I'm torn between Saturday night's competing offerings of Garageland (King's Arms) and the Phoenix Foundation

Garageland's '07 comeback special was brilliant! I'm so glad I went.

There might be a lot of bands doing these reunion gigs, but everyone does it differently. Last night I realised how much I really…

And somehow, I don't think the police will be paying any compensation for that. Ruin people's lives, walk away laughing – it's OK if you wear a uniform.

Just to provide a counter-argument here, there was insufficient evidence presented to the courts to convict Clint Rickards of rape. Should those…

Agreed. I'm generally not a fan of Peters, but I was pleasantly surprised when he said that this morning.

Oh, crap – perhaps if Winston actually spent as much time doing his bloody job (or at least the tiresome parts that contribute to sound legislation) as he does posturing, he…

I agree. They were possibly hoping to shake out some kind of incriminating team bail out with a boot load of guns. I imagine their choppers had infrared capability too, so the bush-bail would be even more obvious.

I agree with…

I think it perhaps reflected their perception of the risk at each venue.

I think it was partly just that they could. As opposed to central wellington or auckland, Ruatoki's a teeny township with a single exit point. To block off the entire town, you just need a roadcone, and…

And somehow, I don't think the police will be paying any compensation for that. Ruin people's lives, walk away laughing – it's OK if you wear a uniform.

Let's wait until they're found not guilty before we start saying the police have ruined their lives unjustly. It may be that…

And somehow, I don't think the police will be paying any compensation for that. Ruin people's lives, walk away laughing – it's OK if you wear a uniform.

Just to provide a counter-argument here, there was insufficient evidence presented to the courts to convict Clint Rickards of rape. Should those…

Heh, me too, the visual metaphor of the satisfied worker tapping the logout buttons.

WWF (now WWE) has mushed your brain! He said 'tapped out' which means (colloquially) out of ideas/new things to say.

Possibly so.…

did hundreds of police stand at a road block and force individuals out of a car and photograph them?

I think there is a lot of faux outrage and trauma being generated and lack of proportion over the 'suffering' felt, given what was thought to be going on.

If…

From memory this is not the first time police have stopped and photgraphed people leaving an area where an investigation is going on.

Last time I remember it making the news was in 2000, when party-goer Jamie Langridge died at a dance party on Pakatoa Island.

Police stopped and photographed…

Not without a sphincter pinching dread. They will be on lists for life now.

And somehow, I don't think the police will be paying any compensation for that. Ruin people's lives, walk away laughing – it's OK if you wear a uniform.

Heh, I also have happy memories of being drunk and miserable, both states now only being nostalgic reminiscences for me. I'm not actually sure which is more addictive, misery…

Just goes to show that standard English is a better bet than ephemeral slang or txtspk if you want to be understood.

No I think it perhaps reflected their perception of the risk at each venue. AS far as I know there have not been accusations of people running around central Park and Brooklyn Hill setting off napalm and firing guns. Given they have been watching for a year, they probably…

Doesn't that kind of prove the point the people of Tuhoe are making? When the police raided the house…

Or…

I'm torn between Saturday night's competing offerings of Garageland (King's Arms) and the Phoenix Foundation

Last week I was discussing the Garageland reuinion with a friend and I was like "Well, I'd only go if Debbie Silvey was in the line-up." And according to the Herald, she is!

So I guess…

As for Garageland vs Phoenix Foundation. No contest. It's the Phoenix Foundation and pray they play Forty Years!

But I am tired of the special pleading coming out of that…

What are you trying to say here? That the rest of us might be for terrorism?

Two options in WH's post – either pushing the envelope of pomposity, or stating the bleeding obvious for the sheer ironic hell of it.

The link to the unfailingly excellent Chase-me-ladies should be a…

a term he'd appear to be wedded to.

should be " a term he didn't appear wedded to".

There is a trend of people calling controversial legislation "incoherent", when it probably just needs to be clarified or amended.

Who'd've thought New Zealand's Solicitor-General would be a mindless follower of trends, eh?

Lots of countries have anti-terror laws. I for one am against terrorism.

What are you trying to…

...is one of the issues whether the alleged plotting reached a sufficiently advanced stage to attract a charge?

That was one of the main issues Broad raised this morniing on NatRad. One thing that was interesting was his thoughts on the use of the word "terrorism", a term he'd appear…

I am The Lizard King, I can do anything.

Jim Morrison.

Our legislators should be ashamed, however. They seem to delight in creating unworkable law, c.f. the Copyright Amendment bill and EFB.

Mind…

A teenaged Jim Morrison in a film that was not strange at the time but seems very strange now.

The weird thing is, it seems almost like it's Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrison as a tortured young student, cruelly denied entry into a Florida university by The Man.