Posts by Stephen Judd
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Yes, slarty and the Sensible Technocratic Party!
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It strikes me that at this point, you lot don't actually need another team in order to spend 90 minutes enjoyably...
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I'm a strong supporter of the modest performance right fee that APRA levies on businesses that use music, such as cafes and gyms
If only the levy was harsh enough to prevent gyms from playing any music at all... nothing ruins my workout more than the inane dance music that predominates in every gym I've ever belonged to.
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Yeah, having had my moan in the other thread, my estimation of my fellow citizens just increased several points.
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Even so, I don't want to mindlessly follow those in front. Do they know where they're going? And I am highly suspicious of calls for unity. In the service of what good? As judged by whom?
That ad could have been produced by the Chinese communist party. Be a goose, comrade llew!
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Without going deep into the semiotics of Telecom ads, I reckon the bunny, the lion and the gorilla are conceptually close to Tze Ming's black sheep. They evoke stereotypes with the plausible deniability of fuzzy animals.
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For reference, I was at secondary school in the 1980s. And the 81 tour was a very fresh memory.
The sort of thing that gets up my nose is the last round of Hurricanes advertising, which claims its my civic duty to support this manufactured team of professionals.
To take this further, the annoyance I feel is the same kind I felt at (Heinz!) Watties "you'll never be a Kiwi till you love our Watties sauce" ads, the Saatchis "Flying Geese (Obey the Leader you mindless drones)" ads and virtually every Telecom ad after they took Spot out and shot him.
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Trying to be really, really reasonable here.
And you are. Perhaps now isn't the best time to complain at how... oppressive rugby can feel in this country. But that's how it is. I know a more well-adjusted person wouldn't care, but I can't be that person all the time.
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Schadenfreude? Guilty as charged.
I put up with years of abuse at school for having the temerity to play an instrument, practise it, and be uninterested in sport. I am not being mean to your granddad, but to my erstwhile peers who had such a narrow conception of made a worthy human being.
I feel some sympathy, but permit me a little gloating. The sportlovers are still on top in this country and no doubt always will be.
Also, everything daleaway said. Yes indeed.
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That's an interesting analogy MikeE.
Of course accusations of covert influence are a classic slander against Jews, whereas with the Brethren it appears to be an established fact...
Nonetheless I too would prefer that the issue was about "anonymous donors", not the Brethren bogeymen.