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Kumara Republic

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:31:48 +1200

Yeah. The last two elections Labour has shown itself woefully, embarrassingly behind in advertising and campaign strategy. Unions (apart from Unite) also lack an effective media team.

It coincided with the departure of Mike Munro to the private sector, for reasons unknown. Up till that point, things were handled pretty…

linger

Tue, 10 May 2011 13:26:40 +1200

Whatever they're doing, they should be running it past ordinary punters for feedback before releasing it. That should at least remove the clunkers. The more worrying aspect is the complete lack of non-clunkers so far.

Rob Stowell

Tue, 10 May 2011 11:05:08 +1200

Yeah. The last two elections Labour has shown itself woefully, embarrassingly behind in advertising and campaign strategy. Unions (apart from Unite) also lack an effective media team.
This worries me.
Is it simply a lack of money? Probably a factor, but I'm not convinced. Good simple ideas can be effective…

Islander

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:50:54 +1200

er-ur-o dear- you are not wrong linger!

I liked the playfulness that was going on but-

linger

Mon, 09 May 2011 23:19:19 +1200

You know, that poster template is a seriously bad design FAIL.
It is not at all clear whether voting for Labour is supposed to correspond to ticking both boxes, or only the last one.
When a party’s PR machine can’t even get a two-option multiple choice question right, you gotta…

nzlemming

Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:43 +1200

Ninjas 1, pirates 0.

Undoubtedly, the cops were ninja in disguise.

Rich Lock

Mon, 09 May 2011 13:21:14 +1200

And just when you thought it was safe to be a pirate.... as Tony Abbot says "Shit happens".

Ninjas 1, pirates 0.

Dismal Soyanz

Sat, 07 May 2011 12:09:17 +1200

And just when you thought it was safe to be a pirate.... as Tony Abbot says "Shit happens".

Islander

Fri, 06 May 2011 18:43:23 +1200

Which one?

John Farrell

Fri, 06 May 2011 18:09:27 +1200

What has Will done?

Robert Urquhart

Fri, 06 May 2011 14:22:56 +1200

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"?)…

Russell Brown

Fri, 06 May 2011 11:46:12 +1200

Here's last night's show.

Tommy's two years and and was very nervous, but scrubbed up will with a couple of edits.

nzlemming

Fri, 06 May 2011 11:00:15 +1200

They still need a ship. It’s not real until there’s an actual pirate ship.

Oarsome!

recordari

Fri, 06 May 2011 09:42:15 +1200

Those who get binary and those who don't.

11. Those who can Google binary translator, and those who can't.

<3b 2d 29>

BenWilson

Fri, 06 May 2011 09:16:03 +1200

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

Matthew Poole

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:49:57 +1200

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…

BenWilson

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:43:40 +1200

There are 2^n types of people, where n is the number of people.

ChrisW

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:25:29 +1200

Those given to hyperbole, and those that stick to the facts?

BenWilson

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:19:29 +1200

I thought there were 10 sorts of people. Those who get binary and those who don't.

ChrisW

Fri, 06 May 2011 07:46:55 +1200

oh, what the heck. But surely there are three sorts of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't?

Adzze

Thu, 05 May 2011 22:58:02 +1200

oh, what the heck.

recordari

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:48:54 +1200

I liked this one. (not mine).

Mine.

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:29:24 +1200

A bound to happen billboard

But still, nicely played.

R A Hurley

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:25:25 +1200

Makings of a meme there

Oh dear. I apologise in advance!

Sacha

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:15:20 +1200

A bound to happen billboard

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:12:27 +1200

Ha! Very good.

Makings of a meme there.

Leopold

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:36:34 +1200

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…

R A Hurley

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:00:35 +1200

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?

OK. Last one, I promise.

nzlemming

Thu, 05 May 2011 15:55:24 +1200

Ha! Very good.

R A Hurley

Thu, 05 May 2011 15:45:02 +1200

Yup. Get it while they’ll let it.

I agree. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

nzlemming

Thu, 05 May 2011 15:04:53 +1200

Yup. Get it while they'll let it.

R A Hurley

Thu, 05 May 2011 14:19:58 +1200

This would be an appropriate time to present a billboard I prepared earlier. How's that for foresight!
Oooh! This is fun!

Kumara Republic

Thu, 05 May 2011 14:19:21 +1200

And just for fun...

Rich Lock

Thu, 05 May 2011 13:15:20 +1200

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…

Sacha

Thu, 05 May 2011 11:09:15 +1200

Love it. Credited with reviving the US music industry's fortunes at the time. Recall the standing ovation from their peers at the Grammys.

Danielle

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:45:09 +1200

Back in 2004, before "Hey Ya!" was overplayed

I wish I could go back to that place. I remember hearing that song for the first time, and my husband and I laughed out loud with delight at 'lend me some sugar! I AM your neighbour!'

Craig Young

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:40:09 +1200

And for those with short memories, here's a backgrounder that I did on the Pirate Party phenomenon last year- before Jonathon Young had his Skynet theophany...

http://gaynz.com/blog/redqueen/archives/967

BenWilson

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:36:43 +1200

It's interesting what a romantic, affectionate view we have of pirates, though, isn't it?

Yes, 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 guess that's possibly because in…

Jeremy Andrew

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:34:45 +1200

Squawk – Pieces of eight!
Squawk – Pieces of eight!
Squawk – Pieces of eight!
Squawk – Pieces of nine!
System Halt 3248 – Parroty error.

David Ritchie

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:33:21 +1200

Outkast seemed quite fond though

Back in 2004, before "Hey Ya!" was overplayed, Polaroid warned against shaking photos while they're developing.

Fooman

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:00:54 +1200

| Fourteen international production companies what?

I think you mean Company's

I think I mean there was some sort of article or verb missing or I did not grok the sentence.

**syntax error

PC Load Letter

Lilith __

Thu, 05 May 2011 09:57:15 +1200

To err is human, to arrrr is pirate.

It's interesting what a romantic, affectionate view we have of pirates, though, isn't it?

Matthew Poole

Thu, 05 May 2011 09:46:04 +1200

I can't wait for the Pirate Party to get into parliament, have a member go rogue, and then for there to be a by-election and an electorate gets taken over by ninjas.

This would be an appropriate time to present a billboard I prepared earlier. How's that for foresight!

Pete Sime

Thu, 05 May 2011 05:19:42 +1200

A pirate walks into a bar, and the barkeep says "Excuse me, cap'n, but did you know that you've got your ship's wheel stuck in your pantaloons?"

"Aye," says the pirate, "that thing be drivin' me nuts! Aaargh!"

Tony Siu

Wed, 04 May 2011 20:38:21 +1200

Damn, missed the live show!

Ken Sparks

Wed, 04 May 2011 18:29:20 +1200

And the Steenbeck. And the chinagraph pencil. And splicing.

And the white cotton glove on the left hand...

Islander

Wed, 04 May 2011 17:22:55 +1200

The most magic part of being a tv producer-director trainee in the mid-1970s was being in the editing booth with a good film editor and watching them turn my grab-everything shots into a film. Came away from that period of my life with vast respect for editors (and sound & camera…

James Francis

Wed, 04 May 2011 17:10:42 +1200

And the Steenbeck. And the chinagraph pencil. And splicing.

Ken Sparks

Wed, 04 May 2011 16:21:40 +1200

You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.

The best thing about editing film was running it through your fingers and holding it up to the light...

BlairMacca

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:28:30 +1200

The Polaroid's compelling feature is the way you can mess with your pics while they're curing. You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.

True. I guess their main selling point that you got the picture almost straight away, but with the…

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:24:42 +1200

Directly related to the overpopulation of hipsters who weren’t around to realise why they became unpopular in the first place ;)

The Polaroid's compelling feature is the way you can mess with your pics while they're curing. You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as…

BenWilson

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:14:40 +1200

I'm not voting for them unless they actually have a pirate ship.

BlairMacca

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:09:55 +1200

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Maori TV is showing CTV during the day now, nice touch.

And Jose Barbosa looks at the return of the Polaroid camera.

Directly related to the overpopulation of hipsters who weren't around to realise why they became unpopular in the first place ;)

Steve Barnes

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:51:02 +1200

Fourteen international production companies what?

I think you mean Company's

Fooman

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:57 +1200

Fourteen international production companies, including Endemol and Mark Burnett Productions (Survivor, the Apprentice).

Fourteen international production companies what? I am left in suspense...

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:40:24 +1200

a buccaneer is a small price to pay...
the Pirate Party of New Zealand
...at last a party with a plank we can all walk !

Joanna

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:29:20 +1200

If any parliament ninjas are reading this: can you please take a shit on the MPs who are shitting all over our foreign aid programmes? Thank you.

Brent Jackson

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:27:37 +1200

There are already ninjas in parliament ... you just don't see them.

Kumara Republic

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:19:24 +1200

Yarrrr, me hearties!

Joanna

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:06:02 +1200

I can't wait for the Pirate Party to get into parliament, have a member go rogue, and then for there to be a by-election and an electorate gets taken over by ninjas.

Public Address

Wed, 04 May 2011 13:06:02 +1200

Discussion from blog post.