Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to bob daktari,
Given there are allegedly eight parts in the series by part 3 I expect a full on denouncement of the sugar additives used in the tea room (the horror)
Along with an apology to Mikee Tucker, who he completely trashed in the first one. And this:
I got a txt yesterday from a friend (and i have a lot of very cool friends) that apparently my name has popped up on the 9th floor of parliament and someone there has referred to me me as a "whale oil feeder" and thank god for that!
Aaron also referred to his bipolar syndrome on Facebook yesterday. It seems there are people looking to his welfare, which is good, because things are pretty wild at the moment.
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Paul Campbell,
It’s a little fiddly finding these in the docs (the page numbering doesn’t correspond to actual pagination) so here’s the map of where our packets are intercepted (click to embiggen). Far out.
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And in a very timely fashion, there’s the Internet Party’s “Smile for the GCSB” advert smack bang on this very page.
I know, right? I knew their candidate intake closed yesterday and I was wondering how they'd swap out their campaign. And then I published the post and saw it :-)
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I see.
One of the reasons for having his bail conditions relaxed was so that he could resume his musical work.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Wasn’t there a big thing then with hugely rich people and their kids buying their way to poptastic success? I wonder how Paris Hilton gets on with her session musicians?
He was more about star buddies. Don’t forget that Kanye, Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Mary J Blige, Serena Williams and others appeared on ‘The Megaupload Song’ in late 2011, mightily pissing off their own record companies. Poor old Gin Wigmore recorded a bit but Universal wouldn’t allow it to be used.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Wasn’t Good Times made when Dotcom was already planning the party?
No. He’d been in town working on it the night before the raid, which is more than two years ago. They spent a lot of money at Roundhead.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Danielle,
I get that he’s not very mature, and he’s keen on being accepted by the cool kids, and all that jazz. I really do. I just don’t think all this falling over ourselves to give him a pass is doing him – or us – any favours.
Cool. I personally wouldn't say what I wrote was me falling over myself to give him a pass, though.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Sacha,
* unless they are a politician or similar person of power
This all happened before the political party and possibly even before the raid, for what that's worth.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Myles Thomas,
I can imagine being in that jokey blokey setting with everyone being more outrageous than the next and it all being harmless fun. And if you sat back and DIDN’T join in you’d be the egg who no one trusts.
Especially if you’re the giant adolescent who’s devoted his life to being with the cool kids.
Context is important obviously but possibly many people don’t get the context because they’ve never mixed in those edgy circles.
Mmmm. I don’t think that’s necessarily the issue. Let's not make generalisations about each other.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Danielle,
But I think the pass line for someone taking part in New Zealand’s political life probably shouldn’t be set as low as “is not an actual Nazi, just has fun with the imagery”.
Which wasn't what I said or what happened in this instance, but I accept that we differ strongly on this.
