Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Not entirely sure how the turducken came into it. But, say you like did one, would you bone, fillet and stuff it yourself, or get the butcher to do it?
Craig and I were talking about the turduckens that Farro sells ready-made.
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I wouldn't make you go there, but here's Pete George in Kiwiblog comments this morning:
Brown et al have tried to depict ‘Dirty Politics’ as John Key bad, the left clean ... a number of core commenters on Hard News showed how soft they are, they didn’t like their ‘Nicky is God’ meme being challenged and Russell ensured an alternative view was shut out. The Public Address vote on Word of the year reflects a message controlled community view.
Bless.
Truth is, I finally had to ban Pete on account of him being a tendentious windbag apparently immune to reason.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Especially if I manage to convince David that re-mortgaging the house for a turducken is a good idea.
I would consider* having 20 people around on Christmas Day purely so I could say "I cooked a turducken."
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to weka,
Oooh, I hope that’s on the list next year.
Runner-up in 2008 :-)
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to ,
It’s well know round here, that Brown once ate a duck from out of a tin.
That's a dirty, filthy lie Crawford.
The duck was in a jar.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand's…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Do you remember why you were visiting?
It was at the end of the sixth form and five of us had somehow wound up on a committee tasked with exploring potential recipients of the school's fundraising efforts. The whole process was educational.
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In spite of best practice evidence and parental advocacy turning against the institutions, the 1953 report of the National Government’s Consultative Committee, which became known as the Aitken report after the doctor who was chair of the committee, recommended that disabled and mentally ill people be housed in large ‘mental deficiency colonies’ containing several hundred people, and extending current institutions such as those at Levin (Kimberley) and Templeton
I visited Templeton when I was I was at school in the 70s and it was a strange and challenging place. My memory is of room after room scattered with children with various and apparently undifferentiated disabilities. None of them seemed to be doing much besides existing.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Everybody Loves…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
It happens to best of us, I guess…
Heh. But it's not in the headline!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Everybody Loves…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What’s the point of being famous if The NZ Herald can’t even be bothered getting your name right?
Oh dear. That's very poor.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: The Vote, in reply to Soon Lee,
As a new member of Russell Brown’s troops (though I never took his shilling), I’m curious: is there a base? Does all of it belong to us? Will there be cake or is that a lie?
You'll get your cake when you complete the initiation process. Sacha will explain the details. It's nothing to worry about, although you might want to bring a change of clothes.
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