Posts by Bart Janssen
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As for Brownlee and the relationship with Fletchers, it's simply beyond belief. People are getting rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Maybe Fletchers is the only company able to do the jobs, maybe there is only one viable design, maybe all that land really does have to be cleared. But from this far away it is hard to believe.
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Is it bad that all I can think of is that I'm jealous of David's nail gun. I just can't find a justification to buy one :(.
Look after your eyes mate, and your ears, those things are loud!
Surely we must have a PAS reader who is an optometrist who can make a house call to CHCH?
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Barnard,
designs on the leadership undermining what the party is trying to achieve
Having designs on leadership does not necessarily means he is undermining the party.
If however, the methods he uses to gain leadership do undermine the party then it is negative.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to George Darroch,
But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a story of his which wasn’t about shoehorning an issue or event into a conflict
He wasn't always like that. I remember a, perhaps younger and less jaded, Gower that helped me understand what was happening in parliament. I don't know if it is him or if it is the producers demanding a different style.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Peter Dunne and John Banks have 100% support from their respective caucuses :-)
Are you sure?
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I managed to avoid most of the news this weekend but what I saw of Paatrick Gower was depressing. I remember him providing information and analysis in the past that informed. Now he seems desparate to get “the soundbite” that will make his career. He could do well by looking back at his older performances and returning to that style.
As for the wrangles in Labour. Huh? The change in policy seemed to be one that gave the wider party more input into the actions of the MPs – it’s hard to view that as a bad thing. That Cunliffe wants to be leader is not news, that he doesn’t have enough support to be leader is also not news.
The real story was the policy but it would have taken some actual effort on the part of the reporters to provide insight analysis and information.
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Up Front: Or It's Who We're Drinking With..., in reply to Emma Hart,
Or at least, ‘holding hands’ in our culture seems a bit fucked up.
I do find it such a pity that our culture has developed taboos around touch. We are tremendously affected by touch, much more than we think. So I find it sad that the act of touching, carressing, hugging have such restrictive boundaries.
The idea that every touch is interpreted as a sexual overture is just wierd. It must be even more confusing for those who are attracted to both sexes.
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
having the piss taken without mercy
In the nicest possible way of course :).
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Andre Alessi,
PAS is the only forum where I feel like I need to think my opinion through before I post
But PAS is also a place where you are allowed to have your opinion changed and admit it. It's OK to be wrong here. That really is an important thing.
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My own social conditioning was rammed home really forcefully in the middle east when I saw men walking holding hands - because that is just normal there.
Why did I react at a gut level as if it wasn't?