Posts by Paul Litterick
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It's rang*a*tiratanga, right?
What do the asterisks mean?
Timaru (not Constantinople) -
This late in a thread, I assume sarcasm as a default.
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I would've thought the entire reason for designing a new Maori flag in 1990 was because what existed carried too much baggage
I think the reason for designing the new flag was to create an emblem of separatism. Flying that alongside the national flag is hardly a unifying gesture.
We need a new flag that represents all of us, not an emblem of Empire and one of an unrealistic notion of Maori sovereignty.
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Simply from a design perspective you can't deny the beauty of the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.
Oh yes you can; more specifically, I can; and I will: it is ghastly. It is the sort of pattern one might find on the curtains of a provincial community hall. It is a difficult design to repeat, and so has spawned many clumsy imitations, particularly in Grey Lynn. Its colours are unfortunate, given their use in 20th Century Europe.
I could go on, at some length.
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I'm as anti-Tory as they come, but would hate for something like that to happen to John Key outside of a proper insurrection.
Besides, what could one hit Key with – a scale model of Te Papa, the Michael Fowler Centre, Queen's Wharf as Party Central?
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This morning, I decided to devise national standards for myself and then refused to implement them.
It was very satisfying and quite took my mind off the agreeing with Cameron Slater thing.
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I am impressed that a Humanist has been able to make a statement about God that can fit on the side of a bus.
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So. naked women are a public danger now?
The Police cordoned off the area because it is a crime scene.
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Where are people getting this stuff?
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I think we are missing the point that Paul Henry's role is to provoke offence. It brings in the viewers: to have cause for taking offence is part of the entertainment.
Much as I sympathise with the campaign of protest to advertisers, I doubt its effectiveness and I won't be joining it. I could not say that I will not be watching Breakfast until That Man goes, because I do not watch it. I doubt many of us here do
We are not the right demographic and the advertisers know that. Their demographic is fed emotion constantly by their media: emotional provocation is what the audience has been trained to want, whether the emotion involved be mawkish sentiment, outrage or outrageousness.
In short, welcome to hyper-reality. I am more concerned about NatRad, which should be above this sort of thing, jumping on the emotional roller-coaster.