Posts by Paul Litterick
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Folks, if you take the kids to see the Patricia Piccinini, take the opportunity to tell them about Swine Flu.
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I don't regard ACT as far right. Remember ACT came from Labour and Phil Goff and Annette King were very loyal lieutenants to Roger Douglas.
That is not so much an argument as a slur.
And it does beg the questions, if you agree with Shearer that the private sector can be used in armed conflicts (so long as it provides a better outcome than using the public sector), why would you not apply the same test to Corrections?
No it does not. You really should find out what the phrase 'begging the question' means.
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Seriously, the first time that I can recall hearing any Abba songs is when I was at university in the mid 90s. Everyone was going "Oh, I really love this song" in the tones of someone confessing a guilty secret, and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
How I envy you.
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I see DPF is running IQ test ads on his site. Some of his readers might get a rude awakening.
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Er, same way as the above examples would be offensive, I imagine.
No, because the other examples were obviously derogatory, while Eskimo is simply the name for the indigenous people of the polar regions: the Yupik and Inuit peoples.
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Eh, if a Maori girl went to Canada and found some `cannibalistic south seas tribals' lollies I bet she'd be legitimately pissed, or if the Aussies found `kokoda trail white devils' candy in Japan, or whatever...
Can someone explain to me how the use of Eskimo in this context is offensive? And how will the outraged Canadian tourist send Eskimo bars to her Prime Minister, as she vows to do? Will they not melt on the journey? Or will she send them in an Esky?
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Of course, the correct names for the islands are New Leinster, New Munster, and New Ulster.
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Holmes is like Chicken Man: he's everywhere, he's everywhere. I realise this is a small country but there is no shortage of opinionated people who could fill the vital role of giving uninformed commentary in a national newspaper. And Holmes is given outlets for blathering all over the place, including this one.
The decent thing to do would have been to recuse himself from judgement, on the grounds that he knew the convicted man and precious else besides. But then, if he applied that principle to all his media outpourings, he would be out of many jobs.
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I can actually picture Michael Lhaws sitting at his desk after a hard day, writing turgid soft-core.
I wish you had kept that to yourself.
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I want my tombstone to read "KTHXBAI."