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Sylvie Zlami

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:39:48 +1200

I was waiting for the new OF season with bated breath.
Loved the trailers too btw. The still that isn't actually a still ... what an exquisite tease that was.

Gotta love outrageously fortunate Tuesdays.

Dave Howell

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:17:47 +1200

How many of the few ships that we have need protecting?

I took him to be talking about protecting our ability to move goods rather than ships per se. And he has a point in that as a remote nation surviving by selling people stuff they can get from closer…

giovanni tiso

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:58:16 +1200

Are there pirates in NZ waters that I don't know about?

There aren't – which is proof of what a great job our navy is doing.

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:56:51 +1200

His point about us having no effective navy to protect "our" trade shipping made we wonder... How many NZ flagged shipping lines still exist?

How many of the few ships that we have need protecting? Are there pirates in NZ waters that I don't know about?

Sacha

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:32:55 +1200

These people are geniuses.

Ae. Taonga.

And Antonia Prebble just owned her scenes last night.

Carol Stewart

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:42:00 +1200

Great programme, Russell (Media 7, that is, of course). Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The unkind thought did cross my mind that 'journalistic ethics' is an oxymoron..

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:49:02 +1200

Meanwhile back in Bogan Vllla...

Re Outrageous Fortune-I made fish pie for tea tonight. Wonder how it compares to Cheryl's...or Pascal's for that matter.

...all this and The L.E.D.S in the soundtrack!
now they're cookin'...

yrs
Gawd N. Ramses
eff fer pheasant?

Judy Callingham

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:21:33 +1200

Just staggered in exhausted from three days away. Drug of choice: MySky and OF . Aaaaahhhh!

How do we cope between series without these bogans? They keep me sane.

PS – Russell, you're being far too nice to everyone. Have you found a supply of Loretta's interesting new party drugs?

Stewart

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:10:28 +1200

I fear that the Listener lost its heart & soul with the departure of Finlay Macdonald. Since Pamela Stirling has had hold of the reins it has been a steady downhill slide. Now I don't know either of these individuals, although I have heard Finlay on bFM, so I can't really…

Matthew Littlewood

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:10 +1200

And ... The Listener. Having forced myself to wade through most of the interview with George Friedman, I cannot see why he and his book would have deserved even a single-paragraph review, let alone been stuck on the bloody cover of the magazine this week.
Terence O'Brien had it right:…

Tony Parker

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:49:22 +1200

Re Outrageous Fortune-I made fish pie for tea tonight. Wonder how it compares to Cheryl's...or Pascal's for that matter.

Leigh Kennaway

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:49:56 +1200

You black avatar guys always stick together.

I think the correct expression these days is
You avatar guys of colour always stick together.

Brickley Paiste

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:39:09 +1200

Interesting thought; debate about Legal Aid always presents it as some sort of liability, when in fact it is about securing a fair trial. The costs of Crown prosecutions are rarely discussed, because they are part of Justice.

Word up.

I think Crown Law pays the prosecutors and Treasury pays…

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:26:32 +1200

(the Crown were also paid through the public purse, at higher hourly rates and at higher time allowances than the defence and for the same work).

Interesting thought; debate about Legal Aid always presents it as some sort of liability, when in fact it is about securing a fair trial. The…

Brickley Paiste

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:45 +1200

Agree with you about Metro. It was getting too much like the giveaway rags, all gloss and froth, but it has returned to real stories. It will put the Listener to shame.

Definitely. The piece on Kane Wright's killing was top rate. I found her two digs at legal aid…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:51:09 +1200

APN's publications don't even need the corrupting influence of Murdoch to have gone downmarket, that's how far they've nuked the fridge. Chapter 7's too good for them.

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:04 +1200

The answer to any question posed on a Listener cover invariably is "no." With this knowledge, one can save time that would be wasted reading the article.

Evan Yates

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:35:03 +1200

We are lucky that there is no charge for awesomeness* or we would have to pay extra to watch ' Fortune

Yes, I still read the Listener. I agree with other commenters about the Friedman interview. The condescending tone just rankled.
His point about us having no effective navy to…

Emma Hart

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:25:27 +1200

Seeing as a 22-hour play-list on random has just chosen to play 'Gutter Black' at me, I feel compelled to say that with the arrival of each new season of Outrageous Fortune I feel a sense of dread, that maybe this one won't be as good, that they'll have lost…

giovanni tiso

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:17:32 +1200

Someone who used to do a bit of reviewing for the Listener thought that the current version should be renamed "Luxury problems".

One of the recent cover stories was entitled "Will The Recession Kills Our Body Obsession?", and one had to wonder whether by "our" they meant society at large,…

Sam F

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:14:19 +1200

I'll keep the black one in reserve for when S92A returns from the dead in search of brains.

Alec Morgan

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:13:27 +1200

Crosby Textor are the personification of bullying creeps. I almost fired off a sharp email to them, but rethought, those pricks might come after me too! as I would have to use my real name in such correspondence.

CT enabled the Nats to lie their way into office and dare…

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:11:47 +1200

A new avatar? Black-slider!

Sam F

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:39:19 +1200

You black avatar guys always stick together.

I would be a rather more unique snowflake but for some reason my updated gravatar isn't showing...

Ian MacKay

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:23:03 +1200

From the time my son was about 8 he and I would race to read to be first to read the Listener. At 20 I gave him a subscription to read while away at Varsity. Now 5 years later neither of us bother and subs have lapsed.

The bully tactics…

Russell Brown

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:16:41 +1200

You black avatar guys always stick together.

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:13:54 +1200

Why, thank you.

Sam F

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:34 +1200

Obligatory link

philipmatthews

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:40:12 +1200

Someone who used to do a bit of reviewing for the Listener thought that the current version should be renamed "Luxury problems". As an ex-staffer, I couldn't possibly comment ...

Tom Semmens

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:37:13 +1200

I tell you what is choice – inorganic collection week!!!!!

People have no idea what they are throwing out, or are to lazy to care.

I just went and gathered up 24 planks, finished unpainted pine, 2 metres long x 20cm wide x 25cm think. Thats has got to be…

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:21:16 +1200

The New Zealand Worrier , perhaps.

Russell Brown

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:14:37 +1200

Also, in the same issue of Metro our own Damian Christe has a nice little story on "Green" Dean Williams in his new guise as an ethical Cambodian bar owner.

And ... The Listener. Having forced myself to wade through most of the interview with George Friedman, I cannot see…

Stewart

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:11:50 +1200

I unkindly wondered if Pamela Stirling has a thing for Gareth Morgan, given as how he seems to have become the Oracle of Teh Listener.

Used to read it pretty much cover-to-cover...now it is just for doing the crossword with My Darling while we breakfast in bed on a Saturday.…

giovanni tiso

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:44:44 +1200

Concerned White Affluent Grandparents' Weekly, surely?

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:44:18 +1200

obyn Gallagher noted earlier this week that the Listener should rename itself "Concerned Grandparents' Weekly".

Good one! Another renaming could be "The Deafening Silence"?

Russell Brown

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:44:15 +1200

All we need now is for Wolf to come back.

I'm not sure if Grant Bowler's career in US television is going to allow for that.

Stephen Judd

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:40:24 +1200

The Listener's own editorial staff has got that one well covered.

Robyn Gallagher noted earlier this week that the Listener should rename itself "Concerned Grandparents' Weekly".

Jo S

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:28:36 +1200

There's also a nice piece by Sarah Daniell about how Peter Bromhead got the sack and a Qantas award for outstanding achievement in the same week.

Boy, definitely reading things too fast (back after lunch before heading into the lab) – read that as "a nice piece by Sarah Daniell…

Kerry Weston

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:28:32 +1200

Loved how OF kicked off with door-whacking, coitus interruptus, as the new cop erupted into the show. All we need now is for Wolf to come back.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:41:11 +1200

The moment of Van and Munter constructing a garden shed was a gem. True Blood was pretty magnificent last night too--I always suspected there was something dodgy about Renee, the faux-Cajun character. But I can't bear to think that Lafayette (my favourite character) has come to a sticky end.

I…

giovanni tiso

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:40:10 +1200

It will put the Listener to shame.

The Listener's own editorial staff has got that one well covered.

Paul Litterick

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:38:52 +1200

Agree with you about Metro. It was getting too much like the giveaway rags, all gloss and froth, but it has returned to real stories. It will put the Listener to shame.

Simon Poole

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:23:50 +1200

Argh! I missed Outrageous Fortune as our antenatal class got moved to a Tuesday because of the long weekend – where are the priorities people?!. I'll have to catch up with it later.

Public Address

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:23:50 +1200

Discussion from blog post.