Posts by artig
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Hard News: This is your public broadcasting,
That should probably be a looming analog switch-off, not digital, in the penultimate paragraph.
Any idea how TV Central and Choice channels are coping? After the demise of TVNZ7 there are very few channels I find worthwhile watching on Freeview.
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Cracker: Weapons of Mass Production,
Thanks Damian. That's the one.
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Cracker: Weapons of Mass Production,
Those 3 kiwis in Guangzhou sound familiar. Was there a documentary on TV some months ago where they were interviewed?
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall,
Isn't the TradeMe operations manager Mike O'Donnell (MOD), not O'Connell?
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Hard News: For want of some purpose,
I'm one of those who fall well outside the target demographics of commercial TV, and will sorely miss TVNZ 7. Although Save TVNZ 7 was doomed to fail I still supported them, and consider the demise of the channel as one of the stupidest acts perpetrated by the current government.
The hour of news at 8 was a permanent fixture of my viewing calendar, as were local programmes such as Media 7, The Good Word, Talk Talk, The Court Report, The New Old, Hindsight, etc. One of the best series was The Sitting, all 10 episodes of which are still available on TVNZ video on demand.
In future the TV will remain dormant almost every evening.
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The office chair wasn't such a bad spot, either.
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It's many years since I was owned by a cat. During winter her favourite spot was in front of the fireplace. Not always too happy being disturbed.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…,
yaknow
Seems to be creeping in everywhere as a placeholder when explaining something that the listener obviously does not know. Sometimes, yaknow, I just can't help counting the number of yaknows speakers use, especially when they start out, yaknow, with two or more in a single sentence.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement,
Preventing people from drawing a pension while working would help even more.
Introducing a 100% surtax probably wouldn't go down too well with voters. Neither those already receiving superannuation nor those due to retire within the next 10 years or so.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…,
Sorry, I get it now. It was not about the Nazi party, but it was about the Nazis, forming other parties.
