Hard News by Russell Brown

10:01AM Dec 9, 2014 • Read Post

Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014

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• Tony Kennedy, 13:01 Dec 9, 2014

  In no particular order:
  80%LVR
  WTF
  Uber
  Aye
  Beheading
  Dirty
  zeroday

  Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 225 posts Report

• Paul Brislen, 13:02 Dec 9, 2014

  Creamery.

  you know it makes sense.

  Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 200 posts Report

• Gary Elshaw, 13:06 Dec 9, 2014

  Comfortable

  "I'm comfortable with that"

  Apia, Samoa • Since Mar 2011 • 22 posts Report

• Bart Janssen, 13:10 Dec 9, 2014

  On the local political scene two things stood out for me

  Mandate

  as in "we had a mandate to do whatever the F we liked"

  and

  "Everyone does it"

  When presented with yet more reprehensible behaviour, as if that was some reasonable excuse ... or even true.

  Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 4461 posts Report

• Kebabette, 13:10 Dec 9, 2014

  Gigatown and the infinite variations upon said spammery.

  Christchurch • Since Feb 2007 • 221 posts Report

• Andrea Eden Low, 13:19 Dec 9, 2014

  garner

  (to garner; s/he was garnered - homicide by cop)

  Grey Lynn • Since Dec 2007 • 1 posts Report

• Jeremy Andrew, 13:23 Dec 9, 2014

  Puffed up little shits
  Glove-puppets of Cameron Slater

  Hamiltron - City of the F… • Since Nov 2006 • 900 posts Report

• Craig Lucinsky, 13:26 Dec 9, 2014

  HagerBomb

  an enclosed dislocation • Since Dec 2014 • 3 posts Report

• Andre, 13:26 Dec 9, 2014

  West City Baptist. A recent new term for for anachronistic and violent thinking.

  New Zealand • Since May 2009 • 371 posts Report

• Grant McDougall, 13:27 Dec 9, 2014

  Big Reveal

  Dunedin • Since Dec 2006 • 760 posts Report

• Ewan Morris, 13:28 Dec 9, 2014

  Beltway - ridiculously inappropriate in a NZ context

  Can we have a vote for the word we never want to hear again?

  Every time I hear/read media people in New Zealand talking about the Beltway, I want to yell: "THERE IS NO BELTWAY IN WELLINGTON!!!!'

  Since Nov 2006 • 48 posts Report

• Rosemary McDonald, 13:29 Dec 9, 2014

  So many possibilities already posted.

  I'll go for....."...a step too far."

  as in: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11325069, and
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/241716/key-says-act-event-not-endorsement, and
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/250742/minister-should-resign,-says-fish-and-game

  I'd post more similar links, but that would be, well, a step too far.

  Waikato, or on the road • Since Apr 2014 • 1346 posts Report

• Craig Lucinsky, in reply to Ewan Morris, 13:29 Dec 9, 2014

  Ditto.
  This makes me yell at my transistor every time.

  an enclosed dislocation • Since Dec 2014 • 3 posts Report

• Martin Brown, 13:45 Dec 9, 2014

  1 more for 'Attack blogger'

  Auckland • Since Mar 2013 • 137 posts Report

• Daniel Wilton, 13:56 Dec 9, 2014

  aucshully

  it would be good to get a definitive spelling

  Wellington • Since Jan 2009 • 54 posts Report

• Sacha, 14:00 Dec 9, 2014

  'but what I _can_ say'

  Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

• Sacha, 14:01 Dec 9, 2014

  smear

  Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

• Stephen Judd, 14:05 Dec 9, 2014

  Ooh ooh oooh I got one.

  A bad look.

  Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 3122 posts Report

• giovanni tiso, in reply to Stephen Judd, 14:06 Dec 9, 2014

  A bad look.

  "Is it okay?" repeated fourteen times in a row.

  Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

• weka, in reply to Ewan Morris, 14:13 Dec 9, 2014

  Do you have an appropriate NZ alternative for beltway, given it get used as an analogy rather than literally?

  Since Dec 2014 • 17 posts Report

• Kumara Republic, 14:15 Dec 9, 2014

  Many different candidates:

  * Rawshark
  * #DirtyPolitics
  * Hagerbomb
  * Textual relations
  * Attack blogger
  * Team Ctrl-Alt-Delete Key
  * Abuse of Gower
  * Cut The Crap

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

• Daniel Wilton, in reply to weka, 14:16 Dec 9, 2014

  Transmission Gully

  Kapiti expressway

  Te Aro Bypass?

  Wellington • Since Jan 2009 • 54 posts Report

• Sacha, in reply to weka, 14:31 Dec 9, 2014

  NZ alternative for beltway

  Thorndon Bubble

  Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

• Graham Dunster, 14:33 Dec 9, 2014

  Honourable.

  Auckland • Since Nov 2009 • 184 posts Report

• Mike O'Connell, 14:37 Dec 9, 2014

  Angry Andy

  Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 385 posts Report

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