Posts by Ben McNicoll

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  • Hard News: ffunnell Up!,

    Perhaps their target market is actually people who will click through, look at it, then tweet about with "WTF is this?!" and then engage in some lolz with their friends about its absurdity.

    You have to click through to one of the sites linked from the landing page to get to the seriously WTF material.

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Chaos in Kingsland,

    Before reading about it, I very clearly heard "I can't <exhalation noises> breathe <exhalation noises> I can't" while listening for "I shot the prick".

    I have a very good monitoring setup for recording, but forming any opinion off the compressed audio from an online video is problematic.

    @mark: don't we usually talk about being dead as a continuous state.

    I think people avoid any sentence construction that uses "were dead" because it raises the question "what are they now?"

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Hard News: ffunnell Up!,

    Is anyone else a bit weirded out by the new "A Sign of Hope" banner ads that have popped up recently on PA System?

    It appears to be promoting the website of some fruity new age group who believe some star is signalling the return of "the World Teacher". And as far as I can tell, it is not a pisstake.

    That's a big WTF from me too... at the least it seems like very poor identification of target audience (on the advertisers part).

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Chaos in Kingsland,

    Even despite the prompting, the first thing I heard was breathe, not prick.

    yes, quite clearly

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Island Life: The resignation of Captain Worth,

    So did he (Worth) jump because he saw the push coming, do you think?

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Budget 2009: “Aww, shit.”…,

    I hope the media see through the "delay/defer" spin on tax cuts.

    Yep, these were the "fully costed and funded" tax cuts that absolutely could and would happen.

    In the words of a Tui billboard....

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Island Life: Don't need no steenkin' lockup,

    I don't see why anyone is surprised that the government is paying such attention to S&P.

    What exactly did people think they were getting when they voted in a foreign exchange trader?

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    Oh, also: I notice that Daily Show episodes are freely available on iTunes. Are they blocked as well?

    I can't see them on iTunes, and aren't they a paid download anyway?

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Colbert Report starts Wednesday,

    .. right about the time that comedy central have cut off the ability to "view full episode" to people outside USA.

    carp.

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Dear Prudence,

    Yes, but the point is, it's their markup they are competing on, which is an added layer of profit taking going onto that power price, which perhaps wouldn't need to be there.

    Grey Lynn • Since May 2007 • 115 posts Report

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