Posts by philipmatthews
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Holmes is just the wrong interviewer for that show, always has been.
PAUL: And by the way, on the subject of colonialism, it hasn't been all bad, has it? I mean, if I may be flippant about it we now have refrigerators to put the crayfish in.
HONE Thank you Paul.
It's the kind of stuff you heard in redneckland 30 years ago. "The Maoris say they don't like colonialism but they like our beer/TAB/etc etc". Can't believe he gets away with this.
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Several months ago there was mention of a group of influential business persons in Christchurch who wielded a lot of political power back in the 40's? 50's? 60's?. The group had a name and I'm wondering if someone here can remind me.
Freemasons? Illuminati? Christs College Old Boys Association?
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Is that a goat-throw?
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Will I be hauled through the streets and battered to death with tire jacks if I say that AC/DC are truly awful?
I'd leave Hamilton first.
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There was this, in another SMH story:
The court heard that two of the four bars of Kookaburra were reproduced in Down Under's flute riff, which was added by band member Greg Ham after the song was composed. In an affidavit, Ham admitted adding the flute line to try to inject some Australian flavour into the song.
Justice Jacobson said perhaps the clearest illustration of the objective similarity between the songs was Hay's ''frank admission of a causal connection between the two melodies and the fact that he sang the relevant bars of Kookaburra when performing Down Under at gigs from 2002.
I had wondered whether it was accidental/unconscious plagiarism or they had assumed an old folk song was public domain. The latter, I would guess.
Story here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/news/2010/02/04/1265151932344.html
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But we really need a few more important issues addressed first.
Agreed. The flag issue is just cosmetic. And no one cares, no matter how hard the Herald tries to make them.
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The question is - what will be the next big autism hoax?
The biomedical treatment, possibly:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/the-false-prophets-of-autism/
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Far too subtle for today's crowd ...
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I was struck by how small the congregation was -- surely a show as big as Coro would splash out on extras sometimes? Didn't take Liam as that friendless. But you're right -- an utterly dour scene. Same sort of stuff when the baby was buried.
Not everything on the show is entirely plausible. The notion of Dev being irresistible to two generations of women is stretching things just a little.
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Having seen two episodes I can report that it comes across like a bizarre three-way between Caligula, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and gay porn.
So kinda like Rome, but with more sex and less historical accuracy?