Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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In New Zealand, it is illegal to inflict violence on animals. So are children a lower form of life, sort of 'homo whack'ems'?
Why is it so many people have so great a misunderstanding about the legal protections we offer animals in this country?
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It's funny how that happens - I've never seen that with rugby yet.
Well, we've never had to qualify for the Rugby World Cup...
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For instance, my daughter loves the Muppet Show.
And that's a show that'll give a child a really broad twentieth-century musical education, to boot. Music hall, American songbook, disco, singer-songwriter - they did everything!
Even Steve Martin playing the banjo!
But does anyone else remember the Muppet Show being an hour long? I really thought I did, and so did one of my flatmates, but the DVDs tell me otherwise...
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here's the football chant sung by the Liverpool crowd in 1965
What struck me most about that clip was the sparse commentary - lots of empty space, with just the football to watch and "Wonderful singing by the Anfield choir" :-)
And for my contribution to the afternoon - Berlin Wall footage from ABC:
And in a little context...
Those Czech crowd scenes ... wow!
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Nice David. The banjo gets a bad name from its association with 'rural trash' and inbreeding stereotypes, but it can be a lovely instrument.
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers on Letterman earlier in the year, playing one of Steve's own compositions:
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Well, that's quite an funny mistake to make. But it doesn't really alter it ... the article as I see it says:
The papers show Maori TV earns $1m a year in advertising and has 1.7m unique viewers a month. The rugby would bring seven million unique viewers a month.
So the seven million became 7.1m because I transposed their current 1.7m, but they were still expecting a hell of an influx!
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Perhaps someone can explain this to me:
What on Earth is a unique viewer?
Apparently, Maori TV were expecting 7.1m of them a month if they broadcast the Rugby World Cup. Maybe their broadcasting range is a bit bigger than we've been led to believe?
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Big Bang Theory is about the only current show I can think of where the geeks look like geeks.
Beauty and the Geek.
Dwight and Kevin in The Office.
Frank from 30 Rock.
Andy from According to Jim.
A bunch of characters from The Simpsons and American Dad.
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Yes. But that's just an example of slower government is better government because it gives us time to stop and think.
Well, yes. That was my point. DPF was right on this - Labour did not need to panic and legislate, it could have panicked and appealed, and left legislation a year or so down the track (and un-rushed).
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And lost. Even Port Marlborough dropped its appeal to the Privy Council.
Undoubtedly, but the time it took it all to finish could have been well-used in at least some sort of public discussion. Or even internal political discussion whereby the Government could have worked out a better compromise/ built some cross-party support/ whatever.
Wouldn't it have been better for the initial reactionary racist response had been "this is an outrage ... dog-whistle ... human whistle ... Kiwi ... beaches ... summer BBQs ... we'll appeal" instead of "this is an outrage ... we legislate".