Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Peter Calder,
Apart from the sellers of rest-home care, snake-oil cures for joint pain and incontinence pads (not really fiftysomething products) no one seems interested in this market. Genuinely interested to know why.
A dastardly plot to fend off the tyranny of the demographic bulge by keeping those godawful boomers marginalized?
Back in the heyday of Rob's Mob TV was dominated by ads for Fiji cruises and La-Z-Boys. Or did it just seem that way?
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Russell Brown,
This time it’s an editorial
Have they got Caroline Meng-Yee writing editorials now?
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to merc,
I think this is an example of extremely strange journalism . . .
Though perhaps not so strange politics. It's the kind of thing that Mallard and Little would probably love to use to land a killer punch. Sadly for them they're not in the league of their onetime Australian counterparts Senators Faulkner and Ray, whose scurrilous rumour that onetime Howard heir apparent Peter Costello had engaged a consultant to rid him of his notorious smirk was avidly swallowed and hyped by the media.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to merc,
Re. Strange Days For Journalism.
As I haven't been Trevett's most avid follower I'm not sure if she's taking the pfiss.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
And importantly: it’s deliberately short-term (which probably means medium-term 4-6 years :( ) and the buildings can be moved and re-purposed . . .
The Forfar Courts City Housing complex in St Albans houses mostly retirees in relocated former athlete accommodation from the 1974 Games village. CityCare has kept the units in good nick, and the insulation upgrade of a few years back would seem to indicate that they're good for years to come.
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Hard News: The frustrating politics of…, in reply to Richard Aston,
Jim Anderton was mere sand in the vaseline
Wow never heard that phrase before, its kinda gritty .
Me neither, though it would seem to hail from a similar neck o' the woods to "condom on the penis of progress". Famously used locally by Bob Jones to describe eventual Christian Democrat Graeme Lee, it appears to have an older and wider currency, though Jones might claim otherwise.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Hebe,
That was the one where the One Hundred Years of Solitude girl floated up, up, into the sky, right?
Remedios the beauty, and if I recall right the bedsheets went with her.
My recollection also is that the tenty thing is definitely a parachute, of the style that was once commonly available in Australian disposal stores. A natural choice for hippie ingenuity, they were often tie-dyed to serve as faux ceilings in venues like old warehouses.
The fun ended when the real silk ones suddenly got bought up en masse for recycling into boutique clothing, leaving only the synthetic jobs that didn't dye nicely.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Even without the music- that is some stupid! :)
It certainly has that godawful authenticity.
While the Ramones'
Now I guess I have to tell 'em / That I got no cerebellum
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Lilith __,
And you took anti-bacterial hand-wipes too?
I don't think such things existed back then! Early 90s.
Wet Ones®, which claim to be antibacterial, appeared in NZ in the late 70s, probably 1978. I'm certain of that piece of wretched trivia because it was in early '79 I quit working for the production house that did the pics for the product launch.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Richard Aston,
Your right Ian Black Sabbath were a bunch of wankers
The Sabs were never anything more than a knuckledragging knockoff of Deep Purple. In fairness though they wrote two of the most genuinely stupid songs ever (Paranoid and Iron Man). Compared to those the Ramones' best efforts to plumb the depths of dumb sound like intellectuals trying too hard.
When Deep Purple played Western Springs in the late 70s an impatient concertgoer, presumably frustrated by the delay in getting out of the carpark, took to doing wheelies and sideswiped a guy in a wheelchair. Outraged Purple fans administered instant justice by dragging him from his car and depriving him of his trousers. It's doubtful if Sabs fans would have displayed the collective presence of mind.
None of this BTW is intended as an endorsement of Deep Purple.
