Posts by Joe Wylie
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Legal Beagle: A rather incomplete…, in reply to BenWilson,
we haven’t had an actual terrorist attack since the 1980s
Assuming that you're referring to the Rainbow Warrior, I rather doubt that Key would consider that a terrorist attack. Thatcher certainly didn't. I recall her angrily cutting short questions from a journalist who had the temerity to suggest that it was.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Succeed in politics and you have many enthusiastic fathers crowding about. Fail and you are that sad, forgotten orphan sitting on the step outside in the rain.
If you’re Kim Dotcom Fairfax will relegate you to, um, Digital Living, in the Technology section.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
This whole thing is getting a Sleeping Dogs feel about it.
(I would post a tune….but sadly the soundtrack is unavailable.)
How about the graffiti that Smith discovers when he's dumped in a solitary confinement cell:
To any poor bastard who reads this through
You're up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe -
Capture: Lost, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Oops, sorry, already spotted. Thanks Jonathan :)
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Capture: Lost, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
The buildings did have that ’World Of Tomorrow’ look about them.
Wonderful stuff. There's a bit of the Centennial Exhibition near the end of the Wairoa to Wellington video in this remarkable find.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to BenWilson,
So…he drinks the blood of the deflowered AND holds it down???
Don't they all. Unlike Farrar, though, I doubt if he really believes any of that stuff.
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Nicky Hager’s book (which I did read.) and did you read the book?
Did you ever see Andy Warhol's Dracula, where the title character suffers terrible consequences if he drinks the blood of a non-virgin? When he happens to bite a victim who's been freshly deflowered by Joe Dalessandro he rushes to the bathroom, where he retchingly fills the bathtub with more lurid green vomit than his body could possibly contain.
While some of Key's stauncher defenders give the impression that they'd suffer a similar reaction from reading any of Hager's works, I'm sure that Mr Hooton is made of sterner stuff.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I loved Flick as a child
Him and Toot.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
He would be well advised to flick the engine….maybe when he’s big enough???
Heh.
They won't let me put out fires, isn't that a shame
Someday I'll be big and strong and fight every flame... -
Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Hilary Stace,
But there are unions and then there are other unions.
And there are unionists and unionists. For example, it’s possible to be militantly anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-feminist while remaining a major powerbroker in the Australian union movement.
At the last count the Shoppies were one of Australia’s largest unions with over 200,000 members.