Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Friday Music: The great full eight, in reply to nzlemming,
Might be time to reread (again)
I found it via
my local library
wouldn't surprise me if Scorpio Books stock it as well, now they have a new home in 'town'.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The great full eight, in reply to LIISA,
Lawrence Nightingale to the rescue...
Apple Pie Bed embed is missing
try this link:
https://soundcloud.com/lawrence-arabia/apple-pie-bed-demo...if it was a wine (or cider) I'd say:
"lightly sparkling, with glints of Nilsson and Wilson, from the Beatlesque gravels, a good vintage. Cellar plenty. Quaff often!"
or something like that
:- )I've just 'discovered', and have been enjoying, Warren Ellis's* excellently curated ambient music podcasts, not to mention his and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels web comic
*That's the comic-writing Warren Ellis, not the musician one in The Bad Seeds and Grinderman.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Paul Campbell,
strictly speaking Hawaii isn’t a ‘country’
Oh... that's true...
...it is a state of mind!
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More vexing vexillogicality…
Oh, hang on a minute mate…
http://wangarattachronicle.com.au/2016/01/22/is-it-time-for-new-australian-flag/
Deja Vu all over again, but in Australia:Among local politicians, Indi Greens candidate Jenny O’Connor was one of only two championing change, saying the Australian flag needed to be updated to reflect recent changes to our society.
“I don’t think the flag reflects the diversity of the Australian society,” Ms O’Connor told the Wangaratta Chronicle yesterday.
“I think we need to have a flag that is inclusive of everyone in Australia and not one that is Euro-centric with the union jack.
“Our flag is representative of its time but we have developed as a nation and we need to reflect that in our flag.”whoopsie:
Other than the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and Fiji are the only countries with a union jack on their design.
what about Hawaii ?
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to sandra,
What do we do with a problem like Auckland?
with apologies...
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Sacha,
auf wiedersehen, bro ...
Wideboy property developers interacting with junior planning clerks will never produce sustainable results.
...there's gotta be a tv series in it, at least?
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Polity: Leaving only footprints, in reply to Moz,
the ferocious wildlife… sandflies, mussels, keas and such.
I thought we had big worms here, too?
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Speaker: The Shaken Generation, in reply to Russell Brown,
Like.
it works the other way too:
Once you take the ’silence’
out of resilience
all that’s left is ‘ire’ …there will come a tipping point…
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
The Lovely Boner?
or Bad Taste at best...
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The wizards of Oz...
Fairfax have just thrown 70 of their NZ subs to the Australian wolves (er, dingoes?):Fairfax Media is proposing to transfer subediting work for its Australian metropolitan mastheads from its New Zealand subsidiary to third-party contractor Pagemasters.
A spokesman said the move would result in “additional flexibility and savings”.
“Today we briefed the approximately 70 full-time equivalent staff in New Zealand that would be affected by a proposal to move editorial production work they perform for Australian metro mastheads to a third-party provider, Pagemasters, which would operate from both New Zealand and Australia,” he said.source:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/76963030/Fairfax-consults-over-production-change…and The NZ Herald shows that subs aren’t necessary:
Oliver reckons the NZ Herald should be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for christening Stephen Joyce Dildo Baggins, in reference to the sex toy thrown at him on Waitaingi Day and reinforced by our own Lord of the Rings Knight Peter Jackson, dressed like Baggins, waving a dildo flag for the American show, and giving us yet another alternative to consider.
... (photo Caption): "Jackson waves a new New Zealand flag with a picture of Stephen Joyce being hit by a dildo at Waitangi. Photo / Last Week Tonight"source:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11590660
I mean how long has Steven Joyce been in office?
and how many Waitangi Days have there been?
- spelling is an overrated ability apparently!!further to Soper’s jumping in on Joyce’s inevitable John Oliver segment – he then goes on to revel in Key’s Letterman appearance – not mentioning the near $10,000 it cost us taxpayers to engineer that appalling ‘comedy cameo’ – this is now seen as the ‘business of politicians’, sigh….
