Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Lilith __,
Colin's twitter debut has made my night.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Got it! I remember that one . . .
Protest organiser Peter Lynch described Marshall's role as like a band aid over a cut that won't heal. The witchfinder role would be welcomed by Parker's deputy Ngaire Button, who blames the current debacle on 'leakers'. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
Apart from Kerry Marshall being a former Mayor of Nelson who reputedly pretty much let his own Council's CEO off the leash, he's supposed to be a marriage counselor. I've heard that to excel in that field it helps to be a total can of worms, so that others' problems appear trivial in comparison with your own.
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It seems that the effect of Wednesday's action has been like a dose of magic pixie dust on our elected reps.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
Holy crap. Those were lucky people.
Yeah, my reaction exactly, though it wasn't until a couple of years after the event that I caught up with that. I had no idea at the time that the Workers Club was a major music venue.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
If we’d had open access people would have died on June 13.
Good point.
About Newcastle, the partner of an old friend left the Newcastle Workers Club, where nine people died, a few hours before the quake. He'd been setting up band gear for a show that night, where at least 1200 had been expected in the area below where the floor collapsed.Hunter Hospital, about the same size as Christchurch Public and mostly much older, was entirely evacuated due to structural damage.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
Perhaps this is what the geologists mean when they talk about our "particularly rich aftershock sequence"!
Compared to, say, the 1989 Newcastle quake, the figures are remarkable. A deadly event that would have been much worse but for certain fortuitous circumstances (the hour it occurred, a bus strike), in a city the size of Christchurch, yet with one single aftershock. And probably as a consequence, no restrictions on what areas could be built on.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rob Stowell,
NSW’s probably an unfair example, because of the lingering influence of the penal colony. Occasionally you notice the legacy in small things, like the requirement for the penalty for such things as failing to keep a fire door closed to be publicly displayed. Number of lashes received to be determined at the Governor’s pleasure, etc.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Politicians are improved by a little childish kicking :)
In later life perhaps, and so tempting when one thinks of Parker.
I'm reminded though of a story from a journalist who covered the NSW Parliament in Macquarie St in Sydney, who took a guest along to the press gallery to watch proceedings. Rather than being impressed, his friend noted that the honourable members had one thing in common, they all looked as if they'd been kicked a lot at school. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rob Stowell,
And there was the kid who took advantage of Moore's parish pumping to actually kick him over the Council's closing of the Edgeware swimming pool.
