Hard News: Now It's On
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I know that this was posted hours ago, but I agree! Driving home tonight I saw billboards for Richard Worth - he must be serious about winning Epsom back. Those particular billboards (and the others that will no doubt appear) block a grass footpath that is well used by joggers, dog-walkers and many others.
Well, Mike, I respectfully suggest you get in touch with the Council. Because hoardings on public/council land do have to conform to various rules and should not be blocking footpaths.
But I don't apologise for getting a wee bit pissed off about Geoff making cracks about vandalising hoardings under cover of darkness. Like it or not, I don't think anyone's political or speech rights extend to trespassing on private property because of you aesthetic or political opinions.
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JLM,
As one of those mushroom/billboard planters, I agree with Craig. The vandalism is mindless and dispiriting.
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Craig - I suspect that it isn't an "official" footpath - just a bit of grass beside Upland Rd along the Orakei reserve. The billboards go up there every election - but I will check with Council as it is a well used path.
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And as if on cue the "Hollow Men" make another appearance - in a slightly different context (extra points for spotting the music)
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But I don't apologise for getting a wee bit pissed off about Geoff making cracks about vandalising hoardings under cover of darkness.
You do protest too much, Craig. It was just wishful thinking. I used to regard the skillful removal of over-sized election billboards as a gesture of public beautification but I don't do it these days--except for an ACT billboard illegally stapled to a fence on our r.o.w. at the last election.
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last time around I steadfastly resisted the urge write "scared of water" on every winston-on-the-beach-in-his-new-suit billboard I saw - mostly because once you realised that the billboard's whole point was that he just wasn't going to get his expensive shoes wet that was all you could think when you saw them
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Kyle - when I'm emperor 2nd up against the wall will be the NZ Kiwifruit Marketting Board - for stealing our national identity - when the renamed the "Chinese Gooseberry" and marketted the hell out of it we lost something - they did so well that "kiwi" has joined the english lexicon as a small brown furry fruit - rather than a flightless bird or a citizen of NZ - so well in fact that they had to dump the brand and use "zespri" instead - bozos!
(#1 will be the people in the US who design CD packaging)
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You do protest too much, Craig. It was just wishful thinking.
Meh... always the wing-nut's excuse, isn't it? The problem isn't that I've said something stupid, but that you need to lighten up blah blah blah... Coddingstonwallop.
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Look here's a fun game that could just inject the elections with true excitement. The old anagram still has a place in Modern Times as proven by a simple analysis of the words NATIONAL PARTY. ( Now bear in mind, that esoteric interpretation is that hidden words reveal hidden motives.) The perfect anagram is of course one that makes a lot of sense. Have fun -here's a few based on NATIONAL PARTY to get started:
Tiny Atop Altar – lacking true stature
A Tartan Polity – clue to stinginess
A Top Natty Liar – Key’s clever deceits
Pot A Natty Liar - catch the Nat liar
A Tonality Trap – Key’s dulcet tones are a silver-tongued trap
Pray Attain Lot - Greedy Christian ethic
Part To A Litany - (of lies)Gauntlet now cast down!
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Not a Rata Pliny
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an entirely fanciful solution to The Schleswig-Holstein Question
A strip of Holstein 100m wide and crossing the peninsula to be ceded to New Zealand. The viceroyalty of this will be given as a bauble to the junior coalition partner in any NZ government. They will be able to build a viceregal palace there, within the limits of their 100m strip and without recourse to public funds.
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United Future Party:
Fad Tenuity Rupture
Funerary Tepid Tutu
Denature Purify Tut.If that's not the essence of Peter Dunne right there, I don't know what is.
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The time I read, in the NYT in 1985,
"Dice 2 kiwis and place of top" (of some kind of tart thing)
I felt sick even as the little mental wheels were churning and coming up with 'They mean frruit! Really!'
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Anal arty point.
Pity National party didn't have an "F"
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Meanwhile, just caught the hourly bulletin on Seven. Clark at some photo op in her electorate, pouring scorn on John Key being at the Otara Markets and suggesting he should stick to his "natural heartland", The Northern Club (whatever that is).
Interesting contrast, don't you think? Labour might actually want to avoid acting like certain neighbourhoods (and the people who live in them) are their electoral fifedoms. Comes across as somewhat... well, arrogant and untrustworthy.
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"that's no way to talk to the Prime Minister..."
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Anal arty point.
Purrfect!
How about The Greens:
Gents here
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speaking of F's
a united future party:
Putrid Farty Tune, aue!
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How about The Greens:
The Greens greet hens, I think there is no question there.
A month or so ago a Wellington community paper asked the local candidates what animals they'd like to be, or would best represent their personality, and the responses were all more or less lamely humorous, but nothing that made you want to weep. Except for Sue Kedgley - never one to pass up on an opportunity to suck all the innocent fun out of life - who answered "I certainly wouldn't want to be a battery hen..." followed by a short lecture on the wretched life of the poor creatures. And at the end of it all she didn't even bother to name a bloody animal that she WOULD like to be. (My guess: the hectoring dolphin).
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Except for Sue Kedgley - never one to pass up on an opportunity to suck all the innocent fun out of life - who answered "I certainly wouldn't want to be a battery hen..." followed by a short lecture on the wretched life of the poor creatures.
Sue Kedgley: standing between me and voting for the Greens.
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(My guess: the hectoring dolphin).
Ha! She was once a sultry feminist in the 70s.
Giovanni, I wonder how long you've been in nz? And whether you find it unsettled, tenuous - like a young tree with shallow roots, compared to Italy? Do you think the quality of collective memory in Italy,being such an historic, much layered, long-settled place, is quite different to here - where amongst pakeha, anyway, there's only a few generations' worth of memory?
I read your blog about memory & technology - tis fascinating stuff. Are you conscious of fictionalising your memories of Italy - even though technology enables you to keep in touch?
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"Mainstream NZers" is just insulting... although not quite as bad as the "working families" locution the current Aussie govt spouts at every opportunity. I don't want a goddamned family, thank you, and I also think that those who aren't currently working for wages are not necessarily unworthy of govt attention.
If they invent the Cuban Lesbos of the South Pacific, I might even be able to convince my g/f to move over the ditch. "Is that a cigar in your pocket, baybeh, or are you just pleased to see me?"
As for that Herald article "announcing the election", funnily enough, I skipped over it on Friday, since somehow "Key promises 'issues' election" didn't give me the impression that it was a story about the PM announcing the date. The Herald isn't even pretending to be unbiased these days, which would be fine if there were a leftie-liberal rag to counter-balance it. Oh for the days of the Star, before it got screwed up. Ok, it wasn't exactly "leftie-liberal", but then again, the Herald had pretensions of objectivity way back when.
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As for that Herald article "announcing the election", funnily enough, I skipped over it on Friday, since somehow "Key promises 'issues' election" didn't give me the impression that it was a story about the PM announcing the date.
Oh come on, are you seriously going to try and "Palin" Clark as the victim of media bias here? __Seriously__?
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Meanwhile, the Key "clueless" Google Bomber got some ink in the Herald On Sunday.
Auckland computer programmer Rochelle Rees told the Herald on Sunday she emailed friends a year ago, asking them to put links on their websites to Key's site with the word "clueless" as the link text.
"More than anything, it's fun," said Rees, who said she was interested in politics but not affiliated to any party. "But it's serious at the same time... clueless was an accurate word to describe John Key's performance."
Well, what a shame Rochelle is a big fat liar -- unless you can somehow get on the national executive of Labour Youth without actually being "affiliated" to a particular political party.
*sigh*...
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The Rochelle Rees "fun" thing is not really a good start to a Labour campaign built around "trust us"
No affiliated to any party..yeah right, pity the facts got in the way of a good story
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