Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Odds are froggy is one of these. Like the waxeye, once common in the Sydney area but now flourishing in NZ.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Great MP but not a mayor.
Just keep her away from guinea pigs.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
I’m rooting for Joe Bennett’s dog, myself.
I'm definitely warming to that dog. Like some senior Labour figures it's had bugger all to offer on quake issues, but it didn't poke its oar in over the Hagley High 'prayer room', or engage in bike races with the mentally ill.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
You’all didn’t think Labour was good enough, remember?.
Suck on that…Oh for fuck's sake . . .
As this thread's about Chch #eqnz matters:
Lianne Dalziel would make a bloody good mayor IMHO.
I voted for Megan Woods despite her having barely said boo on quake issues.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Marryatt's handling of the matter cost the council at least $30,000 - and the services of an excellent employee.
This is the really evil thing about Marryatt and his ilk. How many 'excellent employees', people whose priority is simply to do their job well, have been nobbled or sidelined because they're seen as impeding a self-serving agenda?
On the other hand, Marryatt appears to have a fine nose for advancing the easily manipulated. Here's first-term City Councillor and onetime bomb hoax prankster Aaron Keown prior to last year's Council election:
"The head of Orion gets $700,000 a year when people can't pay their power bills. That's offensive. I can't understand why people don't get upset by that and I'm not a commie or a socialist.
Yet almost immediately after being elected, Keown became one of Marryatt's most outspoken supporters, to the point where he incurred a fat Council legal bill for his intemperate mouthing off over the CEO appointment process.
At the time of Marryatt's reappointment Christchurch business group spokesman Mike Dormer expressed the concern that Mr Marryatt would impede Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority chief executive Roger Sutton.
"If Roger tries to get things done, they won't get done, because he [Marryatt] has a record of delaying things or tipping them up."
When Marryatt failed to even hint at taking legal action over such a damning indictment, you have to wonder if we're living in some kind of replay of the Marcos Philippines.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Saint Bob is being slowly broken on the wheel of media scrutiny. Staggering hubris for a creature of the media to presume to have risen beyond accountability. Now he & his enablers reap the consequences.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
What an interesting talk we had about the stadium and the V8 races and the organisation thereof.
Despite Braithwaite being brought to Christchurch to oppose Marryatt's reappointment, the best that could be achieved was to halve his term. Which, of course, didn't stop him gouging a backdated payrise, though the resultant furore indicates that the old Marryatt magic ain't what it was. Speaking of which, the comments from Hamilton readers on Joe Bennet's re-published Press column are interesting from a Chch POV.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
. . . awarded the Australian of the Year in UK
Anyone who’d fill a pair of gumboots with custard and title it Pus in Boots deserves the world’s gratitude.
Jeez Islander, two new to me there :-)
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Susan Sells – out!
Selling out. Like that old linguistic myth about the many Inuit words for snow, ‘selling out’ is just one of the rich variety of antipodean synonyms for:
Having a liquid laugh
Losing one’s lunch
Yodelling
Talking to the ground in technicolor
Hurling
Chucking
Spewing one’s ring out
Throwing the voiceSorry, I’ll stop there, but it’s entirely appropriate after Wells’s performance. Best leave the horrible little woman to pick about amongst the remains of this morning’s ‘toast soldiers’ & strawberry confit for her missing contact lens.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
the cry of the bewilderbeest in the brave gnu world…
Heh! The tone of overinformed helplessness and dopey tea partyism in that piece reminded me of Alan Moore's comments on Frank Miller's anti-occupy diatribe - "if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman makeup on their faces, [Miller would] be more in favour of it".