Posts by Ben Austin
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You need a better agent, or I can sell you my taped lecture series on Viral Marketing for Wellington Comedians
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Actually speaking of random things said/done by prominent Christians - the pope came up with a cracker in Brazil during his last tour:
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I can't find the full speech anymore, but I'll keep looking. -
Venetia, I suspect Tamaki has put the hard word down on the PA readership, such is the extent of his power.
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I don't want to encourage music piracy, but as an aside, gmail now has a 20mb email size, and maybe slightly larger. Which is useful when sending large files.
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idiot savant, my theory about that is either a) TVNZ has incompetant programmers/buyers who really don't know what they are doing, or how to negotiate a contract, or b) they don't care
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I'd advise picking names from great historical figures, to give your child delusions of granduer once they learn to read.
Or perhaps go for a simple first name then add in a title for the middle names, for example:
John Destroyer of Pirates Haywood, or Jill The Infamous Keelhauler Haywood.
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lawl
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I actually watched some tv this last month and also got foolishly trapped into watching one of those dammed "it got cancelled before the story arc was finished tv series but we still purchased it 6 months later for you to get attached to then hjave to read the wikipedia episode capsules, lololololol".
Seriously, TVNZ sometimes seems to have the personality of a bored yet quite skilled forums troll.
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Tamaki has direct control over a seemingly effective organisation that has representation in most of the major urban centres in NZ.
He has been keeping him and his platforms in the media this last few months, taking populist positions which go down pretty well with a lot of people. Opposing s59 reform, defending the prayer in parliament (lol), 'protecting' the Christian heritage of this nation are exactly the type of issues which appeal to a lot of people because they are emotive. Tie this in with the daily MSM references to Islam, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, and Iran and well, it practically markets itself really.
If it wasn't for National sucking all of the centre-Right + social protest vote into its fold so effectively this last while I'd be pretty dammed worried that Destiny could get really close to the 5% mark next election, if they contest it.
Personally if I was Brian I'd be desperately trying to entice an electorate MP before the Electoral Integrity legislation is revived. If he could get himself a pet Dunnoanderton on his side he would be set.
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Jeremy, I've heard that hospitals do that, and while I appreciate them trying to be nice to the families, you have to wonder what other clear and express wishes are ignored. Oh well