Posts by nzlemming
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Russ, I just noticed you closed the Anatomy of a Shambles thread, after only a week. That IS a record. The Thread of Doom took 2 years and spam to achieve that status. We're getting better at this ;-)
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Death threats fly over Hobbit
Talking of 'lynch mob mentality', enter stage right the New Zealand public.Not wishing to minimise any danger to individuals, but this does tend to come with the territory. They wouldn't be the first union organisers to receive death threats. I had people threaten to "fill me in" in much less heated circumstances when I was an official.
I agree with quentinc - they've been played, and badly treated, by the MEAA which should have protected them from the predictable fallout. And I also agree that there's probably a fair amount of spin in there, on past MEAA performance.
However, Whipp gets paid over $A120K per annum to take this sort of shit. Ward-Lealand is an elected volunteer (there may be an honorarium, I don't know, but I doubt that it compensates for this) and Malcolm is not even that.
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Learn something about the entertainment industries.
Omigosh! The RIAA reports that the sky is falling! And CNN reported it, so it must be a fact! How could I have got it so wrong???
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That's sarcasm, in case you missed it, Jeremy. You're very late to this particular party. I suggest you do more than a quick google to support your theory. You could start over here with discussion we've had before, including the original Thread of Doom, which leads off the results. -
Jesus fuck, Jeremy! Here we've been arguing about bullshit manifestos for the last month and you go spout another one. Do some research - the music industry has never been healthier. Some makers of CDs have had losses, but the industry has had bumper years for the last 3. Likewise the movie industry.
Planning is good, but don't base it on false assumptions. Learn something from Equity's screw-up.
Meh.
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Nicely in its original sense is absolutely correct.
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Pinot Gris, surely. The other stuff is red!
The People's Wine is deepest red!
When drunk it goes straight to the head... -
After you with the Pinot Noir, Scott.
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Oh Petra! You've got to stop believing what the nuns tell you...
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Looks like the thrust of the Hamilton piece is not "my union, right or wrong" but "all unions, right or wrong", that solidarity trumps solid discourse. If that's the best the Left can offer (and I use the capital deliberately), it's no wonder the union movement is not in the ascendant.
I'm with Leonard Cohen:
I'm neither left nor right
I'm just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screenAt least Hamilton was politer in tone than the Standard, but not much in content.
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And the production was? Spartacus. The one that has never heard a peep from the actors' unions.
I think some questions have to be asked about that.There are indeed. But can we please rise above "the President's husband is a director" crap and look at how many Auckland AE members have had work of some sort from it? I think it was more about "don't shit in your back yard" than corrupt cronyism, except they thought it more than okay to shit in Wellington's back yard, as they wouldn't have been expecting much in the way of day player roles from Te Hobbit.