Posts by Stephen Judd
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Shep: yeah, after Vogel, things tightened up considerably on all who were not English-speaking or British-born. The oldest families in NZ arrived before the 20th century.
Hadyn: I love pulling jokes apart too.
/manly handshake.
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a kind of "my nigger" license.
I'm not going to get into who has permission to say what.
I'm just pointing out why I don't join in the laughter.
Maybe Hadyn could out himself as being Jewish?
That's funny. He doesn't look Jewish...
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they are not the target of extreme racism (at least in this country*).
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*other than skinhead retards, but no one here is one of those.So it doesn't count if the people doing it are retards? Wow.
Just in the last five years or so the retards have been responsible for graveyard vandalism, grafitti, firebombing, and websites publishing detailed and inimidating profiles with address details of prominent Jews. I invite you to inspect in person the various Jewish places of worship and community centres in this country, and if you can find them you will see that they are locked down good and hard for the simple reason that they receive consistent threats. If nutjobs aren't attacking us on the street it's only for lack of opportunity, not motive.
Extreme racism is real, is current, has an impact and the fact that the perpetrators are, as you say, "retarded" does not lessen that impact. If you were on the receiving end, maybe you would take it more seriously.
Actually, New Zealand historically did have a de facto whites only immigration policy which did not include Jews, which is why we had so few refugees from 30's Germany. The architect of our early 20th century immigration policy had studied "racial science" in Tuebingen.
The Social Credit party, which was not unpopular in New Zealand, started out blaming the Jews, and through them the NZ League of Rights quite respectably and openly distributed anti-semitic material up until the 80s. And their intellectual descendants are alive and kicking and talking to Karyn Hay every week.
Anyway, if your defence of your joke is that you wanted to create feelings of awkwardness, shock etc, surely you actually want to use groups that you feel are "currently being persecuted." That would be even edgier, wouldn't it?
If you made an equally hilarious joke about Chinese people, Tze Ming & co would kick your arse, if you made a sexist one the PA Women's XV would come after you. Jews are a safe target for you hilarity because the odds of having an offended Jew in the audience are low. Well, you lost that game of audience roulette and here is your spanking. Now don't do it again.
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dyan, you remind me somehow of today's first comic from Kate Beaton.
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Now what do I do with my life?
Crank out more Fundy Post articles fuelled by the pent-up venom and frustration!
/adoring fan
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Heh, I seem to remember talking to you about this with RB and Keith once.
The bulgy waist reduction is the neatest part for those of us who are vain. Alcohol doesn't just stimulate your appetite and give you a bunch of extra kilojoules and reduce your enthusiasm for exercise the next day, it also changes your fat deposition patterns.
I have done the no-drinking in Feb thing two years running now, since Jack blogged about it, and I recommend it.
I've never copped any flack for it though. Maybe the peer pressure depends on your peers.
One thing I wish is that red wine wasn't so damned alcoholic these days. A glass that's 14.5% alcohol has a fifth more alcohol in it than one that's 12%, and leads to unplanned tiddliness if you have a glass before dinner and one or two with. I also wish I could get Bookbinder in a bottle - terribly tasty and yet lower alcohol than most beer.
I am also reminded of a phenomenon I encountered in the West Midlands: the Muslim Friend Who Drives. Lots of the 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of Pakistani Muslims were well integrated socially with the Anglosaxons, and ended up as perpetual designated drivers. I often thought that if you were culturally (if not religiously) a non-drinker then constant exposure to your boozed mates at the end of the night would certainly reduce your temptation levels.
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Points to Haydn too for his hilarious ironic post-modern anti-Semitism.
Do excuse me for not joining in the laughter, won't you.
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The McCain campaign is telling its canvassers to go out and tell people, "from the heart", that Obama is a terrorist, and so on:
With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.
From here.
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I applaud this bold new initiative which is thoroughly in keeping with ACT’s philosophy as the party of market liberalism.
In an ideal orthographical market, spellings should compete freely allowing the best ones to win. Doubters are simply clinging to woolly leftist beliefs in their foolish desire for a state-enforced spelling system. You can see the effects of their pernicious orthodoxy in the inefficiency and stupidity of the unquestioned spellings sanctioned by self-appointed “experts” and “lexicographers” (why don’t they get real jobs).
I dunno, Labour and their Marxist mates will want so-called “correct” spelling to be taught in schools next.