Posts by Paul Litterick
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That's true, Steve, but if they want to promote their beliefs on prime time television they have to pay for it themselves.
What's more, when they are shown on televsion they are presented as adherents to their beliefs; the psychics, on the other hand, are presented as possessing special skills and being helpful to the investigation. The show presents them as if they were equivalent to forensic scientists.
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Ignoring Beijing is an option, one which I shall be taking. Sport is a media-pharmaceutical complex, the Chinese regime is an hideous tyranny of old men making money from oppression and the efforts of our brave athletes will blown out of all proportion by patriotic bombast; what's more, the architecture is ghastly techno-kitsch.
And I don't buy the argument that the Chinese youth are seething with righteous indignation in the face of Western media bias. I think what we are seeing is a new wave of nationalism, one which is very dangerous for all of us. The regime has used the Games to stoke up all the old Chinese resentments against the West, to its advantage.
All of it is horrible; I shall ignore it all, because I am powerless to do anything about it.
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I think Hager might need to issue a "put up or shut up" statement.
I think he should. I think Morning Report should not use these allegations, which are totally unfounded, as if they had some basis. The same goes for the allegations that Labour activists (who somehow sneaked into National's conference) taped Smith and English's conversations.
Plunket's interview of Cullen was absurd, something like:
Plunket: did Labour activists tape these conversations?
Cullen: I have no idea who taped these conversations.
Plunket: So your not denying it was Labour activists.[Repeat twelve times]
Anyone for Kafka?
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What Giovanni said.
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If it is any help to the nostalgics here, I have just come across an article in the 29th October 1990 edition of the Listener entitled The Shock of the Brew:
"How many cups of coffee do you drink a day? A modest amount of caffeine can keep you feeling full of beans. But, despite recent reports that coffee is safe, excessive quanties of this drug can be extremely harmful, both physically and mentally."
Clearly, by 1990 coffee had become a problem. Incidentally, the article was written by Pamela Stirling.
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my man and I used to frequent Expressoholic
One simply does not take coffee with one's servants. I despair of how standards have slipped in the Colonies.
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¡Scorchio! A Fast Show reference from Ms Gallagher.
Mr Brown, I could not help but notice, while enjoying your excellent hospitality, that you had a bottle of Home Brand olive oil; and verily I was impressed that the Brown family put common sense before oil snobbery. I stopped buying Italian Extra Virgin when I found the Home Brand to be just as good in cooking.
Still, I think these local oils to be better for dribbling over vegetables. And it is nice to see (in b4 Jake) that we are pressing above our weight on a global stage.
Someone from Restaurant Brands was on NatRad saying that their franchise model meant they would not be forced to do what the Australian Starbucks had done. Myself, I think they do a good job in providing somewhere for the tourists to enjoy coffee laced with strange fruit, thereby leaving space free in the good places for us boho types.
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Other amusing possibilities could be "almost extinct!" and "not an aphrodisiac!"
Somewhere in New Zealand, there are probably children who have been named "almost extinct" and "not an aphrodisiac."
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This isn't difficult: RNZ does not have advertisements; it does not exist to make a profit by selling its listeners to advertisers. It is public service broadcasting which treats its audience as intelligent people who deserved to be informed, educated and entertained.
I remember when The Listener was like that.
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Consumer-generated media rules or rule: only on a site like this one will your readers write your argument for you.