Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Dennis Frank,
blogs are created by commentators – not solution providers!
I'm not convinced that the two are mutually exclusive...
...and it does remind of Private Eye's regular 'Solutions' section - highlighting and lampooning this favoured piece of corporate-speak. -
Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to izogi,
Once again Stuff won't allow links it seems ...
I've tried twice now to submit this you tube link: to the story about Kiwi astronomer Michele Bannister and the new Kuiper belt discovery;
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/82040919/kiwi-astronomer-michele-bannister-helps-discover-new-planet
The You Tube link is a 50 minute long talk by Bannister on the Outer Solar System Origins Survey - it's fascinating stuff!
I tried once as a standalone comment and once as a reply to your comment there...
I even tried pointing out that The Press should like it as she is a University of Canterbury alumnus, all to no avail - but they publish a real meathead comment rambling on about gawd knows what ... what is wrong with these people? -
The brave ‘anonymous’…
A fine example of the lumpen commentariat and their lack of graces follows the article on John Minto announcing that he is running for mayor in Chchch.
I’d wager not one of the almost completely negative commenters had ever had a conversation with John or even bothered to examine what he said or stood for – the hoary old ‘rent-a-crowd’ trope is strong with those scared of change and full of themselves.
I used up my daily comment quota attempting rebuttals (or reprisals)… I guess I’m no better – c’est la vie.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/82021018/keep-our-assets-run-john-minto-as-christchurch-mayoral-candidatePS my favourite is the one I saw this morning (after comments had been switched off)
There is no doubt about it, the 'Ian Dalziel' comments are definitely from either Minto or Sue Bradford (that is Minto in drag). No-one else could be so pathetic.
Pots and kettles it seems - the anonymous bullies can't believe anyone would own their own words - sad folk...
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to izogi,
It was because I’d linked to a news article from the Otago Daily Times, and an open letter from Federated Mountain Clubs
Stuff often doesn't publish my comments if I include links to NZHerald or other sites - so now I always try and find a fairfax link if possible.
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An attempt to impress with big words by one reporter today in a story about backfiring twittering - using a word that could literally backfire!
Think back on the pantechnicon of announcements the Government has made to address its public relations nightmare over housing - one as small as $750,000 for families to leave Auckland - and the idea that it would blow a $92m good news announcement on a 140 character blurt is beyond the pale.
I'd have thought Vernon Small would know better...
...I suspect he was grasping for 'panoply' - not a furniture truck!!Then again this Government does have a lot of 'baggage'...
see:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/81991274/governments-92m-dividend-snafu-raises-more-questions-than-ministers-will-answerInteresting story though - Joyce's loose tweets now circumvent proper announcements from the correct sources - National have let a very lax culture grow in this third term.
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Capture: Garden of Arcane Delights, in reply to Nora Leggs,
From my wildlife park….
Caterpillar catering...
not so much a cafeteria as a bractarea?
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Speaker: Data Love or: How I learnt to…, in reply to ,
the anger is huffing and puffing in the United States
Mr Brown said the suspect had been killed when police used explosives placed by a robot to end a tense stand-off in a building where he had taken cover. Before that, he had spoken to a negotiator.
source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36745862
It says a lot about the increased militarisation of urban police in the US that they used explosives to kill the suspect after minimal negotiation – was there no concussion or soporific gas option to try first?
And really, as the police kept shooting and killing black citizens what did they expect to eventually happen – or was that the end game any way?
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Curse of…, in reply to Philternz,
sometime in 1988 with the Straightjackets
Ahem - Straitjackets - you're in good company though - the publishers got that wrong on the back of Roger's book, too!
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more treasures being freed up to market
Posters: Toy Love
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1120126668.htmWilko Johnson Band
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1120134518.htmothers include So So Modern , Beech & Faircluff (chchch 1975)
Vinyl: Charlie Mingus (1966)
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/vinyl/lps-33-rpm/jazz-blues/auction-1120145598.htmothers include PiL (album); The Jam (this is the modern world); Mink DeVille (Le Chat Bleu); Arthur Brown (Dance).
Plus some Disney and other comics...
all listings:
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Curse of…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
raucous Androidss number(s)
