Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!
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I can't wait for the Pirate Party to get into parliament, have a member go rogue, and then for there to be a by-election and an electorate gets taken over by ninjas.
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Yarrrr, me hearties!
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Brent Jackson, in reply to
There are already ninjas in parliament ... you just don't see them.
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Joanna, in reply to
If any parliament ninjas are reading this: can you please take a shit on the MPs who are shitting all over our foreign aid programmes? Thank you.
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a buccaneer is a small price to pay...
the Pirate Party of New Zealand
...at last a party with a plank we can all walk !
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Fourteen international production companies, including Endemol and Mark Burnett Productions (Survivor, the Apprentice).
Fourteen international production companies what? I am left in suspense...
FM
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Fourteen international production companies what?
I think you mean Company's
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I was pleasantly surprised to see that Maori TV is showing CTV during the day now, nice touch.
And Jose Barbosa looks at the return of the Polaroid camera.
Directly related to the overpopulation of hipsters who weren't around to realise why they became unpopular in the first place ;)
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I'm not voting for them unless they actually have a pirate ship.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Directly related to the overpopulation of hipsters who weren’t around to realise why they became unpopular in the first place ;)
The Polaroid's compelling feature is the way you can mess with your pics while they're curing. You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.
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BlairMacca, in reply to
The Polaroid's compelling feature is the way you can mess with your pics while they're curing. You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.
True. I guess their main selling point that you got the picture almost straight away, but with the digital takeover it, it made them fairly clunky and redundant.
Outkast seemed quite fond though
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Ken Sparks, in reply to
You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.
The best thing about editing film was running it through your fingers and holding it up to the light...
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James Francis, in reply to
And the Steenbeck. And the chinagraph pencil. And splicing.
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The most magic part of being a tv producer-director trainee in the mid-1970s was being in the editing booth with a good film editor and watching them turn my grab-everything shots into a film. Came away from that period of my life with vast respect for editors (and sound & camera people.) Oh, and vision-switchers as they were then quaintly known-
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Ken Sparks, in reply to
And the Steenbeck. And the chinagraph pencil. And splicing.
And the white cotton glove on the left hand...
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Damn, missed the live show!
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A pirate walks into a bar, and the barkeep says "Excuse me, cap'n, but did you know that you've got your ship's wheel stuck in your pantaloons?"
"Aye," says the pirate, "that thing be drivin' me nuts! Aaargh!"
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
I can't wait for the Pirate Party to get into parliament, have a member go rogue, and then for there to be a by-election and an electorate gets taken over by ninjas.
This would be an appropriate time to present a billboard I prepared earlier. How's that for foresight!
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To err is human, to arrrr is pirate.
It's interesting what a romantic, affectionate view we have of pirates, though, isn't it?
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Fooman, in reply to
| Fourteen international production companies what?
I think you mean Company's
I think I mean there was some sort of article or verb missing or I did not grok the sentence.
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Outkast seemed quite fond though
Back in 2004, before "Hey Ya!" was overplayed, Polaroid warned against shaking photos while they're developing.
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BenWilson, in reply to
It's interesting what a romantic, affectionate view we have of pirates, though, isn't it?
Yes, for some reason they have a particularly strong grip on public imagination as being somehow nobler than other thugs who are involved in murder, ransom, extortion, theft, and slavery. I guess that's possibly because in the Caribbean the various warring nations weren't too much better.
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And for those with short memories, here's a backgrounder that I did on the Pirate Party phenomenon last year- before Jonathon Young had his Skynet theophany...
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Back in 2004, before "Hey Ya!" was overplayed
I wish I could go back to that place. I remember hearing that song for the first time, and my husband and I laughed out loud with delight at 'lend me some sugar! I AM your neighbour!'
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