Posts by Kyle Matthews
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But then there looms the prospect of losing to England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, etc and often. that idea would lose support faster than a pulled-down maul.
Well, I did say "if I thought it would work for us".
But the last Grand Slam we won with almost two completely different teams playing consecutive games. Middle of last year I would have rated our B side to beat any of the above, not so much this year with the exodus.
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I know I'm late to this, but ... Johnny English???
Seriously. For all the great comedy that Rowan Atkinson has done (admittedly , not much in movies), he chose that?
I guess we're lucky he didn't choose "Hot Shots Deux".
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(And we can tell some of our NH opponents that if they don't want to send a top team, don't bother coming)
If I thought it would work for us, I'd be tempted to suggest that when the ABs are on tour, there should be two teams doing completely separate tours.
An A team, and a B team. One could do Europe, the other could trip around the Pacific/Argentina. One plays Saturdays, the other Sundays.
If the northern hemisphere keeps sending B (or C) teams down under, they'll get the B team up there, the Pacific Islands are long overdue on having the ABs whizz around the islands and play their national teams.
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There was a question, some way back, about a documentary about the PYM. Can't remember the title but it was made by Russell Campbell and Alastair Barry.
Rebels in Retrospect, Vanguard Films.
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I thought we missed Jerry in the weekend.
Someone needs to edit a youtube video of that last try and edit in Jerry Collins flattening him like he did with that Welsh chap a few years ago.
The rugby games that get played in our head are always much better.
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Yet later it transpired that the money was paid after the victim's lawyers demanded $150,000 compensation from Veitch's lawyers. There are other names than compensation claim for such demands, but no one so far has bothered to look into that.
My impression from what came out over the past couple of days was that Veitch only told TVNZ once he had been contacted by her lawyers. If that's true, it could have been blackmail - "hey, give me some money and I won't tell anyone what you did to me" - but one suspects it was just compensation - "hey, she couldn't work for months and spent time in a wheelchair. Do you want to take a bit of responsibility for that?".
As Craig notes, the irony of Garth George rising out of the pond scum to point the finger at someone else, who was a victim of a serious assault... Pots and black kettles doesn't cover it.
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Sorry PYM - Pretty Young Men?
Progressive Youth Movement. Late 1960s, early 1970s New Left movement in New Zealand. There's a rather entertaining documentary about their antics which I forget the title of.
I've got a pretty clear idea that Willie Jackson is a barking moonbat, and if I really wanted to wade through his radio and television burblings (or pay Paul Litterick to do it so I don't have to suffer), I could construct a fairly nifty "John Key and National are a pack of rich prick, Maori-bashing, woman-hating white men in the pockets of foreigners and the American corporate hegemony" discourse.
It really depends on what he's concluded. If his conclusion is "there's some morons out there using this discourse", then his sample doesn't need to be random or representative of the show. Indeed it wouldn't be particularly relevant.
If his conclusion relates to quantity or how prevalent the discourse is, the influence it's having on the public etc, then it might present more of a problem.
I haven't followed the link to read it, so I don't know.
Of course, it's a graduate diploma, which I presume is the step below a masters at Vic. If that's the case, then it's also known as a 'long essay'. It's not top quality research, it's a first attempt by a person with a BA to do primary research in any depth. If someone was to do a PhD on the topic of my honours dissertation (which *blows own trumpet* saw light of day on Channel 9 news last night), I'm sure they'd blow it away.
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I can, boringly, list several US historians who were all Marxists in the sixties and seventies and now faff on about the wonders of authoritarian militarism and manifest destiny.
Meh, historians, they don't count.
he very definitely was - Or has his memoir 'Bullshit and jellybeans' vanished down the public memory-hole?
From here:
The 1980s history of it all is garbled and incorrect; (e.g. Kevin Clements, in ‘Back from the Brink: the Creation of a Nuclear Free New Zealand’, Wellington: Allen and Unwin, 1988, p. 103, writes that Shadbolt was a ‘prominent member’ of the Progressive Youth Movement – the Communist Party youth wing – which in fact he took great pains never to be. See Shadbolt ibid. p. 134); but perhaps something so innocent and unmeditated is best uncharted.
I don't have BS & JB to hand, but my memory of it is that he explicitly says that he wasn't a member, though he was around the people and working with them.
That's if you believe Shadbolt's book anyway. I know some people who were around at the time regard it as mostly ego-fiction.
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Which makes sense, considering how many prominent local right wingers started out on the furthest fringes of the Left. Deborah Coddington, Peter Verschaffelt, Tim Shadbolt, and Don Brash were all members of various '60s radical movements, weren't they? And of course Perigo himself grew up in a Communist household.
Wikipedia doesn't say anything about Coddington in the 60s, but she was a teenager then.
I don't think Don Brash was involved in any 60s radical movement. In the early 60s he was studying at ANU. In the late 60s he was working at the World Bank. His father was a pacifist however, and protested against Waitangi Day.
Peter I know nothing about. Shadbolt was around various movements, but he wasn't a member of PYM from memory.
The 'was radical left when they were young and now are hard right' is an often-stated, rarely true thing, particularly in NZ. Donna Awatere is one of the few.
There's some USA 1960s lefties who ended up working with Reagan, but that relates more to the slightly different nature of 1960s radicalism - lots of them were libertarians, either hard left, or hard right.
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Quite. It all reminded me of poohsticks
Love this rather underdone statement on that wikipedia page:
A member of the team from the Czech Republic which won the team event in 2004 explained the winning technique to Jonathan Hancock in an interview on BBC Radio Oxford: he looked to see which part of the river was fastest, and threw the stick in there.
All class.