Posts by Rob Hosking
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I would pay quite a lot of money to see Bjork covering 'Crazy Horses'.
You know, that would kind of work. At least, better than 'Long Haired Lover from Liverpool' or 'Gonna knock on your door'
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Don't forget Boenoe and Oe2....
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I may have pointed this out before, but Bjork sounds amazingly like Little Jimmy Osmond, a lot of the time.
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Am I the only one posting here who had to go and look up what 'X' actually is?
I am, aren't I....
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Let's see ... we have our #2 trading partner heading for the biggest recession in a generation, oil prices climbed 50% last year, our currency is gaining strength and pressuring exporters, food prices are on the rise, climate change is happening all around us, and interest rates are the highest they've been in years. Against this background, Key spends all his time talking about ..... taggers?!
I think we can assume that since both the main party leaders devoted their opening speeches to issues around The Youth Of Today that their polling is picking this up as an issue.
Another economic speech would not have cut the mustard. Nor would climate change. And that applies to both Clark and Key.
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My own favourite P J O'rouke thing....and those of delicate sensiblities should move onto the next post, where someone is sure to be arguing Key's speech today was somehow both dog whistling for right wing neanderthals and a copy of Labour's policies ...O'Rourke was describing a dope fest he and a mate had back in his hippy days.
His mate got the munchies and proceeded to devour a huge pot of extremely hot chilli.
O'Rourke woke next morning to the sight of his mate trying to run his arse under a cold tap....
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Sure, a dictionary definition doesn't capture the negative emotional connotations. But I'm sure the same could be said for the highly loaded "anti-smacking"...
No, that's what Sue Bradford initially called it herself, when the bill was drawn out of the private members' ballot. This was before she realised the negative connotations of it.
I've still got the press release she put out at the time.
In fact, you can see it on the Greens web site here: http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/PR6778.html
The idea that the term 'anti-smacking' is spin term coined by Family First and their supporters is spin in itself.
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From memory 'Boot Camp' was a term originally used for military training camps.
It's redolent of the old days of compulsory military training. I don't think its quite what is being proposed here. I suspect with this they get to sit around and talk about their feelings a lot more.
Incidentally, Annette King has just put out a statement saying itsLabour's policy anyway, and that the teenage problems we have are all because of Ruth Richardson's 'mother of all budgets'.
What price dog whistle?
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They shouldn't have worried too much. I don't know anyone who watches Motorway Patrol.
I don't know anyone who buys Phil Collins CDs either. But someone sure as hell does.
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I think the first one to suggest that chant was Garry Wills, in a polemic written in the early 1980s which got stuck in to the Kennedy myth.