Posts by Mark Easterbrook
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I watched 3 News last night, and found the references to her as 'Pumpkin' kind of creepy, to be honest. And I may have imagined it, but Hilary Barry looked a bit uncomfortable using the name.
As Jimmy Hayes said above, smacks of a weird editorial decision.
Refreshingly, on Campbell Live, during the entire preamble to the piece about the Unitec student's documentary on the father, the filmaker was never flagged as an 'asian student'.
Analysing the media aside...I feel for whoever's caring for that little girl in Melbourne and is trying to deal with the "where's my Mum?" questions. Heartbreaking.
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Well blow me down.
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Ahh...interesting. I haven't been follow events across the ditch enough to see that Rudd had been waving his Jesus flag. Changes the context a bit.
Hard as this may be to accept, Air New Zealand (which is not an SOE or Crown entitly, BTW) entered into a lawful and legitimate charter contract with the ADF.
I do think you have a point Craig, but does Potential Terrorist A know that Air New Zealand is not an SOE or Crown entity? I think that's what's causing the concern for many people - these are planes with our country's name plastered across their fuselage, regardless of who owns them.
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Regarding the whole Rudd - strip club story, I think it's going to backfire.
When I lived (briefly) in Darwin in the mid 90s, at least 70% of pubs had lingerie or strip shows on a Friday lunch time (no, I never went to one). That suggests that a reasonable proportion of Australian blokes don't have too much of a problem with a) strippers and b) having a few drinks.
Surely these same blokes are quietly thinking 'Good onya, mate" about the whole Rudd thing? I'm not defending him, or what he may or may not have done. But if it came up that John Key had popped in to Showgirls on a night out a few years ago, having had one too many, do we think it would ruin National's poll ratings?
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I knew it was all a scam. I looked over and saw him hugging Scott Kara's dog, with a tear in his eye, during Charlotte Sometimes.
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We've armed the robots? Is it too late to shutdown Skynet?
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Nice, nice idea Russell. I've started my Friday in a warm, fuzzy, "supporting New Zealand music" mood, and bought it straight away.
Makes up for the "I had to give away my Bloc Party ticket and stay late at work" mood from yesterday.
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I'd respectfully suggest to Bart that if he turned his eyeballs elsewhere - and, say, tens of thousands of others did so - someone might get the hint sooner rather than later? The marketplace isn't a one way street.
With 900,000 people watch the final of Dancing With the Stars, that's 1.8 million eyeballs to turn. Actually, without eye-loss stas at hand, I'd hazard a guess at 1,799,100 eyeballs (one glass eye per thousand people).
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I saw Garth George at Lynmall in the weekend. It reminded me of the fact that behind many a fuming, angry vile-spitting Opinion column, there's a tired, sad looking old man shuffling towards obscurity...
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If we need to fundraise for rehab, we'll hold a ROFL RAFL.