Posts by Public Servant on a tea-break.
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<Me, I struggle with 'Mal or Inara'.>
Saffron
So long as she didn’t have me killed immediately afterwards that is…
Best television series never made!
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I have to disagree Glenn, although adding the voting percentages up for the National party, ACT, the Maori party still comes to around 52%, I believe, the other 48% of the voters selected other parties to provide them with a voice in parliament. This is their democratic right.
Circumventing the select committee process when passing legislation removes this voice.
I don’t think I can comment for the entire ‘Left’, but for myself, I want to register a complaint. So if anyone can provide advice on which offices in Parliament I should write to, I would be grateful to receive it.
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I share your disquiet with the performance of the present government during its first week on the Treasury benchs. As a private citizen I have few options to lodge my concerns with anyone.
I wonder if anyone online can advise me on this point? If I was to write a letter of complaint on the current use of urgency in Parliament, should I address it to:
-the Prime Minister
-the Leader of the House
-the SpeakerOr all three? Or more people?
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Having seen a lot of films, I can remember the one you describe Graham. Cheerless, bleak, and frigging awful. But you forgot the 13-15 year old daughter who was coming to grips with the breakdown of her parents' marriage, which the adults try and hide from themselves through excessive drinking, and her emerging consciousness of her own sexuality.
And the symbolism, the endless sledgehammer like battering from the symbolism.
Still, no matter how bad the movie was, it was good to know Ian Mune and Marton Csokas were still working.
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<And wow Tea Break (can I call you Tea Break? I like that), that's an incredibly topical find...>
Yes you can, and thank you.
<Throughly recommend the original Gaynor article.>
I agree, It really is a good piece Sasha, the sort of journalism that would encourage me to buy newspapers, but I can’t find it online. If anyone has a 28 August 1999 copy of the “New Zealand herald’ at hand, now is your moment to shine through diligent transcribing.
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Depressingly, the line...
"and nothing about the $200 million in cash the two men have taken out of the company since they bought it for less than $10 million."
Reminded me of your Scoop posting in 5 September 1999 'Who needs Lotto when you're Michael Fay'.
Sorry, can't embed the link because I'm not that good with this interweb thingy, but here is the address for those who want to wonder if anything had been learnt by the 'Giants' of New Zealand's business community over the last ten years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9909/S00027.htm
or, anyone who just wants to sigh sadly about the trials of our people.
I hope all the investers in Hanover can survive this, as well as Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson undoubtably will.
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It is just lovely to know so many people posting here have heard the sound of funny shaped dice, rattled in anger....
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"I'd hope that a lot of bloggers would find it bad etiquette to quote from an online source, and not link to it. And, prevents your readers from seeing the whole article in context."
You are right Kyle, I am wrong. But perhaps both give the link, and the paragraph?
"But mostly, psychoanalysing the Herald's editorial voice is something of a hobby. I've been enjoying the practice for years."
Fair enough Russell. Its probably the only way to read the editoral on a regular basis. Otherwise, it would just get too much.
"as I recall the Sunday Star (Times?) was in 1999 in the few months preceding Labour's win."
Hi Paul, it was the 'Sunday star times' in 1999. The newspaper was formed by the merger of the Auckland paper the 'Sunday star', and the Wellington paper the 'Sunday times' in March 1994.
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I don't want to be rude, but I have to ask: If you guys don't like 'Granny herald', how about not linking to its articles?
Or before you link, ask yourself 'Should I be creating traffic for the newspaper that thinks Garth George's opinion is worth publishing?' The herald sales your eyeballs to its advertisers, every view on its site is worth money to it.
If you see something really annoying on the site, cut and paste a paragraph or two into your comment.
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>I think it makes a kind of sense to date a few dickheads during the undergraduate years. By the time you are actually ready to settle down there's a chance that experience has taught you a few bitter lessons and the sweet, dependable, non-dangerous guys will seem more like a refreshing change.
And that is how I met my wife! Or so she assures me...