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Leopold, indeed ...
Richard Boock points out in another very thoughtful contribution article a 'deep irony' in the fact that many of those who whinge loudest about alleged political correctness are also the most likely to take exaggerated offence to criticism, even when it is reasonably polite and professionally-argued.[aside]fucking cry-babies[/aside]
[Fran] offers an idiom previously unknown to the english language
A lovely mixed metaphor? I presume she was searching for "high-tailing it back" but got distracted by "tail wagging the dog" (tired cliche to be used in next week's froth against MMP, no doubt).
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You mean like this crap from Fran O'Sullivan? She already seems to be foaming at the mouth as the election approaches, like last time's hysterical rantings.
She even throws in "clean coals" for good measure! Two words that should never be spoken together (and using the plural for "coal" doesn't make it OK). There's nothing clean about the extraction of coal, and to burn it cleanly requires technology which is both (a) years off; and (b) uneconomic.
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CM has a romantic ring to it in theory, but: honestly? Exactly who in a motor vehicle is won over by a crowd of cyclists crawling through the CBD, slowing everyone down?
Well, lots of people were won over by a crowd of trucks crawling through NZ CBDs recently ... even crawling along the motorway was heartily approved of by most, it seemed.
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I think Kodos put it best when he campaigned on the basis of: “We must go forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”
p.s., A Canadian colleague assures me moose meat is great.
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In their millions....
Imagine the hilarity if John Key or Helen Clark tried the equivalent. I doubt they could even mouth the words without cracking up.
It's just so ... preposterous.
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Meanwhile, on Planet Loonytunes (considerably weirder than a Spore Planet), a would-be leader pronounces:
"I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth"
Sweet Jesus you couldn't make this shit up.
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Yikes, having watched the remainder of the Spore video, it needs at least one more warning:
"May make children susceptible to ravings of crazed creationists".
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I love the parental advisory at the start of the Spore introductory video:
"Animated blood. Comic mischief. Fantasy violence."
Comic mischief!? What is the world coming to!?
I wonder if they slap the same warnings on the front page of Shakespeare's more light-hearted plays?
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Hear hear for the old Mangere Bridge!
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Greg said:
PS: As a teenager in South Auckland me and my mates used the New Mangere Bridge cycleway most weekends. It was a sewer: glass, graffiti, human poo, burnt mattresses. But it was fun, and it worked, and it was easy, and the old bridge was an alternative. Certainly no waiting half an hour for the looping bus...
I have very vague recollections of it being underneath the 'new' Mangere Bridge (aka the SH20 crossing, aka the bridge which is shown partially complete in 'Goodbye Pork Pie'). Is that correct? Is it still there?
I haven't thought about that for about 20 years!