Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to carrie onn,
Geoff, I’m picking that if Mike Hosking’s politics agreed with you, you’d agree with his Broadcaster of the Year award. Stop confusing politics for talent.
Should you ever develop the skill of reading Geoff Lealand's postings without moving your lips it might dawn on even you that you've picked it wrong. The lack of courage in your own convictions that reduces you to sniping from behind a lame pseudonym ensures that won't happen anytime soon.
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Leopoldo Méndez, Mariana Yampolsky. Calaveras Televisiosas Todo por un Hoyito. 1949.
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
What it really is is a kick in the teeth to Labour. They haven’t been a party friendly to or favouring beneficiaries since the 70s.
They still made friendly noises as recently as the 80s. Back then, the DSW sent out facsimile missives to its clients signed by Ann Hercus, addressing the recipient as Dear Beneficiary. Of course there was a bit of opposition carping that it was a kind of thinly-veiled off-season electioneering.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Paul Campbell,
the main purpose of jaffas in cinemas in those days was to roll them from the back row down the (uncarpetted) steps during quiet moments ….
Conspicuous consumption. Aniseed balls were at least as noisy, at less than half the cost.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Steve Barnes,
That wasn’t supposed to be read the way I read it. I guess.
It's intentionally caps-sensitive :)
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Marcus Turner,
My earlier comment about teachers and communists was a joke: the sort of thing said by certain elderly and middle aged men when I was young.
I’m not sure quite when standing for the anthem-cum-montage ended, but I can recall the compulsion to stand being widely ignored in its last years. The only time I was ever scolded for sitting through it was by the stroppier of the two (literally) bearded ladies who frequented Wellington cinemas back then.
Being chewed out for a bit of minor civil disobedience was fine, but when she threw in the baseless slander of “sitting there eating your lollies” there was no alternative to turning around and eyeballing her, only to catch the old horror rewarding her performance with a faceful of Jaffas.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Alfie,
Australia seems to be moving to a more strident nationalism: it’s only in recent years that I’ve heard the word “unAustralian” used.
Un-Australian's been around for a while. Stuart Littlemore's analysis on the ABC's Media Watch of the word's heavy employment by the media back at the time of the 1996 Parliament House riot gave the impression that it's very much a top-down "Australianism".
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I remember this disgraceful shambles. We were living within spitting distance of the Wellington Show buildings, in Mt Cook.
Those wretched "It's 1990, Think Positive" stickers were everywhere in Auckland. Presumably someone was paid to go about placing them on pedestrian crossing push buttons and suchlike.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Rob Stowell,
‘leave it to those of us who care’ doesn’t seem an option. It’s possible to care negatively :)
In the face of what seems yet another "icon of corporate mismanagement within New Zealand popular culture", “caring negatively” looks like a saving grace.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Also, as Finlay Macdonald commented recently, the way the NZ media roll over and wave their legs in the air when British royalty hoves into view.
Even that has its ups and downs. I distinctly recall being on Queen Street on a rainy afternoon in the mid-80s when a mini-motorcade containing Princess Anne drove by. Not a union jack in sight, people barely bothered to turn their heads.
