Posts by Joe Wylie
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Who would be good as a Labour leader? Genuine question.
Don Brash ;). Not, of course, that he'd be eligible or willing, but lately he appears to haved moved a lot further down that inevitable road to Damascus than the benighted Goff.
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Sarko ENTARTE!!!Still I think an important point is made by M. Levy - to think about what it means to be 'Left'.
Yeah fair enough. Levy must hold some kind of record for entartements, having copped at least five to date. If Hone returns to Paris, someone should inform the entarteurs. They did a nice job on Bill Gates last time he was there.
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I'm desperately trying to think of a joke about John Rowles that wouldn't be in horribly poor taste.
You're right, the few I can recall are shockers. At a Vidcom xmas party back in the day there was a particularly memorable mashup video of his G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Gerard roofing ad. The legend wouldn't have liked it, but I was impressed.
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Thanks Kyle, that's just lovely.
Great, presumably NZ concept, animated in UK. -
Bugger, I thought I was better than that.
You could try reading a little of that Bernard-Henri Lévy, he'll have you feeling morally superior to just about anyone in no time. Personally, I believe that the vain and vacuous Levy richly deserves the multiple custard pie attacks he's received from entarteur Noël Godin.
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The technology of the day was more than adequate for tracking the lunar lander . . .
No argument with that, but after watching this version, you kind of wonder what happened to the intelligent people who built it.
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. . . those who believe the sun shines from McVicar's datehole.
Like the imaginatively challenged andrew clive upthread. When you're a compulsive leg-humper of the likes of Colin Craig & McVicar, you'll assume that everyone else is a fawning sock-puppet. Hence the "Russell & Co." rubbish.
When a friend was monstered by a p-addled and paranoid aging gang member a couple of years back the police weren't particularly helpful. All those in the street with Community Support stickers on their mailboxes were subjected to harassment and intimidation. The ex-policeman who ran the scheme was more interested in protecting his brand than those he was supposed to serve. A quick Google brought up a single hit about the perpetrator, from Sensible Sentencing's site. There was a credit for the person who'd compiled the information, and it wasn't McVicar. It's not information that the police are prepared to openly supply, and it proved very useful when taking the case to the local MP. Perhaps I should mention that I voted for him, and that he was no fan of Sensible Sentencing.
I believe that, to some degree, Sensible Sentencing represent some very real concerns. There may even be some genuine people involved, but McVicar's selective bigotry and simplistic demagoguery only serves to polarise the problem for his own petty ends.
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. . . I had quite an aggressive man insisting strongly that I answered his question about what my sign meant.
Like, I wish somebody would tell me what "diddy-wah-diddy" means?
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lazy satire...
Malcolm Evans in his '50s style editorial cartoon in The Press today (sorry, can't find a link) has Witi Ihimaera wishing he'd written a rock opera so he could get name suppression... I don't think Evans (and therefore the Press editor also) gets it, and compounds his once over lightly approach by spelling his subject's name as "Prof Witi Ihe..."
Sloppy stuff from the journal of record in Chch.Anything - seriously, anything at all - has to be an improvement on the Press's braindead excuse for a dogsbody cartoonist, the execrable Al Nisbet. Mike Moreu was a fluke, it seems - the Press has always treated editorial cartoons as a kind of concession to the intellectually disabled.
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But comparing the present situation to the French Revolution... Is he suggesting that they'll storm the Beehive and hold public executions?
Possibly. He just wasn't referring to Le Roi Soleil.