Posts by Joshua Drummond
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I kind of wondered about that. But I assumed AUT Media would be. Just an assumption, of course, and we know where those get U and Me.
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If the Listener had a legitimate grievance, why didn't they go to the Press Council instead of bringing in the heavy guns? It's like gardening with dynamite. Why the over-the-top response? What was said that was So Very Bad?
Now the Listener is in a tricky spot. If this gets out, they've got to defend the fact that they brought down the banhammer on what seemed to me to be a relatively harmless post - if there were errors in fact, they could have been corrected without the need to go nuclear, as someone else said. -
Very cool. I don't know how I missed this one when you first posted, and now I've dipped out on all the discussion, but... very cool. I've never seen it put better.
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Woop, mea culpa. The public displays definitely have a resounding crumpiness to them.
I'm afraid I just picked on your post as evidencing a "ban" mindset and had a little knee-jerk moment. Forgiveness, please! -
They are louder than they used to be. Living on the south side of Mt Vic, heard a lot of the loud public display and some of the bangs came with that crump of compressed sound. That's new.
Not so. They used to be a great deal louder. Not to mention more powerful and dangerous, and it gets more so the further back in time you go. A few years back - the year after skyrockets were banned if I remember rightly - you were able to get things called "Blue Thunder in the Night Sky" or some such name, which were single shots which sounded like howitzers. You got a crump of sound, all right.
Sometimes it seems everyone in favour of a ban is afflicted with short-memory syndrome. Fireworks used to be avaliable all year round until the so-called Fireworks Lady began her safety campaign which led to the under-14 ban and the week-before-Guy Fawkes sales restriction. Since then, things have gotten incrementally more restrictive. First bangers went, then rockets. Now the only fireworks you can get are endless re-workings of roman candles. Obviously restrictions on fireworks use are a good thing - but I think a ban goes much too far.
It seems like a classic case of a few morons, not to mention curmudgeons, spoiling everyone else's fun. When you consider the vast numbers of fireworks bought each year, it would seem the majority enjoy them without setting anyone or anything on fire. And when damage is mostly limited to a few irascables losing some sleep, I think arguing for a total ban is a great big over-reaction.
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The 501st is an ultra-geeky reference to the 501st Squadron, Darth Vader's elite team of stormtroopers. I had no idea, either.
And yeah, it's cool to see Hamilton on the news for something "cultural" that isn't foolish boy racers or the Riff Raff statue. -
It is a good cap, but I can't take the credit - David Farrier puts all his stuff on YouTube, as far as I can tell. It's a pretty cool move, shows some of the peeps at TV3 are down wit' da kidz0r.
Incidentally, I'm the wookie. I'm very proud of the fact that all the wookie noises are actually me.
And did you get the hidden joke in his hat? I wouldn't have, except he explained it to me. -
Here's New Zealand's finest (and possibly only) Nerdcore artist, MC Stormtroopa, strutting his stuff on Nightline with pals Chewbacca and Darth Vader. Watch, be enlightened, and may the Force be with you.
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I'm new to acerbic commenting on comments made about columnists. But I've been keeping an eye on Coddington ever since she got served by everyone's favourite Asian Crime Wave "blutter" (lovely, really, isn't it?) Keith Ng.
And I can't claim to have the faintest idea what she was on about in the lastest one. To me, it read like "ramble ramble paranioa ramble state owned broadcasting is anachronistic."
Oh, and something about Kiwi literature being crap, and Kiwi television good, and I really don't know, I kind of drifted off after a bit.