Posts by Kyle Matthews
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That and the fact that Lauaki consistently plays badly in the black jersey.
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PAS is driving me to want to kill someone today.
After I've done it, please feel free to debate amongst yourselves where or not y'all drove me to do it or not.
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Is that enough for you?
I'm going to look into my crystal ball and guess... no.
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Somehow terrorism got redefined overnight. It now excludes actions (possibly) carried out by only one person.
Boy the Unabomber is going to be pissed. All that effort, doesn't even get the label.
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"Reality" TV is an oxymoron. Any reality is edited out. It is cheap, manipulative TV for stupid people who get given what they deserve. It mostly burns off anyone one with a brain.
I'd just like to say that I'm not offended in the slightest by your comments.
Because obviously, as a person who occasionally watches 'reality TV', I'm too stupid to realise what it is and enjoy it anyway, without having my brain burnt off.
(Danielle is likewise afflicted by lack of brains, so won't be offended either).
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I don't understand that ad. Why is an old man riding a bicycle on the footpath without a helmet up to the gates of an old cemetery?
I think this makes more sense when you see the follow-on adverts, which are done in cartoons. The gates open and it floats around the city with 'whats on' type signs.
The first advert can then be seen as 'Auckland waking up', and the follow up adverts - hey, we're awake, look at all the cool stuff.
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And that's what happens when countries pass marriage equality laws: straight marriage goes up, as ordinary people (I surmise) find marriage now more relevant to them, because it's evolved to be more in touch with its society, more inclusive.
I suspect there's probably as many people that go home and pray for god to protect the institution of marriage as being between a man and woman, because it's under attack.
But yes to your second paragraph. Thirty years after this all happens, it'll be a non-issue for the vast majority.
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We have MMP to thank for this, I think. under FPP, an election like 2008 would have produced an enormous majority, with all the arrogance that entails. But by ensuring the distribution of seats in the House reflects the actual votes cast, MMP has ensured that parties are acutely aware that it takes a shift of only a few percent to cause a change in government. Which means they have to keep their promises. National promised centrism, and so it has to deliver on that
I suspect the date that MMP was introduced will forever influence our political middle-ground as well. Going from a FPP system where the government swung quite a bit from left to right, we moved to MMP where it swings a lot less at one of the most right-wing moments of New Zealand's recent history - the Rogernomics of the 4th Labour government followed by the further right-wing National government. The pendulum was out to the right and then the electoral change altered its swing and it doesn't swing far back to the left anymore. It's now being embedded culturally and will be this way for a while.
If it had happened a decade or so earlier, and possibly a decade or so later, the middle ground in New Zealand might be quite different.
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Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me
Heh.
The band look like they couldn't decide whether they were going to do the gig or be extras for Mad Max II.
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Is anyone else feeling just a little bit like a starstrcuk teenager about the upcoming gig by The Specials in Auckland?
Just occasionally, not often, but occasionally, Auckland really is at the wrong end of the country.