I thought I’d let the hams settle before responding. I’d be wary of making that kind of…

We sourced most of the family presents from OpShops this year, like the Sallies and the Hospice shops. Reuse and give to charity at the same time.

Nah, the whole fucking thing upsets me basically, because this is just Slater doing what Slater does and he depends on other people to spread the muck. Same old same old, and honestly I don't think there's…

What is "pink cocktail drinker" supposed to mean? Some sort of homophobic slur?

more about un-self-aware hypocrisy this time, surely?

you'll note I used http://donotlink.com for that.

Did that really need to be quoted and linked to here, Sacha? Cameron Slater’s m.o. of conviction by innuendo is hardly a mystery, but he’s got more than enough useful idiots spreading his shit without the help of…

Chris Hipkins is sitting on another ethics story where a senior National Party figure has been nailed for wife beating, and doing a whole lot of things that are not OK. Combine that with the Sabin story and…

He further submitted that as some of the files seized included allegations of corruption within police, he was concerned that the data survived in its original condition.

Oh, and don't go near the comments unless you're swathed in…

I think Nicky's professionalism on principle has led to him being the best person to handle the Police. I…

One's criminal is another's cyber-vigilante. I'm of the view that when the law is an ass, sometimes it has to be bent for the public good.

"Is it patronising to say look at you silly voters, you don’t see or understand this stuff, when actually what…

31 minutes, listening options

I'd like to think that too

and then my brain identifies the fallacy of such thinking

stupid brain

Or I guess you could have duelling Kickstarter pages with Hager, and you know what? I think the commie pinko tool would win that one and keep winning it for as long as it would take.

"I'm a hacker."

Yes. That's a deafening silence right there.

A defamation action would inevitably lead to a discovery process and that could/would get very, very messy.

It still might be fun for a journalist to ask him about it though.

Take it up with http://www.random.org/ , Public Address’s chosen provider of true randomness :-)

Thanks for being a beacon of sanity in an essentially mental year Russell. Too often PAS was the only place I could go that felt like home :-)

So what are readers predictions for the year ahead? Surely there's something in the…

Recount...

They're terrified of discovery.

Someone probably explained to him that it's not defamation if it's true.

from August. Not a peep since. Another blowhard.

Perhaps he still misses the DimPost, where his stultifyingly stolid antics once clogged the place like a…

Though I…

Why don't they just settle it with a pistol duel already? With live bullets too.

OMG the Pete George discussion! I'm actually warming to that Kimbo chap. Pete's an unstoppable zombie.

if they want to be seen as credible political forums rather than controlled circle jerks they should have the guts to debate without resorting to a hovering ban button.

however all is not rosy elsewhere either

Driven by an over the top reaction…

surpising sewerblog follow-up – Redbaiter:
Farrar is an idiot for letting his blog be used for this depravity. Its not free speech, its ugly and repugnant cowardice.

the natives are revolting

Leave it to the professionals, say I. I wouldn’t fancy my chances of successfully deboning several birds without contributing a…

Undeniably true, but it's the use of passive voice that may warrant closest inspection.

amen

for some reason that's not the place I think of :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrI91J6jOw

I can vouch for the power of a hamper to improve even the worst Christmas. Last year I had agonising back pain,…

Too right. For all his windbaggery, Pete George is on the moderate end of the KB spectrum.

Well done to the Marxist Intellectual!

Craig and I were talking about the turduckens that Farro sells ready-made.

Boning a raw turkey? Surely, a job for a professional.

You're lovely, you are.

This makes me VERY HAPPY!

Lol. My sons were obsessed with turducken for years: one that works down in size from a swan, goose, turkey…

Asking sponsors if they intend to continue supporting a radio show is like sexual assault. #neverforget

Brown et al have tried to depict ‘Dirty Politics’ as John Key bad, the left clean ... a number of core commenters on Hard News showed how soft they are, they didn’t like their ‘Nicky…

Funny you should say that (warning: contains Pete George at sewerblog).

I would consider* having 20 people around on Christmas Day purely so I could say "I cooked a turducken."

*Would not consider

Delicious duck in a stylish French jar I now keep pencils in. Jesus, having a Faro Fresh almost literally around the corner is going to be the death of me. Especially if I manage to convince David that re-mortgaging the house for a turducken…

As Greta Garbo says in Ninotchka, we have the strong ideals, Paris has the lovely climate. Or words to that effect.

Dangle a tinned duck in front of a comrade and they always cross over.

Suddenly I see a massive flaw in the doctrine.

Yep. The sequence outside the courtroom in Operation 8: Into the Forest, where a member of the police prosecution team insists that the freshly exonerated ‘terrorists’ are still guilty as hell of…

No kidding. It's been around since at least 2008.

Runner-up in 2008 :-)

That's a dirty, filthy lie Crawford.

The duck was in a jar.

Oooh, I hope that's on the list next year.

Much more likely is a dirty politics conspiracy between Tiso and Brown. Just saying.

Also, it…

Oh. I had thought that Giovanni was DPF's evil twin.