Posts by Russell Brown
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Point Chevalier beach, about 11am today. It still amazes me that we have this around the corner, five minutes from the CDB.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Hits and Shitters, in reply to StuartBradbury,
I'll refer it to the people there.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Hits and Shitters, in reply to John Armstrong,
No laughing here, those guys are great! The vocalist captures Dave’s tone really well (slightly ropey high bits aside).
As I recall, he also did a very good ‘Born to Run’.
Fwiw, that’s Mark Peterson, ex Straitjacket Fits, on guitar. And the guy with the bass is Muzz, aka Mario Posa, relative of Peter Posa.
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Holy heck, this turned up. From one of the memorable 1990s backyard gigs at the house we knew as Club Richmond, some friends of mine destroy Dave Dobbyn's 'Devil You Know'. The Andy in the post above is on drums ...
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Hebe,
I missed that one: is it equal opportunity profanity? Where did it originate?
It was the Public Address readers' Word of the Year 2010! From the press release, which was titled 'We are all twatcocks now':
Public Address founder Russell Brown says the result demonstrated the Public Address reader community’s enduring fondness for neologisms. Like 2007 winner “Te Qaeda” and 2008 finalist “rofflenui”, “twatcock” is a portmanteau word.
Brown says the word, coined by Wellington Public Address reader Tom Beard in the course of a discussion about former Breakfast host Paul Henry, was adopted by other readers two months before the Word of the Year voting was opened.
“Sometimes only a crude sexual insult will do the job, but our reader community determined the need for such an insult that carried no undue weight or implication of gender,” says Brown.
“For obvious reasons, this isn’t necessarily an easy thing to achieve. It has eluded well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals for decades. But in conjoining the two time-honoured genitally-based insults, ‘twat’ and ‘cock’, Tom Beard has hewn something new and compelling from the original raw elements.”
John Drinnan was unimpressed:
A sign of the times. In the online world the trendy folk of Public Address voted recently for a sexual insult "twatcock" as its word of the year.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Sacha,
never mind the beginning, look where it ended up
Oh, well played.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Stu Woodbridge,
Twatcock doesn’t make it to WOTD?
Good call. It does now.
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Okay ... last chance. Provisional lists before they go off to Hadyn to get prepared for voting. I might drop a few more for the sake of simplicity:
WOTY
"100% Pure"
batshit
frankenstorm
Novopay
Baumgartner
boson
brainfade
breach
Brownleebensraum
buggerising
cloud
complicated
cyber-marae
Democracy
Dotcomnishambles
Drone
EPO
Fetching
Fiscal Cliff
Flibbertigibberish
Fracking
Gangnam Style
Gay red top
Geotech CERA
hacker
Hashtag
Hobbit
hub
Kiosk.
Supermoon
Renewal.
Leak. Ng.
Leveson
Mahy
Marmageddon
neo-crusader
Great Recession
Android
crowdsourcing
leaks
illiberal democracy
Ng’ed
Novopay
Omnishambles
Fustercluck
Planet Key
Pop-up shop
proletard
reach
rejuvenate
Relaxed
Romneysia
Smartphone
Suboptimal
unrebuttable
Weather-bomb
Wheedled
YOLOWOTD
“War on …”
9/11
Android
Anecdata
Blog”
blogosphere
broadband
Bubble
Climate
Data
download
fauxpology
fuckeulogy
GFC
Google.
Facebook
Twitter
i
IP
iPhone
Like
meh
mobile
monetise
MSM
Obama
P
pirates
privacy
roflnui
social media
sub-prime
terrorist.
torrent, copyright and insurgent
truthiness
tweet
warming
wiki
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Hard News: You down with TPP?, in reply to Dave Waugh,
I think you’d have been better off getting Jane Kelsey instead of Bernard Hickey.
But we don't have Tim Groser either. We're a media show -- hence, two journalists discussing coverage.
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Hard News: This is Your TV on Drugs, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Interesting to see what the DEA does.
I've seen speculation that the federal government will pick a case and invite the courts to find that federal law trumps state law. In which case, all hell will break loose. We would certainly see some Republicans line up behind Colorado and Washington State.
