Posts by Jonty
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SKY had the chance to get Al Jaz last year and plumped for Fox (the propaganda channel of the Republican Party) instead.
Sadly, down here in the hinterland we can't get Triangle so the news about Stratos is wonderful.
Has anyone noticed Campbell is getting a tad tabloid just lately? Thought there might be a bit of relief with the carbon credit segment last night, but the woman was almost unintelligible. -
<He's either a liar, delusional or both.
I do believe Banks is mentally unstable. Mind you, if the stars were wobbling a bit more in their courses and he wasn't feeling slightly chastised, you could have had Holmes!
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It surprised me that Corin Dann on NatRad this am didn't followup when Copeland said, more than once, that they (he and Lewis, I presume) were reading from a different page. It begged the question: "Well, what is the point of difference?" So we could find out what they were both about philosophically or theologically or ..... well, the conversation at their meeting was probably a bit more prosaic.
Lewis: "Gidday, Gordy, how y'doin, bro? Hey, neat office, aye? Y'reckon I'll get one like this? Where d'ya reckon I could park me Harley?"
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Someone mentioned earlier that barber's shops were places where blokes could get their condoms (and for young blokes, less embarrassment than having to confront the lady at the chemists who knew yer Mum).
I grew up in a village in England and, as a kid, my Dad would sometimes take me for a haircut at the same time as himself. There were three male barbers. I was such a shortarse I had to be lifted onto a plank set up across the arms of the chair.
It wasn't until years later (when I had reached the age (and need) for the above-mentioned prophylactics) that I realised why my father, a devout Catholic, would go scarlet and look pointedly at the floor when the barber, via the mirror and with a knowing wink as he finished the business with the brush round the neck, would ask the dreaded question: "Anything for the weekend, sir?" -
Anke, I think one of the necessary militaristic regimes it is vital to go through in order to become a fully assimiliated member of NZ society (or Godzone) as it was affectionately known when I arrived here 45 years ago, is to have gone to school here. It provides the ultimate lesson in conformity. Had I had that early indoctrination I wouldn't have had such difficulty avoiding the wearing of towelling hats and being asked why I wasn't in walk shorts and long socks after each Labour Day -- not to mention being inculcated with the fanaticism necessary to watch 30 grown men mud wrestling each weekend. Without the benefit of being processed through the NZ education system we must merely remain amused observers.
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My partner has an hilarious collection of sayings of our daughter when she was the age of Busyboy. Back in the days before we joined the settled folk and were still wandering in our house on wheels; when the traffic dept was separate from the police and were easily identifiable with their black and white cars, my daughter, seated snugly between us, could be heard to say: "Look out, Dad, there's a trackit osser up ahead".
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Of course, if the Nats win the next election Labour will be hoist with it's own petard -- one can just imagine the liberties the Nats will take exploiting Labour's validating legislation, given the tricks they pulled with the Exclusive Brethren.
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Max Call: <I read a while back in a book that we are biologically driven to seek intoxication.>
Yes, it seems most societies have always found some means to bend reality. Yet I don't know of anything the Maori used traditionally -- does anybody know? It doesn't seem reflected in their art, which is usually a starting point. Curious with all those magic mushrooms so close to hand.
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<Like he stacked the Supreme Court with his buddies... .
Now who does that remnd me of?
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James, James, I think you protest too much. Isn't the US on record for having supported, at enormous cost in human lives, some of the worst dictators of the post-war years -- Marcos, Suharto, Somoza, Stroessner, Pinochet, Trujillo, Noriega, Duvallier, Hussein, Diem, Amin, Mobutu ... one could go on.
These were just some of democratic America's undemocratic allies. Rarely was the US government held responsible for supporting and protecting some of the worst human rights violators in the world. Chavez and Castro are pussycats by comparison. Gimme a break.