Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
Call me a fish if you wish.
Any particular sort of fish? Or just a fishy one?
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Chris, could you perhaps point to where anyone here has labelled you with the term "Aspie"? Not used the term generally, but used it specifically in your direction.
I've used it, generally, but I'm also one of the multitude of people on PAS who's at a point on the Asperger's spectrum. So you, as another person on the spectrum, want to stop me from using a term that also includes myself? Without implying anything about your sexuality, that's like trying to stop Craig from using the word "gay" as a general term.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Steve Barnes,
A question one should not ask unless one is prepared to be given an honest answer, I suspect.
So, you could ask a National MP then.
I'll ask Collins if you ask Brownlee. Deal?
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to 3410,
Someone’s having a laugh with that headline.
Yes, it is a lovely demonstration of the significant role a hyphen can play in English.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Steve Barnes,
“What are you wearing under that?”
A question one should not ask unless one is prepared to be given an honest answer, I suspect.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Tim Hannah,
That’s not the way it’s supposed to work is it?
Generally, if the Police oppose bail the courts will deny bail. Which, mostly, is a reasonable situation.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to andin,
Would that we all did our jobs with equanimity, skill all the time and were fully present in each and every second and able to use our personal skill, intelligence and depth of knowledge of our species acquired from lengthy training and careful coaching by their parents and all grown members of society we came in contact with, at that very moment, in that truly awful situation when it was most needed.
Roll on sentient beings with no hint of humanity, to whom we can task all manner of activities where being human is a weakness.
But until that day, I will temper my wish for perfection on the part of others with my realisation that, as I am not perfect, I cannot reasonably damn them for even the slightest of human failings.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Rich Lock,
’Ey, Steve-o my old chum, any chance you could deferred payment option me $20 to tide me over to pay day? No, no, no. Not a loan. Perish the thought.’
uh, no. More like 'Ey, Steve-o my old chum, any chance you'd let me repay that $20 I owe you for last week's dinner over, oh, four weeks?'
Deferred payment is not just another name for loan, and Granny's headline was pretty shocking. The Government never had the money that it is now owed by MediaWorks, which is the normal requirement for a loan. A loan implies retained ownership but transferred possession. No money changed hands, MW just gets to pay off an incurred obligation over a period of time, with interest.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Russell Brown,
But it would be nice to see the government treat public broadcasting assets as kindly as it treats the private ones.
I'm curious what MW's interest rate would be if it'd borrowed from commercial funders. 11.whatever % sounds pretty steep to me, especially in light of an almost-certain OCR cut.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to ScottY,
If there is evidence that army people have been involved in an assault then they should be charged. Not “talked to”.
Of course. But all we've heard so far is that they had a leer and a jeer, which is not a crime.