Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Capture One, in reply to Hebe,
Joe, your eye for detail is incredible.
You're too kind, it's your nice big pic. I was checking if it was one of those matchstick jobs, the sort of thing that certain folks seem to do in lieu of spending time in purgatory, when I saw those downpipes and thought, wow!
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Capture: Capture One, in reply to Hebe,
O Lawdy, it even has plumbing!
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Capture: Capture One, in reply to Lilith __,
Que CERA?
I often hear Chch people complaining about somebody called Sarah. ;-)
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Muse: Indecision '11: Fighting the Grey, in reply to Stewart,
I wasn’t condoning the xenophobia some older people have – just empathising (note: not sympathising) about how they may have developed that mind-set.
The poster older person in this case being Mr Dunlop, who would have been a C.41 yr old at the time of the springbok tour. Perhaps that's a little before your time Stewart, but from my recollection you'd have to be a real piece of work to retain that level of wilful ignorance over the past three decades.
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Capture: Capture One, in reply to Jackie Clark,
This sums up what I do, what I’m all about.
That looks like araujia sericifera, the emergency monarch butterfly plant that saves the little animated football jerseys when they run out of swan plant. It took me years & don't know how many lost caterpillars to learn that. Congratulations, great pic.
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Muse: Indecision '11: Fighting the Grey, in reply to M Pearlstein,
Also, I doubt that the Chinese are likely to look kindly on welfare & treaty payments :)
Re. welfare, a visit to Mangere Bridge or Upper Riccarton would likely demonstrate that the NZ end of the Chinese diaspora is a little more nuanced than your stereotyped view. And if there's any truth in the stories of Chinese money bankrolling Iwi enterprises, you're a bit late to the party on the treaty settlements thing.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to BenWilson,
You’re suggesting that there won’t be a minority government?
I have no idea Ben. Nor, I suspect, do any of the commentariat, so I’m reliant on those few who feel these things in their ‘waters’, who assure me that it’s entirely possible.
Would they compromise, or go for broke and have another election? I think compromise, personally.
Given the punishment that the Nat strategists’ hubris has taken lately over their misreading of the tricky currents of MMP, you wouldn’t be wrong.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to BenWilson,
Anyone have an opinion on whether National really would go to the polls again if they have to serve as a minority government, and are blocked from their neoliberal agenda?
Let's not forget Kiwiblog back in 2005. When Winston was keeping everyone guessing, and DPF was damping down the commentariat while stopping short of actual endorsement of the old horror, this scurrilous comment appeared:
"Please, please Winston, say yes! I've got such a stiffy!" -
A good thing you do here!
Those “Vinyl Records Are Coming Back” stories that keep appearing everywhere? Look out for “Film Is Making A Comeback” stories. They won’t be far away.
Elsewhere, Alexander Petrosyan/Yan Petros/Petros. For me this guy is at the pointy end of photography.
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Rebuild Christchurch provides a proper hosting for Mike Coleman and WeCan's An Open Letter To The People Of New Zealand.
