Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Che Tibby,
The RoNS is only supposed to be $11B, which is coincidentally the same amount as JonKey reckoned he could get from selling off some assets.
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Hard News: Budget 2011: While you wait, in reply to Mark Hansen,
That's nice work. Thanks.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Rich Lock,
We should probably start legislating against the placebo effect.
Sometimes, you look at a blog comment and think "Dang! I’d like to retweet that!”
ETA I also think "Dang! I wish the colon wasn't next to the double quote!"
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I’m too middle-class.
And Simon is not? bwahahaha!
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Sacha,
As if to ruin my example, Joyce backs down on that plan in favour of a PPP risk-share arrangement suggested by the Maori Party.
Hmmm, maybe we can get the Māori Party to realise that the RoNS are no good either...
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
You should write a soap: "Life, Death and the Chev" or, maybe "What's the Point?"
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I’m guessing to do that we’d need vertebrates in parliament.
+1 for a nice riposte ;-)
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to vangam,
If it were only used by the “criminal element” it would hardly be the scourge of society that we are told it us
That's not what Mikaere said. He said "P is a drug of choice for criminal elements" which does not exclude it from the general population at all. He went on to say it suited their non-employment based lifestyle.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Sacha,
I guess in a future version that type of thing could be a remembered personal preference.
Ah, now there's a good thought for the Gods of Cactus. Personally, I'm still feeling pleased they managed to fix italics.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Sacha,
They’re even canvassing alternatives.
Like lemmings we’re accepting National’s framing of the budget, and marching even faster to our economic doom
As the resident lemming, I'd like to raise an objection to that characterization. We don't march, we skitter.