Posts by Rich Lock
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I like* the part where he implies that the parents of the dead baby in the Garrett case should just get over it, because it was like AGES ago that their two year-old daughter died.
Thanks to Garrett, it came back and kicked them in the guts, 20 years later.
Something that Garretwat tried to blame on the media.
" The worst aspect of all of this is that those who have seen fit to do so [dig up and report all my high-spirited boyhood japes] have opened the wounds of the boy's mother and sister again. "
Onr for the connoisseur: an interesting twist on the non-apology apology ("I'm sorry if you were offended by my actions")
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Post what ya got.
The leader of the Roman Catholic church concluded a speech, made before the Queen and assembled dignitaries at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, with the argument that the Nazi desire to eradicate God had led to the Holocaust and a plea for 21st-century Britain to respect its Christian foundations.
Or, to paraphrase: 'oh yeah? Well, you know who else were atheists? The Nazi's. Yeah, that told you, didn't it?'
Possibly not the best argument to be making when you're infamously an ex-Hitler Youth member.
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Actually I could believe that bit. He's a bit of a dick, he was young, passport fraud wasn't such a thing back then as in the modern terrorism world.
But it's such an awfully elaborate and highly risky length to go to for a prank. As that woman interviewed in the Herald said - it involves so much preparation and so many opportunities to be caught out. And, okay, they didn't have Al-Qaeda in the seventies but passport fraud still wasn't a merry whim of idle youth, you know?
It's not even that I don't believe someone would be that idiotic. It's that I'm kind of gobsmacked someone who would do something that idiotic is an elected representative of my country.
So where do we draw the line on 'youthful hi-jinks/idiocy'?
Shall we play spot the odd one out?
Traffic cone on head.
Stealing a steet sign.
Knocking a hat off a copper's head and spending a night in the cells.
Arrested for drunk and disorderly.
Being involved with dodgy protest groups.
Traffic offences in a great big fuck-off V8 or similar.Going to a graveyard and spending a considerable amount of time searching for the grave of a baby that was born and died very close to your own birthdate. Getting copy of birth certificate. Acquiring passport forms. Acquiring disguise and getting photos done in same. Acquiring useable false address. Acquiring referrees. Sending in forms and fee (not at all inconsiderable these days, dunno about 20 years ago).
Which one of the above took a lot of planning and effort over a considerable amount of time, not to mention considerable financial outlay?
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picnic by the children's playground at 1pm
I don't want to be a party pooper or anything, but are you sure that's a good idea?
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How do you wield a top psychiatrist -- grab it by the hair and swing it around? Grip the hips and deploy like a Klingon bat'leth? Chop your offensive mental health professional into fist-sized chunks and fling away, saving the bones and sinews to be crafted into bows, knives and musical instruments?
Ego Whip: Your rapid mental lashings assault the ego of your enemy, debilitating its confidence. The target takes 1d4 points of Charisma damage, or half that amount (minimum 1 point) on a successful save. A target that fails its save is also dazed for 1 round.
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I think the last time I recall someone doing that was Anakin Skywalker in one of the unmentionable Star Wars prequels. And we all know how that turned out.
"It's a clear desa Separatists made a pact witha desa Federation du Trade. Senators! Dellow felegates! In response to this direct threat to the Republic, mesa propose, that the Senate give immediately emergency powers to the Supreme Chancellor!"
- Jar Jar Binks. Attack of the Clones.
Sorry for quoting Jar Jar. Completely unforgivable. I'll get me Jedi Cloak.
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Oh good grief.
Zer irony! It burns ussss!
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I thought America was born out of "anti-colonial' sentiments, though I may have completely missed the point of the American Revolution.
I guess it depends how you define 'anti-colonial sentiments'. The huddled masses didn't just wake up one morning yearning to be free from the tyrannical bonds of monarchy.
The trigger for the American war of independence was the taxing of the colonies by the UK central government.
The Crown was of the opinion that having spent a decade or so draining it's coffers to pay for an army to defend the colonies from the French to the north and the Spanish to the south, the colonies should maybe chip in a bit to help pay for it.
That suggestion was not particularly well received in Boston and Philly, and here we are.
Support and opposition to the crown by the US population was roughly 1/3 for each. The remaining 1/3 were indifferent to either side.
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I've tried to do something vaguely along these lines here, when I last updated my passport I put down my occupation as 'Hero'.
I had a McGillicuddy Serious Party friend who once managed to get her occupation in the electoral roll listed as Lion Tamer.
I inadvertently managed to get myself listed on the electoral roll as 'Occupation: Intellectual' (I work with Intellectual Property. The local council clerks either got confused, or have an excellent sense of humour).
My only worry is that when New Zealand's inevitable Year Zero comes to pass, I'll be first up against the wall of a re-education camp.
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Red Bulletin magazine
I will have to stop chucking this straight into the recycling bin, as I usually do, for it has all the appearance of a glossy mag promoting Red Bull and more ways of using up fossil fuel ;-
I had high hopes for The Red Bulletin when it first came out. I fondly assumed from the title that it would be some sort of Anarcho-Communist counterpoint to the Right-Wing Lies (tm) propagated by the NZ Herald.
Imagine my surprise when it turned out to actually be etc etc.
But joking aside, it's actually got some surprisingly good gems buried in amongst the dross. There was a great piece about The Palio in one of the most recent editions. There was another edition that had an interview with the first female Iranian polar explorer (if memory serves), which I found quite heartwarming.
And of course, unexpectedly stumbling across our gracious host's column at the back was the perfect icing on the cake...