John Key – still clueless

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1. Kiwiteen123 1

   31 January 2010 at 11:04 am

   I still find that mildly funny… All though John Key is not (in my opinion) clueless, it is still mildly amusing.
   May I ask, Lynn, what you were doing looking at John Key’s site at 10.36pm last night?
2. lprent 2

   31 January 2010 at 11:37 am

   Duh, that was when I started to write the post. These blog sites have schedulers, so I scheduled it to come after OpenMike this morning.

   I wasn’t particularly interested in his actual site. I was looking at Google to see if rockys google-bomb was still running. Look at the first Google image, read what it says.

   John Keys website – where is says “Policy Bulletin: Three Strikes”. I clicked on that to see if the site had died yet. I’d have checked a couple of times while writing the post to make sure that the linking works. Don’t you check your links while writing posts?

   I’d guess that some political lackey knows my home static IP, can read site logs, and is once again fluffing spin for covering. As I said humourless. Who is it this time?

   Update: Ok – I just figured it out after a morning coffee – it is the timestamp on the google puts on the link… Oh well time to do the household washing
   • Kiwiteen123 2.1

     31 January 2010 at 12:44 pm

     Just a question… Did you really need to check it twice?
     Good on you for doing the washing, though!
     • lprent 2.1.1

       31 January 2010 at 1:04 pm

       I’d just woken up and was running on sluggish brain function – I was playing in a MMOG until 5am.

       Lyn has been somewhat busy over the last few months. So I’m doing most of the household chores like cooking, rubbish, dishes, and washing. Well apart from cleaning – she thinks that my cleaning standards leave a lot to be desired.
3. PT 3

   31 January 2010 at 11:57 am

   this is why labour will lose next eelction prentice, stupid stunts means you have no idea, what a joke you are
   • lprent 3.1

     31 January 2010 at 12:00 pm

     As I said – humourless wingnuts… Say anything even mildly detrimental against their Dear Leader, and look – one appears in a puff of smoke.

     PT: You still can’t type – how about improving your diction. IrishBill nailed you perfectly the other day in The joy of tory trolls

     …but nothing lets you know you’ve threatened the world view of the arrogant right better than their misspelled, badly punctuated, ad hominem frothing.
     • PT 3.1.1

       31 January 2010 at 12:07 pm

       like you werent defensive about clark, dream on prentice
       • The Voice of Reason 3.1.1.1

         31 January 2010 at 12:32 pm

         Never thought I’d suggest banning a contributor, but PT really makes a good case for some time off. Not just for the puerile comments, the outright assault on the written language is deserving of a sanction before the site is swamped with similar atrocities.

         Nxt thg peeps wl cmnt txt stylz n den weze all fkd.
         • PT 3.1.1.1.1

           31 January 2010 at 12:35 pm

           this is a puerile post reason, youre too stupid to see that so you should be banned

           [lprent: At least your diction improved, a small victory for the English language. It was a rather pointless comment bearing in mind that the moderators are the only determinants on banning decisions. ]
4. mike 4

   31 January 2010 at 12:39 pm

   “Say anything even mildly detrimental against their Dear Leader”

   Its a one way street eh lynn. You guys can give it but when hels is joked about you go all righteous..
   • PT 4.1

     31 January 2010 at 12:55 pm

     say helen is a big toothed childless leftie acadmeic and prentice pops an eyeball
   • lprent 4.2

     31 January 2010 at 1:08 pm

     Are you equating a google-bomb on John Key with some of the vile rumors that the wingnuts were pushing around about Helen and Peter? Should I go back and display what you thought was ‘humour’ in 2007/8?

     I suspect you need to get a bit of perspective about the difference between humour and unsubstantiated and vile speculation.
     • PT 4.2.1

       31 January 2010 at 1:11 pm

       prentice at 12pm ”
       As I said humourless wingnuts Say anything even mildly detrimental against their Dear Leader, and look one appears in a puff of smoke.
       ”

       prentice at 108pm ”
       Are you equating a google-bomb on John Key with some of the vile rumors that the wingnuts were pushing around about Helen and Peter? Should I go back and display what you thought was ‘humour’ in 2007/8?

       I suspect you need to get a bit of perspective about the difference between humour and unsubstantiated and vile speculation.
       ”

       so predictable prentice, here you pop an eyeball just like i said. you want unsubstantiated speculation, REMEMBER H FEE prentice
5. Sam 5

   31 January 2010 at 1:09 pm

   I love how much this upset(s) them! It’s really quite pathetic.
6. BLiP 6

   31 January 2010 at 2:27 pm

   Clueless . . . . Clueless . . . . Clueless . . . . Clueless . . . .

   Just to keep the ball.

   [lprent: That is the unsubtle approach. Try using title=’clueless’ as an additional tag. ]
7. Greg 7

   31 January 2010 at 4:11 pm

   The reason Jk is 7th is that google gives preference to NZ results when searching from within NZ (even when you click search entire web) . Do the same search from the states and he won’t feature.
   • lprent 7.1

     31 January 2010 at 4:31 pm

     Interesting – I’ll log in later to a US server and try it.
   • lprent 7.2

     31 January 2010 at 5:13 pm

     Wrong – he does feature

     The keyword ‘clueless’ looking at http://www.johnkey.co.nz on google.
     From the US – 98th.
     From the UK – 48th
     From Aussie – 64th
     From India – 65th

     And then I ran out of tries. Useful site – http://www.kpmrs.com/

     I’ll update the post
8. Greg 8

   31 January 2010 at 9:11 pm

   My choice of words was poor. What I meant was he won’t feature prominantly. Obviously he will always be in there somewhere no matter where you do the search from. Interesting to see the rankings though!
9. graham 9

   31 January 2010 at 10:35 pm

   Yawn … are you people still congratulating yourselves over this childish prank from over a year ago?

   Seriously, Iprent, you got it right when you said, “it may be juvenile even at my advanced age”. Yeah – it is. Amusing? Yes, in the same way fake vomit and whoopee cushions are, I guess, to certain people.

   I’m just surprised that anyone who wants to be taken seriously as an activist, like rocky apparently does, would waste their time on infantile little stunts like this.

   Captcha: minds (as in maybe you should find something more worthwhile to occupy yours with …)
   • lprent 9.1

     1 February 2010 at 1:38 am

     Your reaction shows that you really don’t get it. Modern activists use all of the tools available to them, and the net is the perfect environment to cooperate to get results – even amongst disparate groups. I’d expect that you’d argue that sitting in boring meetings arguing about doctrinal differences is what they should be doing. But it is the perfect way to avoid social change – and is going the way of the dinosaur.

     Pranks like this are amusing, takes very little effort, allows many people to participate, and allows cooperation to develop. It also presents a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the difference between the generations that grew up with the net all around them and those who didn’t. Perfect for young and not so young activists with a sense of humour.

     Perhaps that ability to cooperate in a gentle joke is what annoyed the humorless wing-nuts the most. I often get the impression that they are too anti and angry much of the time to cooperate on anything positive, let alone cooperate on a joke.
     • BLiP 9.1.1

       1 February 2010 at 2:28 am

       Yep. Quite right. The RWNJ’s are far too concerned with what’s best for “me” rather than what’s best for “us all”.
10. lprent 10

    31 January 2010 at 10:35 pm

    Greg: After you mentioned it, it was obvious that google would localize the search.

    It was good finding a site that did the rankings by country. That was the fifth one I tried, and the only one that did the task cleanly.

    But what was interesting was that the google bomb was even featured in the countries I listed within the first 100. I’d take a bet that it wasn’t remotely there 18 months ago. In the nz ‘world’ it was somewhere between 20 and 30 in my vague recollection.
11. illuminatedtiger 11

    1 February 2010 at 9:45 pm

    I think all the wingnuts are just having a cry over not coming up with anything better themselves. You have to remember that the best National has ever come up with is “Luke I am your Lesbian Father” and nobody found that the least bit funny.

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