Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Yeah, Graeme, I know *how* to form a sentence without using the preposition at the end. My point was that I didn't, because it's now technically correct to put the preposition there, but I wanted to note my discomfort. Because I am old-fashioned and a weirdo, etc.
If you were old-fashioned, wouldn't you just follow the old rule?
The rule may no longer be that gentlemen should offer their seats to ladies on omnibuses, but the old-fashioned ones still do.
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That's a much bigger question that I don't think anyone really has a definitive answer for.
ETA: I know it's technically correct nowadays, but man I hate ending a sentence with a preposition like that.
There was something wrong with:
That's a much bigger question for which I don't think anyone really has a definitive answer.
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Another thing to note. This is the Mens World Cup. Not "the World Cup". There are two. Most commentators reliably fail this.
That might be because you're wrong?
It's the FIFA World Cup.
The equivalent women's event is the FIFA Women's World Cup.
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It's an Asian woman! It's a pedophile! It's a person of interest! We have no leads! She's in the drain!
Phew.
Gary was out there saying something like "I wouldn't be surprised if she had been stolen to order".
And is TVNZ7 still running that ad for The IFC Media Project asking why the whole world stops when a white girl goes missing?
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And, finally, the Media7 segment on the media ... I think we did good
Yet to watch it, but did get through some of the back catalogue over the weekend - God Bless FreeVo =)
Was the discussion of the portrayal of female politicians in the media deliberately ironic - complaining about the stereotyping of female politicians while stereotyping female journalists as petty and spiteful? 'Cos it sure seemed like it could have been.
Also, and I'm not sure why this piece makes me think of it, but I note from a story today that John Safran has a new show. Woo! Hoo!
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So, simon g, some people are going to have to "eat satellite" no matter who wins the bid.
Well, the last date for analogue shut-off in supposedly in 2012, so they're going to have to do that anyway!
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Another complaint :-)
Prime TV and Daylight savings ... programmes that were series-linked on Prime TV prior to daylight savings commencing were recording an hour late after the change-over. They had to be cancelled an re-linked before they taped right.
I missed like three episodes of Letterman before I worked out what was going on. And more importantly, I missed most of the second episode of Apparitions. That's like 15% of all the episodes, ever :-)
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Remember she tended to label Opposition MPs who were ever critical of the Govt overseas as "treasonous".
A quick google search yields nothing. Got a link, DPF? I remember cancerous and corrosive, and Winston Peter's calling the Herald treasonous, and Chris Trotter calling Guyon Epsiner treasonous. And people accusing Helen Clark of treason, but the closest I get for Clark herself is Don Brash's uncyclopedia page :-)
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On the other hand I cannot imagine Miss Clark allowing the opposition to have done this in her time as PM, without a sharp comment or two
As it happens, she did. This has been going on for years. Bill English didn't just move to Wellington, and the Greens didn't just start a superfund. It has been known for some time that the Greens were renting from their superfund, in part to maximise their claims allowance. And that Bill English's family lives in Karori, while owning a farm near Dipton, isn't a surprise to anyone who shopped in Karori New World, or follows secondary school debating :-)
And let's not forget that the Greens were a part of the opposition during (at least some of) Clark's reign.
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PA reader Graham Leonard points out that last night's "documentary" on the channel, Making a Killing, is a polemic produced by a Scientology front organisation, The Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
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the film ... occupied two hours of publicly-funded television time last nightIt wasn't last night's documentary. It was last night's film. I wonder if that will be enough to save Māori Television from a BSA complaint?
It was also the most hilariously one-sided documentary I have ever seen (most of). I've ordered the DVD. Free to anywhere in the world =)
The evil-sound intonations of the voice-over, ominous music, and the fact that not a single argument would put from the other perspective, all made for quite compelling viewing, I thought. The wide array of opponents of psychiatric drugs they assembled was quite impressive, but despite the voice-over, the vast majority of those they interviewed were reasoned and reasonable. There was no other side put, but it would be interesting to see the rebuttal. The first segment I saw of the film - on the marketing of drugs and how drugs are approved - was certainly unsettling.
Maybe it was all lies, and every single person interviewed was an actor or a quack; but while it may have been funded by people seeking a polemic, and the voice-over added to this quality, there was a lot that was thought-provoking. There were obvious rebuttals to some claims, but ignore the "science" and you've still got a lot worth seeing.
Also, it was 90 minutes.