Posts by Steve Barnes
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I think I'll post this here because, well, why not?.
I was talking to some people tonight who said they were lifelong labour supporters but would not be voting for them this time, their reason?
Labour introduced secondary taxation on a second job.
Labour started their term with a surplus and left us in debt.
Labour scrapped the apprenticeship scheme.
The list went on... and on.
When I asked them why they thought this they said "everyone knows that"
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Clint Fern,
I have to say all the cops I’ve come into contact with here have been good as gold with me,
I am guessing you are Caucasian, I know well those that feel differently.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to joshua grigg,
Now it's such a big story it's hard for an organisation like the police to admit that it might have been a silly arrest to make and withdraw the charges.
Under the circumstances, having a new top cop, Peter Marshall, I expect repercussions or are we to expect more of the same divisive bullshit we have become used to under Broad and his unworthy assistant. The fact that we have that people hating Collins as minister I expect more of the same.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Damian Christie,
It’s an historical oddity, and I believe a reasonably lucrative one.
And just plain wrong if you ask me. Commercial channels benefit by having people tune in to their offerings and therefore it should be treated as advertising. Public broadcasting is, by definition, a public service paid for by the public through their taxes.
It would make sense for it to be treated as a public service announcement and as such it would be required for chosen publications to carry them as a service if requested. I am not sure about the status of public announcements in this regard but I am guessing this is the process, correct me if I am wrong, please.
Had this been the case I am sure there would be less of a chance for this Government to ditch TVNZ7. -
I remember the "Team Policing Unit" that used to go around pubs looking for trouble. They turned up at a bar in Ponsonby that I was at with my partner, she looks Maori but is, in fact, Mexican. We weren't sitting together, a female officer approached me and had a polite chat and then went over to my partner and asked her to "step outside" and proceeded to tip her bag on to the floor, when she objected she was shoved against the wall with a forearm against her throat and told "we could always take this downtown"
I stepped outside to try and diffuse the situation and was told to go back inside, I said "That is my partner, what's going on" and was them approached by a senior officer who calmed things down and we both went back into the bar.
So. When it comes to "disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence" it tends to be the ones "Looking for Trouble" that should take the blame. -
Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Damian Christie,
papers are charged for publishing the listings. But certainly not with TVNZ 7. It’s pretty complex and I don’t really want to get into it,
I, for one, would find that subject interesting. Mainly because the listings for a commercial channel should be classified as advertising whereas listings for a public broadcast channel would be a public service in itself, surely.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I believe 99 out of 10 people whove mastered the possessive apostrophes complexities know nothing of historical inflections,
whove... snort. Hoist with your own petard methinks.
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Yes Nick. If we were to legalise drugs, you know along the lines of ACT policy regarding less interference in the liberty of the individual, would you think it a good thing to put a tax on those drugs or would that go against you principals?.
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Matthew Poole,
once all the useless bureaucrats were stripped of their exalted positions and sent out with the rank and file.
I can see it now…
Scene: Road side pullover,
Officer; “Good evening Sir can I see your documentation pertaining to your qualification to engage in the practice of driving?”
Driver: “What?”
Officer: “What I am attempting to do here sir is to ascertain your current status with regard to operation of a motor vehicle on a state highway or designated road with regard to the velocity of said vehicle at the time of my observation with reference to regulations set down in the statutory offences act of 2001”
Driver: “What the fuck?”
Officer: “With respect Sir I would be more comfortable if you were more restrained your use of expletives”
Driver: “What kind of cunt are you?”
Officer: “I am a strategic planning and resource allocation kind of cunt Sir”
Driver: “Oh sorry, I thought you were a cop”
Officer: “Yes Sir, I am now but I was a policy analyst by training and you know how tough times are”
Car and cop get hit by large Mainfreight truck.
Truck Driver: “What are youse cunts doing on my road, fuck off outa the way”
Stephen Joyce: “Well that worked out well, I can now drive to Omaha as fast as I like” -
Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to poffa,
That the same people committed to bombing the shit out of innocent afgani kids are also the ones that seek to controll what we ingest for their own benifits gives some clue as to how screwed up drug laws are.
+ several billion