Posts by Joe Wylie
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I've found that the hummus you get at the supermarket is indistinguishable from the fresh made stuff and considerably cheaper unless you consume industrial quantities of the stuff
Hommos/hummus, along with felafel, would have to be some kind of benchmark for labour intensive. Which is possibly why it's claimed that God hates hommos, but loves tabbouleh.
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You want to lay off Rodney's hero - he might do more than publicise your benefits.
'S cool. I've long been resigned to the fact that I don't stand a chance of ever getting a job in a privatised prison.
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I suspect it's more that Sir Geoffrey is out of practice when it come to dealing with people who don't automatically kiss the hem of his robe, and it makes him rather tense.
I think it was Denis Welch who said that the best thing about Mike Moore's rolling of Palmer in 1990 was that the country had been saved from a Labour election campaign that would have resembled a series of royal visits.
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. . . should be run out of the country by a random selection of people that he's screwed over the years . . .
There's a few he didn't screw, though not for want of trying. For example, the manager of his failed pig farm, who testified at the winding up of that ghastly enterprise how Douglas had claimed to be doing him a favour by offering him the chance to buy the joint. Fortunately he got an independent audit, which revealed the true state of the books.
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I'm surprised he hasn't demanded the ius primae noctis yet.
Whatever his excesses, Douglas never really had a reputation as a trouser man, though there's a subsection of the blogosphere who constantly wax homoerotic at the mention of his name. He's shown a certain restraint by not demanding ownership of the nation's firstborn as a way of expediting labour market flexibility.
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There is a good argument for not granting knighthoods with out requiring a medical check. The man has lost his marbles.
Like "Sir" Robert Muldoon, Douglas, and "Sir" Geoffrey Palmer, effectively knighted themselves when it was in their power to do so.
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Thanks a lot Deborah, most informative.
Interesting that only ten years later such a thoroughly discredited initiative should be almost forgotten, while the same old agenda is attempted to be slimed through behind the 'kindler 'n gentler' facade of a 'battler mum' minister.Here she comes, here she comes,
Here she comes again
The same old painted lady
From the brow of the superbrainAnd yeah, that sounds like a really horrible experience steven. Thanks for remembering.
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Thanks steven. A brief Google turns up something called the Code of Social Responsibility, which seems to have been all the go at the time WINZ came into being. Will try to find out more.
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Do's anyone remember the dob in a dodgy dole bludger campaign that ran on the TV around ten years ago?
No I don't, as I was elsewhere. Can you provide a wee bit more info please?
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Bennett meant this to happen, she meant to discredit, she must have known . . .
Well yes, assuming that Bennett's her own woman. I don't believe that's the case, any more than Brash as leader was his own man. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she really did bang those two dorks' heads together at the shopping mall, rather than the incident being a beatup by some PR flack who'd been watching too much Outrageous Fortune.