Posts by DeepRed6502
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When Kay Gregory was paired up with Paul Henry for TV1's Breakfast slot, the team didn't last long - Gregory quit almost immediately after because she couldn't stand Henry!
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Seemingly half the student body at a very prestigious private school in ChCh I attended in the mid 1990s (not of my choosing). More like a creche for snob yobs, rural and urban alike.
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Demographically I'm at the cut-off point between Gen X & Gen Y, but I'm not one to be pigeon-holed into either. Technically I'm a member of Gen 8-Bit.
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BenWilson:
I couldn't give a stuff if Maori are overrepresented. I see that as most likely because of historical reasons than for cultural or racial reasons.
Regardless of whether one agrees with Samuel Huntington's politics or not, he had a point when he wrote in Clash of Civilisations : "The West won the day, not through the superiority of its ideas, but through the superiority of its organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact. Non-Westerners never do."
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Bevan:
Agree on the work permits though, we need more immigrants (preferably right around the country, not just Auckland!)
Down here in Wellington we'd be clamouring for them, were it not for its inability to handle truly international flights. I personally think Transmission Gully can wait, and spend the money instead on lengthening the airstrip.
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In fact, Norah Jones' real name, according to Wikipedia, is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.
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Russell: I think solitary confinement would have been more appropriate for Saddam than hanging. As with fellow psychopath Timothy McVeigh, what if he didn't tell the whole story?
At least summer's out of the closet here in Welly, and the Beach Volleyball is starting on the weekend. I can hear cameras doing warm-up stretches. :)
"The worst thing for me is that the Pakeha rednecks are just as bad as the Maori ones.
From my own experiences as a 6th-gen Cantonese Kiwi, I'd have to concur. I'm tempted to agree with Imogen Neale's view in this regard. In my view the white-necks should F.O. to Perth or Cronulla, and the brown-necks should F.O. to Zimbabwe. And the Listener has been joining the ranks of the yellow journal club since Finlay left. That, along with a certain yellow journalist concocting a yellow peril in North & South, makes me want to blow my nose on a Blue Ensign hanky.
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Back when I was growing up in the 8-bit era, my father bought a VCR just to record this clip. :)
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The way things are going, I can smell the molotov cocktails before someone has even thrown them. In David Slack's "Civil War and Other Optimistic Predictions", Chris Trotter made the rather unorthodox diagnosis of a "race clash for the nation to clear its collective head."