Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Russell Brown,
One of the small joys of the holidays was feeling no need to look at either Kiwiblog or The Standard.
It will improve your standard of living to continue that practice.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Keith Ng for Minister of Finance, I reckon.
Fuck that. Keith Ng for President!
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Go big or go home
Awesome slogan!
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
coffee beans which my mother bought in paper bags from Faggs in Cuba Street (they weighed them out for you),
Ah, yes! I used to work across the road in James Smiths (when it actually was James Smiths). I loved going into Faggs and buying coffee – the smell alone could keep me going. I would buy the beans for Mum who had a wall-mounted ceramic grinder (wish I’d kept it) and made coffee in one of those stove-top bubbling percolators with the glass top. Truly horrible coffee IIRC but still better than instant ;-)
Faggs was also an importer of odd confectionery, like Dutch liquorice (salty!) and English sweets like CurlyWurlys. So sad when they closed and were replaced by a second-hand sportsgoods store.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Steven Price,
Convictions for low-level nebulous offences such as disorderly and offensive behaviour have gone up from about 2000 a year in 1990 to more than 10,000 since 2008.
I'm curious as to why the judges haven't taken the police to task for wasting the courts' time.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to recordari,
Would you trust him with your handkerchief and bells?
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Lovely post, Emma.
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Oh, peace! </peoples_front_of_judea>
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to recordari,
Wow! Like water-boarding for chocolate. I’ve seen some suppositions in my time, but this is the whole suppository.
So awesome! :-D
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Interesting post at Open Left – Stochastic Terrorism
The person who actually plants the bomb or assassinates the public official is not the stochastic terrorist, they are the “missile” set in motion by the stochastic terrorist. The stochastic terrorist is the person who uses mass media as their means of setting those “missiles” in motion.