Posts by Julie Fairey
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I too am keen to find out what the deal is with those appalling Party Political Broadcasts for Bill English for TVNZ 7 (which I've seen on other channels as we don't have Freeview yet)...
And I agree on Jimmy Carr, seemed pretty pointedly funny to me.
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David and Party Central up a tree, K I S S I N G.
What you wanted mature, thoughtful response? We're all out sorry, try again tomorrow.
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Sorry for the belatedness, thanks Russell et al for teh kind words and the linky :-)
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Thanks for the link Russell. I was pretty astounded when Boscawen's survey result came back with the Vote Yes response and then a written comment that made it clear he actually thought Yes was the option that supported his private members' bill.
Melissa Lee didn't answer our survey but David Shearer did and he said Labour wouldn't be telling people how to vote on the referendum at all.
Also I'd point out that it might have taken the media a bit of time to focus on the absurdity of the question, but not so in other necks of the woods, see this post for some examples ridiculing the question back in April.
And of course the good people at The Yes Vote campaign have been concerned about it for some time. I understand that early this year or late last year the intention amongst many of the allied groups to run an abstention campaign, but they changed their minds (no doubt having had some of the conversations in the thread above) to promote a Yes vote instead. Personally I'm veryglad they did.
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What Jackie said. Clearly those who consider early childhood teachers as deficient in the high falutin' conversation dept have never witnessed them talking about competent learners, provocations, and power dynamics.
I really liked your list of questions about Richard Worth David (and I wish someone would have the guts to ask Bain if he did it too). As with several other media stories of late (such as the Tony Veitch stuff) I really wish we had news rooms staffed with people paid enough and given enough time to think up good questions, research them, and ask them.
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Awesomeness in the morning, thanks Keith :-)
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Couple of things:
1. Yes the sentence seems light, but actually I don't think sending Veitch to prison would help anyone really. It'd make me feel a bit better, for a little while, but then what?
2. What would help is Veitch actually *getting it*, ie what he did and why it was wrong. Not much sign that's going to happen anytime soon - how is it possible to get through to someone who seems to be hard wired about the matter? How can we (as in our society) get Veitch, and others like him, to that aha moment? And what do we do with them until then?
3. Anyone else hear Kathryn Ryan's very careful interview with Veitch this morning? I thought it was a very startlingly good effort on her part, it was a tough interview. And Veitch repeated the metaphors that his lawyer used "blood on the floor" etc. I too winced.
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I am in love with roller derby. I roller skated as a kid, and currently own a pair, but haven't done much for years and years and years. I imagine you have to be pretty super fit?
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The ex-expat has pointed out a particular icky example of bad baby clothing and others are coming out of the woodwork in the discussion thread. I had forgotten about the Future Porn Star one, but that seems to me to be unsurpassable in the Euuuwwwwww stakes.
On the size of designers versus the size of models. There's some malarkey about how clothes look better on thinner models. I have no idea how you decide that kind of thing. Especially as a lot of high fashion looks really ugly to me, regardless of the size of the model.
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Did anyone else think of the general election in 2011 before considering the post might be about sport?
Just me then. Oh dear.