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  • Tom Semmens,

    Shrubbery. Am I the only person who can't see the word "Shrubbery" without immediately thinking "Neep!"???

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Withers,

    Back during the campaign for MMP, letterboxes in Christchurch were stuffed with breathless pamphlets claiming that I was a Communist and member of the SUP. I was National Secretary of the Electoral Reform Coalition at the time. I've never been a communist at any stage and at that point the only political party I had belonged to was Bob Jone's "New Zealand Party" in 1984. The folks who say that stuff don't give a rat's arse what the truth is. Makes it hard to vote for people they, as a group, like.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 312 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Reeves,

    Tom, I think you mean "ni!".

    Near Donny Park, Hamilton… • Since Apr 2007 • 94 posts Report Reply

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    I was in the square in Christchurch wasting a lunch break & ran into the Catholic Workers Movement in orange jump suits etc marking the ann. of Guantanamo Concerntration Camp.

    Only the yanks seemed to comment while I was there 3 - 1 wanting it closed.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    And I got called Joanne seven times on Friday, and man, it makes my blood boil

    I've been guilty of that - sorry! I did go "d'oh" a few minutes after I posted, but it was too late then.

    Deborah

    (Not Debbie! Why the f*ck when I have just introduced myself as "Deborah" would you immediately call me 'Debbie'. Not Debs! Deb is fine. And by the way, it's spelt D-E-B-O-R-A-H, not Debra, not Debrah, and heaven forbid, not Debroah! And absolutely never, ever "Mrs husband's-given-name husband's-family-name".)

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    i've always had respect for i/s, but that one crankiness really does say, "i'm on the dole/underpaid". :)

    Student at Massey, surely. Why else would he live in Palmy?

    (or he's a 15 year old child prodigy and lives with the folks, but I prefer the former).

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • InternationalObserver,

    Cheer up Russell, you could become the new Google/Jello/Hoover (anyone but Cellotape (r) of course) in terms of becoming a generic verb rather than a brand. Imagine the news headlines
    "Protesters outside a National convention Russelled the speakers so loudly that they couldn't be heard".

    To be fair, Russell has already been honoured with his own generic verb. When he was three, at the prompting of his Hardline Marxist parents, Russell dropped his pants and bared his buttocks. Although it was meant to be a demonstration of traditional Maori protest, onlookers failed to make the connection (li'l Russ had a boney white arse afterall) and the generic verb Brown-Eye was born. In subsequent years the PC Police attempted to replace the phrase with Mihaka; however it has endured -- kept alive by boney arsed white males through successive generations.

    [now, if someone more technically proficient than myself could enter the above into __Wiki I'd be grateful. They have no entry for 'Brown Eye']__

    Since Jun 2007 • 909 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Shrubbery. Am I the only person who can't see the word "Shrubbery" without immediately thinking "Neep!"???

    Tom, I think you mean "ni!".

    Indeed, as I was typing it, I was thinking, heh, I said 'shrubbery'.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    I'm thinking that if you're on the hard right, any objective rational writing will seem like communism. Especially when you're used to echo-chambers like NBR and the Herald.

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    I've never been a communist at any stage and at that point the only political party I had belonged to was Bob Jone's "New Zealand Party" in 1984.

    How does anyone get from the New Zealand Party to the Communist Party? That's jumping a few tracks to say the least.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • InternationalObserver,

    Am I the only person who can't see the word "Shrubbery" without immediately thinking "Neep!"???

    Tom, I think you mean "ni!"

    yup!

    And for some reason, this made me think of a Verlaines song ...

    I got called Joanne seven times on Friday

    Funny how the brain works. Well, mine anyway.

    Since Jun 2007 • 909 posts Report Reply

  • Glenn Pearce,

    What on earth is John Ansell on about? As far as I can tell I've never even mentioned him by name -- and even on the two occasions I expressed some distaste for the iwi-versus-kiwi billboards, my language wasn't exactly angry. How bizarre.

    I thought he was trying to take the piss out of you actually. Sort of feigning having to steel himself about comments on your blog. That's exactly what he's trying to achieve isn't it ?

    Auckland • Since Feb 2007 • 504 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    And absolutely never, ever "Mrs husband's-given-name husband's-family-name".

    Man, I wish someone could slap *that* lesson into my husband's family. Lovely people, but it doesn't matter how many times I sign myself Danielle [redacted], they're guaranteed to send something back with Mr and Mrs [husband's names]. Do I look like a female version of him to them? Or, indeed, someone who would be happy having absolutely no identity of my own? I got married in a chapel in Las Vegas, for pity's sake: I am not the poster child for 'traditional marriage'. Argh. I don't even know how to bring it up, at this point: I've been signing my own name for nearly seven years! Wouldn't *you* get the hint? I mean, really.

    Sorry, irrelevant rant, but it gets on my wick. :)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    How does anyone get from the New Zealand Party to the Communist Party? That's jumping a few tracks to say the least.

    I know someone who went from the NZP to the Alliance. That's practically the same thing, right? All that Billy Bragg was probably a tipper.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby,

    I can't wait for that American bloke to turn up with his deluded reasoning why the war has been such a raging success.

    i say if cheney actually turns up, we take him out back and give him a thorough whaleoiling.

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    Sorry, irrelevant rant, but it gets on my wick. :)

    Not really. Not when we're talking about who gets to identify us as what.

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • Neil Morrison,

    Meanwhile, a Clinton-supporting Daily Kos diarist walks away in protest at the site's tenor and Kos says, whatever.

    and that whatever was -

    Meanwhile, Clinton and her shrinking band of paranoid holdouts wail and scream about all those evil people who have "turned" on Clinton and are no longer "honest power brokers" or "respectable voices" or whatnot, wearing blinders to reality, talking about silly little "strikes" when in reality, Clinton is planning a far more drastic, destructive and dehabilitating civil war.

    I really do wonder how Obama of all people gets to have such obnoxious supporters. It's a bit of a paradox.

    Since Nov 2006 • 932 posts Report Reply

  • Simon Grigg,

    The NYT has other agendas and could hardly be classed as neutral.

    Agreed...what with Judith Miller and all those editorials in 2002/3 beating drums, they were one of the major flag wavers for the invasion.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Tom Semmens,

    Tom, I think you mean "ni!".


    No. I think NEEP. Which means I probably am the only person who thinks "Neep!" when he sees the word shrubbery, since all the other sheep think "Ni!".

    Having shrubbery and hedgehog in the same sentence is inherently funny IMHO.

    I also think I am the only person who on seeing Roger Douglas at the the ACT party conference immediately wondered if they were holding the thing at the Crossroads Shopping Mall.

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Sorry, irrelevant rant, but it gets on my wick. :)

    Not really. Not when we're talking about who gets to identify us as what.

    This annoys heaping helpings of women, apparently, if recent discussions in my LJ circle are anything to go by.

    Naming conventions

    Naming conventions in KAOS, which turned into 'don't call me Mrs Blarg'

    A blog about swearing which turned into women complaining about being called 'Susie' and 'Izzy

    I'll stop link-whoring now.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • InternationalObserver,

    Link-whoring. Am I the only person who can't see the word "link-whoring" without immediately thinking .... golf??

    Since Jun 2007 • 909 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    Yes.

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    (Not Debbie! Why the f*ck when I have just introduced myself as "Deborah" would you immediately call me 'Debbie'.

    I feel the same way about "Andy".

    we take him out back and give him a thorough whaleoiling.

    That is surely illegal in this country?

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Deborah,

    And my dad, who is "David", gets very irate at being called "Dave", especially by people who are trying to sell something to him.

    New Lynn • Since Nov 2006 • 1447 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson,

    Stop your whining all. In Ozzie I was routinely referred to as Benedictus E Albert W Cacarumbus the Third. Or Cacarumbus for short. I didn't know why and I didn't care - anything was an improvement on Sheepshagger.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

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