Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 26 January 2015 - 30 January 2015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335189#post335189 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335189#post335189 reviews of the Veet cream
one of the funniest things I’ve ever read
The 'Hair Apparent' (I presume) to modern literature?

]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:26:31 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335184#post335184 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335184#post335184 reviews of the Veet cream

one of the funniest things I've ever read – and totally unpaid effort from multiple reviewers

]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:25:05 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335182#post335182 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335182#post335182 You mean You-Know-Who...
Wicked Uncle Ernie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFhO7EU08Tg
Mike Sabin, smoke, mirrors and the tarring of an internationally renowned Kiwi born author, what was really behind it all?
All just a little too fucking convenient really, don’t you think? Anyway, just how was it that radio shock jock Sean Plunket, again…

]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:02:28 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335169#post335169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335169#post335169 Sold Brothers...
this “Strictly Commercial” Government...
You mean You-Know-Who...
;- )

]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:12:52 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335165#post335165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335165#post335165 Dire Straits? More likely Syd Barrett of early Pink Floyd fame (infamy?)

Indeed but.....
'Twas merely a cross reference from dire, as in "Money for nothing". I could have gone with "prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness." as a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Only_in_It_for_the_Money | "We're only in it…

]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:05:26 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335151#post335151 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335151#post335151 Shine on you crazy dire man

Dire Straits? More likely Syd Barrett of early Pink Floyd fame (infamy?)

From "Wish You Were Here"

]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:35:25 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335150#post335150 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335150#post335150 Shine on you crazy dire man…

Dire man in Dire Straights..... or was that Speights?
Money for nothing and yer chicks fer free....
I'm often aware of personal and family matters raised in the context of someone saying their spouse is sick, or they've got a particular test that they're…

]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:27:58 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335149#post335149 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335149#post335149 Shine on you crazy dire man…
I have great respect for her as a fictional writer (sic)
Now John Daniel ‘Jack’ Torrance was a great ‘fictional writer’ and not just a little ‘sick’.
His major opus (unpublished) was one even John Key would understand consisting as it did of page…

]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:07:54 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335148#post335148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335148#post335148 Talking of BOLLOCKS...
Appearing on TVNZ's Breakfast show this morning, Mr Key said Catton's views on politics shouldn't be taken any differently than those of any other New Zealander.

"She has no particular great insights into politics, she is a fictional writer. I have great respect for her as…

]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:03:02 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335147#post335147 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335147#post335147 Taking TMI to a whole new level

I'm still reading Evan Yate's reviews of the Veet cream (of which I have a tube) I'm amazed at the amount of names given to male external genitalia. Whoever imagined a log cabin not being a ,well, log cabin! :)

]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:19:29 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335146#post335146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335146#post335146 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:14:23 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335144#post335144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335144#post335144 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 22:12:47 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335139#post335139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335139#post335139 Speaking of personal hygiene and furtive grappling
– I give you the ever excellent L.E.D.s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbxF-HNysY

]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:40:48 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335138#post335138 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335138#post335138 A few ideas for Mr Guy to consider when deciding which technique to use. My experience of de-balling various animals; lambs, piglets, Self (partial).

Lambs had the most variation. Rubber ring is the first: But my pelvic muscles keep tightening as I consider why the poor wee lamby, after about…

]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:03:05 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335135#post335135 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335135#post335135 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 07:41:37 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335134#post335134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335134#post335134 These reviews while being only peripherally relevant are eye-wateringly inappropriate. I’m sure Paul B. will identify. ]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:04:12 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335120#post335120 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335120#post335120 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:04:35 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335115#post335115 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335115#post335115 see what I mean...

The Realist March 1971 >

]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:51:58 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335114#post335114 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335114#post335114 Fundy mental as anything...
Scrotum!
Which is just another scrum around the Old Testament!
(which is full of hookers and rakes)

Which just goes to show that no matter how ya look at them, in a man's world, things never get far from ball play...

]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:47:45 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335112#post335112 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335112#post335112 Scrotum!

Scrotum!

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:10:30 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335106#post335106 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335106#post335106 This is the only worthwhile thing that Smith and Guy have ever done

Thank you, RBentley. One of the most rewarding things about being a political reporter in the gallery is the ability to bring good news stories like this to public attention.

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:23:31 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335105#post335105 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335105#post335105 Ah, the power of the internet… look at that.

Fortunately we had our This Week in Parliament biennial editorial board meeting at lunchtime today – and Russell and I were able to push through your recommendation.

To be honest, some of the board members were rather confused about the difference…

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:18:52 +1300 RBentley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335102#post335102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335102#post335102 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:58:32 +1300 Mark Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335095#post335095 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335095#post335095 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:13:52 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335093#post335093 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335093#post335093 Plukitt do the same please? ]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:22:07 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335092#post335092 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335092#post335092 If one only were to rely on the MSM reports one might think cabinet was a bunch of money hungry lunatics.

And with that, Sabin resigns Yay!

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:10:18 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335089#post335089 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335089#post335089 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:53:12 +1300 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335087#post335087 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335087#post335087 Hi Richard, it's Ben from the Civilian...but yes I was in stitches over David's piece.

BTW, Ben describes Russell (with 2 Ls) as a 'borderline-elderly hipster' in The Luminaries fails to win local baking award due to tall poppy syndrome

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:33:05 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335085#post335085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335085#post335085 right here. ]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:10:51 +1300 Richard Aston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335084#post335084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335084#post335084 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:59:09 +1300 Richard Aston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335083#post335083 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335083#post335083 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:50:52 +1300 Paul Brislen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335082#post335082 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335082#post335082 Ah, the power of the internet... look at that.

"We were never here" say his testicles.

And on that note, Happy Friday!

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:47:59 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335076#post335076 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335076#post335076 Oh, that's a real shame – he made an excellent contribution both to politics and parliament (he was effectively leader of the opposition for most of last term).

Although I have always felt that — as taxpayers — we somehow weren't getting our full money's worth with only the single…

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:41:56 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335075#post335075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335075#post335075 Breaking News
Russel Norman stepping down from Green Party co-leadership

His has been a fine contribution.
So long and thanks for saving all the fish!

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:36:16 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335074#post335074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335074#post335074 sperm wail heard...
Nick and Nathan – like two peas in a pod!

Hell, sac the lot of them...

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:30:06 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335073#post335073 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335073#post335073 Ah yes, well you are technically correct – although I note that Dr Smith is an actual doctor, and feel I must defer to his medical terminology (however inexact).

At any rate, I have taken note of your point and will raise it with our editorial board…

Perhaps the incorrect…

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:46 +1300 Paul Brislen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335072#post335072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335072#post335072 Scrotum!

testicles are on the inside.

as youwere...

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:12:48 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335069#post335069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335069#post335069 Our 88-year-old stenographer, Miss Spong, tells us that she’s been “permanently traumatized” while preparing the transcript for this week. Nevertheless she managed to get it ready even more quickly than usual. What a trouper!

We wish you all the best with your ACC claim, Miss Spong (although we understand there…

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:34:03 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335068#post335068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-26-january/?p=335068#post335068 Discussion from blog post.

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