Posts by Tom Beard
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At one point I pointed at the stumps and said, "Have a go at those." Edwards replied, "I'm having too much fun to worry about them." Ok, cool!
Now, that's what sledging should be all about. Not quite Oscar Wilde, but better than the everage questioning of parentage.
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"The maximum fine for (not) registering your dog is $3000. I think it is more important you send your children to school than register your dog."
Though National have always thought that registering dogs was very important. Didn't Stephen Franks want to take his dog to the Registry Office?
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I'm excited that you can see my bed in the photo of my house.
And what's that round back? Could it be ... a Tiki shack?!
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I know catastrofuck is taken, but I think we need a sweary touch.
James Kunstler called his book about the collusion of American credit, urban sprawl and freeway building "Clusterfuck Nation", so how about "clusterfuckup"?
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My suggestions:
Poobris (a portmanteau of poo and hubris, as in "we're in the poobris, mate")
Brokest (because it comes after brokers. Usage: "G20 leaders today met to discuss the global Brokest")
Glunt (because there's no longer a glut of easy credit, and it's a contraction of "global" and a common mispronunciation of "crunch")
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Tom? Were you on W3 & was Lockwood asking the questions?
Guilty as charged. It's amazing how low an information-crazed young geek would sink for a set of encyclopaedias in thos distant pre-Interweb days.
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I don't ever remember him on "W3"
That's 'cos you weren't there, man!
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He'll own question time though. "Your starter for three..."
But all questions must start with a W.
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can somebody explain how an MP from the anti-regulation, pro-business Act party be MP for Consumer Affairs
But they're the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, don'tcha know?
Caveat emptor, and all that. In a free market, companies that sell substandard products will go to the wall as consumers vote with their feet. Because in a free market we all have perfect information, right?
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Gordon Campbell has some informed comment
Doesn't he just. Wouldn't it be nice if "informed comment" were valued by the likes of, say, The Listener?