. ;D
If you want to provoke the longest exit since Rasputin. ;D
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Hard News: Friday Music: A Strange Road, in reply to James George,
There are a lot of songs about a lot of public figures, but the last time I heard of such a thing as this was way back when some pig loving official banned a comedic ditty called ‘Spotty Muldoon’ from the NZBC play lists.
That was one of Peter Cook's lesser efforts, which of course had nothing to do with the then Minister of finance, but back then one couldn't be too careful.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
In the first post-Hager poll, John Key’s popularity has noticeably dropped.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
Wayne Mapp on Pundit…
Let's not forget the silly hat he was once made to wear.
