Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to maupuia,
And here's someone who's attempted to "parse the data and ideology" of the posts.
Is it really that hard? They seem to be variations on "I did everything I was supposed to do - stay in school, get an education, work hard and nobody told me I'd end up fucked like a two bob hooker and I'm really really pissed about it ." Which is hard to disagree with.
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It was rather interesting seeing Patu for the first time on the big screen at Film Soc on Monday night – because I think whether Mita intended it or not, there was plenty of “weird and confusing” among the “thoughtful and sincere."
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Russell Brown,
Actually, second thoughts, it's not even that amusing.
But throwing offal around? That's the family funday that never gets old. :)
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I love the food but I find I have to be in the right mood to enjoy eating there.
Quite – and as I’ve said elsewhere, Soul on the Viaduct might be a tad chi-chi for my taste, but the times I’ve been there it is obvious Judith Tabron puts a lot of effort into getting the front of house staff right. It really does matter; and if I wanted to be patronised and generally dicked around, I have a mother who will do it twice a year for the price of an off-peak toll call. At the very least, a competently run restaurant should have staff who 1) know the menu thoroughly (I'm allergic to onion, so I really need what's going to make me vomit), and, 2) have the presence of mind to take an order accurately and just keep a party informed if there are problems.
I don't mind if it's going to take a while for my main to appear, but I should never, ever have to remind the waiter after an hour that I'm not on a fast.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Russell Brown,
Meanwhile, even John Armstrong has criticism for Key over the Standard & Poors fiasco.
Quite – I believe that’s what is known in sporting terms as an unforced error. Not that, for a moment, I don’t think S&P doth protest a little too much that they never, ever have views on opposition party policies but Key was a fucking fool for even talking about something like that at all, let alone when he wasn’t in the room.
Then again, this bear of little brain doesn't understand why S&P et. al. are taken so very seriously when it seems throwing a bucket of chicken entrails at a freshly scrubbed wall gets roughly the same quality data.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Rich Lock,
I can do this all day, if I must...
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Please stand by the door. The mental readjustment technicians will be with you presently.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Russell Brown,
And to be all cui bono about it, if the Government was trying to buy good talking head, you’d think they’d be pimping the exchequer to… well,outlets with a larger audience share.
ETA: It should go without saying that if Joyce - or any other politician - thinks Radio New Zealand has breached broadcasting standards of accuracy or balance, they have exactly the same recourse to the BSA as anyone else -- no more and no less.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Sacha,
Pissing off the real man in charge (as that issue would) has to be worse than irking the frontpuppet.
Hey, Sacha, as Russell might say woah there. I’m going to commit PA blasphemy here and suggest Joyce is as entitled to be pissed off at those allegations as our host is at insinuations from a certain corner that that Media7 and Public Address Radio were payola for a good little Labour sycophant.
But if you’re going to accuse any polititcian of blatant political interference in the editorial operation of state broadcasters, please bring some evidence to the table. It's not only wrong but illegal.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Personally I see Key’s DPS squad as bling. It tells Key that he’s made it from suburban Chch.The amount of bling he throws around is a bit over the top but if it makes him feel superior and smug to do so, his choice.
That's plain bloody silly. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Key's DPS detail is exactly the same size as Clark's. I'm probably buying myself a mandatory drug test here, but Hooten and John Pagani actually trumped Key and Goff in the sensible stakes over that whole incident and the absurd aftermath. They made the (IMO) totally correct observation that it's actually pretty fraking cool that citizens can walk into their own legislature and watch their employees at work without having to go through airport grade security. (I have a friend who came back to NZ after a period working in the US and said it took her a while to stop emptying her pockets every time she walked into a public building.)
And, yes, Christoper you can sneer at the DPS as "bling" for small cock politicians but it's still remarkably low-key. And perhaps the public doesn't actually hear about the threats made to politicians - most of which are quickly marked down for the nutter file - for good reason. Another thing I find pretty cool is that most politicians actually feel safe about having their home addresses publicly available on the electoral roll. And, yes, I really don't think you're likely to see Julia Gillard, David Cameron or Barack Obama walking down the street to buy their own coffee.
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