Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Does anyone else find this extraordinary?
Not really. The DPS doesn't comment on security matters, full stop, so we don't actually know a damn thing about the 'written advice' or how it was arrived at, do we?
Take another breath Craig. You were doing well until then.
Probably very good advice, but in the context of this thread don't you think it was just a wee bit gratuitous and flat out weird?
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I bet we'd get a lot of insurrectionist chat in golf clubs and the like.
Oh fuck off, Rich. I'd really like to know what kind of childhood trauma makes some sections of the left so convinced that golf clubs are the central nervous system of the VRWC. Then again, I may live to regret asking. Why don't you opine that there will be race war and blood in the streets if John Key ever becomes Prime Minister, because I'd like to complete my Bullshit Bingo card before the end of the week.
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And yet a few weeks back on Rescue Me we had one of the Firemen actually having sex with an actual Nun!
I think you mean an actor playing a Fireman having simulated intercourse with an actress playing a nun. Just as I don't think Dennis Leary actually raped Andrea Roth; though, again, rather ironic that a pretty in your face depiction of an unstable, alcoholic drug addict raping his ex-wife didn't upset Family First at all...
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Are we going to accept this? Seriously, I thought this sort of thing only happened in the US? This is a show that screens at 9.30pm! And they've successfully convinced advertisers to pull their advertising. If we allow Family First's action to go unchecked, what next? Will & Grace?
Well, I've actually written to the Herald asking why Family First apparently had no objection whatsoever to the screening of the episode of Rescue Me where Tommy rapes his ex-wife. And perhaps my priorities are FUBAR, but can we expect a tidal wave of whore-banging, cock-snorting, puppy-killing, grenade-posting, kidnap your stripper-hiring teenager, beat you fiance to death with a kitsch bookend and dump his corpse in the bathtub as Damages continues its run? Damn, that show is eeevil, and I'm not just taking about Glenn Close in full uber-bitch mode...
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The philosophy is, "it's not the job of Maori to educate every Pakeha about this, it's the role of all New Zealanders to take a role in treaty education".
Well, my philosophy is that it's the 'job' of an informed and engaged citizen to know something about the history, literature and culture of their own country. And even think about it a little bit...
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Well, let's all take a deep breath and repeat this mantra: "Freedom of speech and assembly applies to everyone - even vile fucktards I wouldn't let anywhere near my children unless supervised by a sane person with a taser."
And ironically enough, Three just pulled Saving Grace (a show whose main point of interest was Holly Hunter having acrobatic simulated intercourse with another actor playing a married co-worker) because nobody was watching it. And what has replaced it: Repeats of Bones, where the raunchiest thing you're even going to see is the occasional PG-rated semi-flirtatious banter between the very pretty leads.
So much for the moral cesspool that is Three's audience, Bob...
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And now I've done my breathing exercises...
Sorry, no personal attack here: but that seems to some bloodcurdlingly arrogant.
"Yes, white New Zealand, we realise that you think we're basically ungrateful savages because we cling absurdly to our barbaric culture, but we're here to assure you that we too can wear suits on Sunday and debate policy in a reasonable, restrained manner, just as you do in your parliament house. Afterwards, maybe we can take tea together and then Sara can explain poststructuralism to us so we may enter your fine university system and drop French names and feel ever so clever. Thank you for listening, and have a nice day."
Um, you were taking the piss Creon? Because if any of the above was meant to be taken seriously, it's mind-bendingly condescending to both Maori and Pakeha. Which takes some kind of genius, but is still a dubious achievement all the same.
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And what the hell happened to the concept of do unto others and you would have others do unto uou?
Feh... I belive the moral axiom is "DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU?" Fraking alcohol-free cough mixture...
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I think it was Donna-Marie Lever who said that Parekura Horomia stepped up after Nanaia retreated "almost in tears". I'm no expert, but I do think that calling Bob Mahuta's daughter a "traitor" won't go down well with many Tainui.
Bugger Tainui. It should be profoundly offensive to anyone with a shred of decency, and profoundly counter-productive to anyone whose political analysis is marginally deeper than an am-dram production of Les Miz. And anyone who really wants to get into me for ethnocentrism' might want to think very, very carefully. Take my pulse, because that's all the 'authenticity' I can be arsed proving to anyone.
And believe you me, people, if Nanaia treated any manuhiri (regardless of their geneology) with that kind of disrespect on any marae, it wouldn't matter whose bloody daughter she was. Rhetoric can run hot on heavy on the marae, but there are some lines you just don't cross unless you're ready for some serious consequences.
And what the hell happened to the concept of do unto others and you would have others do unto uou?
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Sorry, no personal attack here: but that seems to some bloodcurdlingly arrogant.
"Yes, white New Zealand, we realise that you think we're basically ungrateful savages because we cling absurdly to our barbaric culture, but we're here to assure you that we too can wear suits on Sunday and debate policy in a reasonable, restrained manner, just as you do in your parliament house. Afterwards, maybe we can take tea together and then Sara can explain poststructuralism to us so we may enter your fine university system and drop French names and feel ever so clever. Thank you for listening, and have a nice day."
Oh Cuthulu's many-angled scrotum... I definitely have a few words to say about that. But not until I've got my calm on...
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