Posts by Rich Lock
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where does one shop for cravats these days?
Ebay. Seriously.
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I'm a little disappointed that 'fireman' didn't make your list of uniforms.
I've heard that chicks dig the firebloke, so I am as we speak totally rocking a hot combo of bulky, shapeless, heavily insulated fire and water retardant protective clothing that is uncomfortable, heavy and makes me sweat like a pig.
I have tastefully acessorised this with a helmet, D-ring Carabiner, torch and oxygen mask.
I look forward to being flirtatiously asked: 'where's the fire?'. The answer, of course, is 'in my pants'.
Look out Auckland, here I come.
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I think it's good form to put any substantial changes to your voting system to the general population. If there's one thing we should have direct control over, it's how we elect the politicians.
Moving to a PR system is a fundamental change. It'll mean that every election will end up something like this with coalition governments having to be formed, it's a definite choice that a nation should make rather than pollies doing it themselves.
Certainly it's good form.
But the Catch-22 is that neither of the two parties most likely to be forming a majority government (current situation excepted) are very likely to offer the choice. FPP suits them both fine as it tends to lead to large majorities either way, as the pendulum of public opinion swings from red to blue and back again.
I tend to agree with the mechanics (if not necessarily the sentiment) of Ben's analysis: this is the best chance the Libs will ever have. It's now or never, and if they need to fight dirty to grasp it, then so be it.
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is this a poetry club?
If it's possible to get blunt force trauma from rapier-like wit, then yes.
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Why would you want to win this election?
Why would you want to work for The Herald?
Wait, I know this one. The answer to both questions is: certainly the game is rigged, but it's the only game in town.
What do I win?
OK, I know it's a unfashionably good natured view of politics, but perhaps both Labour and the Conservatives want to win because they really believe they're going to do some good?
I don't doubt that that's at least part of why they're playing. However, it's not unreasonable to suggest and discuss that they may both be better off playing a longer game at this point.
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This is a bleak day for our democracy.
Oh, shut up, you pretentious windbag tool.
And Gwynne Dyer in The Herald asks a not unreasonable question: Why would you want to win this election?
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Looks like Ben's voting for the Green Party, then.
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Perhaps we need to take the vote off irrational unpredictable human beings and tell our alien overlords to shake their pseudopod and hurry up with the harsh but loving rule?
don't blame me, I voted for kodos
Should'a voted for that hope-y, change-y stuff instead, I suppose.
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Doesn't a twister mat have red, blue and yellow dots?
Get the three leaders to play a game. Last man left 'standing' gets to form the government.
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Can't say fairer than that, can you?
Perhaps not, but as you yourself pointed out, when you have someone by the balls, giving a light tickle and letting go is perhaps a little over-generous.
This whole situation has reminded me of the e-mail that did the rounds after the 2000 presidential election in the US and the whole Florida shemozzle: "Dear USA, as you've shown you can't govern yourselves, we're taking the colonies back. Much love, the UK"
Something along those lines.
Looks like those who laugh last, laugh longest.