Hard News: Anatomy of a Shambles
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"more ruminative...impulses"
but trotters are pigs' feet
no even toed ungulates herehe cud mean stomach turning?
but what's his point with the Scab jibe?
Have PAS folk have crossed the line
and started acting in The Hobbit?I thought unions liked democracy where
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Hobbit Cast:
Martin Freeman – Bilbo Baggins
Richard Armitage - Thorin Oakenshield
Aidan Turner - Kili
Rob Kazinsky – Fili
Graham McTavish – Dwalin
John Callen – Oin
Stephen Hunter – Bombur
Mark Hadlow – Dori
Peter Hambleton – Gloin(Scoop.co.nz)
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No Balin yet, though. Seems like a key role to still be missing an actor. I'd be interested to know how reliable that list is.
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Does "pollywog" = "robbery" in another guise?
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Pretty annoying. A little dramatic. Probably quite distressing. Perhaps not as threatening as we were led to believe? Really doesn't seem that bad at all.
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Hobbit cast - please link, guys
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Does "pollywog" = "robbery" in another guise?
Same chip, different shoulder
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@SteveH
Sure, some speculation and reading between the lines on my part, but I reckon and I bet my left nut gave that away.
But Simon Whipp is not here on a holiday, and I'm pretty sure he's not dating Robyn Malcolm, so I'm sure he is trying to get something for MEAA out of the train wreck. (So far he's managed to get them re-registered!) But his dream of MEAA clipping the ticket on the Hobbit residuals has gone up in flames.
That part bugs me the most. I doubt the CTU has any other unions under its wings that can earn a passive income like a percentage of film residuals. Yet the MEAA would have stood to earn a large sum of money if their plans for the Hobbit and future NZ films could have come off. And I bet my right nut Whipp has a tasty contract with MEAA which gives him a personal chunk of that income.
Disclaimer: Luckily, I have already had kids.
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Martin Freeman is an inspired choice to play Bilbo.
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Pretty annoying. A little dramatic. Probably quite distressing. Perhaps not as threatening as we were led to believe? Really doesn't seem that bad at all.
No, and the questions were exclusively targeted at Whipp, whose refusal to speak has become completely fucking unacceptable, given his central role in what's happened.
They were all even bid good night at the end. In the circumstances, I don't find this unacceptable at all.
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Noone's disputing that right in the abstract, but the context is rather important. Ill-considered threats of industrial action that end up driving an employer out of the country don't benefit anyone.
And some industry sectors are in far bigger need of unionisation than others. Also, ports, classrooms and copper wires are far harder to pack up and move than film projects.
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Martin Freeman is an inspired choice to play Bilbo.
He really is the It Guy right now for so many things. Have any of you managed to catch the BBC's latest Sherlock (with Freeman as Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes.) Brilliant stuff, and Freeman manages to be rather scary, in a quiet way.
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Sherlock is the best thing i've not watched on TV in many a year.
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Same chip, different shoulder
Yep, I just had a look. Far too coherent to be robbery.
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Thanks for the replies Andre and DeepRed, but it still seems a little odd to me. Cant every employer claim they are creating jobs, or do we only bend to the will of the big employers who can take their jobs offshore?
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Pretty annoying. A little dramatic. Probably quite distressing. Perhaps not as threatening as we were led to believe? Really doesn't seem that bad at all.
I'd usually rather poke my eyes out with a blunt stick than read Youtube comments, but I did rather like this one:
You know, our Police never get enough credit for how stealthy and discrete they are... ninja like... almost invisible when they want to be...
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oo, not sure how I hadn't heard this before, but Ari from the Slits died on Wednesday.
stink.
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Also managed to find the actual PR for the hobbit casting http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1010/S00336/peter-jackson-and-new-line-announce-hobbit-casti.htm
Go you kiwi dwarves.
or do we only bend to the will of the big employers who can take their jobs offshore?
Maybe more a case of employers who decide whether to come here from outside, or not, on a project by project basis. (Haven't been following the argument, mind)
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Here's a pcture of the New Zealand Police Force at work.
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Aidan Turner?
surely that's Altiyan Childs from The X Factor...
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@RB:
No, and the questions were exclusively targeted at Whipp, whose refusal to speak has become completely fucking unacceptable, given his central role in what's happened.
So what's behind Whipp's wall of silence? Maybe he knows he's backed into a corner and trying to defend the indefensible?
Philosophical thought of the day: does the MEAA regard the Techos as a yellow union or a red union?
Here's a pcture of the New Zealand Police Force at work.
Roflnui.
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oo, not sure how I hadn't heard this before, but Ari from the Slits died on Wednesday.
stink.
Ah. Wondered why Simon Reynolds was doing this.
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So long a not so Typical Girl
Ari from the Slits died on Wednesday.
Schlong - not so typical girls...
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The Standard's opening statment is:
One of my biggest disappointments of the Hobitt dispute has been watching the way in which Russell Brown has been so quick to take sides against the actors union.
That's just stupid. The biggest disappointment is what's being said here? Not the risk to the sustainability of the industry? I hope IrishBill's not advising anyone involved in this.
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