Apparently they have (or had) door to door stockbrokers in Japan. They were the backbone of Nomura's rise to success.

Ouch... that wasn't backhanded, it was hitting myself in the face with the racquet. (Memo to self: Be nice more often, and you'll eventually get the hang of it.)

She identified only one ethic group for crime – Asian Crime.
She managed to be pc on many other points but obviously the alo vera only goes so far.

Although she may go on…

Thompson was fine – I think both he and Colin mistook my use of "punitive" to mean "vindictive" ...

See!? It's the gathering tide of Asian ... literacy.

As for me being punitive, I think…

I hope you are right & I've over cooked it.
I read The Press everyday and despair a little.

Oh, I look at the De-Press and despair a lot – though admittedly it doesn't take much. :) I think Mediawatch has been on a bit of a roll lately, doing some…

Kiwi seduces Japanese housewives

It's certainly a headline to conjure with, although I'd have thought New Police Poultry Porn Scandal rather than Yellow Peril

Monday 11June The Press front page here's a quote from the boy racer shot by a slug gun and hit just above the eye.

"I've got a 15-month daughter and I…

I'm wary of NZ moving towards a press culture where certain topics never get mentioned, for example, if they are seen as potentially upsetting to some members of the community.

Support of freedom of the press means supporting publishing of not just the views you agree with, but also the…

Kiwi seduces Japanese housewives

By JAMES WEIR – The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 19 June 2007

Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard is trying to take the top off the Kiwi dollar again, but Japanese housewives are standing…

"This particular commentator has shown his colours, he has shown his tactics and he will be judged by these tactics as well." Paul Thomson about Keith Ng

Michael, come on... I'm not carrying water for Coddington…

I enjoyed Damian Christie's item on Close Up, it was great to see some immigrants on screen answering questions I would have asked them myself, and to see that they were…

"This particular commentator has shown his colours, he has shown his tactics and he will be judged by these tactics as well."

That's completely unwarranted, especially given the bullshit that Coddington threw around in the course of the Press Council process. Including, of course, her baseless claim that I was…

"This particular commentator has shown his colours, he has shown his tactics and he will be judged by these tactics as well." Paul Thomson about Keith Ng

I read a little into Pauls statement as he…

Thompson didn't sound like 'a member of the concerned coddington clan'. He mentioned Keith's response in the context of saying that both sides made it personal; therefore such tit-for-tat scrutiny should be expected. Besides, it was the interviewer who brought the matter up.

That's a relief.

Thompson seemed to make…

It was interesting to here a member of the concerned coddington clan, Paul Thompson from the Christchurch Press targeting yourself for overt scrutiny if not a black listing in 17June07 Media Report.

Can you tell us a bit more about what he actually said? What's Media Report? And was he…

Mediawatch examined this issue today. Worth a listen, if just for closure, and an interview with Deborah.

I heard Media Watch yesterday – good – but when I caught up with Phil Warrington's Media item on the nine to noon (nat rad) website, I was horrified by his (what I…

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LINK

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What do you mean I'm being literal? Huh?

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RB – there may be some bots that you have trouble stopping

Aha! I knew it... Keith is a bot. That's why his surname jumps to the right when you mouseover his byline on the PA home page. It's a signal, I tell you.... None of the other PA'ers names…

RB – there may be some bots that you have trouble stopping

Miaow.

I doubt that North & South will. To sack Coddington would be an admission of guilt, which would put Robyn Langwell's head on the block, too. Which I think would be fair enough, but I suspect that the publisher wants to make as little of a scene as possible.

I presume…

It will be interesting to see if they hoist La Codding*ton for letting rip yet again.

Juha – it *is* Hainan ji fan, also Hainanese chicken rice. That's why the rice tastes all chickeny. Unless you add Deborah Coddington instead. Then I don't know what it would taste like.

Warning: Metaphor reaching maximum extension levels. Do not extend further.

I'd say it would be extremely bitter…

Warning: Metaphor reaching maximum extension levels. Do not extend further.

There's an apt Chinese idiom: 死雞撐飯蓋. That's: "dead chicken trying to open the rice-pot lid".

Its probably for the best. If Deborah was the pot she would call the chicken black.

Oh, and Beggar's Chicken... had it cooked in the ground, in clay and herbs, in Johor Bahru.

Aggh. Hungry again.

True enough, but it still feels like finding out your teenage daughter has Paris Hilton as a mentor. :)

I'm sure I read something in the Listner warning about the dangers of undead food?

Andrew, that hurtified.

Stephen , what's the problem? Nounerise is a perfectly cromulent word

I have to note the irony of Fairfax and the Herald — not exactly the gold standard of truth, justice and basic statistical literacy and numeracy – being on the Press Council...

If you take away Fairfax and the Herald's APN group (which also owns the Listener), then you don't…

I like that.

I'd be more likely to complain to the Press Council if the Herald on Sunday wasn't a reliable source of long drop…

Or maybe the chicken doesn't know it's already dead and is trying to get a feed itself.

For shame

Oh and what is Stephen's prize for his C0d** word of the year comment? He surely deserves an autographed N&S, perhaps inscribed with a gold leaf…

Ng-candescent.

Brilliant! But may I nounarise* it slightly to match coddingtonswallop – ie, ng-candescence.

* Feel free to use this yourselves sometime.

You know, the opposite of Coddingtonswallop.

Ng-candescent? 8-)

I'd've stood up and applauded that, but I'd have looked like a complete twat.

You know, the opposite of Coddingtonswallop.

Ng-candescent? 8-)

For fifteen years, I was a sleeper agent. Russell would monitor my progress while my programming lay dormant.

That got so boring. Couldn't you have rebelled or something?

Unbeknowest to my friends and family, I was actually a ticking timebomb, with "Deborah Coddington" emblazoned on my left buttock. (Actually, the…

I always suspected...

But you know, Debs is likely to treat this as fact Keith, given her way with reporting.

I was actually a ticking timebomb, with "Deborah Coddington" emblazoned on my left buttock. (Actually, the "ton" is carried over to the right one. Let's just say I won't be going back to *that* tattoo parlor again.)

So that would be CODDING * TON, yes?

Try c) all of the above. And did a blogger once touch Debs in a naughty place – she seems to use the b-word with a level of contempt most of us reserve for…