Hard News: Unreasonable people vote
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Just Thinking - yup.
The- arrgh/struggles for adequate condemnation/feeble little shit- thingo actually is saying just that.
There wont be anyone else in ANZ *ever* who can again do better that a squatty splatter-film maker - o, and *very* astute business person- for anything. Who wanks off with a flying hotel.
Just what we all really want & need as a role model. Eh?
Eh?
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flying hotel
Remember that you have to wear your pyjamas:)
That's what got me.
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I'm not a fan of this type of socialism, but I'm still thinking how to tap into it. Is it as easy as joining the National Party?
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Go for Green or Labour- the others are shit street-
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Cecelia - I began then to think that Jackson may have some, erm, problems...
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taking sides in the Hobbit War
His blatant foaminess made people accusing our conversations of bias even more ludicrous. Though it does tell you more about Holmes than Jackson, Islander.
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True, Sacha-
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His blatant foaminess made people accusing our conversations of bias even more ludicrous.
So it's a form of address now, as in Your Esteemed Excellency. Nice.
Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for . . . His Blatant Foaminess. -
If you've got a titular title, by definition ... you're a tit?
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Cecelia - I began then to think that Jackson may have some, erm, problems...
Wow, Islander -- I thought you'd be the one person around there showing a bit of empathy after some of the weird, nasty and very personal media crap dumped on you after the Booker. My mistake.
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Of everything in New Zealand, some days I miss the Broadcasting Standards Authority the most.
Give it time. After three or four years the crazy and mendacious media will seem quite normal, and you'll finding yourself asking your friends to bring jars of vegemite back from their research trips to London whilst seriously considering that $15.99 a month subscription to Willow TV.
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Holmes, Hobbit, Sir Peter, private jet, compulsory pyjamas …
The latter are so twee and fit in with the diverted streams and man-made lakes in his Wairarapa property. Add to that the hobbit holes in the garden and you have a guy who is stuck in a childish fantasy land. LOTR and the Hobbit are STORIES. Great stories but just stories. Stories from England.I don’t hate Peter Jackson, I used to admire him as much as anyone. Remember Forgotten Silver? That was brilliant. But when he became rich and famous he lost his original voice. He and his writing team sentimentalised the wonderful ending to Tolkien’s trilogy, they made an overblown King Kong and God knows what they’ll do to the Hobbit.
I know he didn’t really want to direct the Hobbit and I can respect the situation he’s in. I actually admired the way he talked in the Close Up interview. He has to fight for his film. He’s still a good guy in so many ways …
But when people go around calling him Sir Peter and a genius, I baulk at that. A genius would make more considered films than his last 3 or 4. He is wonderfully skilled at bringing people together for gigantic projects – maybe this is what people mean by genius. As a filmmaker … right now… I don’t think so.
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Herald editorial all out of love for Key over his government's drink drive limit intransigence.
Again justifying the need for research, Key said: "If we want New Zealanders to obey a new law, I think we've got to be able to go out and say 'here's the harm'."
Here is the harm PM: More drivers are dying than necessary now. How much more blood do you want on your hands before the next election?
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Herald editorial all out of love for Key over his government's drink drive limit intransigence.
If the Herald on Slumday said anything nice about me, I'd sue them for defamation of character. And given that shitty rag's squalid record of junk science, lying with statistics and moral hysteria I don't give a shit what they think about anything.
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ACC cuts are cynically shifting people into Health or welfare instead.
The proportion of surgery claims that were rejected rose to 20 per cent last year, from 12 per cent the year before.
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The Government quietly acknowledged that ACC's tightening up on surgery approvals would shift patients on to public hospital waiting lists.
In the Budget this year, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced "an extra $59.5 million for elective surgery over the next four years", and that public hospitals had done even better than he had asked at increasing their volumes of elective surgery.
But it later emerged in a Ryall cabinet paper that $40 million of the money was to cater for patients being declined by ACC and who were now causing "increasing waiting times" on public hospital lists.
Minister Nick Smith abuses the term "social insurance" in further preparation for privatisation. And invokes the brand of that nice Mr Key to say he isn't doing that (yet).
"Giving people more choice about the social insurance they take for non-work accidents could improve the service and the choices," Dr Smith said.
But he poured cold water on speculation that workplace accident insurance might be opened up to full competition from private insurers after an ACC "stocktake" completed in June by a group led by former Labour Party Finance Minister DavidCaygill. Its report has not been made public.
Dr Smith said opening the business to competition would be "a very major decision and, consistent with the John Key pragmatism and cautiousness, we are not in any hurry".
He expected to announce the Government's decision and issue the Caygill report by Christmas.
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I don't give a shit what they think about anything.
Just enough to respond within minutes :)
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He and his writing team sentimentalised the wonderful ending to Tolkien’s trilogy, they made an overblown King Kong and God knows what they’ll do to the Hobbit.
No argument there, but they did mercifully spare their audiences from that utter titan of twee, Tom Bombadil.
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Just enough to respond within minutes :)
Come on -- it takes a nano-second to start laughing at an editorial with a headline like 'Come on PM, give us the facts". Given the Herald's own record of not letting facts get in the way when its in campaign mode, I'm going to be highly sceptical.
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They're appealing to unreasonable voters :)
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Craig Ranapia - yeah, your mistake indeed.
I have no empathy for people who are ostentatious, or who accept titles. And there is no comparison between the types of media attention shown to self, and to Jackson (aside from anything else, I have avoided it for the past decade.)
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Herald editorial all out of love for Key over his government's drink drive limit intransigence.
If the Herald on Slumday said anything nice about me...
I was interpreting that as an assessment of a shift in the wind, irrespective of whether the wind is right or wrong in blowing the way it does. Ascribing intellect or motivation to gasses is absurd, is it not?
Related: it's also an interesting clinical example of Key's passive-aggressive approach: he won't say "No", because people won't like him if he says "No", but he will say, "Weeeellll, we need another study...." The same as with Auckland's transport solutions as proposed by Len Brown.
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I have no empathy for people who are ostentatious, or who accept titles.
Well, you also regard Jackson as an over-rated mediocrity whose net contribution to the cultural wellness of this country has been less than zero. Think we're going to have to agree to disagree on all of the above.
However, you might want to frame it without the vulgar and impertinent suppositions about his mental health. Perhaps if you've had a few days of being called a liar, a "scab" and a thug without foundation you'd be less than entirely coherent too.
On a slightly more cheerful note, I was out for lunch today and came across Emma Woods' graceful but lethal takedown of Michael Laws.
Bravo.
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Not to mention this. More detail than I want or need to know, but his narcissism, his lack of compassion, his use of people... bozhe moi...
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Minister Nick Smith abuses the term "social insurance" in further preparation for privatisation. And invokes the brand of that nice Mr Key to say he isn't doing that (yet).
And with privatisation potentially comes litigation, which could land us back in a pre-1974 situation.
And in another sign, the Granny is starting to change its tune towards the incumbents, this time on National Standards.
Further to the latest Paul Holmes furore, 'personality cult' is an understatement to describe Paul 'Dickshit' Henry.
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Craig, you are putting out interpretations of my views that bear little relationship to my actual views.
"vulgar & impertinent suppositions about (Jackson's) mental health"?
Phuquing WRONG, mate (and I dont mean that in a friendly way.)
I actually wrote that Jackson has "some, erm, problems?" I was thinking that he's so far up himself, he now has no idea of how a lot of ANZers actually view him. It is *your* interpretation that turns this into a mental health issue.
I'll not only disagree with you - I will, in future, find your interpretations tinged with a peculiar malice.
And yeah, read that how you will.
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