Posts by Ian Dalziel
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enough already!...
I second Danyl's suggestion upthread and call for a boycott of Fairfax and Mediaworks
and anyone who advertises with them.
Write letters to those advertisers and tell them that sadly you won't be buying their products
as long as they continue to fund the enablers of Laws' soapboxes... ie: Fairfax (Sunday Star Times especially) and Mediaworks (Radio live, TV3, etc)...in fact I no longer want to watch any TV3 or engage with any mediaworks outlets - having just given up watching the travesty they are making of their coverage of the memorial event in Chch ...
Why, during the video of the damage to Chch were we subjected to shots of Mike McRoberts and John Campbell ad-libbing incredibly mawkishly and uncomfortably? When all any of us at home (here in Chch) wanted to see were the images from our shattered city - their painful voiceover could then have been tolerated - this cult of the personality presenters just added insult to injury! - perhaps Campbell Live could play it in its entirety for those still watching the channel... -
....due to the obsessive snobbery involved with hissing, spitting espresso machines.
I have yet to see a barista/coffee machine operator wearing earmuffs - I dread to think what their hearing will be like in a few years time, many cafes I can't abide for the near industrial levels of noise from the whole process...
There used to be a great teahouse in Chch, in the Poplar Lanes precinct, which went bust from lack of patronage I think... -
pains in the assets...
I do love this sudden rush of political enthusiasm about Kiwi mums and dads.
I suspect the mums and dads they're thinking of
look a lot like Fay, Richwhite and their ilk...These strategic assets are part sold for 10 billion dollars (optimistically), which is what - 40 weeks worth of borrowing $250 million?
Then what do they (we) have to pay the rest of their borrowings (plus interest) back with?
Diminished returns from their half +1 share in these assets and taxation - looks like a backtrack on their hardening stance on land sales to foreigners will be on the agenda if National gets back in...It's a bit of a gift to Winston Peters' platform too...
interesting times....
on your marks
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That coffee place in Chancery Lane was neat:
Number 17, I think... Opposite the original Media Club.
Did the Victorian (cnr Montreal and Oxford Tce)
do coffee - maybe it was Cona or filter...and what about Leon Langley's
upstairs next to Ballantyne's in Colombo st@ Marion O
fair enough
after all
it's not a contest
context is everything
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to recordari,
look eye, mmmm. yore farther...
yaws
daft evader -
That truly is a staggering corner.
aaah yes!
no wonder that cab never arrived!the physics of memory
can bend time and spaceeverything that rises must converge...
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The Open Late - was that the one on the corner of Richmond Rd and K Rd? (staggering distance home at the time...)
and didn't Charlie Grey's cafes have good coffee
(one in Victoria street and then in Symonds st - hazy memories? See staggering above...)but Dominos' Tofu - Yes! yum, fond memories...
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Tired late-night slip of the tongue, apparently.
One would think that professional journalists who know they have a regular late night spot shouldn't be going for the "tired, late night" excuse - shoddy is what I'm saying - and it just means I can't trust anything they say if they can't be arsed getting the small stuff right...
hmmm, Exxon Valdez anyone...
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and don't forget Trade Aid has also helped bring in more and more coffee while ensuring growers get best prices...
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it seems other newsmedia can't get the facts right either...
...just watched TV3 news as they blathered on about Oscar possibles, ending with "... and of course Danny Boyle's Inception!"
FFShave to say I did enjoy The King's Speech this arvo