Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I’m thinking of getting a T-shirt done
- maybe like the Beagle Boys ones…Still impressed after all these years by the classy machine-knitted Beagle Boys jumpers that early Proud Scum sported. Way before orange was the new black they had the colour matched perfectly.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
And now yours might be staying put at school, often without any qualifications and despite everyone’s best efforts nowhere near the aspirational NCEA Level 2 that is now the essential ticket to successful adulthood.
Thanks for keeping this one alive. It’s now over twenty years since the door was closed to those who, IMHE and with capable oversight, proved to be excellent childcare workers despite lacking the academic skills to gain a formal qualification. While they received a disability benefit it functioned as a wage subsidy to their employer. Looking back it’s all proven to be part of the pattern of the widening social gap, with the most vulnerable as always bearing the brunt.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to fredster jones,
Why do regular contributors to this site resort to vile ad hominem stuff like comparing Bob Jones to a turd ?
But those cute brown shar pei puppies in the Roly bum fodder ads were chosen because of the breed’s subliminal resemblance to healthy human excrement, and kiwis took them to their hearts.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Alfie,
Wow! Send your photographs of our PM pulling waiters’ hair to…
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Reply“Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Though I do notice an upward curve in your passive aggressiveness, not getting a tad hot under the collar are we?
Heh.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Like the Remains of the day but with a lot less dignity,
at the end of the day."Here's the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier."
- Corky St. Clair, Waiting For Guffman.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
From back in the day when some actually still believed the promise to re-enter would be honoured.
As long as extending a measure of good faith appeared to offer a hope of real justice the Pike River families can hardly be blamed for holding to that course until the duplicity they’d been subjected to was clearly revealed. With genuine support they’ll hopefully still prevail. Meanwhile McCready has discovered fresh windmills to tilt at.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Although I see that many people find him a pest, I do confess an admiration for someone or anyone like McCready
The Pike River families clearly found McCready's intrusion unwelcome.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I’ve been having a bit of discussion about ‘inspiration porn’. It is to do the viewer having stereotypical assumptions about disability as an individual thing that people can ‘overcome’, and not about the viewer having to challenge their own practices or attitudes.
Stella Young expressed it best in this TEDx talk
Thanks for the link, refreshingly down-to-earth stuff.
I’m very uncomfortable with most attempts to make poster people of those with disabilities. Perhaps my feelings are coloured by my dealings with intellectual disability, because ultimately there are no kudos in being ‘stupid’. Being famous primarily for having a disability seems to always invite a degree of condescension. No matter how well-intentioned the casual observer may be, unless there’s a real attempt to establish our common humanity rather than our differences there’s always the shadow of the gentlefolks visiting Bedlam as a form of diversion. -
Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Earlier, he woke to the news that Saudi’s Crown Prince Muqrin had been removed overnight, only hours after they met. “It wasn’t obvious when I had dinner if he did know about it. He seemed in a great mood.”
It used to be suggested that, after the latest Argentinian junta had been overthrown and a certain general or three hadn’t been seen in public for a while, one should carefully check the contents of canned corned beef from those parts for a telltale human navel or similar. I wonder what the Saudi equivalent might be?