Posts by giovanni tiso
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Let me rephrase: what was her gig before this?
She was a missionary in Montecarlo, bringing expedited building consents to the super-wealthy.
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I know it irritates Giovanni, but I was reminiscing with friends the other day about the Good Old Listener Days, when the first thing you did was turn to page 94 and read Steve Braunias's latest tale of his red couch/custard squares/drinking binge.
He had his moments, but his whiney English football fan persona was just unbearable and seemed to complete take over late in his tenure. But with the benefit of hindsight, sure, compared to Joanne Black he's Nadine Fucking Gordimer. Very able writer, to be sure.
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See, I think the Tui ads are funny - the joke being that the men aren't displaying APB, but are too beer-obsessed to notice the women at all. ("Gorgeous beer.")
Aw, come on, they're gay. Isn't that obvious? Same with the Speights ads, where the guy who's engaged with the babe finds an excuse to break it off based on the fact that she doesn't drink one of dozen of identical mass-produced beers. It's got nothing to do with alcohol and everything to do with finding out who you really are in the transition to full adulthood. Beautiful, really.
Next week, we're going to get into what they really mean by "pride of the South".
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Plus he'd be sure to drive Emma around some sort of entertaining bend with his ideas about gay adoption.
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Although with columnists like Ralston and Black they probably need to rebrand to The Curmudgeon.
Now that Edwards has completed his transition into conservative commentator, I think he'd be ripe for inclusion. They need somebody else who'll just phone it in.
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I miss Diana Wichtel and Fiona's Stooges story still sticks in mind but otherwise I got no regrets on that score.
The other day I found myself being nostalgic for Steve Braunias. Then I figured that compared to Joanne Black even smallpox could elicit fond memories.
Remember when turning to page 94 of The Listener used to give you smallpox? *Sigh*... those were the days.
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I thought the part where Henare saw Sharples suggestion that he should cross the floor and raised him a why don't you resign your ministerial post then could portend something.
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Luke, I went out of my way to say that I didn't think you were making an anti-Semitic slur but it was a damn odd word to choose with some pretty unfortunate associations when applied to someone of Jewish descent.
Wow, that's taking tendentiousness and dishonest argument to a whole new level.
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"What is the compelling state interest to be advanced by giving associations of students the power to compel others to join them?
It's been answered ad nauseam, you're just not paying attention.
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Dear Lord, a union is like a church... so glad I was away from PAS yesterday and am grateful to those who argued against the proposition.
Suppressing exclamations of "what's with this fucking country?" has been hard over the last week.
1. They believe that the limit imposed in reasonable and justifiable in a democratic society; or
2. They believe that we shouldn't have the right to freedom of association.The former, dude, the former.