Posts by Paul Williams
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And here was me thinking at last someone is blogging the Bristol Stool Chart
I gwad, I looked and as I fell about laughing my office colleagues came to investigate the cause of amusement...
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The guy on the right is supposed to be Redbaiter, right?
Really? Is this speculation or local knowledge? For a long time I wondered if Red wasn't David's alter-ego.
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So, its not that people are outraged by a serious assault, no, its just "tall poppy syndrome". These people are utterly demented.
And the appalling irony is that he's clearly guilty of the very crime he accuses others of; using the assault to make political capital. What a wanker.
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As far as I'm concerned, that's the NBR Godwining themselves.
Nice work.
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Peter I know nothing about.
He was a radical at Waikato Uni - involved in what was Nexus and apparently a hard-core hippy (I believe)
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Stoddard's essay hurt my brain on many levels. I'm sure it's targets will simply dismiss it as yet another example of the hegemony defending itself (Stoddard's brief examination of the right-wing hate blogs probably dissauded further examination; the briefest sampling of kiwiblog would be overwhelming).
I've to send it on to someone I know in Julia Gillard's staff, she'll face precisely the same shit soon enough.
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I am an established writer. I've brought a lot of business into Aotearoa-NZ. I earn less than the average wage and I resent bureaucrats & academics using what I do, and have done, to live fatly whilst me & mine - dont.
Can you elaborate Islander - I know nothing about this arrangement and am curious about how it works, badly or otherwise.
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Perigo's quote about the extraordinary level of talent it takes.
<declaration of familial links> My sister-in-law used to read the news with Perigo, she had/has a very favourable impression of him... as did I until I heard what he personally thinks, now I think he's a twerp (reinforced by his idiotic comments about Veitch) but I know doing TV news is no walk-in-the-park.</declaration of familial links>. As an aside, isn't Broadcast News a great show (great cast particularly).
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I'll do it here. Because seriously, how much "exceptional talent" would it take? Isn't it just a matter of being presentable, flashing the right smile, not getting the score wrong too often?
As funny as I really did find you point ... it's possibly a little harsh... good television journalists/presenters aren't plentiful because it's harder than it looks... we don't really need to slag the profession just 'cause it turns out Veitch is a thug do we... for me it just goes to show that abusers don't conform to any stereotype.
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It would be useful if people differentiate between what Kiwiblog says (which most would take as a reference to what I say) and what Kiwiblog commenters say.
David, generally you take a predictably moderate position on many issues but, somehow, many of your commenters are extreme, abusive and intolerant (left and right). I wonder how you've ended up in this odd position, do you have a view? You've certainly got lots of traffic, so you can't read/edit everything, but do you not worry that many of your threads degenerate at a remarkable rate?