Posts by Don Christie
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Heh, ok, that is a lovely quite Joe. Even for a Dickens Doubter like myself.
That being said, there are no more Lancashire cotton mills left. Mainly because those companies could allow their machines to chop people up elsewhere.
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Dickens was first mentioned in this thread as an example of how art has influenced social change.
Dickens may be useful to historians with the deatil of his descriptions. However it was scientists and statisticians like Edwin Chadwick who were the glory boys of Victorian social reform.
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I was poking the PAS Charles Dickens Appreciation Society
Not here. Thing is the old windbag largely wrote about the era *before* the one his readership lived in. They were able to look back in a glow of self satisfaction on how much things had improved since "the old days".
Anyone else choked on "Little [bloody] Dorrit" at school?
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I wouldn't blog or publish anything he's said, because it's dishonest.
Agreed. If you have had a conversation with a person, politician or otherwise you should ask permission to publish the that conversation.
One of the good things about public figures in NZ is that they are generally very accessible and frank. It would be a shame if that were to change and that's why I don't like the way this information was obtained.
National's response, however, has been disgraceful. Their attempts to dress this up as "gutter politics" is a redefinition of that phrase. We should be very concerned at Wellington CC decision to hand over CCTV to a political party simply because someone has annoyed them.
Similarly, the request should never have been made, it comes across as bullying and authoritarian. Even to the extent of accusing Duncon Garnor and Guyon Espinar of lying about whether Key thought a Bill English coup was likely.
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OTOH can you imagine the outcry from football fans if TVNZ had decided not to cover the football against FSCKING BRAZIL, BABY!
See above. But Brazil were hardly putting out the A team here. The format is under 23s with 3 "older" players allowed. It is really cynical that. There were also a couple of NZ cyclists performing pretty well at the time they did decide not to show *any* updates for 2 long hours.
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Who knows? We're crossing to the soccer.
Which was not only crap but they were happy to interrupt with ads rather than a few 5 minute cut overs to the cycling.
I like soccer, but for the love off God, what is it doing in the Olympics? As a game it has the strongest coverage and global tournaments of any sport and the shit that is dolled out for the Olympics is unwatchable. It is not elite. A demonstration of mediocre at its worst.
The producers at TVNZ need a bollocking on that decision.
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I also admire the use of "bourgeois" along side "rampant socialisation" in that Herald diatribe.
As Obama says, sometimes it seems as though "these guys take pride in being ignorant".
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Well, that was an interesting comment, "undercurrent heightened...overtones". No idea where that came from.
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I like weddings, mainly I suspect because I haven't had one myself, I don't get invited to many, and when I do they tend to be odd. But the eating, drinking dancing talking crap to strangers with the undercurrent heightened emotional overtones...bring it on.
if you subtract the latter you're left with what my partner and I have had for the best part of twenty years. And we're not married.
Same here, but working out anniversaries can be tricky. At least weddings mark a line in the sand.
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I bear Op Shop no will-will, but there's never been one of their songs that has stayed with me. I don't get it, basically.
Let me but in a good word for Op Shop. Thanks to Telecom I got to see them in Wellington a few weeks ago and <gasp> meet the band </gasp>. They put on a great show. Even penned a song for each venue they were going to.
Hope the rest of the tour went well for them. Hope they win.