Posts by Joe Wylie
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Only thing I recall about Nambassa was the outraged first-hand account from a righteous punkette of Living Force's set: "20,000 guys all dancing with their dicks flopping. It was like the fucking Nuremberg rally!"
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Were we to conjoin Needlework, Jezebel and Cosmo we might end up with a lively 'cut'n'tucker' take on cock-smocking
There was an address in an old Whole Earth Catalog for a San Francisco mail order outfit called The Giant Dwarf. The sole item they offered was a codpiece sewing pattern, with the slogan "Forget those stupid blouses - sew a sensible codpiece!"
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The Great Helmsman appears to have lost his bowsprit.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to DexterX,
. . . a guy who was stamping on another guys head . . .
Good on you DexterX.
The kind of incidents you're describing were reportedly pretty standard in Saturday night downtown Chch before the earth moved. When "urban vision" consisted of little more than opening more bars to be fed by live drunk transporters ("party buses"), head stompers obligingly indulged themselves within sight of the police kiosk in Cathedral Square. -
Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
A transvestite in a blue sequined dress, 15cm heels and a blonde wig walks out of the Family Bar and Mr Brown averts his eyes.
What Auckland needs is a Mayor with the chutzpah to wind down their window and shout "Get off my corner you slut!"
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Capture: Mama Don't Take My Lytro Camera…, in reply to ChrisW,
Amazing pics of an amazing phenomenon.
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Don Ellis: The French Connection.
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The Pauline Hanson phenomenon was largely inflated by voters taking the opportunity to give a massive middle finger to compulsory voting. Not only were the major parties seriously out of whack with the electorate back then, the commentariat seemed unable to deal with a phenomenon outside of its condescending preconceptions.
Even though a few token Australian lumpenproletarians are rounded up at each election and thrashed with a feather for failing to vote, they've generally proved to be a tad better informed than the political punditocracy would give them credit for.
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I very much doubt that the the EQC would be taking such a lenient approach to the perception of employee conflict of interest if they were subject to oversight by this kind of state agency. Or that Fletchers would be happily profiteering at every step of the post-quake "recovery" without pertinent questions being asked. The opportunity for corruption in an environment such as NSW just may be greater, but the very real penalties certainly are. And the enforcement industry is very proactive, as most civil servants who must deal with the onerous demands for an auditable paper trail will confirm.
The myth that NZers are a bunch of guileless little kiwis, short & stout, is looking pretty shabby, especially in the wake of our biggest ever natural disaster.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
There's an order of magnitude difference between NZ and Aussie political corruption.
Oh sure - and there's an even greater OOM diff between Tasmanian and Melbournian corruption. You make it sound like the difference between Underworld and Outrageous Fortune.
The concentration of wealth in a tiny proportion of the population has increased at a far greater rate in NZ over the past decade than it has in Australia. Just because it's a Government sanctioned process doesn't mean it's not corruption.