Posts by Joe Wylie
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OK Keir, I get it.
Tizard's a public figure, who appears to be taking a disturbingly ill-informed and autocratic approach to shaping legislation that affects a lot of people who've taken the trouble to comment here. While I agree about the tone of "her widdle self", it seems pretty minor in the circumstances.
Twenty years ago, as an aspiring MP, Tizard called Marcus Lush's Sunday night Campus Radio talkback on BFM. The discussion was about NZ's decision to buy into the ANZAC frigate deal, and caller opinion was running heavily against. While Tizard claimed that she was not calling simply to support her father as defence minister, she effectively did just that.
Now that she's a minister perhaps Tizard should perhaps be cut some slack on account of having more on her metaphorical plate these days, but she'd go a long way towards earning my respect if she - or even a ministerial minder - took the opportunity to weigh in here on this discussion. It'd certainly dispel the growing impression that she has little savvy about a medium that she's responsible for regulating. As I'd rather not risk being labelled as making ad hominem criticisms I'll refrain from stating why it is that she doesn't.
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Keir Leslie:
What guts you have, to mock and slime someone who's no opportunity to reply. I'd be much more sympathetic to your arguments if you'd stop the ad homs about Tizard. They're kinda icky, I think.
Please forgive me if I'm missing some intended joke here, but how is it that Tizard has "no opportunity to reply" ?
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Keir Leslie:
What guts you have, to mock and slime someone who's no opportunity to reply. I'd be much more sympathetic to your arguments if you'd stop the ad homs about Tizard. They're kinda icky, I think.
Please forgive me if I'm missing some intended joke here, but how is it that Tizard has "no opportunity to reply" ?
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where echo was a well laid out manageable affair when real groovy took over they moved to the barn in tuam street, put out the trestle tables and made the whole shopping for music experience unmanageable. text
I thought that was a deliberate attempt to recreate the look 'n feel of the Queen Street store - kind of the semi-shambolic house style.
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If Anderton's Julian Cope then the Alliance are pretty much The Teardrop Explodes.
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My daughters name is Goldie, its an old english name that means " The child with the golden locks."
Would it be unfair stereotyping to assume that she's fond of porridge?
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Seems there are a couple of ways that blatant racism-for-laughs can work:
In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Terry Jones, as a cleaning lady swabbing up the remains of the disgusting Mr. Creosote, offers: "I feel that life's a game, you sometimes win or lose / And though I may be down right now, at least I don't work for Jews". She's immediately denounced as a racist by John Cleese's waiter character, who emptys a bucket of vomit over her.You can be Jewish, like Sacha Baron-Cohen's Borat, which I guess gives you a kind of "my nigger" license.
Maybe Haydn could out himself as being Jewish? -
Gingas, by NZ's own Simon O'Leary, from Australian Motorcycle News's Fred Gassit (click on image for full size) :
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depends. how important is morality to pygmies, anyhow?
They're the only race I could raise any kind of objection to - after all, they're hardly likely to speak up when the gingas cop it. BTW, My next door neighbour is an intellectual pygmy. As he's not sure what the internet is I feel quite safe in posting this. Apart from a tendency to rabbit on about the doings of the Black Caps he's a model citizen.
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Che: when they came for the gingas, i was silent...
LegBreak: Ah yes gingas; the world’s only true minority.
Do moral pygmies outnumber gingas, then?