I don't think I've got the attention span to learn long enough to be as good as I know I could be and it would annoy me enormously to half play the piano. It's better not to play at all."

I would love…

I now know that he's not just playing at not understanding what he did wrong, but that he genuinely has no freaking clue. Interesting.

Here's Michele Hewitson's interview with him, two and a half years ago.

I don't know if TVNZ bosses bother reading the Herald, but it's…

hooray for diversity!

Indeed – but "boo" to the passive-aggressive profiling, which I still do even though I try to check myself. And it's not only racial/ethnic. Funny how often I put all kinds of labels on people with a glance; perhaps it's inevitable, but still not a good thing.

As you were.

at…

I got the same feeling during my brief time in Canada – Toronto and Victoria. You almost wanted to go ask where they hid the indigenous people away.

What do you think we look like?

You wouldn't recognise a First Nations person. I'm as much Cree as Tiger Woods is…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

Also, dig the quick-cutting. So veddy veddy 60s.

Start posting music clips and we'll see

I generally have terrible taste in music, and this clip isn't the best quality either, but the tune's been stuck in my head for a good couple of weeks since hearing it on the radio one night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kthwkH7k-0

Well not till law and order has completely broken down.
I can help with that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8_I88UNCI&feature=fvsr

Finding out what a petard actually is was a great moment

Yup, found out last week courtesy of Hamlet... a fine moment in vocab expansion.

(danglin one)

Hoist by your own pendant

(My Friday afternoon tea break: mining Kiwiblog and cracking terrible puns.)

(danglin one)

Sacha, I'm going to have to modify yer danglin[g]...

It seems the world has moved on...

Oh, I'm with the OED, it's just that there's always some cretin who gets up in arms. I shall proceed to drink to their unexpected absence in this case. (It must be that one in ten chance.)

pendant

(danglin one)

Patiently awaits the onslaught of pendantry.

It seems the world has moved on...

decimate
verb (often be decimated)
1 kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of : the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness. the American chestnut, a species decimated by blight.
• drastically reduce the…

A 'vigourous assault, or attack' of pedantry?

I don't think you've used quite the right word there, if I may be so picky.
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See what I did there? :)

Decimated is the only word for it.

Patiently awaits the onslaught of pendantry.

Bugger all Aborigines though, I just never saw them, which always freaked me out a little.

You didn't make it to Redfern then?

But really the Aborigines millenia-old lifestyle perfected to live in the harsh Australian weather just doesn't work in a city.
And no effort was ever made to…

John Drinnan's rounds up the lastest media impact in his Herald column – I'm with Willie Jackson on his comments.

Who should replace him ?

How about link Francis the Talking Mule. Replacing on talking ass with another.

It's not only PH spewing forth. I picked up the latest copy…

Bugger all Aborigines though, I just never saw them, which always freaked me out a little.

I got the same feeling during my brief time in Canada – Toronto and Victoria. You almost wanted to go ask where they hid the indigenous people away.

For those that are talking about how white kids are the minority in their childcare, the reverse is definitely still the case here.

No doubt. And most of the enclaves in Auckland, apart from South, are like that too. I don't actually feel that comfortable in them though, I guess…

For those that are talking about how white kids are the minority in their childcare, the reverse is definitely still the case here.

No doubt. And most of the enclaves in Auckland, apart from South, are like that too. I don't actually feel that comfortable in them though, I guess…

It surprises people I talk to overseas when I describe just how non-white NZ truly is.

Dunedin is still pretty white, particularly once you get about 4 blocks from the university. For those that are talking about how white kids are the minority in their childcare, the reverse is definitely…

...these may be the final days, as P Henry mutates into Fenrir – the wolf that eats Odin at Ragnarok...

Perhaps we could have more than the usual parade of suspects representing the country on television, in public roles, and all those places where real New Zealanders are so conspicuously absent.

Its not the faces that need an update. Its the attitudes, deeply held beliefs and nasty tribalism.
But the…

Unfortunatly I never got to see you Ben because the host always has pissed me off..sorry

I saw him plenty, although I never made the connection, mainly cause I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes. It was a highlight of the show, marred only by the inanity that Henry…

I'm trying to convince myself that something good might come out of this (I despised PH before but now I can't help but hate him and the incredible number of supporters he has in this country), if it generates a…

Dissembling cowards like Mr Henry just know they don't have it, and I'm sure that realisation drives a lot of his loathesome behaviour.

... the way he has refused to fuel (unreliable) media coverage.

This is an interesting one. I have no idea why, but when I received that first call from Granny Herald about 5 minutes after my tweet, I just thought "No, this doesn't feel right".

I guess that's my moral…

Between them, they also have more Lego than God

100% fact.

Running Wankerman

roflnui

It's most peculiar how quiet the free speechers are when that free speech is coming from the mouth of Hone Harawira. Or Tame Iti. Or anyone not the white kind of outspoken.

Genius, Sarah

It surprises people I talk to overseas when I describe just how non-white NZ truly is.

Then again, that cuts both ways. Had a truly bizarre conversation where I explained that Kazuo Ishiguro speaks English so well because... well, he is English.

Fuck that shit — in this suburb, our next door neighbours are Muslim, the solo mother upstairs is from Chenai via Manurewa, and the folks two doors down are a perfectly agreeable family of third-generation Kimchi-munchers with a perfectly hale and hearty cat. (Sorry, Winston.) I'm dealing.

It surprises people…

he is singling out individuals to make cruel and personal remarks about which makes him a bully.

Even worse, he never seems to talk smack about people who are in the studio and within arm's length. IIRC, even Stephanie Mills was in Wellington on the other end of a video…

But you did stand up to a bully Ben and of course we know about Jolisa's work against plagiarism

It is easy to make noises about these things, harder when it…

And thank you, sincerely, too, for sharing your exquisite writing and art over these past two years; talk about recalibrating the world.

(Between them, they also have more Lego than God).

Ben's a hero

And so is Mr 6, for calling it like it is.

Paul should come to the Diwali Festivals later this month

It's festival of lights not dims

(sorry really should go have a coffee, random firing of neurons is random)

Why is it 99% of the time “PC gone mad”??

As a dedicated Mac user I think that every time

Paul Henry is a father of 3

Sadly the ability to make babies does not imbue greater wisdom.

combining elements of the movies
The Running Man and The Wickerman

Maybe Anchorman also.

I think Paul should come to the Diwali Festivals later this month. He'd be the centre of attraction.

at the risk of sounding insensitive,
perhaps we could start a new festival
for the unenlightened on a quest...
"Where's d' Wally"
combining elements of the movies
The Running Man and __The…

And as I type, I hope someone somewhere is, as @johubris suggested on twitter, making T-shirts that say, "This Is What a New Zealander Looks Like." In several colours, and all sizes: XL, large, medium, and small.

I'll take an XL thanks. And one for Mr 6 (who wears a…

What, do you have to be actually burning a cross on a guy's lawn before someone calls something racist in this country?

A comment I saw yesterday was to the effect of, it MIGHT have been racist if he'd like, called him [a racist name].

(Interestingly the middle of the word…

i think Paul should come to the Diwali Festivals later this month. He'd be the centre of attraction.

Sadly, I fear this would still be giving him what he wants.

(In a deeply twisted way, but then...)

he is singling out individuals to make cruel and personal remarks about which makes him a bully

And even worse: "About". Not "to".

None of his Breakfast targets were there to respond.

What I love are the people saying 'but he wasn't being racist, it was just some off-the-cuff remarks'. Yeah. Remarks which were, uh, totally fucking racist.

The crazy thing is, it wasn't just that morning, it was a string of remarks on different days.

Where did that guy GO?

A basketball scholarship, I presume. As you say, never heard from again except, perhaps, as the partial inspiration for this guy.

Why is it 99% of the time “PC gone mad”??

Have you tried quitting and restarting?

Why is it 99% of the time “PC gone mad”?? It does my head in.

What, do you have to be actually burning a cross on a guy's lawn before someone calls something racist in this country?

Still wouldn't make a difference. It's about reacting to the reaction, not the original racism. It goes from "Racist" to "Maybe he went too far" to "Don't condone"…

The other thing that's bugging me (apart from Chuck Cunningham – man, you people are…

Personally, I was always haunted by the "disappearance" of brother Chuck.

Seriously, 3410! Where did that guy GO? And to never speak of him again... they were quite heartless, those Cunninghams.

What I love are the people saying 'but he wasn't being racist, it was just some off-the-cuff remarks'. Yeah.…

some solid black sunglasses with decals of Paul Henry on the outside would do?

Peril sensitive sunglasses. Yes!

I'm not sure what the children have done to deserve the visits however. Won't someone think of them?

Curses. You have identified the fatal flaw in my otherwise cunning plan. I was…

Schoolchildren are probably more likely to be watching TV at 0740 during term than in the holidays.

TVNZ could extend his unpaid leave until he's managed to visit every preschool and primary school in the country... and in the meantime they could find someone to front Breakfast with at least a semblance of good manners...

Precisely. I haven't done the maths, but he should be about ready…

Here's my tuppence. The government is about to appoint the next Governor-General. At a stroke of a pen, the PM could earn a place in history, piss off the bigots, make the rest of us all feel warm and fuzzy about our country (and incidentally,…

How can I have never seen that episode?

Personally, I was always haunted by the "disappearance" of brother Chuck.

... which brings me to something that…

And this is the other thing I don't get: Paul Henry is a father of 3. We all make dodgy jokes, whether ironically or sincerely, but __pas devant…

overtones of Fonzie-on-water-skis

You're good with the linky things. How can I have never seen that episode?

This makes me uncomfortable. Perhaps I need to convince him to change to a classic rock station?

Except I notce we XL miss out again

This isn't what a racist looks like.

Or, "This IS..." but then you'd have to actually wear a picture of the disgraced person in question, ugh, scratch that.

And as I type, I hope someone somewhere is, as @johubris suggested on twitter, making T-shirts that say, "This Is What a New Zealander Looks Like."

I rather liked the counter-suggestion: This isn't what a racist looks like.