Posts by philipmatthews
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Martin Hirst on Bailey Kurariki.
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She is prepared to make bold statements on the basis of bugger-all, isn't she? One would think that she has something against the Herald on Sunday.
But declaring that the Herald's Super City coverage comes from the "Fear and Smear School of Journalism, generating more hysteria than light on the subject of Auckland governance," is, er ... odd. Why ever would she be saying that?
More axes to grind than the axel grinders?
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I presume this is due to panic over falling revenue manifesting as hysteria in the reporting..?
Janet Wilson has a view ...
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Can't make the movie either way, but let's kick it off with this
I see John Lydon's been raiding his classic 1977 playlist ...
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I am trying to picture the thought process behind the phrase, as originally intended. Seriously. Was the mental image meant to be a single dapper Chinese person cycling through, say, 1930s Wellington, which may well have been rather eye-catching for those around them? Or was it meant to evoke a Chinese person in China, just one of a critical mass-style group spinning through the streets?
In David McGill's Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Slang (2003), he has it as:
Flash as a Chow on a red bike. Ostentatious. A West Coast saying going back to the goldmining era, when a 'Chow' or Chinese man on a red bike was unlikely, for the Chinese kept a low profile.
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Okay, new idea for the waterfront: let's build ourselves a wailing wall.
At 5 metres high, your new Weta sculpture will almost do the trick.
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Do you think James Cameron has been reading "Wallywood"?
Let's just call it out. Let's have a public discussion. That's what movies are supposed to do, you know. You can have a mindless entertainment film that doesn't affect anybody. I wasn't interested in that.
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Meanwhile, back at the World Hairsplitting Championship.
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Bill Manhire has a poem titled "Wellington" as well. I have the book at home and I can't find it online, but there's a line about "the boys from Muldoon Real Estate breaking somebody's arm" ...
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Off topic, but just wondering - why the good folk of Chch are quite happy to accept that their city is snobby and packed to the gunwhales with serial murderers and wannabe Third Reichers, while Dunedinites only claim to fame is a non-university inhabited by student alcoholic couchburners, and North Palmerstonians and Hamiltrons accept that they are indistinguishable from the cabbages of Sto Lat?
And we won't go into the provinces...
No complaints from any of them. Why are Wellington/Auckland so precious about their image?Don't stop there, Leopold. You forgot to add that Whanganui is a ghost town presided over by an attention-seeking Glenn Beck wannabe, Tauranga's for old people and Rotorua smells bad. What else? Invercargill's cold? Nelson's full of Poms?
Get a grip.