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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:22:31 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

Herr Dummkopf von Kranken-Brainen

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:22:31 +1300

Just a Heads-up: it's entirely possible this has been mentioned before, but the submissions deadline for the copyright bill has been extended to the 9th of March. The parliamentry website still gives two dates, but I gave them a call and they confirmed the 9th is the correct one.

Neil Smart

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:30:40 +1300

Doesthe Unicef report report on the number of young people killed on the roads?

Ou lunacy of allowing 15 year olds to drive must contribute a high percentage of death and injury raising the the tol in comparison to those who do not allow young adults to drivel.
Raise the?

merc

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:40:49 +1300

I don't think we should allow adults to drivel either. Mind you it would be a brave politician who could enforce that!

Simon Grigg

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:58:23 +1300

That Gregory Isaacs clip is a wonder. I saw him at a London Reggae Sunsplash, circa 84/85 and he was truly mesmerising, and I got to meet members of the Roots Radics about the same time....although I was told by others I was with that he was well off form..serious?

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:05:31 +1300

Girlschool and Motorhead: Please Don't Touch

BenWilson

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:20:33 +1300

Read my first bit of Investigate today in the doctors waiting room, waiting for a double dose of penicillin in my butt. I imagine Wishart would have been bitter about everything about that. Taking drugs intravenously. Letting a man see my butt. Finding that it didn't hurt as much as?

Nat Torkington

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:22:18 +1300

What are the sides in the Hero debate? Het/homo? Dom/sub? In/out?

peter mclennan

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:25:38 +1300

Brrrrring! woah, yeah...... Tenor saw, the soundboy killer... thanks for that. Made my day. And re – Great Blend – its not right without a barbie.

merc

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:36:19 +1300

Great Blend Barbie? She wasn't there?

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:38:25 +1300

What are the sides in the Hero debate? Het/homo? Dom/sub? In/out?

On past form, there's my side and the side that's adjudged to have won. Bah, mumble, etc ...

I do actually enjoy speaking for gay audiences – you really get full value for your jokes. It helps if the?

merc

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:49:09 +1300

Apparently we are all innately gay, it's just social conditioning that makes us otherwise.
Only a Catholic knows that pleasure deinied is pleasure indeed. And that may mean catholic in the broader sense of taste...

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:39:42 +1300

A Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone.

Danyl Mclauchlan

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:46:10 +1300

Apparently we are all innately gay, it's just social conditioning that makes us otherwise.

And how does that work in evolutionary terms?

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:50:35 +1300

It's the Pink Evolution, dahlin'.

merc

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:57:28 +1300

Hehhe, I was joking, but Juha saved me.

rodgerd

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:42:19 +1300

Raise the driving age to 16,17 0r even18 when science suggests the brain is better equipped to deal with analysing danger more effectively might reduce the toll.

Since we've just removed a bunch of license requirements from the elderly, who are scientifically proven to be lower and less acute than?

rodgerd

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:44:18 +1300

"be lower" should of course read, "have lower response times"

Peter Darlington

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:11:32 +1300

Re Gregory Isaacs

..although I was told by others I was with that he was well off form..serious substance problems at the time, not that I could tell. It's always bemused me how such a bad boy can have such a voice

Unfortunately over the last 10-15 years Gregory has?

Simon Grigg

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:18:30 +1300

Peter,
yes I agree. I used to be something of an Isaacs complete-ist some years back, and own about 40 albums I guess, but the downward spiral that began back there, whilst it was arrested somewhat (as he was too, several times) during the quite wonderful Gussie Clarke era, was?

Chockasunday

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:31:17 +1300

Regarding the debate, it sounds interesting, I like the idea of fighting the wowsers and fun police in New Zealand.
But, do they purposely shy away from more controversial topics, like say,

is homosexuality a choice?
should gays and lesbians receive positive discrimination (aka affirmative action)

You'd really get two?

tim kong

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:32:24 +1300

Sort of off-topic, but also I thought appropriate given the general level in intelligent discourse amongst punters here. This link is Malcolm X at presenting at the Oxford union – and I thought his closing comments spoke to some – eloquent as he often was.

In keeping with random youtube?

Grant McDougall

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:27:43 +1300

The Cake Kitchen – now there was an incredibly under-rated band: great live, very good ep and first few albums, too.

Is Graeme Jefferies just back from Europe for a visit, or permanently ?

*Wistfully dreams of This Kind Of Punishment reforming*

Russell Brown

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:29:07 +1300

In keeping with random youtube type links and in light of the UNICEF report too.

Yeah baby. That one paragraph you quoted is such a bloody tasty morsel of rhetoric in itself.

Russell Brown

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:32:14 +1300

*Wistfully dreams of This Kind Of Punishment reforming*

I know what you mean. That's the way I first read the email alert – both the bro's. It would be really cool to hear 'Beard of Bees' revived live. Chris Matthews would have to be there too, of course.

I could?

izogi

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:48:33 +1300

I've seen lots of arguments about US copyright law (against extensions), most of which trace back to the statement in the US constitution which states that copyright law is specifically to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It's a fairly straightforward (albeit ineffective) argument that constantly extending the?

Grant McDougall

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:53:57 +1300

I could go on about how I was living in the house where 'Beard of Bees' was recorded, but hey ...

I for one would love to hear it. I assume it must've been as weird as some of the antics that Chris Matthews mentions in the liner notes to?

Evan Yates

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:16:38 +1300

People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it?s going to be built?is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone?I don?t care what color you are?as long?

Paul Rowe

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:28:34 +1300

The Jefferies brothers really were on fire in the '80s – mid-'90s, weren't they?

My god, were they what. Even playing here in Auckland on occasion too! I saw Cake Kitchen at Waikato Uni, must have been 12 or more years ago, about the time that __Far From the Sun__?

Neil Smart

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:13:53 +1300

"Since we've just removed a bunch of license requirements from the elderly, who are scientifically proven to be lower and less acute than the young, and are the fastest-rising group of ftalities and injuries on the road, that would be a bit of a contradiction of policy trends."

I thought?