Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Kumara Republic,
So it seems. The Norwegian Police have said they're holding him under terrorist legislation but they're not saying much more at the moment. I'm staying away from CNN and Fox but even BBC is a little breathless.
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Fucking hell. Just watching the Norway stuff on BBC World. 91 dead between Oslo and the island.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
You forgot “Satan-worshipping"
Damn, I always forget that. I’d better go sacrifice a chicken to make sure He’s not angry.
edit: Wife says “What do you mean “he”?" but has now decided that Satan has stuffed up a lot lately and so clearly must be a man
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Too fucking right I'm prejudiced against that kind of crap. The question is, Mark: Why aren't you?
You have no idea where my prejudices lie, but you were the first one one who mentioned "Anna Nicole Smith if her brains were as large as tits + gold-digging homewrecker x scheming Dragon Lady” when hebe had said:
does anyone else think Wendi set up the pie attack? That theory works on so many levels.
which I, for one took as a humourous question, based on an extremely quick reaction by Deng to the attack (obviously you did not), and then:
What she really, really wants is control of News to go to her angels. Lachie, tick. James, tick. Then when Rupe dies, Wendi takes over as "Princess Regent"...It's beautiful, there are so many layers and so many years left of this story.
posited as a theory about someone who has married a billionaire but her kids won't have any control of the company once daddy dies. That's no different to any of the other speculation aired on this and othe blogs. There's no mention of gold-digging, dragon ladies, homewrecking or large breasts, yet your filters managed to infer those and decide that someone was being a) racist, b) sexist, and c) I'm not sure ist the rest falls under.
"Look first to the plank in your own eye"
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
So Cain either married a sister or a niece (ie one of Seth's daughters).
That was pretty much my point in asking the priests the question, but they would always sling me out before I got to "So, the human race is based on incest, then?"
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Mine were more along the ‘questioning the internal logic’ lines:
“If Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, made directly by God, and they had Cain and Abel, and Cain slew Abel, who did Cain marry?”
edit gods but my speeling is atrocious today
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Notice that the man still thinks everything anyone on the Left has ever proposed is utterly and thoroughly wrong, it’s just that there’s a vague possibility we may be right about there being a problem
Still, that's an improvement over the usual "lefties are all pinko commie deviants, sucking on the teat of Mother Russia" stuff that often passes for right wing commentary in your part of the world.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
My bad
Actually, it is. Did you ever stop to question that your reception of what people write here might be coloured by your own prejudices?
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Rob Hosking,
For years my experience of christian doctrine classes would finish with "Outside, Harris!" or "To the Rector's office and wait for me there!"
Brilliant clip, thanks.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Eek. 165 'gifts' for 24 people in 12 months! Shame the PDF is embedded in a flash doohickey.
What's missing though is the value of each 'gift'. According to the State Services Commission:
Gifts or benefits can range from one-off offers of small gifts to ongoing discounts on goods and services. While a blanket ban on the acceptance of gifts and benefits may be impractical, there is a clear limit to what is acceptable and what is not. A bottle of wine at Christmas for the office may be acceptable - family tickets to a show or ongoing personal discounts from a supplier are not.