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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
they must like their stake Weldon…
the opposite of rare = dreadfully common.
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Alfie,
Either way, it's gonna be a bloody mess...
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Alfie,
To extend the analogy: the PM would then spend a ludicrous amount of time campaigning for his own personal preference (on the right, of course); and there would be a late additional option (after enough NZers had questioned whether this constituted a sober way of driving public debate, let alone a country) of driving really fast, but in a zigzag pattern.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to ,
You really ought to think about the way that comes across, to working class people.
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Now, why should NZ Labour care if some other government does a deal harming their workers after bailing out managers in the same industry?
It’s not like there’s any principle involved.
And those workers aren’t NZ voters, so they don’t count.
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Up Front: So Farewell Then, UCSA, in reply to Alice Ronald,
I hadn't even realised that was in the Winter Games! Who came first?
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Legal Beagle: Crowdsourcing Project Cortex, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
thunk = the sound your brain makes when you try to make it do anything in the wee small hours. (Hence also references to Cortext protection; Protect Cortext.)
More seriously – now look out for these organisations to hurriedly update their terms and conditions…
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Legal Beagle: The Greg King Memorial…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
The manufacturer of tetra-ethyl lead (a subsidiary of GM; commercial manufacture was subcontracted to DuPont) was well aware of the risk: the presence of lead was deliberately obscured by naming the additive simply “ethyl”. The inventor, Thomas Midgley Jr., was in 1923 hauled out to demonstrate the “safety” of TEL by pouring it over his hands and inhaling its vapour – though by this stage he had already had to take leave to recover from lead poisoning, and several plant workers had received fatal doses.
Midgley was later also responsible for the development of CFCs, leading J. R. McNeill to describe him as having
had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.
After contracting polio, he invented a machine to turn him over in bed … and was strangled by his sheets when it malfunctioned.
(You may have read about Midgley in Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything ; his story was also covered on QI.)
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It’s beginning to sound, somewhat perversely, as if viewer numbers for the show might increase just to watch the obvious train wreck.
Glucina-sniffing. Just say no, mmkay? -
Speaker: One year on from the umbrella protests, in reply to Paul Campbell,
* It may be worth clarifying that Paul's comment concerns a duplicate post (now removed); it is not intended as a description of any previous poster.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
it doesn’t help in other Countries. I’m surprised.
In that many countries have an immigration declaration question along the lines of, “Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence?”, and other countries’ clean-slate laws are irrelevant to making such a declaration.