Posts by Joe Wylie
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to
We also have a meeting booked with Roger Sutton.
By way of a little background, you could try picturing yourself as living in darkest Southshore or Spencerville with a big chunk of your life on hold. After having had your hopes raised a couple of weeks back by loose talk from Brownlee about an impending decision re. the orange zones, you've been counting the days until Sutton's next announcement, just like you did last week. Imagine your reaction when you read this.
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Legal Beagle: Election Fact Check #3: It…, in reply to
The photos are of things with numbers on them, counting down the days until the election . . .
Spooky! While Orange Guy may aspire to a kind of reassuring neutrality, he appears to have far too many personal quirks to rival the real zeitgeist.
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Legal Beagle: Election Fact Check #3: It…, in reply to
I loathe that orange twerp.
Not so much a boil on the bum as a kind of ingrown toenail of democracy. Has a Facebook page where he fields questions from a patsyish fanbase & cultivates the semblance of a minimal personality. Wall photos include the B52's 1st album. 9th pic depicts sleeping seals & is mysteriously dedicated to Graeme Edgeler.
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Hard News: When the Game is Over, in reply to
Now can we get back to saving the country from
the impending depredations of multi-millionaire Key
and his hordes of soul-less zombies...Still a bit yawny down this end, but maybe see you here.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to
Workmen scamble over the abandoned ruins pulling on wires & shoving them in their pockets . . .
An old Chch. tradition for those who grew up in Wainoni & Aranui in the era of the vast Aranui dump. What kid could resist the myriad recreational possibilities of that enchanted wasteland, while racing the seagulls and braving the dumptruck drivers in the heady pursuit of the winking instant wealth to be had from copper wire? Not my younger rellies, who I hasten to add are NOT involved in demolition these days.
According to one who remembers, the dump kids were "little buggers in grubby grey shorts that made them look as if they farted a lot", who addressed one another by colourful noms de dump such as Scum of the Woods and Pig of Notre Dame while bickering over their spoils. The dump's now buried under Bexley Park. Given the present price of steel I'm assured that it'd be economic to mine the place, as there's several gas works worth alone entombed there.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to
Deals on Wheels Nov 11 mag page 22
Gerry Brownlee is the guest of honour at the Christchurch Demolition Awards in September.
Bloody hell JT, it was real. Not a demolition derby with Brownlee as the Humber Super Snipe, taking the hits* & chortling, but a red-carpet event where everyone got a BRICK, ffs:
*According to Mike Coleman, 'taking the hits' politically is Brownlee's role, which he presumably relishes. As they used to teach together at St Bedes, Mr Coleman presumably knows what he's talking about.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to
Spooky...
A bit squeaky to be spooky.
Perhaps 'Mr News's' voice will eventually break, & he'll be sufficiently emboldened to emulate his role model:
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The former wannabe nemesis of lightbulb obsessives doesn't appear to have changed his ways. Thanks to secret high-tech methods employed in the CBD red zone, Christchurch central area commander Inspector Derek Erasmus is winning the war against real crime, namely the flagrant dissing of CCTV cameras:
CCTV cameras were used to capture people fooling around at the red zone fences.
"Some people duck over a fence and wave their arm and then leap out again and we have most of them on camera."
Sleep easy, Fendalton?Meanwhile Erasmus appears to have little proactive interest in the mounting evidence of demolition-related pillage happening in what's presumably his bailiwick.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to
Understood ChrisW. Very apt, considering that the NZH is still happy to feed him the oxygen of publicity on a slow news day. If it's not the orange jacket it's the silly hat.
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to
Just like ‘Vibrancy’ in Chchch, which is trotted out by our Great Communicator at the drop of a hat . . .
"Vibrancy". Fnarr fnarrr. (Caution: Semi-sfw).