Posts by Carol Stewart
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Steve, whatever. Isn't it more significant that he was emphatic on the point that they were "all dead", and er, how did he know this?
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Re the 111 call, I was far more interested in the discrepancy between Bain stating that his family were "all dead" and then telling the police that he didn't go into his sibling's rooms. To mind the defence case never satisfactorily addressed this other than conveniently ascribing it to recovered memory.
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I think Tom might be about to cross the line between fop and rake.
And 'tis but a small step from a rake to a roué ..
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The Big Lebowski: What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Dude.
The Big Lebowski: Huh?
The Dude: Uhh... I don't know sir.
The Big Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn't that what makes a man?
The Dude: Hmmm... Sure, that and a pair of testicles. -
Great programme, Russell (Media 7, that is, of course). Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The unkind thought did cross my mind that 'journalistic ethics' is an oxymoron.. -
The end of the world is neigh.
Are the horsemen of the apocalypse on their way?
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My bicycles and I are with you in spirit, David.
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Like, once the baby arrives she'll trade it for something smaller?
Like a LAV.
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A canal along the motorway, so our Mt Albert privateers can shoot the cars of South Aucklanders from our gunboats.
They can enlist the help of Julia Hartley Moore and her SUV:
Julia Hartley Moore loves her SUV Nissan Murano. She bought it brand new three years ago and neither fuel prices nor carbon emissions would make her quit it. “It’s sticking with me till the day I drop.”
One reason she likes it so much is the feeling of security it gives her, especially when she drives alone to her home, 45 minutes from Auckland, on rural roads with little street lighting. Once, a carload of youths in front of her hurled a bottle onto her bonnet, then stopped their car in the middle of the road and turned off their lights.
“I thought, ‘Holy shit’, and the only thing I felt was that I would ram the little bastards, because my car is big.”
From The Listener #3554
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There are much better arguments than that -- most notably that Rankin and her trust set themselves against all the genuine child welfare agencies in the country by advocating strongly for the "right" to hit your children.
Well, yes. Not to mention that she's an incompetent self-obsessed drama queen..