Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Ante Up, in reply to Russell Brown,
Or if you have an existing Sky dish you get a $99 Freeview satellite decoder and plug it in.
You can indeed, $91 from J B hifi, but still a lot for the folks of Northland, the forgotten people.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Not sure they have such an overt presence here these days, but the point is clear. The building they used to own is now tenanted by an Aussie insurance company.
Sir Mickey Fay says he wants to by the Crafar farms "to keep them in NZ hands" Irony.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to JacksonP,
Anthrax.
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Neighbourhood bar tonight? -
Cracker: Spotted, in reply to JacksonP,
I would have said Hi but I was working on a triple word score with a 7 letter word with an X in it, init.
Hi
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Hard News: Ante Up, in reply to Russell Brown,
Freeview HD decoders regular come down as low as $130 now. For $450 you can get a whole new Freeview-integrated TV.
Only if you live in an area covered by terrestrial broadcast. They claim that is 95% of the population, if I recall correctly, when Freeview was launched we were told that this number would be 95% of all households. I have a sneaky feeling that National scuppered that number.
So, if you live north of Whangarei or out by where Islander lives, you will need a satellite dish and a satellite decoder (more expensive than a terrestrial one) and someone to set up the dish, they are buggers to get right without the right equipment.
Freeview TVs are terrestrial and so would not work outside the coverage footprint, I have met several people that got suckered by the Warehouse in Kaitaia into buying a TV which will be useless when the switch over happens. -
Hard News: Ante Up, in reply to George Darroch,
even if Roche did sound like she’d swallowed helium.
Breathing from those ACT balloons most likely. Are those helium balloons supposed to represent their policies?.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But that would defeat the purpose surely?
I would prefer to see the occupy the Fay Richwhite building, it would be so symbolic. -
Cracker: Spotted, in reply to BenWilson,
“If you haven’t considered being right wing by the time you’re 20 you’ve got no brain, and if you’re still right wing by the time you’re 40 you’ve got no soul”.
I tend to agree with that statement.
We went to the Back Benches debate last night and I was quite astounded to see so many sweet young things wearing blue tee shirts emblazoned with the slogan “I’m a Key person”. My first thought was “they are not old enough to remember the last time National fucked the country over” but then thought “the folly of youth, they will grow out of it” unfortunately that won’t happen this side of the election, bloody Key Holes.
Key hole n. Like an asshole but blue. -
Muse: Indecision 2011: Writing Policy on…, in reply to Ben Clark,
- so art is not restricted to Wellington.
Splutter, bluster, fart...
Hey, I don't know a lot about Art but I know it doesn't all come from Wellington. Of all the Artists I know not one of them comes from down there, mind you, I do live in Auckland. -
Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But won’t the people paid this pension be spending it back into the economy?It’s not like they are getting it and going out the back and burning it in the incinerator or in some other way taking it out of circulation…
A point that is sadly lost on the beneficiary bashers.