Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Steve, I need you to rethink the way you're coming into these discussion. Because single time lately you're generating a shitfight.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Alex Coleman,
So here’s Paddy again:
Sources say Labour’s Anyone But Cunliffe club – ABC – declared/locked in at 15 MPs. 15/34 MPs who can’t stand him, absolutely hate his guts.
Garner tweeted this earlier:
Text from DC camp to me: 'GR's team are counting their chickens. Numbers are GR15; DC12; SJ2; Undecided 5, after 2nd prefs 17/17 spilt.
He's certainly a bit more robust about characterising his sources in this case.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Alex Coleman,
This is the sort of crap that the ABCs have been doing. It’s fucking toxic. There is at least 1 caucus member who wanted Paddy to report that Cunliffe will have a caucus in which 15 members hate his guts, but lacks the courage to be open about it, or accept the party process.
Best-case scenario is that this kind of behaviour is coming from a relatively small group of individuals who won't be a loss when they're demoted back to the stone age. I think we all know who I'm talking about.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Danielle,
Call me contrarian, but I am always rather suspicious of these sorts of statements. You know how for ages the accepted narrative was “pop music in the early 60s was bland and naff and then the Beatles came!”, completely ignoring how great the girl groups were? Yeah.
And they were totally awesome! No argument from me at all there.
But have you heard the Miley song? It sounds like someone taking a shit.
I honestly have trouble conceiving of it as pop music.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Did I get this wrong, did Jones just dismiss Curran’s tweet on the grounds that “it must be that time of the month”? way to go wanna-be PM alienating half your potential voters
I thought Curran's behaviour was unhelpful (and not for the first time). But ... jesus.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Hebe,
That’s positive to read. I’d like all you Labourites to present me with a credible and organised alternative to National. That’s all.
+1
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Also: having watched the new Miley Cyrus video, I am even more strongly of the view that if Lorde can rescue pop music from that kind of hideous formulaic bombast, humanity wins.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to BenWilson,
But performing in your first few big gigs is going to be emotionally exhausting in a way that doesn’t reflect what it will be like when she becomes accustomed.
True. And that's how it looked.
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Gower has just sent a couple of tweets:
David Cunliffe says Ruth Dyson would be good earthquake recovery minister. Nervous days ahead for Cosgrove. Life under Cunliffe gonna hurt.
And:
Cosgrove must stop Cunliffe or Cosgrove is going to get owned. Simple. No unity on this one.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to bronwyn,
The test pushed me from irritation to near-rage. Here were some of the questions: “Would you prefer to go to a party or read a book?” “When going to the movies, would you prefer to see a romantic comedy or an action film?” It was preposterous. When the agent came back and said “So, how did you find that?” I replied “Not much room for shades of grey in there, is there?” Her reply? “Yes, that’s the way we like it”.
Sweet Jesus. I'd have been getting mighty uncivil by that point. Not just having to endure a plainly idiotic testing process, but then hearing that that's the way they intend it to be ...
Clearly, I should not be employed by anyone, ever. Which does kinda suit me.