Posts by giovanni tiso
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Dunne's announcement now rules that out. So the potential appeal of UF for the party vote has been approximately halved.
Not if people buy the current narrative that National has it in the bag. People wishing to moderate excessive power might be tempted to vote Labor instead of common sense-in-chief.
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But yes, now it's clear to anyone who was pondering UF for their party vote (all 3 of them, haha): if you want National, you may as well vote National -- if you want Labour, you definitely shouldn't vote for UF.
Yes, but if you're a centrist and are afraid that National might cozy up too much with Act, you vote for the moderating influence and the Socratic wonder that is United Future.
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He certainly wouldn't be bringing a particularly strong hand to the table either.
The table that Peter Dunne would bring a strong hand to hasn't been invented yet. Try Ikea.
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And before you know it, you're in your very own Samuel Beckett one-act play.
In other news, Craig is still a genius.
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Here, the point to consider is that etymology is not meaning, and that most dictionaries are on the side of the common usage in this case.
Yes, it would be an insufferable pedant who would use decimate to mean kill one in ten. I wonder if the meaning changed with the Nazi reprisals during world war II, when they used to kill ten people in the occupied territories for every one of their soldiers killed - those were also referred to as decimations, at least in Italian.
(Showing that you can find humour everywhere, Stefano Benni put in one of his stories a cocktail called "the reprisal": ten parts of Italian grappa for one part of German schnaps)
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With the extra few cents we're going to buy some rags to wrap around our feet
Is that your way of complaining about a slow uptake? I'm getting flashbacks of "Buy This Magazine or We'll Kill the Dog".
There is an economic crisis for the rest of us too, you know... I for instance had all my book money invested in the Nikkei.
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it is possible that they'll then add a Green abstention to the top of it in exchange for a couple of specific policies (something like the phasing out of battery hens and sow crates).
That would be a poetic way for chooks and pigs to exact their revenge on us humans.
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Was it this one?
The photo of Rochelle holding a laptop is priceless ("See, I used one of these...").
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It would appear that around 80 per cent of New Zealanders have no idea how MMP works...
But you're really telling me that if Don Brash has somehow cooked up a National-ACT-United Future-New Zealand First harem of inconvenience, it would have taken with perfect equaminity in these parts? Tui billboard time.
...and that includes Craig.
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Around 80 per cent of them vote National or Labour and when they go to the polling booth they believe they are choosing a Government.
It would appear that around 80 per cent of New Zealanders have no idea how MMP works.