Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Auckland, so much enormity to…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Some folks really need to get a grip on the idea that playing "crossing against the signal" chicken is a game you're eventually going to lose.
If you're a D-list celeb, that kind of meathedery is still treated as a reason to buy a lotto ticket.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Apparently AMI has breached ...
Isn't that an old whale-watching term?
They should start by knocking the CEO's pay and bonuses back a bit . . .
Flense the bastards I say. Boil them down for their blubber. A salary of $869,369 plus a bonus of $122,700 for someone who's manifestly failed at their job? That'd lift a few red zoners out of the debt hole they're currently facing through no fault of their own.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Hope Cosgrove shows for that meeting . . .
A few pics, with your boy Clayton in there. Self-effacingly charming guy in person. No minder lurking nearby with a tranquiliser-filled veterinary-size syringe, as I imagine you'd get with Trevor Mallard.
The good folk of Kaiapoi are less given to carrying placards than the unruly Avonsiders. Also Lianne Dalziel sent her regrets at being unable to show.
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. . . you can throw bricks, extreme weather and Brownlee at us . . .
When that last one repeatedly misses, it's not hard to flip the finger at fate.
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Field Theory: Rugby World Cup stories, in reply to Emma Hart,
. . . right next to the photo of the RX-7. Later on, I learned to dislike both the whine of a rotory engine . . .
Not so much the engine sound as the assumption that if you drove one, you owned a massage parlour.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ross Mason,
I am concerned that scientists were said to have not "foretold" the quake. Ken Ring, where are you.
If they're prepared to wear Berlusconi's antics, a pantomime dame in an akubra should go over a treat.
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Hard News: A work of art called Chimney Book, in reply to Lilith __,
And it also seems like long, long ago . . .
Magically so.
Thanks so much for this, and thanks for putting it up.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Sorry Jackie, meant as a reply to Ben.
You can know either what your identity is, or where it's going, but not both.
""Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth."
"Temporal bandwidth," is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "∆ t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are."
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
It does look good up there on the party site. The Christchurch MPs' hard-bitten experience finally seems to have percolated to policy level. No talking down to, no fluff about suffering victims or plucky Cantabrians, just straight social justice.
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Of course intervening in private sector profits is anathema to the Nats and Act.
Right, though as you've illustrated with the SCF example, bare-faced intervention is fine when profits stand to be adversely affected.
So far, the Government appears to believe that any outrage arising from the rank injustice of favouring the interests of insurers over homeowners can be contained. There are large swathes of Christchurch, such as where I currently live, where you wouldn't know that the country's biggest natural disaster had happened, provided you don't travel too far. While a big chunk of the former tourist theme park is gone there are still tourists. Here's the Avon last Friday.
There's no indication that Brownlee intends to use his extraordinary powers for anything beyond demolish and hope, while protecting the interests of those to whom he's beholden. Despite his returning humiliated from somewhere over the rainbow, Key's essentially ratified that by stating that it's over to the market.