Hard News by Russell Brown

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Hard News: Here's one I prepared earlier

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  • Robyn Gallagher,

    Best thing about the Colin pic - the foot in the lower left-hand corner. It doesn't seem like it should be there, and yet it's the perfect place for a cat's foot.

    Also - in the future when antibiotics stop working, doctors will prescribe internet lolz.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,

    Best thing about the Colin pic – the foot in the lower left-hand corner. It doesn’t seem like it should be there, and yet it’s the perfect place for a cat’s foot.

    Glad you noticed. I had exactly the same reaction.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Helen Searancke,

    I heart Colin. I have a cat here doing the same thing, though not quite so flamboyantly. It's the weather for it. Also heart the audio clip. Cheers.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Alastair Jamieson,

    Not much into nationalism, but NZ's stance on nuclear weapons and indeed David Lange’s Oxford Union Speech are two of the rare things that give me a strong sense of national pride.
    Thanks for the mp3 Russell!

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 99 posts Report Reply

  • David Herkt,

    In the first "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" clip, Ayn Rand's amphetamine-crazed pupils are AMAZING... But, yes. Russell, a badly flawed doco, which is a pity, because we won't get another on a similar topic for a while. And never in NZ, anyway, as a given.

    Auckland • Since Sep 2007 • 53 posts Report Reply

  • Ross Mason,

    Could the tetanus shot really be the reason for the sweats? Infections usually cause sweats rather than vaccinations..................sounds like you were really crook but.

    So.....off I go to check out Hilary.......what makes me think I am in for a yelling-at-the-screen session.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby,

    MENS GROUPS EXPOSED!

    i wish to interrupt this friday blog to present you this:

    (discovered on The Age website)

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • Dave Waugh,

    Yes I had backbenchers on in the background as I potted about the other night and Calverts even more barking than normal perfomance stopped me in my tracks!
    I was gobsmaked at just how appalingly thick that statement was.
    She is NZ's answer to Palin. :-(

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 98 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Che Tibby,

    deeply wrong on so many levels #shuddder

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Christopher Dempsey, in reply to Dave Waugh,

    Yes I had backbenchers on in the background as I potted about the other night and Calverts even more barking than normal perfomance stopped me in my tracks!
    I was gobsmaked at just how appalingly thick that statement was.
    She is NZ's answer to Palin. :-(

    Yes, but have Palin's eyes ever graced a brothel advertisement?

    Parnell / Tamaki-Auckland… • Since Sep 2008 • 659 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,

    Yes, but have Palin's eyes ever graced a brothel advertisement?

    Rule34

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    (and battery hens were happy and heathy)

    It's the damn straw in them chickens off the heath that get stuck in your craw.

    <Right, I'm over the wall>

    PS. Check the styles at the end of that video. 1983. What were we thinking?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Hadyn Green,

    Where's Wallace buying his free range eggs from? $9?! That's stupid, shop around, bro.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2090 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,

    Yes, but have Palin's eyes ever graced a brothel advertisement?

    Oh FFS... can we please call moral panic/slut-shaming bullshit on this? I know the HeraldFail and ComPost never quite got over the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, but Calvert has a financial interest in a brothel. Her eyes were... oh, I don't really give a shit. Neither is illegal. Neither is even vaguely improper. Most pertinently, neither has the slightest relevance to my stunned disbelief every damn time she opens her mouth as an MP.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Glad you noticed. I had exactly the same reaction.

    I love it when cats stretch and arrange their limbs in the "that's not right, but is awfully impressive" way they do.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    Battery hens were happy and healthy?

    Saw this for the first time today. It seems apposite. Also full of gender-confused drawings. And bad cow puns.

    H/T: Tigtog at Hoyden about Town

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Reid, in reply to Ross Mason,

    Could the tetanus shot really be the reason for the sweats? Infections usually cause sweats rather than vaccinations

    Immunisations often cause fever. MoH tips following immunisation. Condolences Russell.

    South Africa • Since Nov 2006 • 80 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Matthew Reid,

    Immunisations often cause fever. MoH tips following immunisation. Condolences Russell.

    And the nurse only told me there might be a unpleasant reaction after the shot. Between a bigger dose of a different antibiotic and the jab, I was feeling pretty munted even before I went to bed that night.

    Still, good to be coming right.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby, in reply to Russell Brown,

    only time i've ever had that sort of sweats was after eating a delicious, delicious 5-week-aged black angus rump steak.

    350g of holy-fck-the-chef-poisoned-me.

    you been into the good stuff beforehand?

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Reid,

    MoH advises lots of fluids. And cuddles. And paracetamol. Naturopaths reckon the MoH doesn't say enough about the ill-effects of immunisation.

    Of course getting tetanus would be worse. I've seen it in babies and it's not nice.

    South Africa • Since Nov 2006 • 80 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Deborah,

    Battery hens were happy and healthy?

    Calvert’s statement – delivered as if it were known fact – was wrong in basically every way it could be wrong.

    - It’s battery hens that get the antibiotics – not only to prevent disease, but as a growth promoter.

    - NZ FREPA guidelines prohibit the use of antibiotics in free-range chicken.

    - And bird flu is a virus. Antibiotics would have no effect on it at all.

    Calvert is like the perfect expression of the Actoid philosophy, where facts are the product of ideology, rather than evidence or observation.

    Mind you, I was disappointed that Sue Kedgley didn’t seem to know any of this when she got a opportunity to respond.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah, in reply to Che Tibby,

    Raw kina. I lost a kilo in the space of 12 hours. Not very nice at all.

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • wendyf, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,

    Indeed, Alastair. Something else that makes a lump in my throat, looking back, is the memory of a frigate going to Mururoa. With an MP - minister?- on board. I know everything wasn't golden in those days but it felt good to be a New Zealander.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 88 posts Report Reply

  • Thomas Johnson, in reply to recordari,

    <Right, I'm over the wall>

    Oddly, that song came up on my ipod* today while I was driving home. Great stuff, and vastly preferable to Wham imho

    *insert non-apple mp3 player of your choice.

    Wellington • Since Oct 2007 • 98 posts Report Reply

  • Christopher Dempsey, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Oh FFS... can we please call moral panic/slut-shaming bullshit on this? I know the HeraldFail and ComPost never quite got over the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, but Calvert has a financial interest in a brothel. Her eyes were... oh, I don't really give a shit. Neither is illegal. Neither is even vaguely improper. Most pertinently, neither has the slightest relevance to my stunned disbelief every damn time she opens her mouth as an MP.

    Sorry love... just stirring there. FWIW I agree. Her eyes atop her brothel? Where's the story in that? I couldn't believe the 4th Form behaviour of some male reporters. Snigger snigger they went. Sigh. Boys. Really. The product of Enlightenment. We really can't escape our base feelings can we?

    Parnell / Tamaki-Auckland… • Since Sep 2008 • 659 posts Report Reply

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