Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to ,
Well done Sacha, but all I get to see on your post is"Get Flash player to watch videos" and I can't get flash played because my Apple devise won't allow it.
That's weird. My devices all see the HTML 5 version fine.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Gary Hutchings,
In 1975 the people of New Zealand voted against a compulsory superannuation fund
and did so again in 1997 by a fairly stonking margin
Unfortunately, that played out as a referendum on Winston Peters, rather than the concept.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Back to this again? I give up.
Keep it cosy kids.
Oh, please. If you think it's such a clique, piss off.
If you're going to stick around, show some respect for the place, and stop blaming the community because people sometimes find your arguments strange.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Rageaholic,
I actually find their official sign just as hilarious. "Vote for yourself" coupled with an American icon.
They should be called the Cognitive Dissonance Party.
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to bulbul,
Bashing a particular group for having been born at a particular period in time and done the best they can by living frugally, brought you all up, and saved up some money to supplement their sickly super payments.
Selfish bastards:
1. You want baby boomer parents to support you when you keep “boomeranging” back home until you are still “growing up”
I suspect young New Zealanders are thinking of it more in terms of record youth unemployment.
2. You want baby boomer parents to pay off your student loan.
I haven’t heard that one. But it might be useful for you to appreciate that their parents’ generation didn’t start their adult lives tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And that, indeed, they were mostly paid to attend university.
3. You want baby boomer parents to help you with a deposit to buy “your” first home.
Well, maybe. Again, it’s useful to appreciate that many of those parents were helped towards a deposit by the state. And that the price of their first house was not the nasty income multiple that faces young people these days, thanks to huge untaxed capital gains reaped by their parents..
4. You want the baby boomers to bequeath you their house when they die (rather than get married to some ditzy blonde younger than you and squirt it all away )
Everyone has the right to a mid-life crisis. It seems a bit odd to envisage it as a sort of warfare on one’s children, but each to his own.
I am going to a country where I get treated with more respect and —- SKI baby SKI.
Oh, damn. I get it now. You’re a parody!
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to Sacha,
Where?
If you're in the neighbourhood, make sure you get down to the Britomart Country Club, 31 Galway Street, on Wednesday 2 November from 8pm to be part of the LIVE audience. If you cant make it to the Britomart County Club, fear not you can watch it LIVE on TVNZ 7 at 9.05pm.
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to Damian Christie,
but with Backbenches Auckland special on Wednesday night (all welcome),
Jose and I shot a show in Christchurch on Thursday and Friday -- therefore no studio record this week -- so I can come! See you there.
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With a baby due, um, Wednesday
I'll remember you to everyone at the Music Awards on Thursday, bro.
But seriously: best of luck. You'll be a great dad.
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The Act ad. Awkward.
Noddies are a skill, and you shouldn’t expect people to get that skill straight away. And the patriotic folk song is just weird.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Goodoh,
The poll in the media today says JK is doing well with young, male Aucklanders. Who presumably aren’t at home on a Friday night watching the box. And presumably the handshake didn’t bother them either. Or Rena. An hour on the radio would’ve hit the spot though.
It will really only be effective if it's consistently executed across a range of media.
Labour's online advertising is all going through a conventional media buyer, which I don't actually think is the right call. They should back themselves and their agency to buy at least some of the campaign directly -- if only to avoid losing a big chunk of the budget in commissions.