Posts by Craig Ranapia
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And we haven't had a decent student riot in years :(
The sad decline of standards in our society. Tut-tut.
Shit, I'm beginning to sound like I belong here. Right, I'm off to Wellington for the weekend, to eat real food, visit real bookshops, and soak up the atmosphere of a civilised town...
And where the over-excited first-years vomit decorously, in the gutter like civilised human beings. (Though I'd like to see this advisory issued: Do not go to a toga party commando style. Especially if your self-esteem is going to suffer when a wardrobe malfunction results in pointing and hysterical laughter.)
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Maybe they could sacrifice a goat too while they're at it?
What you mean the weather Gods of the Manawatu aren't appeased by drunken Massey students torches old couches and rioting in the streets? (God, I love social stereotypes -- even if its a hell of a job trying to get latte stains out of the white boat shoes.)
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Heh. The meaning of that is changed quite a lot from the more traditional 'dyed in the wool'.
Especially if you've a fondness for classic detective fiction. Though, in context, I rather doubt any politician is going to find the inventively nasty murder of Flossie Rubrick, MP, "one of the most formidable women in New Zealand", on a high country sheep station restful bedtime reading. :)
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This money, while you could argue it should have come from Fonterra without any government help, is desperately needed.
Fair enough, Bart. But I suspect the phrase "expectation" that private parties would stump up with matching funding was chosen with some care. Serious question, because I've not found any answer -- exactly what does that mean? Is there some arrangement of stick and carrot to make sure the promises translate into cold card hard cash, and what happens if they don't?
Sofie:
I'll be cynical enough for both of us -- you bet your buns I'm suspending judgement on John Banks' Pauline conversion into John Betjeman sans the teddy bear campiness, Methinks it's not excessively cynical to suggest that he wants a second term this go-round, and realises that this is a fine populist issue to latch on to. And I almost choked on my tea this morning to see Brian Rudman having more than one kind word to say about Banks (who previously was Satan Incarnate, but without the charm).
And at the risk of being a tad bitchy, why is it that local body politicians who live in the ugliest houses are always so eager to lecture everyone else on good taste? (Don't worry, I'm not going to post pictures but I sure hope he's no longer living in the wodge of Maini Vice lego he used to occupy. Wasn't even so tacky it reached the level of perverse cool.)
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It will be independents that by and large decide most presidential elections in America, in those battle-ground states.
I don't know, Kyle. It seems to me that McCain has his own 'Limbaugh Effect' to deal with -- because there's no guarantee the Dittoheads and Ann-droids are going to hold their noses and vote for him, as opposed to just staying home. The hard-right sure didn't bother turning out for GHB in '92, while the economy (and his infamous "no new taxes" pledge coming back to haunt him) alienated fiscal conservatives and social moderates in the party.
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Sod. The last sentence of my last should read: "So, yes, I think a bit of B&W about the weather isn't totally out of order from people whose livelihoods are intimately connected with it."
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But Paul's right. Have you ever listened to the rural news on RNZ?
Often, but RNZ would be a lot of dead air if you didn't have every lobbyist, sector group and rentaquote "bitching and whining" about something. :) My scrubby patch of garden being under six inches of water -- or baked to the consistency of concrete -- would be a shitty thing, but my livelihood doesn't depend on it. So, yes, I think a bit of B&W about the weather isn';tW about the weather is totally in order.
And we townies are the paragon of stoic endurance in the face of flood, drought, electricity supply failures, power and petrol price increases, rate hikes and so forth. :)
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Yes, they'll moan & bitch about anything.
Paul, I really hope you're doing Labour's campaign advertising: STOP BITCHING YOU UNGRATEFUL PRICKS would look splendid on a billboard. :)
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I thought John Key looked tired on breakfast T.V. this morning. And - though I can't believe I am saying this - the petty, hectoring and patronising style of Paul Henry during the interview made me feel sorry for Mr.Key
No, I believe it quite easily -- because I wouldn't wish Henry on the evil demoness Hullun Klark either. :) Then again, breakfast television seems to be exclusively staffed with the kind of people whose brains don't start working before lunch.
i think now it's becoming obvious that Key can't handle spontaneous questioning, you're starting to see more hectoring from journalists too.
Snowy: the only way Paul Henry should be 'handled' is with a shovel and rubber gloves. And am I the only Morning Report listener who finds it regrettable that Sean Plunket is (occasionally) relapsing into 'hectoring' mode. I don't see why anyone -- let alone Clark and Key -- should put up with it. I guess, Snowy, it's all good fun if you don't like the arsehole on the receiving end, but you've got to wonder how informative it really is.
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Sorry for being cynical but...
No apologies required, Bart. Between you and Russell, you've provided more worthwhile -- and healthily sceptical -- analysis, and asked more worthwhile substantive questions than the MSM have collectively managed so far.
Pardon for another digression, but that would be a damn good story idea for Media 7: Where is the expertise that would have put some meat on the bones of this story? Just another victim of staff and resource cuts?
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