Posts by giovanni tiso
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+3 on that Tony Sutorius documentary. In which - bonus fact - the supremely unctuous Labour candidate Alick Shaw managed to make Prebble and Bolger look like the good guys. Quite an achievement, in the circumstances.
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Want to go there, dearest?
I'm happy to go there, your comment did nothing to invalidate my objection - the opposite, if anything.
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Up to a point, but if the Greens don't hold their support (which seems fairly solid, with all the usual caveats around polling) they don't deserve to be in Parliament. Nobody does.
Apparently the party you're a member of thought that Act deserved to be in Parliament and made sure it would. So excuse me for maintaining a rather more pragmatic line. If the Left in New Zealand thinks it can support two parties to the left of Labour within the current electoral rules, it might find itself with none - which would be exactly what happened in the old country.
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That's all very well, but if it takes 1 or 2% off the Greens vote and the Greens don't make into Parliament because of that, it counts for me as a disaster, much as I'd pick Bradford and McCarten's politics over Turei and Norman's.
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(Basically, we're now framing this conversation the way the right wing wants us to, aren't we?)
Yes, and it honestly never ceases to amaze me.
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Yup, got one of those too. (I bang on about this at every available occasion because I'm pretty sure it's the only good idea I've ever had.)
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There are disadvantages to cash transactions in bars, though I treasure the inscriptions..
That reminds me... can I have David's book inscribed by Emma, like last year?
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Why just today, I bought a book about turtle-stacking on the recommendation of Lisa Simpson.
The eminent critic Clancy Wiggum concurred, as I recall.
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I think you should consider supplies to be practically infinite.
It will be like in the Library of Babel, except every book will be The Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, apart from one copy of the Edmonds' Cookbook.
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We'll never know how serious WB actually was when they threatened to take the movie away, will we? The media certainly bought it. And from memory Russell was amongst the first to reveal that the risk was very real. Without asking him to reveal his source, I'd be curious to know if it was a party that could possibly have an interest in fostering that perception.