Posts by Greg Dawson
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Down with words and media! I expect sales of stripy jerseys and white gloves to sky rocket.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Gareth Ward,
How does that differ from an actual youth minimum wage?
The govt subsidy to the youth to top up the wage is the major difference.
In impact on the economy, it's identical - and one of the arguments by which we removed the youth wage not so long ago.
Man, it's almost like there isn't a quick and easy solution to this problem. That can't be right, it's an election year!
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Michael Savidge,
Just when you thought things had calmed down, the rampage continues…
That sort of senseless violence has to be stopped, at any cost. What if there had been a cat in there?
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Islander,
anyone know whether the NZPO still requires this?
Didn't in 2001.
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Cracker: Another Capital Idea..., in reply to Andrew C,
What Rich was alluding to, and your story completely missed the point of, was that the rich don't take their wages with them. Someone else gets paid to do the job they've left behind (in almost all cases - there are some highly paid very transferable industries cropping up, but we're not big players in them).
The rich guy stops turning up, another rich guy wanders in the door and sits down at the bar. And given they reduce all social interactions to financial transactions, the conversation isn't missed anyway.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to 3410,
It's an unexplained/no-suspicious-circumstances-type death, ie suspected sucide/overdose
...according to the Met? Just saying, it's not the sort of situation in which you can be confident of police impartiality.
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Sean Maitland,
Wait have we got 3 million beneficiaries now? That would explain why people keep getting so noisily unhappy about them.
And uh, I assumed that Steve was talking about Hayek, not Hitler. Is Hayek a godwin now? I suppose there a large number of mustachioed Austrians to choose from.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
Greg: would you care to be more specific about ‘what kind of dog collar’, or shall I just… “use my judgement”?
Well I was referring to the pastor-y tag, but if you want to go judgement day (or lay?) then collar it however you like.
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Given the hash tag, at least one of the cast should be wearing a dog collar.
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Personally I always found the one on the last row, that dropped you back to near the start, to be the most annoying. But quakes and ladders sounds like a sh*t game :/