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Mitch Benn points out the limits of Lennon's song:
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Key thinks the Fourth Estate is no longer relevant and he is apparently happy to carry on with his Fifth Column action against anyone who thinks in NZ…
… he really doesn’t get it does he?But he gets away with it ... because not enough people have any kind of Si(x)th Sense?
@Rae: snap.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to BenWilson,
complete surrender of any responsibility for choice about what one’s mind is subjected to [...] it’s what millions of people do actually like to do in NZ
Baaaaaarry Humphries' line about NZ being "a nation of 60 million sheep, 3 million of whom think they're human" comes to mind
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One little thing to bear in mind if one is conflating Christian ideology and colonialism in a New Zealand context: New Zealand’s only leader appointed by a Christian organisation was Governor Fitzroy, who demonstrably applied Christian values in his leadership ... and was hounded out of office by the colonists within two years as a direct result.
(Amongst the signatories to the petition calling for his removal was my own great-great-great-great-grandfather… and also one of his sons, who was 11 at the time, and seems to have signed the petition twice…) -
Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Tom Semmens,
prolytise
vt., spread to the common people.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Russell Brown,
The number of people affiliating with Hinduism increased 39.6 percent since 2006 […while the…] number of people affiliating with the Muslim religion increased 27.9 percent
Proportionally, there have been even larger increases in the Hindi-speaking and Arabic-speaking populations of NZ over that time, which points to immigration being the main driver for these trends; the “born in NZ” subsets are probably second-generation members of those immigrant communities, rather than adult conversions. Could tease that out by cross-classifying by age, I suppose.
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books sometimes use faggot correctly.
e.g., when an American base guard inspects a Witchfinder’s identity card in Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens (p.346):
“What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?”
“Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt. “We burn them.”
“Say what?”
“We burn them.”
The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said. -
In Clean Reader, all sex is anal sex.
Amazing how attempts to enforce purity inspire a race to the bottom.
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Guns were involved last time Steven mentioned doing this, so I assumed it was just a typo for “eradicated”. Maybe I was wrong!
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Legal Beagle: What next for Winston?, in reply to sean mahoney,
Surely you jest? NZF would be (justifiably) spanked by the electorate for pulling a stunt like that.