Posts by recordari
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
And I tell you what, if there is a single business person who has left New Zealand because they felt besieged by tall poppy envy or socialist indignation, I want to meet them so I can laugh at them in person.
Yes all right, I was being incite-ful, but Owen Glenn, maybe?
There isn't enough money. Exactly. Would it be better if we continue to borrow ourselves into oblivion, like Greece has done, and is now paying a much higher price?
Of course we should question the priorities. I have done so here myself. They are allowing themselves to be influenced by the 'wrong white crowd', but that doesn't by inference make all entrepreneurs or people who lean to the right greedy criminals.
PS. Must remember not to enter these discussions before my second coffee. Bloody Gio and his early morning rationalism. I'm still waking up... sniff sniff. Ahh, coffee!
-
Maybe Gio, but this?
The Right always follow the money, rewarding those that have it and punishing those who do not.
Like Dick Hubbard and Stephen Tindall you mean?
Funnily enough often the people who stay here to fight it out against all the geographical, small market, high tax, disincentives (not to mention toll poppy envy killings that go on under the guise of socialist indignation) are the ones with some moral fortitude. Not all, but IMhO, many.
The pricks have long since run away from Auntie Helen to set up tax havens or manufacture beer where labour is cheap, and life is cheaper.
The tax changes are flawed and disproportionate, but that is a government problem. Why slag off people who for all you know might be re-investing 99% of their income to grow their companies or provide more employment? We're not all driving Lamborghinis and flying people out to Mercury Island on Helicopters to cook us lunch, just so you know.
-
Perhaps we should start some community programmes and invest in several of these. Being surrounded by ocean, we should last a while.
Scrap that, this one has wireless internet access, so we can keep checking on PAS.
-
Bit of a cliché ('a bit?'), but true to form. Either that, or working the BBQ. Friends think I love cooking on BBQs, as it doesn't matter whose party it is, I'll casually take over. Or is that just because I'm a control freak?
-
You know their slogan is Unbeatable aye? No, seriously, take a look.
-
You asked for it...
Oh, and that's not me. I pluck my eyebrows...
-
In related news, sort of "Locals Audition for Darwin Awards During Melbourne Flash Flood".
-
[At this point, I got halfway through typing a sentence before realising it contained a massive, and massively filthy, double entendre. As you were.]
Haha. I thought at the time 'this is ripe for some serious double entendre, ahh, whatev's'.
I'm not admitting to reciting Shakespeare to anyone other than my immediate family, but hey, memory fades.
-
A rose by any other name would smell as sweat.
Or, his own sweat smells the best...
-
I've never even come close to this. Except perhaps in 4th form when there was that 'wimpy guy stands up to bully, and accidentally connects with nose' moment.
Usually manage a diffusion, or a very quick getaway.