Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to tussock,
If you don't have laws against it, you'll have teams of people screaming at you at the polls about how Labour's all Communists, or National's all Fascists, amongst much uglier alarmist nonsense.
I seriously doubt that, but it's a popular argument. There is a wide gap between not allowing the situation you describe and having laws effectively banning particular blog/Facebook comments.
ETA: yeah, and what Rich said too...
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I can find it pretty similar antecedent in the Electoral Act 1905, but didn’t see one in my quick look at the Electoral Act 1893. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that there was
Thanks Graeme. Do any other countries have laws like this?
I don't mind admitting that I find this law in the same category as laws banning the riding of moose down the wrong side of the road between 4am and 6am. They probably made sense when they were drafted in response to particular circumstances.
But now?
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Where did this law come from? Was there widespread intimidation of voters before?
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Muse: Friday Fluff: Shelf Life, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
When I first read P&P as a callow yoof, I didn’t have the literary or emotional software to understand it was a lot more than highbrow Mills & Boon.
Ah well, topical cross to your links on Twilight the other day...
Add a few werewolves to Pretty In Pink, or stock Pride And Prejudice with a bunch of self-absorbed millennials, and you’ll pretty much get the same googly-eyed result.
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When asked whether his complaint was a good use of police time, Mr Key said National had lowered the crime rate across the country and police had a little bit of spare time.
I feel a great disturbance in NZ, as if millions of voices suddenly LOLed, and then just kept on LOLing.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA
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LOL, I just heard Key's interview on the radio. He seems to have had the same media training as Ed Miliband.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Come on, Mr wave and smile, popular, You DA MAN John Key!!!
Gimmee a break, if that ain't gullible and simple what is?Suggesting that all voters who do not agree with you are stupid is just tedious.
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Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Danielle,
...and/or meant to rark up middle-class middle-aged people
And to some extent, it worked in this case. I think it's getting harder and harder to provoke an outrage, so the lyrics get more and more OTT. Once it was enough to have long hair to be deemed a menace to society. However, IMH(and possibly condescending)O the underlying intent of long hair and these lyrics is to ...
... rark up middle-class middle-aged people
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to DCBCauchi,
Re: Baby boomers’ supposedly free education.
I don't know how old your mother is, but baby boomer is a specific term for the generation born between 1946 and 1961 (give or take a year at the end).