Posts by Christopher Dempsey
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
As in Orwell's 1984 or Sir Roger's 1984? Or maybe even both?
OMG. I've just realised. The revolution in 1984 happened the same year Orwell's book was set. Is there a PhD in there somewhere? And Roger isn't a Sir, he's a flamin' pig farmer. He's no Sir.
*I became a quasi-Republican the morning I woke up and saw Bill Birch's face on the front page of Granny, under some headline saying "Now Sir Bill". I only respect good and proper Sir's, like Sir Paul Reeves, but not Bill Birch or Roger Douglas or anybody like them.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to George Darroch,
What I struggle to get past is the great and apparently sincere speech that BIll English gave at the launch of David Cohen’s book about his autistic son, back when English was in Opposition. In government: not so much.
Did he realise that these services cost money? Real money? Or was he sufficiently disconnected from the first principles he runs the country on (a small state, with limited capacity for intervention in anything)? I ask these as real questions.
I'm sorry but let me ask a question; English has been around for yonks, double dipping and all. We all know that. We all know that he knows his way around government, and a set of books at Treasury. So why do people think for a single moment that he actually believed the stuff he said - all the sincere stuff that made you think, oh, wait a moment? That he would somehow allocate a few squillon to disability services? Of course he doesn't believe it. He's acting. For you. People gave him a vote as their sign of appreciation. Doesn't 1984 mean anything?
I don't think one should reflect on English's behaviour; one should reflect on one's own behaviour in this case.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to TroyHoward,
Never ever put your age, personal interests or gender on a Resume or CV.
Reminds me of my friend, very senior in a large civil engineering firm who has a nifty way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff; he chucks out any CV that states early on that I am married to lovely Julie and I have 4 lovely children, or variants thereof. You may be married, have children but what bearing does that have on the job you are applying for?
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
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forgive me for being derivative...
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Knocked.
This is quite entertaining...
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cut off at the knees for me too. You tease you Craig!
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In celebration of Poetry Day last week.
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Have to do two uploads.
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My wee pearl of wisdom (seen on the side of a building in Montreal in original French viz; tes yeux sont esclaves de l'ordinaire).
