Posts by Sam F
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What I meant was that to dismiss without weighing evidence is no better than to accept without weighing evidence.
Even in the face of vastly more likely and widely supported alternative explanations?
I remember hearing somewhere that the scale of required payoffs to hush up a mooted 9/11 demolition would have made the conspiracy the biggest employer in American history.
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Ah, you mean like how Peking is now Beijing? Doesnt that seem like an international attempt to use something (approximately) closer to the local pronunciation?
Let me channel Redbaiter for a moment here: Peking was the good, upstanding colonial European name - not like that filthy socialist name that the Chinese apply to their own capital. When you conform to pinyin, you're conforming to communism !
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I'm not voting for pukeko - or indeed any of the official bird list.
I voted for pouakai, on the grounds that it gave humans a run for their money. Aue, not enough of a run - the first lot cruelly extinguished pouakai's normal food supply, and it was one of the second lot who shot the last pair...but it was a good go while it lasted!Always wondered what it would be like if these birds were still around - surreal visions of the standard "people walking up Main Street" TV camera shot, with a pair of featherly legs shooting down and snatching someone up...
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Just so it's on both threads:
DPF's KhiwiblogJust a pity the racists come out to play consequence-free, as usual. Here's the case in point:
Johnboy Says:
What gets me about this whole (sorry fole) load of crap concerning Mhaori getting septic about how us honkys pronounce their near unintelligible babble is that we are speaking english when we talk of places in NZ not speaking mhaori.
If I am speaking in english re places in France I don’t break into the local lingo ie Paree not Paris. Likewise if I am speaking of Russian cities in english I don’t suddenly say Mockba in psuedo russian I say our pronounciation of it–Moscow. As for Chinese placenames dont even ask.
It seems to me we have pandered too long to this PC crap. If you are speaking in mhaori fine, pronounce the names in mhaori. If you are speaking english then use the english pronounciation. No wh’s that sound like f’s in english to my knowledge.
When I get to hear all the cuzzies in Neuiw Zeeland using perfect english pronounciation when they are not using their native tongue then I might take them seriously and try to do the same with mhaori place names. Till then I will just laugh out loud when I read all the precious crap they spout about Te Reo.
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Can't you see the scene at the recruitment agency with the gathered pool of redundant PR hacks?
"We're looking for volunteers for a suicide mission. Those in, take one step forward."
Y'know, we could spin the suggested Downfall: Laws Edition right out to film length with that one...
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Remember this: if Goebbels could come back to life and witness the degree to which capitalism was able to assert itself over the minds of the masses through television he wouldn't stop wanking for a billion years.
That's quite a novel Godwin...
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Now that's satire. Can you see the difference?
Sorry for the late edit!
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I wonder he sits around in Council meetings saying “jerk jerk jerk”
Probably not, but that's what we're all hearing, right?
Hands above the table, Your Worship.
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I'd rank them 2, 1, 3, but Laws would be sharing his dishonorable third with Trevor Loudon.
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Oh, also meant to say that I voted for Kakapo.
I attended one of Auckland Zoo's kakapo evenings this week so was utterly biased in my own voting...