Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Kracklite,
I simply do not see Labour as the champion of liberal principles any more.
So, Peter Fraser jailing conscientious objectors and introducing peacetime conscription wasn't the last straw? While I'd be the last to deny Goff's shortcomings, on a good day he's a vastly better man than that fawning and jingoistic old weasel.
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Even Matua Ed is gone from Maori TV.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Was he wearing a HiViz vest? I did notice that when our “Prime Minister” visited, his HiViz vest had a BNZ logo..
How cool was that?… eh?Golly.
Bob seems to have dropped the 'HiViz' of late. Here he is in relatively unsponsored mode at the City Mall reopening (caution advised if you've recently eaten).Even old TV stars have a shelf life it seems. Perhaps he was advised against the deconsecration on account of that stuff about the undead and crosses not playing well together.
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BTW Mayor Bob was too busy with urgent planning matters to attend the deconsecration. Not too busy though to attend yesterday's NZ Trotting Cup, where Her Ditziness the Mayoress participated in a 'celebrity' sulky race.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Not out to prove anything Steve, cheer up.
I'm not really sure what you meant by the land having been chosen for a reason. Presumably not for the same reason as my ancestor who arrived in Lyttelton on ship #13 (too late to be one of the elect) and rejected his allocation of flood-prone land in central Christchurch in favour of a spot in the sandhills.Interesting video JT. While I'm inclined to feel a certain sympathy for the poor old Anglicans, the deconsecration felt like a bit of a closed shop. That curly crozier isn't really a talking stick/speaking staff, in that they don't appear to actively share it around.
Some elements of the Church appear to be coping in their own goofy way. How about Spanky, dog collar & all, referring to the cathedral as "the old girl".
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Steve Barnes,
That space will always be special to the people of Christchurch, regardless of the ceremony.
Whatever.
From Joel Cayford’s comment on his own revelatory post from last June:The Cathedral has lost part or all of its spire 4 times (I think) due to earthquakes since being built. Apparently there was pride at it being the tallest structure in the world – given how earthquake prone the land it stands on has always been. Very kiwi.
The Cathedral has been telling us something for more than a century. Don’t build these kinds of structures on shakey sand.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
there have been A4 exhibitions in the past in NZ
I remember taking part in an "A4 Show" in Wellington in 1977, ffs.
And I had to ask "A4? What's that?"
Since when I've never forgotten.I think the esteemed Jean Clarkson was involved in the organistion of said show.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to JacksonP,
We try, and then bloody Ian comes along and we end up looking pars eh?
Real art, right here, unframed & unendorsed by experts.
A nice reminder that we're not defined by what we consume.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Potters are way more fun.
Bare tricks?
I like this one.
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to Sacha,
– but that’s the subeditors . . .
Do they still have those?
Anyway, for the not-so-Bieberfeverish, from the Saturday before last's container mall event, the non-smiling assasin.