Having said, that I thought Key acquitted himself quite well on…

(Would an unemployed bureaucrat qualify for assistance under the criterion of people who the government was confident would again find work over time?)

I've sometimes had to uninstall and start from scratch.

I can live with "view source" or firing up IE on occassion...it's kinda good to have a reason to use it, to see if there is anything that's actually been upgraded on it....and it also then makes the other…

I'm getting that, Jon. It started when I updated the flash player to look at the nzonscreen website.

The automatic redirect to versions of flash that media send you on, often completely screw things. I've sometimes had to uninstall and start from scratch.

the underlying code for links seems to be a bit different to what it was a few weeks back

I knew something had changed, and it's affecting me with Firefox 2.0.0.17.

I too,
have a point of view,
on that!

Just the one point of view....surely a man as talented as you sir, should be allowed an extra couple. Spares in case the the one that's glowing so bright burns out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3WZXMJaH0

Incredible comedy from this extract. I feel huge empathy for the little girl – it surely could have easily been me doing that.

That, sir, is a vile slander! I have never met you.

;-P

Ok fine let Damian & his thread off the hook for a few minutes more if you must...

So you want a piece of me eh?....Why's that then eh? Let me guess you've been out drinking after…

;-P

You have people, Jon? And how did you get to be so.. moderate?

I thought I would employ a strategy of outright ignoring reality like McCain & Palin did regarding troopergate....They're sooo inspirational!

When I said "I'll have one of my people look into it", I really meant other…

Amy wrote:

Wasn't W3 Selwyn Toogood?

I'll take your word for it. I won't perform the rigorous fact checking I normally do when looking at things on the net. My sincere…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj36uQ0De6I

What I did however find most disturbing was the quiz show was called "W3" and now I'm finding myself haunted by the mental image of his smiling face, whenever I see a URL beginning "www". Though this says more about me than Dr Smith.

Wasn't W3 Selwyn Toogood? And It's…

Actually I read the Symposium a long time ago and had forgotten about it...Kinda figured that it sounded like they were just seeking to justify it back then, rather than to say, you don't need to justify it....we're cool with that...which is how I see the current view.

Actually, it's…

the Greeks and the Romans were fine with it

Actually I read the Symposium a long time ago and had forgotten about it...Kinda figured that it sounded like they were just seeking to justify it back then, rather than to say, you don't need to justify it....we're cool with that...which…

Actually, the Greeks and the Romans were fine with it

Yes, but they had that whole molesting the slave boy thing going on.

Dunno about anyone else, but I'm kinda proud that I lived in an age when same sex relationships were given legal recognition. However many thousand years of humans, dunno how many hundreds of years of government & (ok relative few of) democracy and the changd occurred in our watch

Actually, the…

And on that happy note

Dunno about anyone else, but I'm kinda proud that I lived in an age when same sex relationships were given legal recognition. However many thousand years of humans, dunno how many hundreds of years of government & (ok relative few of) democracy and the changd occurred…

the post-war German government publicly recanted the Nazis beliefs about Jewish people, but they kept on with the declared Nazi attitude to homosexuals until the 1950s

And does anyone have a date when they relinquished eugenics? We remember the state victimisation of jews, gays and even gypsies – but forget…

I feel deeply depressed that some NZ MPs were voting with the Nazis — as it were — until 1984.

Wow, you drove a tractor through that one. Allow me to cushion the blow for you, thusly: isn't the Haider story a stunner? That leaves the Pope alone on top…

My point is this..

It's one thing to be too ignorant and/or stupid to understand human rights — and to go on record as having voted in accordance with your ignorance and/or stupidity. But it's a whole…

is that homosexual agenda I keep hearing so much about, but nobody's ever got around to posting me a copy.

Deny, deny, DENY....You're probably part of it too. Can't trust anyone.

In the absence of real thing, just make one up and pass it around as the genuine article. As…

I believe Louis considers himself COE, though has a Jewish dad...

At the risk of losing a potential book buyer.... Paul Theroux (Louis's father) is Catholic actually — and so were both his parents, as I recall. You've confused your religions that secretly conspire to rule the world,…

What I did however find most disturbing was the quiz show was called "W3" and now I'm finding myself haunted by the mental image of his smiling face, whenever I see a URL beginning "www". Though this says more about me than Dr Smith.

Wasn't W3 Selwyn Toogood? And It's…

a kid's idea of a politician

When you put it that way, there is perhaps the odour of Regan wafting around....

and that's pre-incontinence pants for all you weirdos who are getting your kicks from people writing about watersports on the web out there....Yes we know who you are and…

He's not coming across as particularly human, nor genuine . . .

Raymond Chandler once described the actor Alan Ladd as a boy's idea of a tough guy. Ironically that was before Shane, the 1953 western where Ladd plays exactly that role, the hero of a small boy named Joey.…

Something just doesn't quite sit right for me with Dr Smith. I can't quite determine what it is. I've…

generalise, trivialise and stereotype fils provincial reporters

as opposed to generalise, trivialise and stereotype senior editor

They have these big mouths for putting their foot in.

Plus their refined ability to generalise, trivialise and stereotype fils provincial reporters notebooks with such career making twaddle.

New Sacking Policy Pushes Unemployment Rate to 35%.

I prefer to frame it as reducing bureaucracy begins at home – or the Cabinet Room, at any rate. Sadly, there are practical and legal problems with forcing MPs to submit to routine workplace drug, alcohol and IQ tests.

BTW, I don't believe Lockwood Smith is a racist, just stupid. Which is a sacking offence in itself, AFAIC.

New Sacking Policy Pushes Unemployment Rate to 35%.

It'd be a lot higher if it only applied to politicians.

BTW, I don't believe Lockwood Smith is a racist, just stupid. Which is a sacking offence in itself, AFAIC.

New Sacking Policy Pushes Unemployment Rate to 35%.

My point is that anyone who is willing to give Coddinton or Laws a platform (and presumably pay for the privilege) just isn't on the moral high ground here.

The Editorial "Racist" of Convenience — Because racially-charged invective from Rosemary McLeod, Paul Holmes, Deborah Coddington, Michael Laws, Chris Trotter, Matthew Hooten is just different.

I suspect the Chinese and Babylonians might disagree about printing and indoor plumbing resp.

I'm sure they would. As, no doubt, would many nimble, dexterous and small handed Polynesians about recent observations made of them.

A friend who was on a Latin American trade mission with Dr Smith in 1999…

I'd like to add:

Balding Overweight Company Director
Knows where the check book is, can sop up spilt gin