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  • Hard News: Trading Trade Me?,

    And, rather appropriately, one of our customers walked into our shop wearing this:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/8f52/

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

  • Speaker: ReEntry,

    We hear stories all the time of the 'brain drain'. But we never hear about the sort of people who would fulfill their civic duty just by emigrating out of NZ. Sir Joh is the most obvious example, as is a sizeable chunk of Talkbackistan.

    And there was a story in the Sunday Star Times 4.5 years ago about provincial NZers packing their backwardness in their suitcases and moving to suburban Queensland. The article was written not long after the Orewa Rotary controversy, and long before the Subprime Chernobyl. And this recent incident serves them right. ;D

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  • Hard News: A Weird Day in the Hood,

    Given what modern talkback radio has come to, I wouldn't be surprised if someone slips on a Guy Fawkes mask and concocts a liberal dose of mischief.
    And if those who vent their spleen in Talkbackistan practised what they preached, they might as well organise a Fingermen militia.

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  • Hard News: Reasons to be cheerful,

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  • Hard News: Reasons to be cheerful,

    Perhaps some of us Wellington-based PA regulars could organise a less formal get-together?

    Count me in. What of a FaceBook group to help coordinate things?

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  • Obamania, For Real,

    Yes, I'm guessing that it looked a bit like this.

    Or, better still...

    http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPl5BkjMIE

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  • Cracker: If You Are Interesting Please Inside*,

    Sorry about th€ "€", som€ w€ird thai k€yboard thing...

    It looks kind of funky though... bordering on l337-speek.

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  • Up Front: Will Work for Foo,

    Playing this in the background usually works as a repellent... ;->

    http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOpUqni0_g

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  • Hard News: Conversation Starters,

    There seems to be some kind of undrawn border line between traditionally Protestant/Orthodox and traditonally Catholic nations in Europe when it comes to binge drinking. With the notable exception of Ireland, of course. And bingeing habits in the Anglophone New World seem to have been inherited from their former colonial masters.

    And for further enlightenment...

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  • Hard News: Conversation Starters,

    Call me a tin-foil hatter, but I'm not the only one to suspect the Granny's pontificating is connected to liqour advertising revenue at stake.

    Wisdom for the day, c/- the Grauniad (my emphasis in bold):

    In 1992, the Los Angeles riots left 55 dead and a multibillion-dollar trail of destruction. Ten years on, community leaders say the city's poor are still being let down by government and business. Duncan Campbell on how LA failed to learn the lessons of the biggest civil disturbance of recent American history
    ........

    In 1992, the 700 liquor stores in the area - more than in the whole state of Pennsylvania - acted as magnets for crime. They sold the paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine and often adjoined "quick trick" motels where rooms are rented by the hour with a free condom and people could shoot up or prostitute themselves for the price of a fix or a rock. During the rioting, 200 of the stores were burned down. Neighbourhood campaigns ensured that 150 of them never reopened, but crime is on the increase again.

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