Posts by Joshua Drummond
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Awesome. The guy with the Jake Heke line was me. I'm glad you liked it - I don't remember the line getting a particularly big laugh on the night. I think my friends and I might have started another Room meme as well: we started saying "Om nom nom" whenever there was kissing and the whole theatre picked it up.
I had severe doubts about going to the Room screening: I'd kind of thought it would be a crowd of filthy hipsters being... filthy hipsters. But it turned out to be a wonderful, if truly strange, experience. There was a lot of joy there. And I'd dare even the most jaded bad-movie-avoider out there not to laugh every time the spoons appeared, a shout of "SPOONS!" went up, and cutlery flew everywhere.
Oddly, not everyone seemed to be in the mood for participating; there was a girl and her friend directly in front of us who, pretty early on, turned around and hissed at us to STFU. I only feel a little bit bad about spending the rest of the movie coming up with as many calls as possible to wind her up. -
What was FailOil's "comeback," just out of interest?
Oh, and congrats on the scoop to you and Rory. This is excellent stuff.
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If the bill had made it to select committee, wouldn't a lot of the weirder stuff you've mentioned been weeded out, leaving a better framework for constitutional change should someone decide to have another stab further down the line?
How's about we follow something similar to the Australian process, sans Constitutional Convention - have referendum first, then have a Royal (State?) Commission sort out the details later? Find out if the people, in general terms, want a republic, and then present the available models to Parliament? I suppose there is the problem that people don't know exactly what kind of republic they are voting for, but that could be accomplished by referenda further down the line. At least it would get the ball rolling, so to speak.
I mean, I'm well out of my depth with the constitutional and legal stuff involved here, but as a layman with a vague preference for a republic, this seems like the most sensible path.
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Do you think Locke knew it was bad law from the get-go? Is it possible he was submitting a bill that was effectively saying "Hey, I think we should have a republic, you know, how's about we talk about it?" Sure, Parliament might not be the best place for that kind of thing, but it's hard to imagine a more visible forum for debate.
The other scenario - that Locke didn't realise how bad the bill was - kind of worries me.
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I'm aware of the way extraction industries have unwritten the prosperity of our neighbours across the Tasman
Unwritten, eh? I like it when a typo is also a keen observation.
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Oh good, I was hoping someone would eviscerate this story. My immediate thought was that it sounded like a student magazine stunt, only without humour or (intentional) irony.
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Tax cuts make so much more sense when you're half-cut on some fine Araldite.
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Guys, it's simple. Look. Nice Mr Key was worried before the election that mean old Nanny Labour wouldn't let ordinary people have cheese. So he's gonna cut taxes so rich people can have more cheese, and jack up the tax on cheese.
Wait, what?
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So "latent fascism" is funny, but it really does seem a bit bait-happy. I enjoy Laws being angry as much as the next guy, but this just seems to be glorying in his downfall. I guess the question is why Laws responded at all to something like this?
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Handy. I only noticed the slip immediately after I'd posted it, of course. Good old PA, not caving in to the edit button Nazis!