Posts by Sacha
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Someone tell Fran that even the MSM are discussing who gets honoured. Yes, awards went to senior desk-jockeys rather than those who actually got injured fighting the coolstore fire.
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I thought that was politer
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Fran responds, with reflections on her dealings over the years with the latest crop, with Doug Myers and Helen Clark as examples that have polarised discussion.
What is it in the national psyche that some Kiwis cannot celebrate, if only for a couple of days each year, the achievements of outstanding New Zealanders?
And apparently Myers may believe in society after all:
"I got a CBE years ago and I remember going down and thinking what was wonderful about it was the numbers of people from small country towns who'd done public service for a very long time and been recognised and came down to Wellington and had their families with them.
I thought it's a very binding social function."
But wait, here's our part in undermining what is right and good:
The mainstream media also serve a binding function by not using the honours list as an easy opportunity to reprise all the controversies, skeletons-in-cupboards, and, black-spots that usually accompany lives that are led in the public domain. Instead, we dwell on the high spots.
Out in the blogosphere it is a different matter. Right-wing blogs are apoplectic over Clark's honour. Some lefties are out-raged that Myers has been elevated.
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I thought it was great when Sir Tristram got one
rofflenui
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And mind that crack in the pavement
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<tugs forelock>
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Tis the seasojn for giving and for partaking..
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Jacquie Grant will be using him as a footstool inside of a week
Praying for a documentary crew..
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just a big ego wank for the cracka ass knobs
quite
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Thanks very much for last night
Ae, it were lovely. Good people all round. I love how the sky-lanterns we saw from the first party were released aloft from the second. And the moon.
The original has been a massive hit
Soaring, beautiful. Which local anthems do you reckon do that?