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Joe Wylie

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:10:20 +1300

I'd just like to say that the above post is now owning the Google results for "Invisible Harblz".

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merc

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:05:53 +1300

I'd quite like to see Mr Key sniffing some produce up the road in our own local market, we've missed him here in his electorate lately.

Jeremy Andrew

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:04:46 +1300

Has anyone else found lolsecretz yet? a mix of lolcats and postsecret, alternately (and often simultaneously) funny, cute, sad and disturbing.

Russell Brown

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:58:34 +1300

I'd just like to say that the above post is now owning the Google results for "Invisible Harblz".

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:54:45 +1300

But surreptitiously taping politicians while looking for that 'Macaca Moment' – and putting one together with some "unfair editing" as you put it if your prey isn't obliging – doesn't seem like much of an advance, just the same game with a lot of disingenuous bullshit about "citizen journalism" and…

John Farrell

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:46:54 +1300

What's the bet they were filming a "John, man of the people" ad for the next election?

Russell Brown

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:49:05 +1300

But, hey,I guess we're all living in a scopophiliac world where we're increasingly comfortable with (or oblivious to) CCTV cameras on every corner, the faux intimacy of You Tube and Facebook; where voyeurism as infotainment has never been cheaper or more popular while actual newsgathering and analysis is being starved…

Craig Ranapia

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:54:25 +1300

Well, Russell, if you want to be cynical about the heavily spun and processed nature of modern politics you're preaching to the amen corner. But surreptitiously taping politicians while looking for that 'Macaca Moment' – and putting one together with some "unfair editing" as you put it if your prey…

3410

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:48:22 +1200

Doubtless, whatever PR people were involved would have created an extremely flattering edit of proceedings

Make that "will create..."

I, for one, am grateful to anyone who pulls back the curtain on the PR. I've been giving the guy the benefit of the doubt, despite my general suspicion of the…

Russell Brown

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:18:59 +1200

And before Tom Semmens gets all pissed off at me again, I'd like to think Helen Clark could occasionally scratch her arse and poke a vegetable without some freak posting it on You Tube so some right wing-nut can froth about how this proves what a dirty, heartless bitch she…

Ben Austin

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:42:12 +1200

Freeview is currently on my angry list – tried to watch the first episode of Flight of the Conchords last night on bbc4 and the dammed reception kept cutting out. With freeview that means image lock or simply "no signal". Boo.

Craig Ranapia

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:36:49 +1200

InternationalObserver:

Gee, You Tube is full of saddos who need to get a life (preferably their own)? I have three words for you: LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! :(

And before Tom Semmens gets all pissed off at me again, I'd like to think Helen Clark could occasionally scratch her arse and…

InternationalObserver

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:29:19 +1200

er ... is it only me (I guess so, since no-one else has commented on it) but:

I'm rather creeped out by the idea that someone has taken the time to follow Key, film him, edit the film, and then post it. This is a feature of US politics I…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:15:16 +1200

I think you'll find that gift is called "practise and hard work".

Up to a point – even Bill Clinton's harshest critics would say the man has what you can only call charisma, and I don't really know if you can learn it, or even if it says anything much…

Tom Semmens

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:56:10 +1200

WOOHOO! My flatmate informs me my expensive LCD set is also HDTV ready.

Whatever that might mean.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:51:34 +1200

In 1974, when we lived in Greymouth, there arrived a special surprise in the living room of the family house. It was a colour television — a 26" Thorn the size of a small chest of drawers — and it had been purchased so as to capture the glory of…

Stephen Judd

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:45:23 +1200

Anyone who is big enough to see it can tell in an instant Helen Clark is a gifted leader and the outstanding politician of her times.

I think you'll find that gift is called "practise and hard work". Key'll get better at it if he has a mind to.

Gary Hutchings

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:37:44 +1200

Really? Shit, there's an excuse to buy a PS3 I'd never thought of.

Damian Christie

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:17:23 +1200

The PS3 is getting a Freeview compatible receiver dongle and PVR software.

Really? Shit, there's an excuse to buy a PS3 I'd never thought of.

rodgerd

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:11:44 +1200

Is there going to be a Freeview box with a built in PVR recorder thingy?

The PS3 is getting a Freeview compatible receiver dongle and PVR software.

Hadyn Green

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:52:39 +1200

I'm sure 'patrician' Key sends a serf to clear the mailbox

Didn't Key get his mail one morning dressed only in his dressing gown and moon some of his neighbours?

Russell Brown

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:47:04 +1200

Anyone who is big enough to see it can tell in an instant Helen Clark is a gifted leader and the outstanding politician of her times. On the other hand, I suspect John Key is more a patrician than a politician.

To be fair, Clark had a lot of meet…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:26:04 +1200

That was telling and disgusting.

Nah, you know what's really telling and disgusting – that it's probably going to be a matter of when not if we see "guerilla video" of Helen Clark scratching her arse leading the six o'clock news. (Not that that would be a good thing, Mr.…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:19:05 +1200

Tom:

Um... OK. Thanks for sharing, as I don't live anywhere near either Clark or Key I doubt any Hallmark moments of that magnitude are on the horizon unless I start doing the creepy stalker thing. Anyway, I'm sure 'patrician' Key sends a serf to clear the mailbox.:)

But seriously,…

Damian Christie

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:15:08 +1200

That was telling and disgusting.

I dunno, I agree it doesn't look good, but to me it looks more like he was starting to get a bit worried by this person who'd been following him around with a camera for the last god-knows-how-long (and who wasn't part of the official…

Conor Roberts

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:11:50 +1200

The absolute worst bit of the John Key video is when he is listening to the lady talking about her concerns with affordable housing.

He just doesn’t seem to give a shit about what she is talking about and walks off.

That was telling and disgusting.

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:56:22 +1200

It's not so much that he's sniffing the veges, but it's that he does it so quickly before passing them to the stall owner. It's like someone's told him to sniff the veges rather than it being something he normally does.

Also, I feel perculiar staring at Colin's nether regions.…

andrew

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:47:08 +1200

ten is broadcasting the RWC in HD over here in sydney, and it's pretty fucking amazing.

Tom Semmens

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:11:08 +1200

"...I'm sure there's a media minder who just earned their Christmas bonus with that one. God, those 'spontaneous' walkabouts are so contrived I just end up feeling embarrassed for everyone concerned..."

Last time I saw the PM she had just jumped back into her (self driven) car after emptying her…

Ben Gracewood

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:04:08 +1200

Damien: Bingo

(Actually it doesn't say anywhere that it does Freeview, but I'm assuming it's a Freeview Satellite decoder + PVR)

Ben Gracewood

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:57:04 +1200

Bah... guess who bought a Freeview box on Friday for the Rubgy.

Still, can't complain, it does 480p so it's already nice and sharp compared to my old stock Sky box.

I just wonder why TVNZ/Freeview won't pony up for the bandwidth to run HD over satellite? Is it really…

Damian Christie

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:47:33 +1200

Techy question, which I guess I should direct within my own organisation but it's just easier to pick brains here:

Is there going to be a Freeview box with a built in PVR recorder thingy?

Because I've realised that as much as I love MySky, more than 95% of the…

Richard Llewellyn

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:42:25 +1200

I can't imagine Helen Clark getting five feet without someone saying hello, smiling, or coming up to talk to her about something.
I'm sure there's a media minder who just earned their Christmas bonus with that one. God, those 'spontaneous' walkabouts are so contrived I just end up feeling embarrassed…

B Jones

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:40:19 +1200

Good thing I didn't shell out for the extra year's warranty on the freeview box I bought an hour ago – the young man at DSE was doing quite the sell on it. It will go nicely with the telly, a 29 inch CRT purchased just before plasmas and lcds…

hudsie

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:36:35 +1200

Perhaps in the Key video, it was simply that the folks at the market didn't recognise him.He seems so homogenised, so bland. It is almost painful and sad to see him drifting around like that. Not even his minders appear interested in him.

Could he be after the sympathy vote…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:32:29 +1200

I can't imagine Helen Clark getting five feet without someone saying hello, smiling, or coming up to talk to her about something.

I'm sure there's a media minder who just earned their Christmas bonus with that one. God, those 'spontaneous' walkabouts are so contrived I just end up feeling embarrassed…

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:22:56 +1200

re: the John Key video. I was struck by how he wandered around and no one came up and talked to him, at least in the bits of the video that were edited in. One sequence was probably 20 seconds of him just moping around. He strikes me as a…

Che Tibby

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:07:37 +1200

you see, now, i would have labeled that pic:

"da cats nipz, i haz them. passes i da remotez."

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:02:31 +1200

Eww... I guess the kitty p0rn had to come sooner or later. :) And I guess we know who does the vege shopping in the Brown-Rae household – you'd probably never eat the greens again after going shopping with me.

Tristan

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:55:51 +1200

After the last election C&R from day one have attacked the council which I thought was quite amusing because they hadn't done anything yet.

They have persisted with thier attack over the years and have decided its a better course to follow rather than any policy.

A good friend of mine…

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Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:55:51 +1200

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