Posts by Joe Wylie
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. . . ask if it was really true that Kevin from 'The Wonder Years' grew up to be Marylin Manson.
Jeezus. I thought he grew up to be Lockwood Smith.
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there's no way we would eat that kind of sawdust ersatz esrtwhile brain-
Bad brains, riddled with nasty little prions.
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As for the whole USA vs Russia thing in 2010, that was out of date within 6 years of the movie, and no mention was ever made in either film of the actual technology juggernaut of the next 20 years - the internet - which did actually exist at the time.
Horrible movie, obsolete before it was released. Here's why.
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There is that small tenent of right wing faith in this country . . .
Like, most rightwingers happily believe that there's really a little person inside every iPod?
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. . . sort out Colin, who was wearing an Elizabethan collar and fuming.
Vets only do that to cats who really cause them grief.
"Settle down tiddles, or we'll send you home dressed as a big nance". -
At which point they were socially discredited?
Heh. While it's so long ago now that many of the names and details are no longer to hand, the hero of Knapp's undoing was a rather singular schoolteacher who sailed with his family on a yacht from the UK and settled in Whangarei. He smelt a rat with his school's business dealings with Knapp's company and kept digging. As I recall, he summed up Knapp's downfall with words to the effect of, if Knapp & Co. hadn't initially attempted to fob him off as a provincial idiot, things would probably have been fine.
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Don't have time to go into their unusual economic theories, but their connections with the far-right League of Rights were always a bit of a worry.
They'd probably have fitted into phase one MMP quite happily. Just as ACT is today, and NZ First before them, they were a magnet for what Bob Jones termed 'grey shoe wearers', mostly low-key cranks who'll always read a small party's outsider status as standing for a host of vaguely-defined causes.
While Bruce Beetham appeared to take the Major Douglas economic doctrine to heart (whether he, or anyone, really understood it is another matter), Gary Knapp wasn't known as Gary "Buy Me" Knapp for nothing. An opportunist of the first order, his freak winning and retention of the East Coast Bays seat had about as much to do with Social Credit policies as Rodney's holding of Epsom does with ACT's.
By the time of their political demise the party was known as the NZ Democrats, with Social Credit policies subordinated to Knapp's electoral appeal. The Knapp brand was instantly snuffed when he was done for running a dodgy mystery envelope fundraising scheme.
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Yeah, see, I'm calling 'actual sensitive pretending to be fake-sensitive to get laid'.
I know that I really shouldn't go there, but I'm driven to picture that. The sounds he made as he was deconstructed were a bit like a faked orgasm?
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Stick out your face, so we can shoot you in the face.
Ah. When someone crawls in here begging to be put out of their misery, Karl euthanases them. Which NZOA should really have been doing all along, if they'd been fulfilling the obligations defined in their charter.
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I'm just not sure why such a need to go crazy exists in our species (and yes I am accepting that Canadians are the same species :P).
All those French-language folk songs they're taught in school, about flaying beavers and suchlike?