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  • Island Life: Q+A. Fill in the blanks.,

    The answer's right there: you only need 23 people to select that answer, for whatever random reason, possibly linked to limited literacy skills. ("Oh. Minister of Education? Education is good. So, Minister of Education is good." Baaaa.)
    More seriously: a poll that small, of self-selecting respondents, can only produce meaningless numbers.

    Margin of error: ≈ ± 89.3%.

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

  • Hard News: Madness in Mt Albert,

    I'm confident he would, but since I didn't call Shearer a racist in the first place I wasn't really in the mood to state the fucking obvious. I was just saying that I didn't think that was a cold call Lee was going to be following up on any time soon...

    And you're right. Sadly, not everyone has the attention span to cotton on to that fact.

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  • Hard News: Madness in Mt Albert,

    So, I'm going to ask this again: Am I the only person here who's actually met Simon Collins? My impression (and a well-founded one) is that any insinuation that he'd slant a story towards any party is not only absurd but pretty distasteful.

    By his own will, or imposed from the top-floor office?

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  • Hard News: Madness in Mt Albert,

    I'm more of the impression that Collins is having to toe the editorial line. And I concur with Simon G that Shearer would be among the first to tell Baird to get lost.

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  • Island Life: Dairy dairy me.,

    Schwarzwaldkirschetorte

    I think I am in love.

    Mmmm, far too tempting...

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  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    Find Mr McShane's house and build SH1 right through it I say.

    Better still, drive the bulldozer through, while he's asleep. And display the resultant trophy on the wall in Te Papa.

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  • Discussion: Regarding Auckland,

    The plot thickens...

    (Hat-tip to The Standard.)

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  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    And notice the hypocrisy: the local families are only a fly spec in time relative to this motorway, but the present generation should have the unconstrained right to exploit the worlds resources without regard to future generations.

    A visit to Nauru & Easter Island would be a good start for these "Exploit or Perish" types.

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  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    Oh, probably. You have to understand that Owen issues his fatwas against selfish suburbanites and their families from the Centre for Resource Management Studies HQ in Kaiwaka, Northland.

    In other words, equal opportunity of being Prossered?

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

  • Hard News: Going Underground,

    Also, charming "entertainments" at the same site...

    Godwin's Law #3: Reductio ad bin Ladenum.

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