Posts by Joe Wylie
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'you righties'
It's so goshdarned cute, the way the muscles between their ears twitch when they say 'lefties'.
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Redbaiter would be far more effective if he actually had wit, or even if he had a cutting edge.
I thought his equating placing a lamington on John Boscawen's head with "the crimes of the Khmer Rouge" was pretty good, until I remembered that he's an irony-free zone.
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While the estimable Mr. Sproull's Jesus-like extension of tolerance to the more fetid denizens of the blogosphere may be admirable in itself, the opportunity to touch the hem of his garment doesn't appear to work any measurable tranformation in the afflicted. As can be seen from the fawning comment here, his Sol Square drinking buddy is still the same old unreconstructed salt-of-the-earth fag-baiting misogynist.
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John "Blackshirt" Abbott packed it in a few years back and retired to the Gold Coast, after which his Melbourne-based followers kind of shuffled into oblivion. A few years ago the SMH's Good Weekend dug him up for an interview, in which he discussed such issues as celibacy. It wasn't as if he lacked opportunities, like, just that he didn't want to "make an adulteress" of anyone.
Anyway, quasi-fascist imagery is sooo 2002. The local angry-dad variant is more in the vein of the UK Fathers4Justice, where you rent a superhero party costume and spend the rest of your sad existence bathing in the afterglow of having worn it in public.
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IT'S MY GODS DAMNED WALLET TO DO WITH AS I PLEASE.
Quite. Just mind those barbed wire fences.
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Or that prevalence of Down syndrome goes from less than 1:1000 at 25 to about 1:100 at 40.
So down syndrome children are a punishment upon uppity women?
Sick sick sick. As it happens, the age of the father appears to be every bit as big a factor as that of the mother. -
LMAO. Can't wait for the Bollard Annual.
You bet - though I do hope there'll be some of these kind of mystery-solving adventures of Bollard & his chums, with maybe full instructions for an origami model of the economy, the very thing for a hungover post-xmas afternoon - or just a wheelchair, if that's too much trouble.
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I know one of your themes is the need for the left to disconnect from (to use the blogsphere) Public Address and reconnect with... well, people who don't have the time to blog from a nice office job.
Heh. Whatever else he may be, Mr. Semmens certainly isn't psychic.
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"and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri"
In the good old days, when snow was snow
Snowmen lasted years you know
And didn't stand, they ran about
But that, of course, was years ago
In the good old days when snow was snow -
. . . in the 70s, when Labour prime winisters were working class . . .
Weren't there only two, and wasn't Bill Rowling a schoolteacher?
Kirk used the term kibbutz more than once when describing the ohu scheme. That seemed to give it a certain respectability. Overall I don't think it was a roaring success. Perhaps Muldoon's later PEP schemes were more generously socialistic. Most participants received award wages, it certainly wasn't a work for the dole scam.
Colin Scrimgeour once described Muldoon as NZ's last socialist PM, but his brand of socialism was extremely selective in terms of how the largesse was redistributed.