Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Without wishing to piss in your pocket Damian, One's news and current affairs services increasingly look like the sensible option. I'm not sure what they're thinking at 3 right now.
Though that's rather like saying if you're going to catch an STD in a knocking shop, crabs are slightly preferable to genital herpes. Wouldn't it be preferable if the tarts (literally) cleaned up their act or found another line of work? AFAC, both Three and TVNZ really need to lift their game - and re-establishing the line between editorial and self-promotion would be a small but useful start.
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A little arsenic was one favoured cure all of the past. Quite natural.
Ah yes... and back in the day cocaine was a brain tonic, speed was a harmless diet aid, and the all-natural treatment for epilepsy was a vigorous round of exorcisms - which may have killed you but hey! no more fits. :)
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PS: No Right Turn skewers the journalists who ran with a meaningless Sensible Sentencing Trust poll without bothering to check their cource.
Source. Still, while I've had my *cough* disagreements with I/S's lurches into 'Murder Energy' hysterics recently, it was a righteous ballocking. Then again, it's not as if recycling press releases -- based on shonky polls and/or social pseudo-science -- without any kind of basic reporting isn't exactly a recent innovation of the spin trade.
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Fiona:
Ewww... once I managed to uncross my legs, I must admit I get rather fraked off by the subtext - which pretty much becomes screaming text here - that Lost is for smart people, and pretty much everything else is for brain-dead, pap-fed morons. I don't need every plot point and character motivation signposted in 100 ft high neon; but I would like some idea that there's a little more going on on the creative front than 'wouldn't it be really cool if..., and we can make it work later'.
I've probably used up my ration of drooling fanboy praise of Battlestar Galactica -- but it's a show that managed to turn out a season finale that struck a fine balance between providing some closure, and still leaving you hanging for what comes next. (And avoiding spoilers, the last ten minutes threw every theory I have out the nearest airlock with extreme prejudice.)
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Hum... I'm afraid the only thing that blows my mind about Lost is that people still don't get the wisdom of Anton Chekhov - no slob in the yarn-spinning racket - who famously observed that, "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it." Hey, I've read Nietzsche, know what a panopticon is, and can fan-wank along with the best of 'em but really... sometimes you've just got to stop with the foreplay and put out.
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Save me from the centralised government actually caring what New Zealand really looks like before forging ahead with policy!!
Just as a matter of interest, could you please tell me what the frig anyone's religion - or lack thereof - has to do with public policy? Serious question, serious answers appreciated because I'm open to being convinced not to object to state next time around.
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I'm sure all politicians would join in this prayer, offered up by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau on December 15, 1745 before the Battle of Kesseldorf.
"O God, help our side, and if you can't, then at least don't help those scoundrels."
The Prussians, under Leopold, won - your mileage may vary on how much of that can be attributed to God.
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There's already plenty of ways of dealing with nuisances without undermining the Bill of Rights.
And there's my objection to importing one of the Blair Government's more dopey ideas in a nutshell. And here's something else to think about: I'm chronically irritated by most of the human race most of the time. (And, Weston that's no exaggeration.) Would you want me handing out ASBOs any time soon?
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That's for them and their conscience.
Well, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree and I'll praise you for your generosity in assuming Adams and Paisley have anything that could be mistaken for a conscience. I've seen little evidence of it.
They may have been a part of the problem to begin with but once they became a part of the solution then that's when it's time to move on.
Hum... at the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, I'm sure Günter Grass would agree. So would Leni Reifenstahl come to that. Personally, I'm thankful some people just aren't willing to move on when history - and truth - becomes inconvenient to present needs and personal reputations. Look as I said, sure it's better having these two inside the tent pissing out, rather than outside trying to burn it down. All I'm asking is that we don't 'move on' from the suffering those two defended and encouraged.
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OK, admission of shameful adolescent arseholism: There was a girl in my 7th form class, by the name of Maxi (sort for Maxine) who got stuck with the nickname 'Maxi Pad'. Not surprisingly, she developed a Jedi-like ability for causing great pain with a minimum of effort.)
Do parents ever consider how inventively vicious children and teenagers are when naming their hellspawn?
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