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“Braaains…..”
“Braaaains but no morals!”
A window into the heart of darkness
The look of a man expecting a 20-point poll bounce, but getting a 0.2.
Rupert Murdoch’s doppleganger.
I know it looks like I have not shaved, but that is really just the blood of my victims…
I’m saying this honestly, your children will be safe staying over with me
Rilly? Trooley?
Frozen 5000 year old vampire thaws, integrates into society.
John Key snapped by clever Apple Ap called iReal which reveals the actual politician beneath the public facade
Would you like to see some puppies?
nice
Well, you know?…. He does have honest blue eyes….
Now, where did I leave my white robes and pointy hate, I’ve got crucifix’s to burn.
I’m your nice Uncle Don and I want you to give me all your money and assets so my poor friends don’t starve. P.S. did it have to be such a big scary photo?
Would you buy a used car from this man?
Well, You know?….. He’s got honest blue eyes……… . . . .
“Those garlic cloves are not going to help you get equal pay young woman, and neither will I”
“I don’t think my good friend Rodney Hide is feeling at all disappointed or betrayed”
Don Brash as seen by John Key…
You know something? On Kiwiblog, Farrar runs “Caption Contests” and always says “Comments should be amusing, not nasty”.
Here, you have comments like “Now, where did I leave my white robes and pointy hate, I’ve got crucifix’s to burn”.
I’m struggling to understand why people are so nasty here …
And we’re going to get much nastier as the year goes on.
Even so, we won’t break into your PC and distribute your personal and political information like some other people might.
There was no breaking in. The admin left the door unlocked and open encouraging anyone to go have look.
Show us where Labour “encouraged” anyone to download the files.
I suppose if you’re a crook, everything looks like a crime waiting to happen, eh?
sweetd you fucking idiot – it wasn’t just a look there was theft of personal data which was passed around, just because I leave my front door or open or unlocked doesn’t mean some wanker can come in and help himself to any of my personal information or property then spread it around the community.
If this was done to a bank the internet theft rules would apply and whoever did it would be facing a cyber crime charge.
You wouldn’t like it if you personal financial information was plastered all over the internet
another right whiner.
dry your little eyes, g_man. Brash has had worse things said about him than anything here. And that was just by the voices in his head.
It could have something to do with Owera…
Unlike many of the myth making denizens at the sewer we have clear recollections of history. So we tell it as it is. I’m sad that you consider that reality is nasty – but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
IMHO: No man in NZ public life deserves the white pointy hat characterization as much as Brash does.
I’m struggling to understand why people are so nasty here …
Unlike Blue @3.59pm?
g_man, you pick a month, I’ll pick a week. You can then choose the open mike thread from here from that week that you think is the nastiest, and I’ll pick the general debate thread from KB. We then play ‘find the wankers’.
Deal? We’ll have to do it on thurs, coz I’m busy with familial stuff over the next coupla days, but I think it would be a fascinating wee exercise.
You guys need to get with the kiwiblog
reichright school of race relations.The new rule is it’s fine to be a racist, but it’s a hanging matter to call someone a racist. Especially if they are a racist, cos it’s like racism. Against racists.
😆
Descrimination against small minority groups, like the filthy wealthy, is also not allowed.
I said that, brash said the Orewa address; mine is on a leftist blog, his was on the 6 O’Clock news. Slight difference – I will continue to be nasty to the affluent until such time as they actually do something constructive to help the poor!
So Kiwiblog is supposed to be the fucking template and rules of Internet etiquette now?
lol whatever mate.
Helen Clarke goes without make-up, millions terrified. Ginger-headed former MP’s jump for joy.
Blue grasps at out of date misogynist straws, slips
🙂
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde had it right eh Don. Suck on another lemon Miss Clark! Checkmate nicky.
FFS, who invited you back, d4j?
Who the hell are you to ask you old washed up green fungi. Go on a date with big bruv and get back to me – creep!
He actually currently does not have a ban and hasn’t had one for several years. He tends to obey the warnings enough to avoid bans, and I haven’t had to get moderator irritated with him for quite some time. That means he gets to comment here unless he runs afoul of one of the mods.
I don’t think he adds that much to the debate. But he doesn’t seem to limit it anymore either. More like ambient noise?
Thank you Iprent. Bad luck toady and big bruv, oh my, narking is no good here at the standard where demerit narks are not rewarded for their cowardise.
Isn’t ambient noise supposed to be calming and pleasantly sleep inducing?
No that’s not what it means. Hippie.
You obviously don’t live around Ponsonby Road. On Fridays and Saturday the ambient noise is often relationship breakups on our street corner…. While we are trying to sleep.
My concept of ambient noise may be different to yours?
🙂 Possibly…
Blighty lacks sense of humour, gets hysterical and asks “life partner” for genitals back.
“Frankly, I’m looking to old for this job”
Look I told you Garret was innocent.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5237131/Garrett-cleared-of-perjury
“Alright – who made the crack about me running in East Coast Bays?”
Oh dear, that really takes me back. You can understand why this guy never ever stands for electorate seats any more.
National 2002 : 21%
National 2005 : 39%
Bring Back Brash!
Please, pretty please. Look at what he is doing to Act…
Hurry up bansky, annoint either clown to run for the ‘pretending to be central wing’ in Epsom……don’t make me come over
Unknown to the Empire, Palpantine secretly wears spectacles…
OK, its nasty but the resemblance…
It’s not that nasty; Juilia Gillard reminds me of Jar Jar Binks, which is far, far worse, IMHO.
It’s not OK.
Don Brash has suddenly realised that he is being parodied by @DrBrash on twitter and has read some of his tweats.
Geriatric has been superior to current leader of opposition and deputy PM.
NZ public abandons all hope.
What’s that Banksie? You are going to sack me? But but…..
“Eeeeeehhh, the only way for us to catch up to Australia is for New Zealand workers to take massive pay cuts. I am perfectly serious.” *
* No joke. He actually said this.
Act Leader Don Brash welcomed Alex Fogerty’s decision to leave National to join Act.
“Like Bob Clarkson, John Banks and I, Alex has seen the need to give some backbone to the Government. Like us, he believes in
ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führerone law for all,” said Dr Brash.Alex, I am your father.
ROFL!!!
LMAO! Thanks joe90 – gotta be the winner.
Oh that works on so many levels joe.
(And not nasty either….)
Gentleman Don: “There’s no room for vulgarity in plutocracy son”
Do you think botox would pull in the punters for me Duncan.
The body has been discovered of the dead man whose identity was stolen by David Garrett.
Politics aside, that really IS funny.
Many of the other comments wouldn’t make it into a fourth form school mag.
NIGGUH WHUT !!!
Yo, porch monkey, read my speech!
“Well, that’s odd … I’ve just robbed a man of his livelihood, and yet I feel strangely empty. Tell you what, Smithers – have him beaten to a pulp.”
I don’t like you.
Garrets innocent I tell you, innocent.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5237131/Garrett-cleared-of-perjury
You’re not a maaree are you? I don’t see why maarees should have cameras, there’s no mention of photography in the treaty.
Yes, all palangi should desist from taking photos of me as well – it isn’t the treaty of waitaiinnnggiiiiiii. Neither is the electronics of the standard. Kiwiblog… Oops – umm – aha – sewers were around!!!!!!
Promotional Poster for HP and Deathly Hallows 2.
‘
Don’t vote for me.
I don’t need you to vote for me.
I have never needed you to vote for me.
I will never need you to vote for me.
I will get into parliament even if not one person votes for me.
I don’t have a mandate.
I don’t need a mandate.
I don’t want a mandate.
I will determine the direction of the next government, without a mandate.
Pitchforked by rich lobbyists to the head of the National Party, I was unelectable.
Pitchforked to the head of the the ACT Party by wealthy lobbyists, I am still unelectable.
It doesn’t matter that I am unelectable, with big money behind the John Banks campaign I will be pitchforked into parliament on his coat tails.
Beware: I hate and despise you all and when I get into parliament I am determined to demonstrate it.
You have been warned.
Brilliant.
You wanna be a real Mafia Don like Al Capone then you must get shafted by a large nose slippery Key and his fat blob mate Gerry.
“Release the Hounds!”
The triumph of the will.
Luke Skywalker…I am….
I’ve trimmed my eyebrows and now I’m ready to trim you down to size.
He’ll have to swap those blue contact lenses for yellow ones.
Simon Lusk you promised that you could bring ACT’s polling around and all it rose was a paltry 0.2% …
UUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……. Anyone got some Xlax, I am so full of shit it keeps coming out my mouth.
I wear a suit when I go into WINZ for my superannuation cause I’m in a class of my own.
Who would have an affair with him ..let alone marry him.
can you imagine that bearing down on you!
it’d be like a visitation from an incubus
The DON says: I’m going to make you an offer you caan’t refuse! I’ll cut you in when we loot the public wealth, white collar stuff: big tax cuts!
Quote from the Godfather
Mu-um-umy….. There is a horrible man staring at me.
“It soon became apparent that the alien lizard-men had not quite perfected their human-skin disguise…”
Any one for a pie ? I think cameron left a couple of mince and cheese in my fridge ?
Bob are you sure it wasn’t whalemeat?
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
I call this one “Blue Steel”.
My economic theory was blown up in a totally unexpected petrol station accident!
ARE YOU EYBALLIN’ ME ?…NIGGA I WILL FUCK YOU UP !!!
[lprent: That is getting over the edge. Too noisy apart from anything else. And teasing people for being raised in the 19th century is quite unfair. ]
Gee you’re all class aren’t you ‘wog.
Gee you’re all class aren’t you ‘wog.
…i can actually envision The Don saying that to just about anybody not of his ‘race’, but then again i can picture him in a spandex teddy saying ‘spank me Mistress Odgers’ to Cactus Kate too.
now where did I put that spare slice of baloney
I have just had my botox
Is that a camera I see in front of me? Then why can’t I just smile and wave like that other fellow?
” Where’s The CORNED Beef? “
ET, Daddy’s waiting
Damn, why doesn’t all this economic mumbo jumbo I learned in kindergarten work on real people.
hahaha!
Archeologists found something older than the pyramids.
“With its wrinkly pink skin, beady eyes and outsize teeth, the naked mole rat resembles a sabretoothed sausage. But the strange-looking mammal has a secret which is fascinating scientists searching for a cure for diseases of old age, particularly cancer.
“Despite being only four inches long, the rodent lives for 30 years – seven times longer than a normal rat – and appears not to be afflicted with the world’s number one killer disease.
“Researchers have now taken a step towards understanding the extraordinary reason for its longevity and resistance ….. ”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/europe/news/article.cfm?l_id=7&objectid=10736954
oops. sorry. mistaken copy and paste job. wrong post.
Easy mistake Jim.
A much more attractive publicity shot
“Don!!! Where did you put that beneficiary’s baby?!”
“URRRRRRRRRRRP!!!!”