Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: It was a munted year

Gavin Brown

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:45:36 +1300

Yes. I know its origin.

It evolved from a slang insult "munter", which was first coined in Northcote College in around 1985-86 by bored members of a German class. "Munter" means "gay" in German – in the sense of "bright, joyous". The students were looking for another slur to add…

Hebe

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:22:15 +1300

How else do you think EQC met their all-inspected-by-Christmas target? It all adds up: speed, lack of attention to detail (we have received no EQC documents for the September 2010 or February 2011 damage claims), and the asessors' glazed eyes.

DexterX

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:10:44 +1300

Saw First Citizen John Key on the TV News last night, in answer question of 1,000 NZers exiting to Oz per week, spouting on about bridging the wage gap between NZ and Oz.

I think he said something about "we" have to do something – who were the "we" and…

Dean Papa

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:07:47 +1300

"munted " is an ugly sounding word. I wouldn't use it.

But what happened to "naturally I completed my set"? or is that too many words to qualify for the list? Rest of that list is pretty uninspiring, NZ is not really an especially creative place as far as language…

Steve Barnes

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:47:45 +1300

, and now drug smuggling.

Jeez, so the bastards are cutting off your Coke supply as well as messin' with yer wherewithal?.
Outrageous.
Bloody Government.
If I had my way...

Kumara Republic

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:58:40 +1300

First there are payment delays, then there's nepotism, and now drug smuggling.

nzlemming

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:14:52 +1300

meanwhile in town the Queen's dogs
were protected by a Dalek...

You so need to put a plunger on that bin.

Islander

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:21:14 +1300

Heh! Giggled over this-

Lilith __

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:59:15 +1300

meanwhile in town the Queen’s dogs
were protected by a Dalek…

Queen’s dogs targeted by guerilla knitters! Is this some form of bark-cloth?

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:31:44 +1300

and here's the down low...

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:30:00 +1300

meanwhile in town the Queen's dogs
were protected by a Dalek...
(between Sept and February)

Joe Wylie

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:25:01 +1300

My new postcard line…
apologies to van Gogh…
Excellent dude, I doubt that Vincent would mind.
In that spirit of muntedness, one from Ms Goodie G: Brighton, immediately after the June 6.1 event. Not a situation that Marryatt, Brownlee and Parker would have a clue about.

(BTW they're not waiting…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:11:36 +1300

My new postcard line...
apologies to van Gogh...

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:04:03 +1300

Auckland Council Bailout Govt
Steven Joyce, again?. :(

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:57:56 +1300

Being there, the Chinese whispers dept...
He actually seems to have been reported to
have said “trunk”, “trunks” and “truck”.
Clearly, Bob’s diction has slipped since his TV days.
In the same vein, I loved this post from Over the net about mishearing the late Don Driver.
Finally, when we…

Kumara Republic

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:36:49 +1300

That's where performance pay comes in. Oh wait, it only applies to teachers, not executives...

And if Brownlee does carry out his threat to sack the CCC, there's little to stop the Govt from going GLC on Auckland.

Lucy Stewart

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:34:08 +1300

Oh and that argument about having to pay more the get good leaders – bullshit pure and utter. The really good leaders take a fair salary, by no means small but also they are aware of what is excessive, that’s why they are good.

I believe that, in the business…

Lilith __

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:27:43 +1300

I rather like this notion. I've heard the argument that what CEOs do is important. But I think about all those council wastewater workers who got our sewers working again. Now THOSE are important jobs, and I'd be surprised if the pay wasn't...shitty.

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:17:56 +1300

I think Brownlee only exercises ‘Special Powers’

For the 1%, by the1%.

Brownlee has got them as long as National are in Govt. Alongside sits Bob Poodle Parker

Bart Janssen

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:14:08 +1300

CEOs

grrr they’re all a bunch of greedy #&^%$#*^%(

Actually there are some very good ones. The problem in New Zealand is that there are not enough good CEOs to provide an example of how the job is meant to be done. As a result we have a considerable number…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:02:52 +1300

Dominion of the damned...
Glenn Livingstone, for example, is part of this co-op project to make new sections affordable for red zone residents, the sort of thing the government and council should have done but haven’t.
Too, true – removing property caveats such as those that hampered the Haywoods would…

Joe Wylie

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:47:48 +1300

Ian, I'm bloody spewing here, it's like a slow-motion train wreck.
Yesterday on the Press's discussion thread re. Marryatt's obscene antics there were calls for Brownlee to intervene and set things aright.
O the shrieking naivety.

Should the paranoid scenario play out, we can be certain that it'll be the…

Lucy Stewart

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:38:50 +1300

So Brownlee will maintain the status quo (Bob and his motley 'A Team' crew of ex media faces and clowns), and get rid of any voices raised in question on behalf of the ratepayers (the so-called 'B Team' of people who are doing what they were elected to do).
It's…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:25:30 +1300

The Gerry-mandering continues…
Wake to a grey morning, headline on The Press
"Quake Minister Brownlee scolds council" – a ray of hope methinks…
but no, I’m still living in a fools paradise!
Rather than chastise their fiscal imprudence…
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has accused “parts” of the Christchurch City…

Joe Wylie

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:12:32 +1300

Maryatt is increasingly looking like Roger Estall 2.0.
Maybe, but Mayor Bob did threaten to resign if Marryatt wasn't reappointed, and now Brownlee's making extremely thinly veiled threats to pull an ECAN on those councillors who'd diss His Bobness.

Geoff Lealand

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:58:36 +1300

But the good news is that the Defence Ministry 'charges' against Jon Stephenson have been dropped, which suggests they were just bluster and bluff.

Kumara Republic

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:35:35 +1300

I hope The Press is naming and shaming each and every Councillor who voted for this tosh. When did the People’s Republic of Christchurch become the Greedy Guzzling Trough?

Nek minnit… a rates boycott. Maryatt is increasingly looking like Roger Estall 2.0.

And here's the where the councillors voted on…

Rob Stowell

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:15:28 +1300

When you compare Marryat's compensation to other council "CEOs" of major NZ cities it's apparent they are all greatly overpaid. There's a cult of 'I'm special, I deserve more' – compounded as these special people are surrounded by others, who also feel they are worth more, and who often form…

Islander

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:57:48 +1300

’m gonna lose karmic points for this I know…

Report

Gained at least as many as the obscenely out-of-touch Marryatt gets each year-

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:38:55 +1300

Tiny Emirate...
Now Marryatt is paid more dollar for dollar than Julia Gillard.
Now Marryatt is paid more than $1 for every person in Christchurch...
I think we should all be allowed to personally deliver our dollar to him
(I'm thinking of him in a silo that we can drop…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:26:09 +1300

Thanks Geoff.
Compared to other Council CEOs, Auckland’s Doug McKay is on $675,000 and Wellington’s Garry Poole is on around $420,000 a year.

By way of comparison with Australia, the latest figures I could find were two years old, when the Sydney district, with a population around that of NZ,…

Kris V

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:31:25 +1300

Onya Geoff, much obliged. That obscene payrise is the second thing that's made me shout at the paper in recent days (the first was a total rates rebate for Port Hills 'rock-risk' evictees).

I rather enjoyed reading the Press letters page today – every single one of them expressing various…

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:42:57 +1300

I had a go at Marryatt and his inflated wage bill on The Panel this afternoon.

nzlemming

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:24:38 +1300

What a huge fucking surprise. Not.

DexterX

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:59:59 +1300

Nek Minnit the Auckland City (rate payers) baling out NZTA:

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/12416416/auckland-council-coughs-up-more-for-roads/

This govt's has been diving head first into the trough that is the treasury benches and is swilling back so hard they have over looked implementing policy to a budget and planning and they have now found the NZTA…

Ana Simkiss

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:35:23 +1300

Samuel you're not dreaming, the Dominion Post did indeed put "nek minute" on the front page. I attach photographic evidence (let's see if this attachment thingy works...)

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:33:13 +1300

‘main trunk sewer’
Like Taumarunui on the main trunk...

Joe Wylie

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:08:43 +1300

Oh Ian, our average IQ would plummet!
Duh, ditto that :-(

Ian:
I doubt we can guilt the man into leaving.
He seems to have a Roger Douglas-like sense of entitlement!
I was thinking more of Putin and Medvedev. It seems that the Russians are rather more given to asserting…

Roger

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:04:20 +1300

Russell, I believe you accurately repeated what Parker was reported to have said – I too wondered , and searched , and could only find main sewer truck

By the way...

For pedants, the normal usage would be 'main trunk sewer'

Lilith __

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:32:34 +1300

to be honest, leaving Chchch is high on the agenda

Oh Ian, our average IQ would plummet! You'd be a one-person brain drain.

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:26:42 +1300

is just too depressing to think about…

There's a lot of that going about.It feels we're being slowly sucked into the vortex .
Did you ask about Brendon or am I confused? Does anyone know, is Brendon going to be set up anywhere or has he officially left the Labour…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:58:10 +1300

what else can we do?
We can remember, come election time we can agitate and remind.
I doubt we can guilt the man into leaving.
He seems to have a Roger Douglas-like sense of entitlement!
Though most of the letters in today’s Press are strongly
against this pay rise, and…

Islander

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:55:36 +1300

We can hate – what else can we do?

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:14:33 +1300

Marryatt was not a success when he had a similar position with the Hamilton City Council.
But I note he still got huge yearly pay rises there as well, the last one being after his contract renewal, just 3 months before he jumped ship to Chchch. What galls me most…

Islander

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:31:04 +1300

Still trying to hunt it down...Orsman' Heineman's "NZ Dict." no help – neither is the 2-vol. Oxford dict. of NZ English...

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:20:44 +1300

For fuckin' doing what? Marryatt was not a success when he had a similar position with the Hamilton City Council.

Islander

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:38:40 +1300

fuck o dear...these people clearly dont live in our world eh?

stephen walker

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:22:10 +1300

10% compounded pay rise p.a.
off a very low base, of course.
the deserving 1% then.

Sacha

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:33:53 +1300

Bridging 'munted' and 'occupy' comes news of a 14% payrise for Christchurch City Council's ceo.

Christmas has come early for a controversial Christchurch chief executive whose salary has skyrocketed to more than $500,000.

Christchurch City Council chief executive Tony Marryatt has received a $68,129 pay rise, taking his salary from…

Emma Hart

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:20:10 +1300

Oh I wish “twatcock” was reported the same way last year.

Looking back, I'd forgotten that this was "liquefaction"'s second year in the charts. And I never did manage to work the word "ambipudendral" into conversation...

linger

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:54:05 +1300

*We got a jonkey on our back…
Alas, not enough voters found it in themselves to spank that jonkey.
I wish “twatcock” was reported the same way last year.
Never fear, twatcockery is always with us, whether or not reported by the MSM.

Rich Lock

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:47:12 +1300

Just to set the seal on the year, North Korean state television is announcing the death of Kim Jong-il.

Pete Sime

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:59:51 +1300

Oh I wish “twatcock” was reported the same way last year.

Richard Aston

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:45:30 +1300

I mounted the munted mule.

Was that a confession or an observation Sam ?

merc

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:43:30 +1300

Red stickered makes a too late charge,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6160541/100-Nelson-homes-red-stickered

Samuel Scott

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:39:57 +1300

I mounted the munted mule.

Lucy Stewart

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:31:57 +1300

He actually seems to have been reported to have said “trunk”, “trunks” and “truck”.

Clearly, Bob’s diction has slipped since his TV days.

Or the reporter's hearing isn't that great – or, given that the details of sewerage systems are not a matter of common discussion in non-munted years, the…

Lilith __

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:22:34 +1300

Further to the 99% – the 99c.

And in case you were wondering, it does grow on trees.

Anne Zablocka

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:16:40 +1300

Three words in the top 10: ‘occupy’ ‘99%’ and ‘Arab Spring’ , relate to the changing world order. That’s heartening.

I'd be inclined to put 'Fuckeulogy' in that category as well.

Marcus Turner

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:35:51 +1300

No. That's Marlborough...

Marcus Turner

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:31:43 +1300

North of Canterbury...

Stephen Hill

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:57:43 +1300

Does any one here know the provenance of 'munted'?

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:29:38 +1300

Don't be addict...*
Prime Monster’s phantom ‘recovery'...
Cut off a limb and still feel the pain...

*We got a jonkey on our back...

Craig Young

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:15:01 +1300

I'd like to propose 'ghost jobs', as in the content of the Prime Monster's phantom 'recovery.'....

Jackie Clark

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:44:08 +1300

Listening to you talking on the wireless, about the phrase nekminnit. I think the phrase is popular because it sums up life so neatly. Make your plans, you fools, because nothing is surer than that a curveball is just round the corner.

Jackie Clark

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:42:26 +1300

love it

Kumara Republic

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:38:44 +1300

And expanding on the word of the year...

Munted & shunted.

B Jones

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:22:46 +1300

Munted is a great word, but it sure sounds odd when it's repeated by a squeaky toddler voice from the back seat of the car, after you've just observed the results of an accident.

Sacha

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:22:40 +1300

I'll be on Morning Report discussing "munted" and the other WOTYs

3 mins, listening options

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:19:54 +1300

Morning Report report: you did very well, young lad.

Hilary Stace

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:54:14 +1300

Three words in the top 10: ‘occupy’ ‘99%’ and ‘Arab Spring’ , relate to the changing world order. That’s heartening.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:52:42 +1300

I wouldn’t put it past Bob, our ‘Great Communicator’, to have got it wrong in the heat of the moment…
Bob's as good as the scripts he's fed. It's when his minders attempt to get down with the kids that things go awry.

Russell Brown

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:42:43 +1300

Russell, I believe you accurately repeated what Parker was reported to have said

He actually seems to have been reported to have said "trunk", "trunks" and "truck".

Clearly, Bob's diction has slipped since his TV days.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:39:28 +1300

Those Sewer Trucks, suck…
I believe the correct word was “trunk”
Which I knew, which is why I didn’t see my own typo.
Gah. Thanks guys.
Russell, I believe you accurately repeated what Parker was reported to have said – I too wondered , and searched , and could only…

Russell Brown

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:26:07 +1300

love the word ‘mounted’

But you're not loving autocorrect right now, huh?

Let me un-munt that for you.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:24:40 +1300

In keeping with the 'munted' zeitgeist, the 16 pic portfolio from Chris Skelton, Stuff's top photographer of the year, includes one dead body, one major deformity, two amputees, and one, well, munter.

Samuel Scott

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:22:20 +1300

A mounted ridonculous …

sexy motor!

Samuel Scott

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:20:41 +1300

It lacks a certain piquancy when it’s spelt ‘minute'

good call, I will edit my comment!

ChrisW

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:18:54 +1300

A mounted ridonculous ...

Ethan Tucker

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:18:23 +1300

It lacks a certain piquancy when it's spelt 'minute' – a diminished verisimilitude, if you will. #pretentiouscommamoiquestionmark

Samuel Scott

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:09:28 +1300

I love the word ‘munted’ and have used a great deal through out my life. I had no idea until today that it had any special significance to this year.

Did anyone else notice ‘nek minute’ in the Dom Post weather strip (at the bottom of A1) about two weeks…

Russell Brown

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:54:30 +1300

In other news, I'll be on Morning Report discussing "munted" and the other WOTYs at about 8.50am.

nzlemming

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:41:35 +1300

Now waiting for the inevitable recount...

Russell Brown

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:34:35 +1300

I believe the correct word was “trunk”

Which I knew, which is why I didn't see my own typo.

Gah. Thanks guys.

Richard Grevers

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:57:23 +1300

Our main sewer truck is seriously munted

I believe the correct word was "trunk"

Lucy Stewart

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:30:51 +1300

I don't think you meant "main sewer truck", though I guess a lot of sewage is transported by vehicle in Christchurch these days, or has been.

Islander

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:16 +1300

Who cares?

For some, their world is destroyed; for many others, their world is in dreary abeyance – or (I’m thinking Nelson) in terrifyingly new haddit territory.

Any of those, life – and homes &comfort & normality-good health& ease -are so easily swept away.

“Never count on your bed being there in the…

DexterX

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:56:08 +1300

Well frack me munted.

George Darroch

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:26:11 +1300

Embargo, nek minnit...

Russell Brown

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:08:59 +1300

You well and truly munted that embargo

Yep. It's buggered.

Tony Kennedy

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:05:54 +1300

You well and truly munted that embargo

Joshua Arbury

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:56:54 +1300

"It was a munted year."

Yep, it sure was.

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Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:56:54 +1300

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