Posts by rodgerd
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Here's what I find bizarre about their position: Franks, Coddington et al were MPs for ACT, the liberal party, the party that wants to fight for personal freedom and keep the evil power of the state out of people's lives.
Oh, and the party of personal responsibility. Except, apparently, for Debs who is a victim, not of her own incompetence as an journalist and statistician, but of a grand, shadowy conspiracy.
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These yacht races might be more interesting
If they mounted .50 caliber machine guns, as a witter writer than I once put it.
Seriously though (most sports are, after all, a load of old tosh when looked at dispassionately) the point at which the Cup lost any semblence of anything worthwhile for me was not when we were shovelling dosh at Messers Fay and Richwhite to help an Auckland yacht club get a trophy, but when it all turned into legal challenge after 'novel' design after rule change after legal challenge... it's like diving in soccer, only a billion times worse. Imagine if Rio Ferdinand could have a lawyer trot out every time the ref made a the forgetful one didn't like.
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Nobody: At the oppositish end I was rather surprised when someone pointed me at a certain Seinfeld actress
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Brian Gaynor wrote a brilliant analysis of the string of transactions through which F&R enriched themselves, usually at the expense of their shareholders
Don't forget the general public, too!
We have never had a culture of praising the wealthy
And why should we? I'm sure the various members of the Todd family (for example) are perfectly nice people, but most of them have done nothing more that have the good fortunte to be born to parents who have a hereditary connection to some shrewd businessmen.
It would be nice if we paid more attention to people who've built sucessful businesses, just as it would be nice if we paid more attention to succesful writers, or painters, or scientists. But we still, as a nation, have a fairly narrow vision of success.
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Why the hell are you still here!
Because I like New Zealand for all its many faults. Canada is about the only other English-as-a-first-language nation that really appeals to me, and that may only be because of unfamiliarity.
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Now, can we turn iraq etc into a kite fight? winner gets the oil
Well, they certainly won't get much of the cradle of civilisation:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2098275,00.html
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One thing life - and a good cleavage - taught me early was males of almost any age just can't drag their eyes up
I once explained to a friend that her outfit was making me feel very impolite because it rather drew my eyes away from her face when I was talking to her; she responded that "in this outfit, if you weren't staring at my tits I'd be insulted."
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It's snotty, condescending
Pot to kettle, come in, over.
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Michael Fay & David Richwhite?
Buggered off to Switzerland with their loverly lolly. A former colleague of mine once opined if they came back to New Zealand they should be hung for treason.
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There's an awful lot of properly enacted legislation in this world.
Quite. I'll refrain from the obvious example of the Nuremburg laws, but one may consider the case of stoning gays to death in Iran because, hey, it's properly enacted legislation in a democracy!