Posts by Joe Wylie
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OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
Graeme kind of reminds me of the Fair Witness profession in a Heinlein novel:
An eidetic memory is a prerequisite for the job . . .
So if you were speeding down a country road with Graeme and he said "You know there's 29 bullet holes in that sign that we just passed", you wouldn't assume that he'd put them there?
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Overgrown Australian kingfisher.
Perfectly parked on a paperbark perch.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Marryatt may be the Council's employee, but he in turn appears to effectively employ individual Councillors by appointing them to often lucrative positions in areas of Council enterprise under his control.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Kumara Republic,
You're a bloody marvel DR :-)
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Of course it’s a measure of how rattled Marryatt’s minders are that he’s been driven to front the media. His insensitivity isn’t surprising, but his ineptitude is. Instead of claiming golf outings as a means of networking and a valid part of running the city’s affairs, he lamely offers the need to ‘clear his head’.
It’s particularly risible when he prattles of having a ‘philosophy’ of accepting a ‘market’ rate of remuneration. He implies that it’s this same ‘philosophy’ that prevents him from so much as considering donating his salary increase to charity. And it’s this avowed moral bankruptcy that’s appeared to mesmerise his apologists into treating him as some kind of cult figure.
Here’s Marryatt in better days accepting a donation for the Mayoral Fund. One can only imagine his contempt for those who see $10,000 as a “massive” sum, and are daft enough to place it in his paws.
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From the Press comments - lifestyles of the rich & furtive:
mac #103 06:26 pm Jan 07 2012:
Like Tony lm a very keen golfer and l might add facetiously, older and considerably better. I happened to play today at Harewood and it so appears that before xmas and on a working day a Mr Marryatt and 3 others played the woodland course. Mr Marryatt didnt put his card in so it doesnt appear on the computer records of players rounds. Was it you Mr Tony Marryatt? A simple yes or no will do> If it was you how often do you play golf during ratepayers time and dont put your card in so your rounds cant be tracked? If its you Mr Tony Marryatt it makes you a professional golfer as we are paying you whilst you play. Also who were your playing partners? This might be interesting folks>
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
I thought the fracking question was unfair and untimely given the context of the briefing and the people Mr McMahon was asking.
Perhaps you're right , I wasn't there. But it's an argument that sounds uncomfortably close to Councillor Ngaire Button's claim before fleeing from anti-Marryatt protestors that this is no time to be addressing social justice issues.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
. . . the Friday quake briefing
Those independent scientists.
From Paul McMahon (I’m Paul. I am your Labour for 2021 Community Board Member in Spreydon-Heathcote, Christchurch.) on Twitter:
“I asked a question about fracking at the #EQNZ briefing today – and the scientists dodged it and looked at Gerry Brownlee.” -
From the Press online comments:
Marryatt : 11th sept 2011 - In Hamilton playing golf (a Tuesday ) .. 3rd May 2011 playing at Clearwater ( a Tuesday) 25th October 2010 playing golf in Hamilton ( a Monday) 21st October 2010 playing golf at Shirley ( a Thursday) ... hardworking indeed - must be hell having to search for all those wayward balls and lug your golf clubs up and down hills Search here :
And yes, the link provided returns the message "Oops, we found the bunker."
Golf in working hours. Let any City Care employee try that and see how long they last.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
making a dick of himself
. . . providing the perfect cue for Bob Parker to respond in kind.
In an ideal world these two posturers would retire to a tacky motel. Instead Lee Vandervis may well have ensured himself a spot on the next International Speakers Series, funded by donations from ‘ordinary NZers’ to the Mayoral Relief Fund (golf clubs! tram sheds!). Faux controversy by way of distraction is all the go in these parts right now.