Posts by Gareth Ward
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<quote>Pretentious and/or pig-ignorant hacks who don't know what... "literally" means>
My sister-in-law is doing her PhD in New York and had this discussion with some locals:
Her: "And it's so funny how you all say "literally" when it's clearly not"
Local: "I know, we literally do it all the time..."
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I'm no fan of Dunne himself, but I think credit is due to the commission.
I'll take that further and admit to a surprising respect for a few of the policy platforms that he proposes - tax simplicity etc is particularly appealing to me.
Of course that's then u-boated by the suspicion he'd burn them all for a sniff at being the Minister of Maintaining-Those-Funny-Little-Plants-on-Roundabouts... -
That was mighty.
Good lord was it what.
Interesting to note the closing out music though... pretty sure that was Mr Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Stoked that he's dropped the country rubbish and gone back to what's awesome about America (yes, I'm looking forward to Thursday) but that's a pretty loaded message!
And re this "tell people where who you're going to go with in advance" stuff - while I certainly would personally prefer if I knew where that vote was taking me, I'm also comfortable (perhaps comfortably naive) that people vote knowing who they're voting for. And if that involves a lack of clarity on possible coalition agreements then so be it. -
The court documents quoted the two men as saying that they would dress up in white tuxedos and top hats then drive their car as fast as possible toward Senator Obama, shooting at him from the windows.
Oh man, I wish they had. Not succeeded of course but LORDY that would have been a magnificent Vaudevillian sight...
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What a cool name! I can easily see "The Flying Cephalopods" as the opening act for "The Rolling Stones"
Whipped and the Cricket to play the closing set.
I'm envisaging a really bad country act...
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I, for one, welcome our new five-headed overlord.
Talk about profile building in the export markets - the Japanese would be all over it.
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“We’d also heard mention of it, but we decided that it would only be worse if we went out and told the fans they were absolutely not allowed to throw dildos on the ice,” said AIK club head Mats Hedenström.
Making the day of all professional sport administrators... -
And right on cue:
Speaking to reporters in Greymouth this morning, Mr Key said voters should be wary of a coalition government that could include Labour, the Progressives, the Greens, New Zealand First and the Maori Party."Do [New Zealanders] want to put in a National government with a fresh view that will work going in one direction with a small group of parties, or do they want a potentially five-headed monster?" he said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz-election-2008/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501799&objectid=10539279
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Given the way they've also explicitly politicised the Super Fund, I'd think some National voters might be concerned too.
Like me.
I was leaning their way up to a couple of weeks ago. Kiwisaver + R&D + SuperFund + No Parole + Pharmac has removed that option for me. -
then I'm even happier that the Greens have come out in support of National.
Duncan Garner: SHOCK NEWS, LEADING GREENS CANDIDATE REVERSES COALITION POSITION. FILM AT 11!
=P