Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to
Does Wikipedia's policy of anonymous comtributions preclude signing pictures, like with an overlay or watermark plainly visible near the edge of field? Assuming you'd been able to do so, if an unauthorised end user had cropped your signature, that would seem to be clear proof of underhand intent
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to
Soo, finally, U 4, No retrial. Time to move on ..... yes we have no terrorists.
Now we won't get to see the amazing costumes that Tame Iti's wardrobe team no doubt had lined up. Perhaps that's why the Crown caved in.
Peter Tapsell was once mercilessly lampooned for reportedly claiming that young Maori would improve their lot if they took the trouble to dress better. Iti's experience suggests that he was on to something.
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Up Front: Making It Better, in reply to
I always liked that Gay Lib badge from the '70s
- "How dare you assume I'm heterosexual"
(or words to that effect....)The only time I encountered one of those in use was at a 1977 Wellington gallery opening of a gay-themed show. If memory serves the wording was 'presume'. There have been moments since when I've had a hankering for something similar to fit the occasion, like "How dare you presume I give a shit about the Black Caps".
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to
He looks like a ventriloquist's dummy with Key as his master.
He hasn't said a lot lately, but when he does, maybe this is the reason he talks funny.
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Capture: A Foray into Portraiture, in reply to
. . . realised how ridiculous I look in my avoiding the sun get-up.
Wouldn't know about that, but you do appear to be wearing what is known in Australian as a giggle hat.
"Apart from the slouch hat which was kept as part of our tradition, we were to be equipped with a British uniform designed for hot and humid climate. For the first time in history for Australia we had to wear a green cotton hat, immediately described as the 'giggle hat' or 'hat ridiculous-for-the-use-of'." -
Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to
Fields of dreams - build it & they will come.
When I was working at a Sydney film studio in the 70s they gave a group of New Guineans a guided tour of the place. Afterwards we were told that they were part of a cargo cult who'd been brought to see where the cargo really came from, courtesy of their then Australian colonial overlords.
Contemporary cargo cults don't appear to work that way. Parker's likely to return from his current overseas jaunt with even grander fantasies. Dare to dream & all.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to
This is probably what you're after - the most extravagant option is more than 3x the size of the recently demolished facility.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to
ooh. link?
Given Parker's happy complicity in being nobbled by central government, it's largely pie in the sky - as long as he's seen to be doing something, and the Council's cronies can justify their $80,000 for the CEO getting "out & about in the community". But those certainly are their avowed priorities.
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to
Dunne is a nong.
Damn right
Yous are not wrong. After the token huffing, a reprise of the 2005 post-election hissy fit.