Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I'd thought a trident was the weapon of choice for resolving television news vendettas, but hey, whatever works.
A trident is just a pitchfork that has yet to see hay.
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Leighton Smith this morning compared Mayor Bob to Churchill and JFK. I shit you not.
I'm unsure if that means he will see us through a world war, or if he'll get shot and die way too young.
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But developer Dave Henderson forecast a massive financial boost.
Wait, I've heard that name somewhere before haven't I? Hmm...
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You know that HAARP caused the earthquake.
Hehe!:
About Clare Swinney
I wrote for Investigate Magazine from 2000-2005, then switched to the alternative media when I became aware of the rise of fascism that was -
And the civil defence response seems to have been really impressive.
My brother moved into his new house on Thursday, had to be completely out of the old one on Friday for the new owners, and left for the beehive bunker shortly after 5am on Saturday morning. He's now on 12 hours on, 12 hours off shifts with another guy, probably all week.
My parents took the weekend to help his wife and three kids under 6 sort out the shambles of a new house so that the kids could be fed and put to bed through the chaos.
I think their big error was reporting for hours yesterday that Civil Defence and police had decided to "evacuate" the CBD.
TVNZ were reporting that as well. Fair enough, that's what the Minister said on live TV before flying down to Chch, you'd hope he would know what he was talking about.
Re the Avon being high and dry. Bit of a bugger when the slope to the sea is rather slight and when a bit gets heaved up one discovers that the laws of physics in fact do work in Christchruch too: Water does not flow up hills!!
That will be the crazy part of future Chch - a waterway will have changed course and suddenly become a lake or something. Council will have to figure out if it's worth spending a million dollars returning it to what it was or just leaving it as it now is and adjusting everything around it.
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I honestly don't think an R rating is reasonable. That is, as you say, for graphic sex and violence. A PG13, or a warning before a program plays that it contains smoking wouldn't bother me too much.
It would feel strange to me that on the way to the theatre your kid could see half a dozen people puffing away on cigarettes, but then not see an actor do it in the movie. That's not a parallel with sex and violence - which society is all in favour of kids not seeing on the way to the theatre.
So with (unhealthy) drinking and violence in film, you get to see the adverse consequences. With smoking (always unhealthy), you don't.
That's an interesting point Lucy.
OK, that was a fair come back to the snark. But that's where I start getting nervous -- to be very literal about it, there is no "realistic" violence in movies or television.
I think the word 'realistic' still carries useful information to the potential viewer though. There's Rambo blowing up 80 guys in short sequence, and then there's Jake the Muss in Once were Warriors. I'd imagine there's a lot of people who could watch the former without blinking, but would be very traumatised by the latter because of the nature of the violence and the likelihood that they would have had that sort of experience personally.
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Think the taxi driver is ok, the serious injuries were a guy hit by a falling chimney and another hit by glass...
I know the guy whose family lives next door and pulled him out from under his chimney and got him to the ambulance. Also lost their new truck from another chimney falling on it. Hell of a morning for them.
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What annoys me about the "social science" part of this debate is no one ever seems to mention that the increase of suicides when they're mentioned in the media doesn't have a thing to do with the reason for suicides. How about treating the causes of suicides, ie. why people are depressed enough to want to kill themselves, ie, why people are depressed. Stop shooting the messenger.
I think it's fairly clear that part of the 'cause' of suicide is an empathy with other people who have committed suicide. That helps people over the line to taking actions that can kill themselves.
There's lots of ways to address suicide, and obviously addressing the underlying causes of depression etc is a good one. If you want to end up with less people dead, finding ways to stop depressed people (of which there are lots of in society) with suicidal thoughts crossing that line still has pretty good value.
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Banks would do well to front up and say that he was wrong about the gays.
He'd have to do it pretty well for me to believe he really meant it.
Oh well then... why's he delusional particularly? More so that Banks?
It concerns me that Banks apparently isn't the most delusional candidate in the field.
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Its ~0.8% of GDP, all in one hit, and quite geographically concentrated. The most likely result, given how badly people have just been burned and the lingering legacy of the 1987 sharemarket crash, is a South Island property boom. A good time, if you're a dairy farmer, to look for that bigger fool...
That doesn't make sense. People will be getting back what they invested. This isn't creating any additional wealth, it's just all going to come back to the community at once. Many will re-invest it in the bank or other finance company, as long as they can find one covered by the scheme.