Posts by Che Tibby
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to BenWilson,
Corsairs of Umbar from Arabian styles.
probably not unjustifiably. i think Tolkien described them as 'swarthy", via their blood relation with the haradrim.
deborah could likely correct us on that one.
-
Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
praise of the city’s “visible Maori culture”. I wonder what the international visitor will make of that once they actually get here.
that might be the bit in Te Papa, because Blanket Man has been out of town for ages. otherwise, there is SFA.
but many internationals don't seem to make it much further than the old girl on the waterfront.
and i agree about the rebranding as Middle Earth thing. it makes my cultural cringe ramp up to 11.
-
Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Sacha,
Are Drinnan’s greedy creatives rolling in it? Hardly. Their baseline funding has been frozen for two years and is likely to remain so for some time. The NZOA broadcast music funding pool every year is $5 million. The annual health budget is $13.6 billion – nearly 3000 times greater. Does it really even make any sense to compare them?
hmmm... is he confusing 'creatives' as in the artist's dole and other funds with the amount spent on big-budget films since 2000?
an amount running into the 100s of millions?
could well be.
-
Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
It's just that nobody bothered to check her credentials.
well, quite.
it's also been pointed out to me that 'invaluable' doesn't necessarily mean "giving away secrets". she could just have been explaining the way things work, or connecting people.
OTOH.
-
Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I'm amazed she was considered trustworthy to be honest.
they likely didn't know about the fraud and corruption charges at that stage.
this allegation could just be part of a wider pattern in the life of MA Thompson.
-
Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Peak Oil is coming, this means all commuting (not just motorways) is about to become more expensive
the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the IEA and the Saudis think that peak oil is already here, or has been and gone.
it's only the GFC that has blunted the impact.
-
Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
My working theory is that Joyce et al know exactly what they are doing: building infrastructure for the wealthy while they still can.
i'm lead to believe it's much more simple that than, lobbyists, and highways in national seats. it's much the same with the broadband roll-out. NRT had an interesting post on there the broad-band is "needed".
strangely, no labour seats among them. very very strange indeed.
it's typical NZL party politics. national dishes out taxpayer dollars to business and national party support base, labour to "middle class" and public services.
-
Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
who at the time had just finished massacring a million of own countrymen
philosophical quibble: they were communists (if it’s the butchering i’m thinking of), and hence not his countrymen, if you follow my argument.
-
dude... i'd appreciate you not undermining my incorrect factoids with, well, reality.
>:/
-
Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
never got around to thinking of a good purpose for it.
"to booze and rub shoulders" never looks all that good on the application.
some sort of diploma in journalism would work, as would "write a book of significance to everyone, fuck yeah twatcocks"