Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 26 January 2015 - 30 January 2015
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Speaking of personal hygiene and furtive grappling
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David Haywood, in reply to
Oh. My. God.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
Taking TMI to a whole new level
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Taking TMI to a whole new level
I'm still reading Evan Yate's reviews of the Veet cream (of which I have a tube) I'm amazed at the amount of names given to male external genitalia. Whoever imagined a log cabin not being a ,well, log cabin! :)
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Talking of BOLLOCKS...
Appearing on TVNZ's Breakfast show this morning, Mr Key said Catton's views on politics shouldn't be taken any differently than those of any other New Zealander.
"She has no particular great insights into politics, she is a fictional writer. I have great respect for her as a fictional writer [sic]."
Mr Key conceded he had read some, but not all of the Luminaries.
I think these questions should be asked.... "Mr Key, exactly how many of the luminaries have you read?" and "Are you aware that Eleanor Catton is , akshully, a real person?."
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Shine on you crazy dire man…
I have great respect for her as a fictional writer (sic)
Now John Daniel ‘Jack’ Torrance was a great ‘fictional writer’ and not just a little ‘sick’.
His major opus (unpublished) was one even John Key would understand consisting as it did of page after page of :All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Mr Key conceded he had read some, but not all of The Luminaries
I suspect Key got as far as ‘The Lumin…’ and gave up…
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Shine on you crazy dire man…
Dire man in Dire Straights..... or was that Speights?
Money for nothing and yer chicks fer free....I'm often aware of personal and family matters raised in the context of someone saying their spouse is sick, or they've got a particular test that they're going in for...it wouldn't have been something that would have driven an outcome from me.
Is that OK?
But hey...major opus
Opus Pistorum
See what happens when you write "Just for the Money"?The lack of respect thinking people get in this god damned country gives me the shits.
Oh... and... Happy new year. ;-)
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Evan Yates, in reply to
Shine on you crazy dire man
Dire Straits? More likely Syd Barrett of early Pink Floyd fame (infamy?)
From "Wish You Were Here"
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Dire Straits? More likely Syd Barrett of early Pink Floyd fame (infamy?)
Indeed but.....
'Twas merely a cross reference from dire, as in "Money for nothing". I could have gone with "prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness." as a reference to "We're only in it for the money"In his lyrics for We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa speaks as a voice for "the freaks—imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group"
like most thinking people feel like under this "Strictly Commercial" Govenment, Eleanor Catton being a prime example.
Or "Money, its a hit, don't give me that do good bullshit" as a nod to the non-caring attitude of our dear leader.
But I didn't.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Sold Brothers...
this “Strictly Commercial” Government...
You mean You-Know-Who...
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
You mean You-Know-Who...
Wicked Uncle Ernie?
Mike Sabin, smoke, mirrors and the tarring of an internationally renowned Kiwi born author, what was really behind it all?All just a little too fucking convenient really, don’t you think? Anyway, just how was it that radio shock jock Sean Plunket, again so conveniently, came by his misinformation on Catton and then thought it a good idea to start a very public shit fight? And to think it all came about just before Mike Sabin’s rapid departure and an out of left field appearance of a never before heard of case involving yet another of those “Prominent New Zealanders”?
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Sacha, in reply to
reviews of the Veet cream
one of the funniest things I've ever read - and totally unpaid effort from multiple reviewers
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reviews of the Veet cream
one of the funniest things I’ve ever readThe 'Hair Apparent' (I presume) to modern literature?
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