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  • Steve Barnes,

    DPF (Slightly to the right of Ronald Rumsfeld)
    What makes you think Antonie Dixon was mentally ill? I think he was very sane, compared to the people on my blog.

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    OK folks, you've warmed up on some easy targets try and extract the urine from comments that parody themselves in one hermetically sealed package.

    Can you maybe pick a thread I'm not in next time you pour scorn? :)

    Like this beauty, which I nearly commented in & then decided wasn't worth it.

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/02/january_murders.html#comments

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Ewww... that really is the right kind of wrong. I'd say good spotting, Andrew, but you should be looking at something more wholesome -- like... pretty much anything else that won't land you a taxpayer-funded holiday with the rest of the pervs.

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

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Quite amusing how much time the left wing sites spend writing patronizingly about Kiwiblog.

    Love how this is at the start of a thread consisting pretty much of patronising bile & rant against The Standard & Public Address. I hesitate to lower myself to generalising about the "Left" and "Right", but one of them does seem to be an irony free zone :)

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    The Guardian! Honestly, if we can't count on the last bastion of uptight leftism to be responsibly emotionally retarded, what's the world coming to?

    It is strange. Their comments thread seems to have been hijacked by sock puppets for a long time. Just isn't worth the bother.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • Bart Janssen,

    R^3=right (Can't remember were my home is)

    Einstein is an example of what is wrong with our education system today. He didn't need any fancy overhead projectors or computers to derive his equation. Pen and paper were good enough for him I say it's good enough for our schools. We could save hundreds of dollars if we went back to pencil and paper and abandoned all this modern rubbish they waste money on now.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 4461 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Pen and paper were good enough for him

    I bet the cheating B-stard used a sliderule.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Heather Gaye,

    QuantumOfSolace

    What a load of tripe! I can't believe this bollix gets published, let alone funded!!! Einstein's a hippocrite, he has one law for individual particles and a whole different law for everyone else!!

    Morningside • Since Nov 2006 • 533 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    OK folks, you've warmed up on some easy targets try and extract the urine from comments that parody themselves in one hermetically sealed package.

    Meh.

    OutragedJim (Manukau)

    I've just come back and in OZ and the US they have much lower use of relativity. I used to have faith in the system here, but it's failed, after 20 years of neglect. We've lost so much - and Clark is mainly to blame.

    Mass does convert to energy, but it should be optional. I mean there are good rules, and bad rules, and rules that simply aren't needed. The red tape in the name of science keeps stacking up. Scientists should be able to believe whatever they want, and not be criticised by post-modern relativists. We're falling behind, because of a lack of moral and broadband fibre.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Just last night, I read a Guardian piece about Carol Thatcher calling 'an unspecified tennis player' a golliwog. By the time I got to the comments thread, about one comment in three had been deleted by the moderator.

    So, she's not even disciplined but sacked for allegedly making an off-colour comment in the green room (and off-air) but some fat butt plug of a DJ on Radio 1 makes a crack on air about Polish women making good prostitutes -- and the antics of Brand and Ross don't need to rehashed --, not such a big deal... Even at the Beeb, it looks light there's one standard for the big-ticket lads and quite another for the ladies.

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

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Though looking at the British poli-blogs comments on Thatcher-gate, I find it rather ironic how often you see:
    1) The very people on the right who wanted Russell Brand strung up as a zombie piñata, now don't see the fuss.
    or,
    2) Being the spawn of the Demoness Milk-Snatcher, Carol Thatcher must be a drooling racist and should be cast back into the hell dimension she came from.

    There is a rational middle ground, isn't there? Like, if the allegations are true then it's just not professional conduct at the BBC, but the Corporation also need to apply consistent standards across the board.

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

  • James Liddell,

    There is a rational middle ground, isn't there?

    Apparently not, as this thread has so aptly made light of!

    Wellington • Since Jul 2007 • 102 posts Report Reply

  • Kumara Republic,

    There is a rational middle ground, isn't there?

    In an ideal world, there would be. Unfortunately, some burning issues, like Laura Norder, have deteriorated into a U-shaped curve where neutrality or shades of grey are drowned out.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    There is a rational middle ground, isn't there?
    Apparently not, as this thread has so aptly made light of!

    Umm . Just while can, could I just say Tony RIP. I know those that read about him recently hold a rather dim view but for those of us that had known him before will remember a guy who I (for one at least) did like and had none of the problems that were portrayed. I hadn't seen Tony for a while and I never judged him to be a person I would ignore. He was a strong character, but not someone I feared. I guess some of what Tony had to go through did reflect on some of his behaviour but It's just a guess and to wonderful Wendy and the kids, my deepest condolences.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    Farrar, if you're reading - how on earth can you seriously hold this position?:

    DPF: What makes you think he was mentally ill? I think he was very sane and manipulative. Are you a qualified psychiatrist who examined him?

    What, and you are one yourself? You're not setting even an average standard of reasoning or morality for what has long become a cesspit. Grow up man.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • WH,

    BillRalston69 (No Fixed Abode)

    I'll leave the analysis of that most famous of equations to the boffins, but who hasn't been impressed by John Key's handling of the Einstein crisis? Apart from an alarming inability to negotiate stairs, Key has not put a foot wrong.

    Unencumbered by worn out ideologies, Barack Obama and Key have taken a reassuringly pragmatic approach to the question of whether E really does equal mc^2.

    When the cynic in me wonders whether the theory is just more Beehive spin, I remind myself that "the ground has shifted". Still, so far all we have heard is rhetoric - it will be many months before we see whether these big ideas are workable.

    HOT

    The Manhattan Project
    John Key
    Media training

    NOT

    Big Government
    Opposition MP's
    Civil servants
    Gypsies
    Bloggers

    Since Nov 2006 • 797 posts Report Reply

  • 81stcolumn,

    McMurray

    I just love the way this equation f**ks over mass in a relative way - it deserves it.

    81st goes to wash hands........

    Nawthshaw • Since Nov 2006 • 790 posts Report Reply

  • dc_red,

    ...an average standard of reasoning or morality...

    The point, I suspect, has nothing to do with reasoning or morality, and everything to do with tossing the baying mob a very juicy cut of meat indeed.

    Oil Patch, Alberta • Since Nov 2006 • 706 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Like this beauty, which I nearly commented in & then decided wasn't worth it.

    Ugh. A pointless, confused post on The Standard begets an adolescent-grade rejoinder from DPF (who is, metaphorically speaking, writing in short pants much of the time lately) which in turn produces ... that thread.

    Isn't there a better use for electrons than that?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    BillRalston69 (No Fixed Abode)

    Oooh, WH, that was ... spooky.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    Isn't there a better use for electrons than that?

    Um - analysing the root cause(s) of Christian Bale's mega-hissy?

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Um - analysing the root cause(s) of Christian Bale's mega-hissy?

    Well, it's slightly less nauseating than displaying your (alleged) respect for the rule of law and human life by getting a lynch mob together to go piss on Antonie Dixon's grave. (And apparently anyone who'd represent the man deserved to be shanked by his own seriously disturbed client -- really.) Laura Norder is a skank, and I really have to stay away from these kinds of argument for the sake of my own mental health. If you're going to engage these people, you got to wrap your head around their arguments and I just can't handle it.

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

  • Steve Barnes,

    Procrastinator (Papatoetoe)
    First

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    Retired of Wellsford (Wellsford)

    Teach the controversy. This theory has only been around for 100 years or so, and in that time has been criticised by many prominent academics and scholars, such as Sir Cecil Rhodes. It does not, for example, teach us why apples fall from trees, or why the sun rotates the earth - this is observable, and proven, while this theory has nothing to say on the subject - and when it does, is quietly hushed up. It's time NZ schools taught Ptolemaic physics alongside Newtonianism and Einsteinism, and explain that not everyone accepts the latter. I have had some good feedback from a number of politicians and expect that John Key will be receptive to the idea.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • Heather W.,

    NoMoreClones (Christchurch)

    So this really is more than the limit. This
    other MC Squared character will one day show us the relative sincerity of a smile!!

    North Shore • Since Nov 2008 • 189 posts Report Reply

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