Posts by Richard Aston
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Islander,
Thanks Islander for broadening my knowledge on dialect - would you go so far as to call it that? and hey sorry for my flippant assumption you were a man - I really must slow down sometimes and think !
My knowledge of Te Reo is not great but I do notice different pronunciation in some areas and I welcome it . The way Tariana Turia says whanau as if she is stroking the word with affection. I wonder if we need more difference in pronunciation, anchoring oral language to place. That's why I like the southern pakeha rolled r's - it seems the only bit of NZ english tied to place , I guess there must be others.
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Wow Islander you are a man of wide knowledge ! Very Interesting.
So whats the story with John Key ,it seems like his vowels are fighting with his consonants and mainly winning. -
Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Islander,
Islander you are right misspelled it in my hurried typing , and no local dialect but as a Southerner you'd say southenerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr right?
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+1 Ian , yes yes The Birthday Suit Party sound like fun ,as does the Christmas Party and the 21st Party.
Not a party of, um, naked ambition, has nothing to hid, into solar energy on a personal level, keeps abreast of events, public meetings would be a hoot but they never do them in winter and TVNZ would not invite them to their tedious leaders debates. -
On the other hand why not use the Lotto system to vote - just mark your 2 votes on a special Lotto card - scan it in, voila . They seem to get the counting done in like, an hour.
And you could win big prizes just for voting, that would pull the punters in.
Yes yes huge potential for fraud but some bright spark should be able to figure that out - DNA check maybe.
That TV woman with the huge mouth could announce the winners on TV and maybe a lucky voter gets to spin the wheel for the kingmaker party. -
Thanks Ian - will check those boulders out next time I am up there .
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I did a special vote in Rawene - Hokianga Northland . Loved it . Most of the men were sporting full moko - we were the only ones at the Special votes table "This is the first special I have done dear, I will have to go slowy" it was nice and slow, hell we had time.
Heaps of locals coming in to vote and looking over at us , The Specials, the only specials. I felt ... well, special .
I also felt a very strong desire to vote for Mana - must be the wairoa up there or something.
Then the local hippies cruised in - I noticed the Legalize Marijuana Party on my vote form - my pen hovered ... nah Greens.All the locals were hanging out have a great catch up - its a remote place and they cleary don't see each other that often and I asked the lovely election worker how much she got paid - $15/hour - her face showed this was the most money she had earned for ages .
I reckon if they could turn poverty around in Tai Tokerau by simply have an election every 6 months . I'd especially show up . -
Hard News: Last Words, in reply to Tom Semmens,
t is a charade where the citizens have been reduced to spectators in a horse race reported by a media that is completely decadent and morally dysfunctional, yet we call it “democracy”.
+1 to Tom
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’d also note that even if National is in a position to govern along, we’re exceedingly unlikely to see Jar-Jar Binks (Nat – Naboo) move a motion to vest powers in John Key to bring about the creation of the Galactic Empire.
What you mean we haven't created a Galactic Empire already - shit I thought we had that sussed - what are our leaders doing twiddling their thumbs?
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to JLM,
Me too JLM - I am really worried about the level of unbridled power about to wash over us like a tsunami .
Tim Watkins blog on this has not had much pick up yet. He's looking out over the teapots to a very scary future.