Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!
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Sacha, in reply to
Love it. Credited with reviving the US music industry's fortunes at the time. Recall the standing ovation from their peers at the Grammys.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
for some reason they have a particularly strong grip on public imagination as being somehow nobler than other thugs who are involved in murder, ransom, extortion, theft, and slavery.
I was quite fond of 'desert bandits' for a while after seeing 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'.
And the Greek Klephts had a pretty awesome sense of fashion.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
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R A Hurley, in reply to
This would be an appropriate time to present a billboard I prepared earlier. How's that for foresight!
Oooh! This is fun!
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nzlemming, in reply to
Yup. Get it while they'll let it.
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Yup. Get it while they’ll let it.
I agree. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Ha! Very good.
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In all seriousness, though. Does this billboard campaign seem more than a little sad to anyone else? Like an attempt to cash in on the cutting edge science of electioneering circa 2005?
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Leopold, in reply to
One of the few things I agree with St Augustine on...
In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, "How dare you molest the seas?" To which the pirate replied, "How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor." St. Augustine thought the pirate's answer was "elegant and excellent."
And apparently one of the advantages of piracy along the East African coast is that fish stocks are recovering - the great commercial fishing fleets have been scared off - poetic justice for many of the Somali fishers who took to piracy following the devatation of their fishing grounds
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Ha! Very good.
Makings of a meme there.
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A bound to happen billboard
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R A Hurley, in reply to
Makings of a meme there
Oh dear. I apologise in advance!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
A bound to happen billboard
But still, nicely played.
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ChrisW, in reply to
But surely there are three sorts of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't?
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BenWilson, in reply to
I thought there were 10 sorts of people. Those who get binary and those who don't.
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Those given to hyperbole, and those that stick to the facts?
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There are 2^n types of people, where n is the number of people.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
And apparently one of the advantages of piracy along the East African coast is that fish stocks are recovering – the great commercial fishing fleets have been scared off
Right. So we've got a policy plank (coat, getting) for the NZ Pirate Party - recovery of our fishing stocks, by hook or by crook.
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BenWilson, in reply to
Right. So we've got a policy plank (coat, getting) for the NZ Pirate Party - recovery of our fishing stocks, by hook or by crook.
They still need a ship. It's not real until there's an actual pirate ship.
Edit: See, it's not even expensive
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recordari, in reply to
Those who get binary and those who don't.
11. Those who can Google binary translator, and those who can't.
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nzlemming, in reply to
They still need a ship. It’s not real until there’s an actual pirate ship.
Oarsome!
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Here's last night's show.
Tommy's two years and and was very nervous, but scrubbed up will with a couple of edits.
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I serendipitously caught the 1pm re-run, I thought the chap did credibly given he was just a little out of his depth in front of the camera :D And both topics were very relevant to my current interests.
("Scrubbed up will", is that at all similar to "fire at Will"?)
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