Posts by linger
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Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 20…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Was that one of the stories they got from the Onion?
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Steve Barnes,
a stoned throw up
=bad munchies? :-P@
(And, to maintain some relevance to descriptions of Auckland suburbia: Imagine how happy I was yesterday when a student misheard a Twilight Zone reference as “you are now entering the toilet zone"…) -
The uncircumcised minister
Kudos for not using “member” there. It must have been tempting.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Um... where exactly did I use any slang to describe anything about Act?
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You know there was a reason Grant & Naylor named their insufferably sycophantic, delusionally aspirational character “Rimmer”?
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Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Can you give a rough estimate of what proportion of the OIAs made to your school board were vexatious?
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
It should be very easy for Labour & Greens to find common ground in criticising National’s abuses of process (e.g. urgency), erosion of human rights (e.g. prisoner votes, passport revocation), and policies promoting unsustainable asset-stripping of NZ’s state assets (e.g. energy companies, state housing stock), environment (e.g. water quality), and international reputation (on human rights, fair trade, environment, etc).
I’ll even give them a combined slogan they can both use:
(Labour/Greens) OURS vs. (National/Key*) MINE!e.g. just for starters – though I can think of at least six ways this could be expanded into other topic areas –
OURS ———————- ; ———————- MINE!
[image of native forest] vs. [open-cast pit]* If National are going to market themselves on (and hide their policies behind) the image of Key, then the best strategy for a unified opposition is to take that as a weak point to be attacked. Hence the very deliberate plural vs. singular of this framing.
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forms of manadrin
knock-off drugs, compared to the “original brand” Cantonese writing system. (The spoken language varieties are much less similar.)
The issue may not be so much with the increased use of Mandarin, as with the devalued status of Cantonese as a result (i.e., no longer an unchallenged standard language). There are some racist undertones to this – you wouldn’t have to look too far (on other sites) to find similarly reactionary attitudes to official use and support of te reo in NZ, though a closer (if less extreme) parallel as far as the writing systems go might be if NZ were to adopt American spellings as standard – but there’s also a (valid) fear of change, instability, and (especially) of losing control. -
Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Howard Edwards,
And who’s his “good and decent man” – the person lying to us all about needing new laws to stop terrorism being legal in NZ?
A position so transparently untenable he’s since had to back down to: needing new laws to make terrorism more easily prosecutable.
Because a speedier justice system, with more bias towards the prosecution, is always more just. Yeh, right. -
Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Rizzo follows Septis,
Merkin joins a group,just reminded me of the cadence of this little allegory: