Posts by Paul Williams
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I don't think he's quite the image National is going for.
But do they?
There's so many quasi independent bloggers claiming inside knowledge and experience of National and most of them are complete morons, none moreso that Cameron Slater, and yet National doesn't declaim them.
I don't think many parties give much thought to their blog-presence (if they do, I'd suggest they think again), but surely Hooten's not much of a pin-up, not compared with David?
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Angus, I confess I don't understand Labour's strategy with NZF. Even if I did, I don't know that I'd support or defend it. FWIW, I have no sympathy nor respect for Winston. He and Hooten were made for one another and I suspect they both got what the wanted from the exchange.
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Paul Williams: Could you at least trot out the Yankee political clichés with some precision? I would fault Matthew for the grotesque libel on vaginas -- that most functional, aesthetically pleasing and pleasure-giving of orifices. But I don't think "cunt" is a rather recondite racial slur, even on Oxford Street. :)
Yeah it's a bit misapplied since Matt's no candidate nor was the comment racist but I don't know that it matters terribly - my point is simply that he'd managed to make a complete arse of himself on the campaign trail. Worse, he might cause people to have sympathy for Winnie. Once a baffoon, always a baffoon.
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Imagine if National ended up emulating the All Blacks; the best team every year except the World Cup one?
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Key's relative inexperience comes through at all the wrong moments. He's often assured and clear but that's usually when he's simply speaking and not being questioned. He's got a tendency to talk in in-complete sentences, to half-agree during questioning and to shuffle about on the spot; his discomfort is palpable. Whether Clark's experience and judgment is enough for Labour to recover is uncertain though...
On Hooten, earlier a commentator here wondered if Franks would provide the macaca moment, I think it's now clear its all Matthew's. Willie Jackson used him as a fluffer for Winnie and he fully embraced the role.
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Allied to this: parenthood. I rang my oldest mate a few months after my daughter was born, we've known each other since before we could talk: his partner answered the phone and I'm having to say 'Is...umm... there?' Total brain freeze.
Yup - first 18 months of my youngest's existance was often, not always, a bit of a fuzzy haze. I figure it's parents that represent most of viewing demographic for mid-evening sit-com re-runs; they were the only things that I was capable of digesting.
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I've not had a chance to follow this discussion too closely, so apologies if this its already covered, but can I ask two questions of anyone inclined to advise?
Firstly, do you know of any good artists in Sydney that you'd trust to do a pohutukawa design?
Secondly, who'd you recommend to do a something like a pohutukawa that's in Welly (as I'm back over for a week and that might be when I finally get the courage I've lacked for several years).
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To assuage my vanity, I'd like to able to infer that my 88% result in that test supported my original premise that I was good at facial recognition... Mebbe not?
I got the same score but have always thought I was hopeless at recognition... I'm not sure what to make of that now... probably I am, but not when I'm being tested?
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How in hell does an Italian immigrant have an infinitely greater, and infuriatingly more lyrical, grasp of the English language than me, a third-generation local with British heritage?
Too right. I say boycott Tiso - too clever by far!
Mum's house is full of such objects, thanks in part to the heroic frugality of past generations: I'm thinking especially of the square knife that my grandmother used to cut tagliatelle with, made from the recycled blade of an old scythe...
I have much the same affection for a few items in my parent's/grandparent's houses; particularly a battered and slightly degraded copper saucepan... I covert it desparately, I'd steal it but I know it'd be missed instantly.
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<quote>Why do you need another blog? Haven't we already got what you seem to be missing?<quote>
My perspective on that is not that we need another blog per se, but rather fewer blogs of better quality where meaningful discussion might occur. I'd not mind if the very few calm commenters at kiwiblog just popped over here from time to time...