Posts by Kyle Matthews
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The mad butcher sells dahl? As a meat accompaniment?
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So you'e saying that Douglas' knighthood is good for the economy then?
I think his departure from the scene will be good for the economy. Both in that he won't have his hands anywhere near it, and we can all have a big 'stimulus' party.
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Firstly we have a chance to win back the Raeburn Shield that we lost to them last week. No I hadn't heard of it either until I was emailed the website by Randall Munro this week.
Wow, that's a really dumb 'shield'.
I want to see handover footage for this non-existent shield:
McCaw: Here you go Smit. Here's your shield. Careful, it's heavy!
Smit: Thank you. We're very proud to have such a non-existent piece of rugby tradition in our trophy cabinet.Pity the gumbies Scotland that gave it to Romania.
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I think I'd have to vote in favour of the living over the deceased, as its unlikely that Muldoon can do us any more serious harm.
Roger Douglas I think we can justify simply on the basis of the number of televisions that will not have solid objects thrown at them, let alone any wider social benefit.
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You should probably stay away from mock turtle soup, too.
To say nothing of toad in the hole.
Hommos/hummus, along with felafel, would have to be some kind of benchmark for labour intensive.
If you remove the chick pea shells after cooking, it tastes less bitter. Yes I am that pendantic.
Also, there is no such thing as too much garlic. The burning sensation in your mouth is good for you.
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Any chance of adding Michael Fay to your Bill?
No no no. No adding personal "favourites".
Someone compile a list of likely suspects and everyone gets three knives... er I mean votes.
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Outsourcing of industrial production from highcost to lowcost economies is an observable phenomenon, not a theory.
And like most theories, it doesn't work 100% in the real world.
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(And yes Graeme is right, I'm bitching about the old scheme and calling it the current one. I couldn't tell you what the current one entails I hate the old one from when I heard about it as a kid so much)
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I can, because his whole political raison d'etre is privatise, cut government spending, blahdeblah. You'd think as a matter of principle he'd want to put his money where his mouth is.
I think he views it as part of his pension. Rightly or wrongly (I'm going to come down on wrongly), MPs have the most overdone pension scheme in existence (I don't mind the fact that they get it after such a short term, lots of people give up other careers to become MPs and its not exactly a career with good job security, the free/subsidised travel is a complete crock of shit though).
The fact that he's (I agree Danielle) an arsehole who should be run out of the country by a random selection of people that he's screwed over the years, doesn't mean he's not entitled to be an arsehole in this particular regard.
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I can't get up in arms about Douglas taking a holiday at our expense.
The ongoing free air travel is a horrendous benefit for doing a job for... 9 years I think. Douglas is just doing what many other ex-MPs do, he's just got called on it because he happens to be a current MP.
I can't get up in arms about Douglas, but the whole ongoing entitlement is a pile of crap. I'd love to see a private members bill get put forward to remove it (I suspect it would have to be from "this date forward") and then watch political parties try and justify their votes to keep it for themselves (which I'm sure most would do).