Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to recordari,
I like this; no-one I know seems to appreciate it:
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yeah, well that would be thinking outside the square in a new paradigm.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to James Butler,
With a high-tech falafel bike seat I suppose? Wind-powered, I would guess.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Rich Lock,
my La Marzocco Linea
You obviously need all the help you can get... what izzit?
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What about the subversion of New Zealand's parliamentary system by the both the National and Labour parties refusing to participate in election leaders' debates with the other parties? http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5374955/Key-I-ll-only-debate-Goff
Didn't we choose MMP? Aren't politicians legally and morally obliged to work within that framework? Oh, I forgot, both the larger parties hate MMP because it forces compromise, and Key is gambling on shutting out the Greens this times now they are nearing 10 % in the polls. Wish Rod Donald was still here...wish there was someone with his reach to remind the public that we could well be stuck back in first-past-the-post if the campaign to keep a form of proportional representation doesn't start soon.
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Russell Brown,
Raleigh 20?
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"He looks like he could be wearing women's underwear."
No wonder those women were in the cardiac ward when they have been thinking thinks like that.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Islander,
Um, what can you do? My suggestion is offer to swap houses. You go stay at the swappee's house and feed their dog, cat and chooks. Let the swappee go to yours but not have to talk to a host. that to me would be bliss. Offers of respite that I have come with a price of nice that I just can't pay at the moment. So we stay put.
The shaking has just made way for the shivering
@just thinking: Beautifully put.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Why aren’t the media all over stuff like that Portabello Antique shop?
I don't think the media in Christchurch are up to it. My observation of old friends still in the game is that the Christchurch-resident media are as traumatised and as tired as the rest of us here. Eleven months near-enough and a bloody cold wet winter is catching up with everyone. Add to that that the Press -- and the Star -- have lost their inner-city bases; their news-gathering beats and connections have been blown to bits. No-one is hanging out in same places anymore; it's difficult to explain properly the level of day-to-day dislocation that has happened. Some days it really screws the head.
We are relying on the likes of Public Address, John Campbell, the NZ Herald , the Dom, the Listener, to keep the magnifying glass on things like the Portobello incidents, the insurance dramas, and all the other overwhleming changes we're all experiencing. And they can give some much-needed big-picture overviews that we in the thick of it cannot always achieve.
Omission of stories isn't down to neglect by the media here; there are just so many that, like the recovery of the city, the task is too huge for us to do alone.
Anecdotally, we're knackered. (I went to a gathering of many ranters last night; by 9pm 90 per cent of the party was slipping out the door.)
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Not ....again