Posts by Euan Mason
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Watched it to the end, and thought, “It’s a brief taste, not quite the right flavour, though, and doesn’t really portray what we lived through”. My mother would go white every time she heard about an earthquake; she was 9 years old in Napier in 1931. Now I understand why she went white, but Hope and Wire doesn’t explain it.
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Some of the emotions and attitudes portrayed feel real, but maybe it was an impossible task to render the feeling of earthquake after earthquake after earthquake after earthquake. I keep watching thinking, where are the aftershocks?
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Footage of the first earthquake was too mild. It only lasted for about 7 seconds on film, and that sent shivers up my spine, but the real one lasted over 40 seconds and seemed like an age. It was also too quiet on film. The real one was a hell of a lot louder.
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Hard News: Labour's Fiscal Plan:…, in reply to FletcherB,
Thanks FletcherB. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Joyce was simply rude on Morning Report, and he clutched at straws when challenged by Parker. Joyce appeared to be saying that what was wrong with the proposed capital gains tax was that it didn't apply to all houses. Yet his party won't implement that solution across any houses. Go figure.
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Mr Liu seems to operate by making donations to all and sundry in an effort to buy his way past obstructions that would stop people of lesser means. It is probable, therefore, that a donation to the Labour Party was made. Will this affair encourage MPs to pay attention when their officials advise that a character doesn't merit their help?
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I enjoyed the game, and I can see why the Croatian manager is a bit miffed, but his player did hold Fred and although Fred's reaction was very poor and pathetic acting, the hold could have prevented a goal. Without the acting the ref wouldn't have done anything, and players need to learn to play by the rules in the box. Holding and shirt pulling in the box are mostly ignored in order to avoid penalties, and they ruin the game.
I've played keeper from time to time and I've never enjoyed the kind of protection from a ref that we saw today. It would be nice. :)
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Hard News: The Ides of Epsom, in reply to BenWilson,
Labour's principled response will not pay off, and so your suggestion that some of their most popular electoral candidates declare themselves as independents is probably the best way to ultimately get rid of coat tailing and the gerrymandering provisions in MMP.
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If another couple of polls agree with this then Key may be tempted to use the Banks debacle as an excuse for an early election.
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Yes, it is uncanny how some on the right wing cannot see the parallel between regulating to retain the characters of their neighbourhoods and regulating to avoid stuffing up the atmosphere or waterways where people are used to freely polluting. If they owned tall apartment buildings in Epsom, would they support legislation to ban them?