OnPoint: Dear Gerry
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Sometimes, they call these things "costs", "risks", "downsides", "negative externalities" or "bad things"
These things always seem to trip Governments on a Mission from God up.
Funny thing Gerry has been throwing around figures of what $200 billion of potential benefit to NZ.
Didn't the US govt spend a whole lot more than that in just one year in the war in Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_WarLooked at in that light even $400 bull, I mean billion, doesnt seem like its worth getting out of bed for.
And claims that it will benefit New Zealanders for generations seem, well, somewhat overblown. -
I was just reading about Australia's Byron Bay as a holiday destination. Lush rainforest to the door etc
Would Australia mine in places like that? Nooooooooooo....
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Find the green civil-servant recycling cube on your desk
My one is black and smells like a banana skin was left in there for some time (it was), will this make a difference?
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You can only recycle vegetarians in those ones
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ROCKS ARE NOT THE SAME AS MONEY.
But those magic beans we got from overseas
for those dairy farms are still good, right? -
Perhaps Natural Dairy could be convinced to go back to its mining roots.
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From the VeryShortStory twitterstream:
Not one to follow directions, Jack snorted the magic beans. That's when his troubles started.
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I keep expecting Brownlee to be embarrassed when his figures are shown to be wild guesswork, but he seems unembarrassable. Surely he expected to be challenged on the facts?
I have moments of wondering if the whole thing is a hoax.
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I keep expecting Brownlee to be embarrassed
He promises to be embarrassed after his lunch meeting ... no need to wait.
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The Crown just means the New Zealand Government
So why don't we call it that? Calling our government the Crown just means that people can pretend the crap stems from a royal person in a castle, not the dumbass government they voted in.
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why don't we call it that?
Because it reminds us that we cannot have a Crown, and therefore government, without goldmines. And it is irresponsible to expect our global neighbours to mine their parks while we wander around ours wearing our Crown.
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Was is Maya Angelou who said, "Wherever there is gold, there is a chain"?
Paper hat, anyone?
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So why don't we call it that? Calling our government the Crown just means that people can pretend the crap stems from a royal person in a castle, not the dumbass government they voted in.
Because of the Queen ever decided to exert some actual power, like dismissing a government (a la Whitlam), we'd find out who's actually on top.
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All hail God Save the Queen!
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You can only recycle vegetarians in those ones
You should make sandwiches out of the good bit of those vegetarians first. You know, like those "vegetarian" sandwiches you see in cafes. You'll find them next to the "chicken" or "beef" sandwiches.
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And, as someone who is vegetarian (except for titi, cousin's chickens, brother's and others' shot-imported vermin aaannnnd all kai-moana (you will be gratified to know that cetaceans are * not* kai moana))
I've tasted those 'vegetarian' sammies. So - civil servant hide is it?Remind me to always bring my own travelling food-
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So - civil servant hide is it?
There's nothing civil about Hide, and he needs some reminding that he is, in fact, a servant of the electorate. You'd get quite a few sandwiches out of him, though.
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Quite lean sammies though these days Matthew. :o(
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America has Jon Stewart. Australia have Clarke & Dawe. Britain has Fry, Davies, Hislop, Merton & co. Does NZ's mainstream political satire still resemble an 1970's Electrolux in need of a bag change?
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I think we blew our quota with John Clarke.
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I think we blew our quota with John Clarke.
Not to mention McPhail & Gadsby.
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Remember back when Jon Gadsby was relevant? I was still in school uniform.
Let me correct that: I was in school uniform because I had to be, it wasn't a fetish.
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McFail and the not so great Gadsby
Of whom it has been said "Is that the best you can do?"
There is something in the nature of the Kiwi sense of humour that seems to rely on the Cultural Cringe factor. It is almost like we don't want our comedians to be any good because they may point out our failings. I don't think John Clarke would have continued his craft for long if he had stayed this side of the ditch. In good comedy you end up laughing at your self, in bad comedy you laugh at others and in the end suffer the indignity of boorish bigotry and self satisfied smuggery.
Now, the Irish on the other hand... -
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McFail and the not so great Gadsby
Their problem was that they satirised the politicians rather than the policies, which is ultimately just mean and pointless.
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Their problem was that they satirised the politicians rather than the policies, which is ultimately just mean and pointless.
Not only that, it also means you've got to get new material when the butt of your jokes is voted out... or wither away to irrelevance like they did.
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