Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Good tunes, movies, writers and software but....
this is a chord i keep playing. the US sells itself as 'the saviour of the world' (ie WW2, even though the Soviets and the 20mil dead did the heavy lifting), 'the leader of the free world' (i.e. fighting those same Soviets in the Cold War, with millions of "bush-war' deaths in the Third World), and the Defender of Free Rights (i.e. versus China in the 1990s.).
but... it turns out they're largely as evil as any other superpower. they imprison innocents, they torture, their political system works on money (not democracy), and they appear to deal with 'dictators and evil men' as they see fit (thanks Wikileaks).
why do we kow-tow to these guys every time they ask us to? is it just that their dying economy is still useful?
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ok... i'll play.
the plural of twatcock?
a "fold".i.e. "in that room is a fold of twatcocks".
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
No, because the slut-shaming rape bingo going on here is beyond vile regardless
now, when you say "here", where do you mean exactly?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Deborah,
i'm sure those arseholes will not hesitate to fail to do so.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
his Swedish lawyer is all over the media claiming he’s seen evidence proving his client is the victim of a pair of lying slappers with “secret agendas”?
just for the record, can we have a significant mea culpa if that does actually prove to be the case? and these women are fabricating?
because if we’re talking objectivity, it could be true. it could also be false.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
i think he's getting at the quality of harvard graduates. many are actually muffins.
very, very well-connected muffins.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think the British Council* do the same thing here as well.
'way back when' i was invited to a dinner here in wellington to rub shoulders with some geezers. basically to act as scenery.
all on the British government.
made me feel very important. very important INDEED.
*might have been some other British people. who knows. i was well pissed.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
None of this is a secret, and none of it has been a secret for six bloody decades.
But of course, it was in a Wikileaked cable so it must be a scandal.
correct. i know someone who went to the US on one of these trips just this year.
apparently, he drank a lot of beer, shook a lot of hands. thank you Mr. US taxpayer and your junket slush fund...
<disclaimer> he may have been mind-cored and a robot sent back in his place. i dunno, haven't seen him since</disclaimer>
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Steve Parks,
you wonder what the subeditor had to say to their boss
boss: "retype then print this"
subby: "but... but... it's written in poo... and lipstick"
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ever wonder why @anonops sound like teens?