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  • Hard News: A Taxonomy of Poo,

    Shadbolt was around various movements, but he wasn't a member of PYM from memory.



    he very definitely was - Or has his memoir 'Bullshit and jellybeans' vanished down the public memory-hole?

    He turns and takes it off the shelf...

    Bloody funny book (for a variety of reasons).

    Here's an excerpt that seems fitting (from a poem on p.66)
    "Old dogmatic minds
    Faithfully churning out cliches
    From some foreign revolution
    Capitalist Colonialist Imperialist Puppet Monopoly
    Revisionist Bourgeoise Paper Tiger.
    "Fuck the workers".
    Heresy they scream
    Flicking through the pages
    Of Marxist biblical scriptures
    ...."

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: A Taxonomy of Poo,

    Can I just say I'm quite happy with how we've ended up with such a useful and expressive term as "poo labels".

    Thankyou. I'm full of shit at the best of times.

    Lyndon

    What are the conservative or right-wing equivalent poo labels that lefties use?

    Did you corporate masters tell you to ask that question?

    I am a leftie, but don't really ever use poo labels myself thus was hoping others might compile a list for me to look out for.

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    This

    He said TVNZ had been his life, but recent media coverage had made it "untenable" for him to continue in his on-air roles.

    reads as this in the Herald

    There have been a lot of statements made that are untrue which make it untenable now for me to continue in my current roles with TVNZ and the Radio Network.

    So the implication is there that some of what is being reported is not true and that that is why he can't go on in his roles. Could he not then speak the truth and keep his positions? The smell just won't go away.

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: A Taxonomy of Poo,

    That whole Helengrad thing is very good propaganda *for* Labour really, given the way it shows those who engage in it as completely barking mad.

    It shows a bunch of people who are simply too lazy to think after presumably spending all their energy typing, or speaking and having nothing left.

    What are the conservative or right-wing equivalent poo labels that lefties use?

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: A Taxonomy of Poo,

    Or what's wrong with being a lesbian I should say?

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: A Taxonomy of Poo,

    What's wrong with lesbians?

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Island Life: Abusage,

    I also just had someone tell me about an "infinite number of possibilities".

    Chuck Norris would know all about that. Afterall he counted to infinity. Twice.

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Island Life: Abusage,

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  • Island Life: Abusage,

    People also often desire to colour and emphasise their language - saying "absolutely" (or "you bet", "sure can", "does it rain in Melbourne", "are the bears Catholic" or "does the Pope shit in the woods") achieves this.

    Rich, I thought it was "If the Pope shat in a funny hat in the woods with nobody around to hear it would he make a sound?"

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    you still own your own shit.

    Damn straight. If it's that stressful then it probably isn't the wisest thing to keep up the same schedule afterwards. In saying that I couldn't appear in front of a tv camera, I'd wind up looking like Anna Paquin accepting an Oscar only drooling, before fainting.

    Since Nov 2006 • 903 posts Report

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