Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I can assure you that I never will, but it's called the passion of the Christ, fair warning.
I got it out thinking it was a love story.
Man.
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It's a pity no-one told George Lucas that before he pumped out a turgid stream of shitquels, and pissed on my cherished childhood memories from a great height.
It gets worse if you have kids. My son loves the prequels, but doesn't really like the originals. We therefore have effing Jar-Jar at our house most weekends.
The Yoda/Bruce Lee fighting thing in the 2nd one was so stupid I think I spat water all over the chair in front when I saw it at the movies.
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i have been trying to find the name of that series for years.
A couple of years ago I finally (after about 5 years of occasional trying) re-found the Borrible books, one of which I had read as a child and had fond memories of, and which I thought my son might enjoy.
Going through vague memories of the story, the weapons that the two sides used, and no names of characters, books, or authors, I was eventually able to find them again after about 100 different google searches.
I got one out from the library and read it, and decided that my son probably wouldn't enjoy it much at all, and it certainly wasn't as good as I remembered it.
but this is a 'bitch about classics' session, and so I feel it is within my right to advance half-baked opinions about things.
Fair nuff. It's the internet after all.
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at the casino in melbourne they had a perspex cylinder full of one million $1 coins.
Probably safer than putting it in the bank these days.
My picks:
Act - 2 MPs - oh what a shame for Roger.
Greens - 9 MPs
Labour - 51
Maori Party - 7 MPs, 5 on the overhang.
National - 56
NZ First - miss out, close in Tauranga, not so close in Rimutaka.
Progressive - 1 MP, on the overhang
United Future - 1 MP, on the overhang.(I think those numbers add up)
Government to be formed by Labour/Greens/Progressive/Maori, after Maori court Key but eventually muddle their way to the left after realising there's not much for them from a National govt.
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On the bad science fiction front, can I recommend everyone stick away from the Bio of a Space Tyrant six part series, by Piers Anthony. The series is neatly divided into 6 parts of his life - refugee, soldier, politican, etc.
Unless you're interested in bad pornography, and male "oh how great the main character is", along with distinctly average writing, in which case, dig in!
His Xanth series is a little better, and at least entertaining (at least the few I read), if you're looking for non-serious fantasy for tween/teens.
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To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
Heh. Which really makes you wonder about the people who have "I eat shit" on their t-shirts right now.
I see it like a football game. National is currently ahead and we've played 80% of the game. What's the likely outcome? Of course it is still uncertain. Very uncertain. But the odds are on the team that is ahead.
The game starts next Saturday. Currently the teams are still in training, which is mostly consisting of talking themselves up to the media.
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I do find the spin ingenious in the extreme, but if entrenching the Maori seats is not only "unnecessary" (which is what she was saying 48 hours ago) but "meaningless", Clark could quite honestly and defensibly say she wouldn't support it. Not least because there might be significantly more important issues of greater import to Maori that would require the attention of any Labour-lead government.
And if it is Labour policy that the Maori seats remain untouched until the end of days, then she should say so.
She did say that it was Labour policy that the Maori seats remain untouched.
Her line was "this won't make a difference, but we're happy to do it". Given that the cost will be in the time of parliamentarians and their staff, and printing the law, it's a lot less worse than a bunch of other things parliament does under coalition agreements or otherwise, which are stupid laws that actually cost money to implement.
It was a pretty clear signal to the Maori Party that Labour already supports their bottom line for a coalition, don't go jumping into bed with National.
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The basic material conditions of the lives of these people (except for elves, because they have bread that never goes stale) are never more complex than 'Hobbits like to grow things'. We are never told, do they sell their products to one another, or are they a bunch of communists?
Sounds like a criticism that could be made of Austen, Shakespeare just as much.
And one of the main characters in LOTR was a gardener, and there are parts in the book where he is actually gardening. And they spend quite a bit of time talking about 'taters'.
See also the farmers huddled in the caves under Helms Deep, and the various people that enter Gondor if you want to know where the farmers are.
No of course it's not a real reflection of an economy. It's fantasy dude.
The whole experience put me off director's cuts entirely. I'm a massive LOTR fangirl and even I think of some those additions detract from the films.
A true fangirl would own both versions.
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What I do mind is people who take their dog for a walk in an offleash park and the poor bugger is on a leash.
Speaking as someone who takes his dogs to an offleash park, and doesn't always take them off leash... one of my dogs doesn't always play nicely with other dogs, and having them on leash is preferable to them getting in a fight. Other owners certainly prefer it that way.
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In any case, I would support introducing an explicit "No Confidence" option on either or both sides of the ballot paper.
I just ran an election which had both a 'no confidence' and an 'abstain' option on the ballot paper.
It's a terrible idea. Voting is not compulsory, but participation in elections is a positive act - it's about choosing people who you want to represent you and set laws and administer the ministries that have power over you.
Pick the best person/party on the ballot paper. If there isn't one, start one up and find other people to make it happen.
Introducing negative or opt out options goes against the very philosophy of the act of participating in a democracy.