Actually @simonm, not 2 or so months ago I transported 2 such Fijians to the workhouse after they'd missed a bus because it was full. We went there via the absolute shithole they were calling home and were having to pay for. In short, it was actually ...
Just an observation: For an OK bank - certainly not amongst the worst, ASB's Chief Jee Bung Wunder is a complete fucking irriot (going forward).
In celebrity news today, MSM musings over policy took second place whilst the 1,000 word count loomed: Did anyone notice Paula getting into the lift today? Leopard skin prints - all gone. Paling Blue tending Teal - all gone. A Funeral Black tailored number...
The bizzniss of education! How's it all working out now?
"Unskilled local workers should over time be able to displace skilled foreign workers......" And what fate do you propose for the foreign skilled workers whether they've "learned to settle" (code for assimilate), or not? I'm just asking because those ...
That'd be a David C type dick probably. Maria Muldaur's "It ain't the meat its the motion" springs to mind
100% ditto. I'm doing my best to refrain from commenting on this thread but I have to say thanks to BILL for the post. Good to see weka tracey wildK CG and others' comments and unsurprising to see the ingrained kaka from David C (He fucks his own arguments...
Bill will NEVER understand the Greens (and nor, it seems most of the MSM). They (Greens) should see it as a compliment as I'm sure most do - especially when there's an even sillier puppet master Joyce pulling his stringy sensory thrill bits. Even bro ...
Not at all! History being very interesting! its just that Trotter these days seems to pick out various events in history THEN base his analysis on those stories. It's hard to know otherwise why the positive attitude one minute, and what almost amounts to ...
Or maybe Chris Trotter who, these days seems to want to concoct his scriblings based on the allegorical history lesson he wants to convey on any given day of the week. At least that'd be more informative ("fair and balanced" even)
I noticed that - connection lost in the middle of a submission. Which Btw @lprent sometimes means when the sub eventually takes, the heirarchy is lost. No such thing as perfection though eh? ANd as I post this, Weka's thoughts are visible. Gawd! The state ...
I'm glad there are a few others onto him. He's ekshully National's very common denominator - a slob in a suit who appeals to the true ideologue, but like his female equivalent (paula bennett) has brought true misery and 3rd world living standards to many. ...
Unfortunately @savenz, the horse bolted a long time ago. https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-04102017/#comment-1395782 and comment above. If you go through media reports over the past few years, there are countless examples - and that's aside from those (...
"OR the public and media could grow up politically and wait for negotiations to see which relationships will work for good government in the future?" Ain't that the bloody truth! The media (or rather what parades as a MSM/4th Estate) should. Some aspects ...
"Remember how being in WTO wou[l]d help China be more Democratic and better on Human Rights…" Fark! That's almost as big a lie as all the others the new neo-libs told us would happen - in the future, going forward, actually-as a matter of fact, to coin a ...
@lprent. I could never understand the value of ETS if only because it seemed to me to be susceptible to "the market the market" - which as we know is always open to various forms of manipulation. You paragraph: "While the tree-hugging idea may play well to...
I reckon Wayne is the next up and coming MSM sage. Michelle Boag - watch out! you've got competition. I might go trout fishing - at least I can eat 'em
" It is simpler to just reach for the bottle, or the TV remote – and not have to think about what it means to participate in a fulsome, rich and free society." That'd be the view of some of my contemporaries who once came up with some grafitti gems as "...
"Government consists of “public servants”; – these who are our ‘public servants’ should firstly be serving the needs and ‘interests’ including aspirations of their employees who are ‘the public’ Public service’. 2 :a service rendered in the public interest...
Unfortunately @Carolyn, it all starts with that Natzi type mindset such that employees should be grateful if an employer deigns to employ them. You issue an immigrant a visa that ties him or her to a specific employer. If the employer is good - count ...
I suspect its both
"With utter predictability the right is trotting out well rehearsed lines. " Of course they are Micky!. It's all they've got. Their "founding fathers" gave them the right to bear arms - utterly unaware of technological advances - such as a future that ...
It's been a function of business news now for over a couple of decades. (And globally). You ask vested interests ("going forward") for their market predictions. Always there'll be something good or bad "ON THE BACK OF" something else good or bad ("going ...
Actually..... it could be a PPP toll cliff - we could tax them on the way down. A win win! They'd pay their debt to sussoighty, realise that with roights cum responsibilities, but if not ...... whooooar
Don't get all conspiratorial though @ eco Maori. Some of it is just muppets running things. Some of it is intentional underfunding or down to cronyism. THe Electoral Commission will be having a debrief apparently. When they do, no doubt the reason for 123 ...
Oh yes you can. There's one plated in fake gold with candles sticking out of it on top of a National Party blue column at the bottom of Cuba Street Wellington (opposite the MFC)
Something that Wayne will never understand - and probably because they have that bad smell of exceptionalism about them that makes it impossible to consider anything that differs from their world view. Even Jim Bolger (who you'll recall acknowledged neo-...
@Wayne. You (and your cohorts) keep assuming the Greens are dismissing National out of hand. They are not What you can't seem to get through your fucking thick heads is that for THIS election cycle, the chances of some arrangement is mighty thin. And that ...
If I had my way, I'd put em in the army! Show em some discipline! (/s) It's quite amusing how those boomers we once grew up with whose parents were National Party used to protest the state of their parents. Only one or two decades later, they're a fucking ...
She doesn't pout - the smile is permanently fixed. Probably the wind changed during the campaign
Indeed! Nasty thing to say I know, but even that constant smile and chuckles seem to me to be chemically induced. They're so fake and plastic it's otherwise hard to explain it. I'm like, kinda, like, like getting pissed off with being expected to remain ...
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