Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Could it be that (whisper it!) there's a class hierarchy here
Well I'm sure if you were patient you could find other reasons in terms of the classifications criteria; I assume fewer people see festival movies (especially in the past?) and for actual film societies I assume someone has your name. But on the other hand - yes, yes there could.
While we're comparing fields, I seem to recall there has never been theatre censorship here. There's you scripts and your acts-performed in public, but not the play per se.
In other news the SPCS get to have GTA IV's classification reviewed.
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Sociopathy of some form.
I'm told there's a version of the actual psychopathy diagnosis tool designed for businesspeople and so on rather than criminal offenders.
I also believe there's a personality disorder called "Narcissism".
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Jupiter has a diameter of X kilometres.
That doesn't sound very big - I commute almost XXX kilometres to work every day!
(Sorry. I could claim that's a point about linguistic variation being acceptable if we understand each other, but really it's just a silly joke.)
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Nanny State, Pol Pot, democracy-rationing,
comrade, can’t trust a word, hand-outs, authori-
tarian, lesbians, everything’s
political (primordial ooze) with LabourJoseph Stalin, crime, authoritarian,
Minister of Ugly Women’s Affairs,
drooling wannabe totalitarian,
elites, biggest attack on freedom in yearsAhmed Zaoui, foisted, moral cannibalism,
Gutless, Goebbelism and Helen Clark-speak,
bag of tricks, John Pilger, Islamofascism,
Dodgy, Kremlin economics, Doublespeakchild molesters of the mind, shrill, strident
feminazi man-haters who run this govt -
I can report that Maryan Street is calling John Key "sloppy as well as slippery", which is an image I've already spent too long thinking about.
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What are the conservative or right-wing equivalent poo labels that lefties use?
Did you corporate masters tell you to ask that question?
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"pommie commie" (Press gallery chair Vernon Small); "bastion of Islamofascism" (Morning Report); "racist TV" (Maori Television); "communist tabloid" (The Dominion Post) and "run by National's biggest enemies" (The New Zealand Herald)
"Trollops for Tyranny" and variations (The Royal Society of NZ)
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The whole 'footsoldiers' thing does seem to suggest they're all working for the king. Or at least playing the same game*. Rather than raiding the king's stuff to have parties and fuel their own particular fires.
One also gets the idea we're supposed to be invading something. For the purposes of the metaphor that something is probably their own meme pool, so I don't know how that works.
In so far as it's true, uneasy is the head that wears a the crown.
* As far as we're just talking about the relative importance of various contents, it really depends who's askign and what they want. -
My brother tells people who think apple computers are overpriced to go away and cost the bits. I get the impression this has rendered at least one less complain-y.
Of course if you don't want the configuration they offer you might have a different perspective.
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I think the way the name of the company comes up makes it look like an assertion of actualness. Presenting credentials, like.
Worked up about it? Not especially.
It's vaguely like how if, for example, a bank were to have individuals telling their personal banking stories people might assume it's real because if they're just made up, why would that encourage anyone to bank there?
I recall reading a story about a UK campaign some time ago that said "Real people talk about [some company]". In the end they had to admit that the people were actors and, in that sense, not real people.
Incidentally, are we sure it's one take? I only watched it the once but a couple of those wild turns seem blurry enough...