Posts by Sam F
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
“This is unique tax assistance for the farmers of the Chatham Islands who literally glue the Chatham Islands community together,” says Philip York, Federated Farmers Commerce and Economics spokesperson.
All we need is a great big melting pot...
-
Sorry for the diversion, but here's a sad, interesting story combining the economic recession and a healthy dose of bigotry: "Traditional" Camaro demographic upset over GM's gay marketing efforts
-
Not content to simply become players in the sex industry, Campbell and Phillips want to transform it, as they believe most clubs and parlours are "seedy".
I notice that they're advertising their classy new operation with guys holding up "Honk If You Love Sex" ads on street corners...
-
I'm getting the feeling that if Slater is reading this (probably a safe bet), he'll be enjoying the attention and taking notes for a retaliatory post in his own style.
I get the same icky feeling from complaining about Garth George: a guilty sense that you're just part of an ongoing cycle of attention-seeking and gratification.
-
In So Inevitable It's Not Even News news, some comments from the usual suspect.
-
After reading this I had to scroll back to the top to re-read the title.
Took me a couple of seconds, but I clicked.
Ashamed to say that I only just got it myself. Superb.
-
That article leaves me speechless. It shouldn't, but it does.
I think it's that the attack is so blatantly unjustified - someone suddenly going off their nut over the kind of tragically routine comments that the Fire Service makes every week about house fires.
-
“It is difficult to replace me.”
Haha, oh wow.
-
About the best thing we can say about representative democracy is that there have been much worse systems.
Have we got a thread for you...
-
I would intepret this as follows: screw your creeping sense of unease, we have a brand-meme to push, and we'll force it down your throats wherever our marketing department thinks it desirable.
It's interesting that Air NZ would take an instructional video - meant to be unambiguous, purely informational, and reassuring - and then tack on an unnecessary, meaningless and slightly worrying phrase, just because a cheap pun on an ad slogan presents itself.
I mean, if you feel you must, you could always advertise at people afterwards, for Chrissake. They're not exactly going to vanish off anywhere by this point in the departure process.