Posts by dc_red
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I wonder if the American fear of/disdain for "the public" is at work here? A single bomb in a single public place (say, a train station, or airport) in the US would cause a mass abandonment of plans, and avoidance of that type of place. Even if it wasn't very successful. Ditto a bomb on a form of public transport (which planes are, in a slightly glorified sense). The Brits, whatever the flaws in their national character, don't have the same phobia perhaps.
Anyway, that hypothesizing aside, if the Americans are at one end of the spectrum in terms of reactions to would-be terrorist events, and the Brits are at the other, where would Kiwis likely fit?
And Australians? Canadians?
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TV3's late news certainly led with Paris. I think it was last Weds. I missed the 6pm showing that night, but the hourly updates after that led with it.
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How come Martha Stewart didn't think of this?
Serious question.
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Would Russell really use the word "jaunty"? Even in addressing food?
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When I saw the title of your post, Russ, my first thought was that "the bastards at the border" referred to NZ Customs, and you'd had a bit of strife coming back into the country!!
Which reminds me of a time I saw Christchurch customs officers, obviously bored with their stationing in a provincial outpost, go nuts towards every sunburnt kiwi tourist returning after a week on the Gold Coast....
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Darth Tamaki and Darth George
“Always two there are, a master and an apprentice”
Wonderful writing Graham.
With regards to the Parliamentary Prayer, my opinion (as a citizen and relatively informed voter) probably counts for nothing in the TV3/Destiny-led climate, but for what it's worth, I acknowledge no one, and no thing, as "my lord".
Such subservience is unbecoming in my view.
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Gordon Copeland: absent from the House, presenting charter of new god-botherers party to breathless public.
God: even though I am omnipotent, I know not for what John Key stands, other than delivering thee unto tax cuts.
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Don said:
Last time I looked he seemed to be regurgitating press releases for Families First. Would the Herald have paid for that "work" or does it count as an "Advertising Feature"? I suppose that approach is standard MO for some jornos but for an op-ed who is supposed to provide an insightful, if biased, view on something...
That being said, I try not to look that often.
Indeed, but be thankful he was just regurgitating families first. Quite often our dear friend Darth, when stuck for material, just cuts and pastes from his favourite book ... the bible.
Not discussing, debating or interpreting the bible mind you. Just copying out a few paragraphs, and appending some asinine line to the effect of "true today as it ever was" or "if only our politicians could speak such sense."
Truly, truly pathetic.
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Che - Yes, that was my first reaction too. At least Sydney has that almost-metropolitan-enough-to-justify-this-type-of-writing feel.
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Stephen - definitely some food for thought there, but it's worth noting that almost every other city which had a street car/tram system tore it up too. That includes pretty much every other NZ city of any size. Such that we're now left with the Wellington Cable Car, and the "tourist" tram service outside MOTAT (created in the 1980s, I believe, to showcase all the disused trams they'd collected!).
Internationally, the few cities that retained tram systems (Melbourne, San Francisco) seem to have benefited considerably.