Posts by peterpeasant
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Russell Brown,
You mean to tell me that the Listener has sub editors?
they do not have researchers.I fail to find evidence of either species.
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Now I understand why our subscription to the (woeful) Dompost now also entitles us to the SST, delivered free.
Apart from Oram there is not much heft left in the SST.
Mind you the op piece on incoming GG was worth reading.
Pity about losing McDonald and Mcleod.
Lhaws is well past his use by date.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to John Campbell,
"artful"? that is stretching the meaning a bit. isn't it?
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If that is an example of analysis from GMI I am never going to heed any advice from that quarter.
Coffee is not about snobbery, it is about drinking stuff one likes, at a convenient location and possibly socialising.
I live near a small provincial town, population less than 20,000.
This hamlet has 12 coffee outlets.
Quality ranges from sublime to gorblimey.
Out of that 12 four make really good coffee and take pride in doing just that.
Out of that 12 four make pretty poor coffee.
The remainder make acceptable coffee.
How the hell was Starbucks going to compete in NZ cities with stats like that.
If Field is a genuine analyst he ought to have started from the question actually what is Starbucks actually selling?
Field seems to have forgotten that in a free market economy the customer is always right.
Starbucks was successful in the USA partly because most coffee was pretty bad and the yanks love sweet sweet sweet comfort food.
Most of the rest of us on this planet live in rather more robust circumstances.
It is clearly time that Mr Field descended from his ivory tower and observed what is actually happening.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Rhymes with stopwatch?
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Like Jacob I am intrigued by pronunciation having heard ,and used , both the hot and hat versions.
I suppose it it depends on whether one went to Oxford or Cambridge.
Jackie, scatological interests have no necessary relationship with either twatcocks, or cocktwats,
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Just love the idea of sending beneficiaries out to find non existent jobs.
Mind you, they only have to be employed for less than 90 days and the employers can treat them like rubbish and fire them.
Yeah it could work to lower the statistics, from month to month.
Crosby Textor could spin this wonderfully.
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"I feel I should just make it absolutely clear that this column is not intended to be a reflection on anyone I work with or for. Or around. Or "work with". Or even drink with."
I see, the remainder of the human population of this planet are opinion columnists?
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I do not what is with the posters on this site.
I have had the very good fortune to have been very personally acquainted with a lot of cunts.
Loved them all. Still do.
I just wish I had met more.
Am still looking for some.
Paul Henry is not a cunt. He is not even useful.
I am definitely not looking for Paul Henry, not even for target practice.