Posts by Joe Wylie
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Speaker: What I learned in Class: Should…, in reply to Russell Brown,
What happens if you tell a bogan they are a public intellectual?
Um . . . if they're the real thing they'll do that fart trick with their armpit?
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to chris,
one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Didn't Shaw also say something to the effect that the most any reasonable child could expect from their father was that he be present at the moment of their conception?
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to SHG,
NEW ZEALAND'S BEST PIES
For whatever it may be worth, seven out of eleven appear to be probably Cambodian. I for one am appreciative and mildly intrigued by the Cambodianisation of NZ's small bakeries. Product and Angkor-wall-art-wise, the establishment at the South end of Waiourou is almost interchangeable with Chch's Sockburn Bakery. You want a glad-wrapped pair of white bread cheese & onion to go with that pie, they got it.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Jeff Weir,
I have a kiwisaver account. It has some good cash in it. I have growing equity in a Term Deposit, too. I may elect to use these to buy a house - if I can afford it. I may not. If I can afford to buy a house, that may or may not improve my Financial Security dream outcome compared to leaving it in a Term Deposit/Kiwisaver and not signing up for a very large mortgage.
Presumably you have a bit of wiggle room time-wise, so all the best with that. Just the other day I asked someone who's approaching national super age what their plans were, as they'd dropped off the home ownership bus some years ago. With two different skill sets, one providing sporadic fixed-contract work in China and the other in NZ with the overhead of Auckland rentals, they half-jokingly replied that they'd probably "die in China".
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Steve Curtis,
It would be good to hear more people who work in everyday statistics
You mean the kind of folks who dreamed on untroubled while this turkey was flapping loose?
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
"The Big German" says it all.
Not when it's said with what appears to be heavy irony.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Kalka River,
Payback is a bitch….enjoy it you racist white crackers
Not the first time that one's been rolled out.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to BenWilson,
Van Goghs are rare, culturally important, incredibly famous. Not to mention beautiful, ground breaking works of genius...They will never lose their place in the annals of Western Art.
Wouldn't surprise me if the Sunflowers eventually drop a notch or two in the canon. A few more decades of being employed in the decor of state service provider facilities as a means of inducing bovine compliance has to take its toll.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
These folks (Demographia) have been producing a survey...
As Demographia appears to have a well-funded agenda, should their statistics be taken at face value? While the local franchise holder seems to enjoy a certain cult status in the NBR's online comments, he's mercifully not the player he appears to believe destiny's ordained him to be.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to chris,
This country – the intelligentsia, the pundits, the commentators, the politicians, the talking heads, the left, the right, the inbetweeners, the journalists, Nabour, Lational- has gone so far up it’s own ass you can see the trees. Meanwhile a 70 year old waits 2 years for a hip replacement, immobilised. Christchurch waits for home.
<***applause***>