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Oh get over yourself already George D! I am not going to let your or anyone else tell me who i can and can't parody as a puffed up tin pot dictator. If Charlie Chaplin, it is good for me! Sanctimonious? Check the mirror buddy!
Oh yes Gio, i have felt bad about going a bit over the top that time.
Which still doesn't stop me being highly critical of Italy's slide back into the 1930's under Silvio Berlusconi.
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Oh yes Gio, i have felt bad about going a bit over the top that time. Which still doesn't stop me being highly critical of Italy's slide back into the 1930's under Silvio Berlusconi.
Don't feel bad. Hey, it's not as if I don't think one should entertain that particular question.
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the 3.6% Mussolini
tee hee.
Gee whiz, so they're not plotting to rob the money bin unless they're wearing those little black masks and shirts that read Beagle Boys?
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Tom:
The auditions for the Dixie Chick Drag Show are next door, but you're going to have to do a better of job of bitching about how your dissent is being crushed in forms invisible to the naked eye. Hey, if Russell is going to tolerate you taking a dump on the carpet it's his house. But don't be to precious when someone asks WTF the stink is.
My God, and you're comparing yourself to Charlie Chaplin now who was satirising the Nuremberg Laws? (Google it, Tom.) Damn, does your ego attract excess luggage charges?
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Don't worry Craig, I am not going to answer, I am just going to humour you like everyone else does now.
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Gee whiz, so they're not plotting to rob the money bin unless they're wearing those little black masks and shirts that read Beagle Boys?
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Though, to be fair, your timing -- days after the anniversary of the D-Day landings when quite a few people were killed by actual fascists
Hey, I could write a little program where you type in a date and it comes up with a suitable WW2 anniversary.
April 12th: Only weeks after the anniversary of the Norwegian Campaign, when quite a few people were killed by actual fascists
March 22nd: Only weeks after the anniversary of the Dresden bombings, when a few actual fascists were killed by people
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Genius
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First Craig now a Herr Darroch of the supposedly "Lucky" country. Strewth. The right wing apologists do seem to have a lot of time on their hands these days don't they? Would have thought, George, that you'd be busy packing your mansion for the trip back to Godzone (I'm assuming you came from here) ready to make the most of the Nat/Act bulldozer tenders about to be issued, and too busy to trawl PA.
Craig on the other hand just seems to need a day job or some quiet time in the naughty corner.
Oh, and as for the F word, when the Minister of Police can tell the Mayor of one of the districts about to be absorbed into "Grater Auckland" that he's starting to "f*%king piss me off" and threaten to "fix" him, I think the F word has lost its sting somewhat, don;t you guys?
Was a tad surprised that a Minister of the Crown in the National Cluster Govt would be so bereft of vocab - so maybe that excuses our using the same terms? -
Umm, George Darroch is a Green Party activist.
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Quo Vadis:
I have several day jobs, but aren't interested in etiquette lectures from people who draw their nom de plume from banal 19th century Polish novelettes that get turned into even worse 50's sword and sandal epics.
Go troll another bridge, dariling.
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I have several day jobs, but aren't interested in etiquette lectures from people who draw their nom de plume from banal 19th century Polish novelettes that get turned into even worse 50's sword and sandal epics.
Also the source of the following primary school joke.
"Where are you going?"
"To the cinema."
"To see what?"
"Quo Vadis."
"What does it mean?"
"Where are you going?"
"To the cinema."
"To see what?"
"Quo Vadis."
"What does it mean?" (and so on and so forth - you could kill a solid hour of class time like that) -
"Where are you going?"
"To the cinema."
"To see what?"
"Quo Vadis."
"What does it mean?" (and so on and so forth - you could kill a solid hour of class time like that):) Another class time hour...
That's life.
What's life?
American magazine.
How much?
5.75.
That's tough.
That's life.
What's life?....(and so on) -
Hah! Nice.
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in the cause of dredging up memories of childhood many decades gone:
"Ask you mother for sixpence
To see the tall giraffe
With dimples
On its hind legs
And
Pimples on its...[a slurred] Ask your mother..."
Oh, they were such merry and daring days!
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Umm, George Darroch is a Green Party activist.
So that explains his occassional dreary and humourless political correctness.
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humourless political correctness
There really is no space for this "dreary and humourless" phrase in our discussions. Accusations of 'political correctness' usually means, 'I don't like what this person is saying so I will shut down any further debate'. To be fair, we should also consider that 'political correctness' is a characteristic across the political spectrum eg for ACT, it mean primacy of the free market, dismissal of alternative perspectives, a fear of democracy.
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I'm hoping Semmens was being ironic.
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Isn't he always?.
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Would have thought, George, that you'd be busy packing your mansion for the trip back to Godzone (I'm assuming you came from here) ready to make the most of the Nat/Act bulldozer tenders about to be issued, and too busy to trawl PA.
Thanks Quo, that made my day. Off to be humourless and dreary at a climate change protest...
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Off to be humourless and dreary at a climate change protest...
You forgot PC. We're on to you, Darroch.
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I'll bet he uses a Mac.
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It's raining in Canberra then?
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Ubuntu. I'm too hairshirted, geeky and poor to contemplate a Mac.
Seriously though, there was a point to my criticism. Using hyperbolic metaphors with tenuous connection to the point at hand weakens your argument and discredits you.
It's not like New Zealand is lacking in metaphors for describing this style of Government. Simply mentioning Douglas, or "revolution" ("revolution 2.0"?) is enough to connote the style of rapid forced change without reference to the population being conducted here.
To quote from Roger Douglas,
Second Principle:
“Implement reform in quantum leaps, using large packages. Do not try to advance one step at a time. Define your objectives clearly and move towards them by quantum leaps. Otherwise the interest groups will have time to mobilise and drag you down.”
Third principle:
“Speed is essential - it is impossible to go too fast.”
Fourth principle:
“Once you start the momentum, never let it stop rolling.”
Fifth principle:
“Consistency + credibility = economic confidence.”
(source, his fascinating website, via The Standard)
There's simply no need to invoke the ghosts of Europe, when we have our own spectres haunting the backbenches and providing inspiration.
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What Jackie said. Clearly those who consider early childhood teachers as deficient in the high falutin' conversation dept have never witnessed them talking about competent learners, provocations, and power dynamics.
I really liked your list of questions about Richard Worth David (and I wish someone would have the guts to ask Bain if he did it too). As with several other media stories of late (such as the Tony Veitch stuff) I really wish we had news rooms staffed with people paid enough and given enough time to think up good questions, research them, and ask them.
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