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Posted at 9:27AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

On another board friends play "Caption DIY" - I offer:

"I'm turning this in, ACT have need of my talents"

"Weren't there leaves back there when we walked in?"

"I have a new strategy - look into my shiny tie ... are you feeling sleepy ..."

Posted at 9:37AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

OT but urgent-ish.

Could any Christchurch readers within reach of one of those "Zero tolerence [sic] for crime" Act billboards do me a favour and grab a photograph for me? And email it to me?

Ta.

Posted at 10:32AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

If you nationalise the banks we won't run them the way my mates and I have been doing it.

Meanwhile, Alan Bollard couldn't tell Sean Plunket this morning what constitues a "deposit", but if you ring the Reserve Bank's nifty 0800 number someone should be able to tell you. The really scary thing is that I've a little more confidence in him than either Cullen or English.

Now can I can head back to Taupo for a month and someone send up a flare when the unfunny joke is over?

Posted at 11:23AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

"...Meanwhile, Alan Bollard couldn't tell Sean Plunket this morning what constitues a "deposit"..."

Bollard gave a reasoned answer to a simplistic question, and Plunket fell back on his usual annoying dumb-ass hectoring that he adopts where he demands the answer be a bumper sticker.

Plunkett has been bad than good on Morning Report, and I can't wait for him to bugger off and get that National Party comms job or whatever the hell it is he is angling for in his drive for "journalistic freedom."

Posted at 11:25AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Any idea where the tolerence bill boards are?

All the ones I've seen are tolerance.

Posted at 11:29AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Any idea where the tolerence bill boards are?

All the ones I've seen are tolerance.

We drove down to Ashburton on Thursday and passed about four of them. They were like little yellow punches to the face. I haven't seen any of the misspelled ones in town.

Posted at 11:30AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

He basically did explain it - they're not going to take care of an investment that's been made on the stock market/etc through your bank - CDs and savings will be OK - this is SOP for deposit insurance schemes world wide

I do like the US scheme more - it requires banks to maintain particular liquidity requirements to qualify and puts a cap on how much per customer per bank they will cover (means you have to diversify that $5M across many banks both spreading your risk and the govt's). However I understand they have to do something right now - hopefully once parliament is back in session they will formalise this and be a bit smarter about it long term

Posted at 11:35AM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

I applaud this bold new initiative which is thoroughly in keeping with ACT’s philosophy as the party of market liberalism.

In an ideal orthographical market, spellings should compete freely allowing the best ones to win. Doubters are simply clinging to woolly leftist beliefs in their foolish desire for a state-enforced spelling system. You can see the effects of their pernicious orthodoxy in the inefficiency and stupidity of the unquestioned spellings sanctioned by self-appointed “experts” and “lexicographers” (why don’t they get real jobs).

I dunno, Labour and their Marxist mates will want so-called “correct” spelling to be taught in schools next.

Posted at 12:02PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

I do like the US scheme more - it requires banks to maintain particular liquidity requirements to qualify and puts a cap on how much per customer per bank they will cover (means you have to diversify that $5M across many banks both spreading your risk and the govt's).

Except that, as far as I understand, the Reserve Bank's mandatory capital adequacy requirements for registered banks are much, much more stringent than anything that applies in the US. One of the biggest problems in the US situation is that all the banks were leveraged up the ass.

I do agree with you in relation to finance companies, though - if the government is going to back them, they should sure as hell be investing in things other than dodgy car loans.

Posted at 12:04PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

And to make matters worse, Clint Heine has told me that he has an email that sheets home the spelling of "Tolerence" to a conspiracy from the ninth floor designed to shut down their message.

Posted at 12:06PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

LOL, Stephen.

Posted at 1:12PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Bollard gave a reasoned answer to a simplistic question

Tom: Thanks - I think we can just put you down as the designated Labour hack, but it would be nice if the Governor of the Reserve Bank could articulate things a little better than "we have operators standing by." You know, for those National Radio listeners who don't have the Reserve Bank Act committed to memory.

And for once, I wish Plunket had actually "hectored" a bit more -- you know, asked for straight and coherent answers to straight and coherent questions.

Posted at 1:38PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

OT but urgent-ish.

Could any Christchurch readers within reach of one of those "Zero tolerence [sic] for crime" Act billboards do me a favour and grab a photograph for me? And email it to me?

Ta.

The Emmisions ones (or at at least the ones I drive past on the way to work) have all been corrected with yellow "Emissions" stickers - it's a pretty good job, you can hardly tell they've replaced an ineptly-spelt word.

I'll keep an eye out for a "Tolerence" one on the way home tonight.

Posted at 2:03PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

And for once, I wish Plunket had actually "hectored" a bit more -- you know, asked for straight and coherent answers to straight and coherent questions.

Sure, but the latter surely needs to proceed the former. It would be nice if Sean could stray from his scripted questions occasionally to take account of the proceeding answers.

As for Bollard I think many of the calls he has made over the last few years, including running higher interest rates than the rest of the world and not caving into the demands of Aussie owned banks to move completely offshore, are being shown as extremely prudent. Time will tell, of course.

Oh, and I presume the RB has made a killing from selling off the $ at .79 last year.

Posted at 3:43PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

I just have one plea for Sean Plunkett - can he please stop saying "All right" after everything anyone else says, and before he asks his next question? It's really beginning to grate.....

Posted at 4:20PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

I just have one plea for Sean Plunkett - can he please stop saying "All right" after everything anyone else says, and before he asks his next question? It's really beginning to grate.....

I can't stand TV One's reporter's habit of saying "look" ever ytime they are "crossed to".

S Dallow: And now we go live to our reporter on the scene. Reporter, what's it like there?
Generic Reporter: Look Simon, the situation is ...

Posted at 4:29PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

It seems to be presenter for "um".

And in jock it would appear to be "obviously", usually compressed to two syllables.

[Edit] Not presenter. Reporter. I'll call it a Freudian Slip.

Posted at 5:34PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Oh, and I presume the RB has made a killing from selling off the $ at .79 last year.

I did no such thing.

But seriously, hell yes.

Posted at 5:55PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

It seems for be presenter for "um".

I'm beginning to wonder if it's presenter for "you don't expect anyone to believe that, do you?"

Posted at 6:43PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Oh, I get it with Act's spelling problems. Donna Awatere-Huata's not there to help with the reading and writing anymore.

Posted at 7:21PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Russell, unfortunately someone who KNOWS how to spell has been out and about in Christchurch and covered up/replaced/stickered over all the Emmisions and Tolerence billboards, so now photos to be had

Posted at 10:35PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

Is it just me or does all Key needs in that photo is a white cat to stroke? I bet it's one of a series and in the next shot he is stroking that white cat.

Posted at 11:10PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

You've rumbled the missing prop, Mr Ashby.

Posted at 11:56PM on 13 Oct 08. Permalink.

A Nehru jacket, methinks?

Posted at 12:10AM on 14 Oct 08. Permalink.

Helen Clark strapped to a gurney in the background about to be cut in half by a Laser?

Posted at 11:17AM on 14 Oct 08. Permalink.

Russell, unfortunately someone who KNOWS how to spell has been out and about in Christchurch and covered up/replaced/stickered over all the Emmisions and Tolerence billboards, so now photos to be had

There's a tolerance one on the Port Chalmers highway near Maia down here, and driving home last night it looked pretty likely that it had been fixed.

Posted at 6:54PM on 14 Oct 08. Permalink.

By the way, David, you've just been outed as a "long time National supporter" -- something you want to share with the group? :)

Posted at 8:19PM on 14 Oct 08. Permalink.

By the way, David, you've just been outed as a "long time National supporter" -- something you want to share with the group? :)

If I had to name a date, I'd have to say love first bloomed on the day I joined the Young Nats. Either that or the night of the Dancing Cossacks.

Sadly, I'm sitting here tonight watching the Leader's debate and wondering what happened to the ardour.

Posted at 11:13PM on 14 Oct 08. Permalink.

Sadly, I'm sitting here tonight watching the Leader's debate and wondering what happened to the ardour.

Sadly, I lasted about ten minutes before my personal focus group (aka The Better Half) started screaming "fuck up you stupid cunts" and went off to the bedroom to watch a DVD. He's one of these old codgers whose hearing isn't that good, and needs people to talk one at a time as he persists in the fantasy that these debates are supposed to be informative rather than infotainment.

When I have up a half hour later, I'd just have to say both scored rather low on content, solid 7/10 on the presentational front. Nobody went Sarah Palin on the floor, but I really doubt anyone who isn't a psychotic party hack would be over-impressed either.

If that really was the "defining event of this campaign" (as TVNZ's breathless autocue readers were telling us), this democracy needs a massive OD, because it is in a persistent vegetative state.

Posted at 12:37AM on 15 Oct 08. Permalink.

In a parallel universe (where kids are interested in politics) someone would be posting a clip of that Talkover Fest onto YouTube under the heading Sainsbury Gets Owned.

Did no-one tell him he was the Moderator?