Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to nzlemming,
Nothing says it better.
True dat. For my money, Laurie Penny conveys manages to convey more than a mountain of mainstream pundits.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Rich Lock,
Porn viewership hits all-time high in Cleveland during RNC after GOP declares it a public health crisis
""In time she learned to recognize them by subtle symptoms - tight lips, shifty eyes, and a pallor that comes from sitting around in stuffy rooms reading Playboy magazine and the Bible - and refused their rides."
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1976
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Also a strange link to Auckland zoo.
According to Nicholas Von Hoffman's Citizen Cohn biography, Roy Cohn was given to introducing his NZ-born lover as "Sir Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand".
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Up Front: The Best Possible Taste, in reply to dave stewart,
But I think it was in Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant it was used to great comic effect?
Father-rapers, if memory serves
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Keeping the natural hillside might slow the lava flow a bit too - but a built environment will give it artificial channels to speed the lava flow up and redistribute it to the lower-lands faster - though perhaps it doesn't act like water...
Call the fire brigade, report a pyroclastic event. According to Maurice Shadbolt that's what Aucklanders did in the late 1950s, when a bunch of students lit a ginormous bonfire on top of one of the Auckland cones.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to ,
Was it a real coup attempt, or some sort of conspiracy?
Cairo cartoonist Doaa Eladl has a pretty good track record on calling it right. Here's her latest.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to John Farrell,
Subbing by Aussies.
That got me wondering if Auckland Airport's Jean Batten Food Court still features a mural of her plucky little plane towing a banner reading "Jean Batten, the Garbo of the Skies." Visiting Australians found it most intriguing.
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Back in 2008 the Herald ran an editorial that could have come directly from the Beijing politburo. How dare those horrid Falun Gong/Falun Dafa-ites presume to insert themselves into our precious Santa parades!
Three years later their marching bands - an acquired taste, I'll admit - were a regular feature in most main centre Santa-fests. Here they are in Chch's first post-quakes event in 2011. Last year they'd spread to the Invercargill parade, where no-one seemed to have a problem with their taking part .
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Joe Boden,
Bernie Sanders was clearly a member of the old (60’s) left, an actual socialist if not a full-on communist...
Oh ffs. How would you establish that he was a communist? Chuck him into some Vermont village pond and see if he floats?
