Posts by Dave Patrick
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This one was actually a paint ad - goofy-looking guy in said towelling hat asks cool-looking guy (who obviously knows how to choose his paint) what paint he used on his house, because they're painting the local clubrooms again because last year's paint "fell off"
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I'd love to see the early 80s "Fell off" ad. Think it was paint, not sure
It was for paint - the "fell off" guy was dressed in (if I remember correctly) classic 70s fashion of towelling hat, tight t shirt and probably stubbies.
"Yeah, fell off. Still has"
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Joanne Black's column features in discussions in our house regularly - even my 13 year old daughter mocks her columns about her kids. She's so self-obsessed she makes Narcissus seem empathetic.
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Ruth Aitken will never be sacked as Silver Ferns coach - a series loss to England and a complete inability to win a series against Australia hasn't seen her go yet, so I can't see her going now.
She'll trundle on till the next World Cup/Commonwealth Games, where we'll narrowly beat/lose to Australia, and then at some stage she'll decide to retire. She must have a plain brown envelope stuffed with photos of the board of Netball New Zealand, she's so teflon-coated.
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I really can't see my beloved Counties avoiding the drop at the end of this season, especially if they carry on playing the way they are at the moment. They've already played two of the supposed weaker teams and lost both games, so I'm not holding my breath :(
I'll just carry on living in the halcyon days of my youth when Counties (NOT Counties-Manukau) were one of the top teams in the country, played exciting, dangerous rugby (think Wellington on steroids), and played a series of heart-breaking Ranfurly Shield challenges that ended in 1 or 2 point losses, or even more tragically draws against Canterbury and Waikato.... *sobs*
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There's also the marvellous irony of politicians banging on continuously about the need to upskill the workforce, and retain our best and brightest, and the Budget cutting all funding to gifted education advisory groups.
It's still a legislated requirement for primary schools to identify and provide for their gifted kids, but they now no longer have anywhere to turn for ideas on exactly how to do this.... and given that the average school teacher will have spent about two lectures learning about identification and extension of gifted children, I don't expect the situation to improve.
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Increased productivity is just more output for the same input - for nurses and doctors it would be more patients//operations for the same money/drug spend/mortality rate. Teachers is a harder one. MPs would have to STFU at question time and in debates to get more productivity - might also serve to enhance their reputation somewhat it they did.
Not a good step setting up a long term "productivity increase" panel when you've just scrapped tax breaks for research and development either.....
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And by "press" I of course mean "Press".........
Curse you, lack-of-edit-function-man
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I'm going to bag the press (again) for its uncanny ability to pretend to be an important "national" newspaper whilst continually exposing its small, provincial heart.
Its "Super Sport" Monday morning section this morning had around 12 column inches of "zomg what can the Tactix do in their game tonight" preview-y waffle-crap and around six column inches of the main game in the Christchurch club netball competition
Then, squeezed in underneath these stellar reports, a sum total of about 6 column inches covering not only the first-ever win by the Pulse, but also the first-ever win by a New Zealand-based team in Australia.
Gits.
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Martin van Beynen may be an "old fashioned journalist", he may have sat through every day of the trial, but I take everything he writes with a healthy dose of scepticism because of the sheer dross he writes on occasion. As a balanced view on the Bain trial, it wasn't. As a reinforcement of the prosecution case while ignoring the doubt raised in some areas by the defense, it was very good.