Solitary man

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1. esoteric pineapples 1

   14 June 2018 at 10:49 am

   We all need regular distractions at work. Some research has found that allowing people to spend a bit of time on the Internet actually increases productivity. I zip on to the Internet every 20 minutes or so. It gives my brain a rest for a moment and actually keeps my mind engaged and motivated. Looking over someone’s shoulder to make sure they are constantly working is the path to fascism.
   • dukeofurl 1.1

     14 June 2018 at 11:02 am

     Brownshirt Brownlee has been a lot further down the path of facisism than you realise.
     Surely you have permission to ‘sharpen your mind’ from the nat MP you work for ?

     he can while away the hours , days, years in his office how he likes. While in the House where the cameras on on him he can bloody well look like hes working for us all- as they claim to be
     • esoteric pineapples 1.1.1

       14 June 2018 at 4:41 pm

       I don’t like Gerry in the least. Definitely not arguing his cause as a supporter. I just think people shouldn’t get on each other’s backs when they have a bit of time out. It’s part of a bigger theory I have that everyone has the right to have an opportunity to break the rules and when this is taken away from them, it creates an uptight society that usually harms the more innocent more than the truly guilty. It relates very much to too much survelliance. For instance, a friend ended up losing their job because she went over the speed limit in a company car by a few kilometres per hour. The buses I catch are full of survelliance cameras, supermarkets do facial recognition. Whatever the “positive” arguments for using these sorts of technologies to spy on people, in the end it means we are being watched constantly and every misdemeanor is noted and punished. Humans aren’t made to be perfect and when society starts punishing us for every little fault, society becomes more repressive and ultimately fascist. There has never been a despotic regime that didn’t survive without spying on its citizens. I personally would rather have a few of the less odious crimes go unnoticed and unpunished than live in a society where there is nowhere for people to hide from prying eyes.
2. Jimmy 2

   14 June 2018 at 10:56 am

   I guess he was on his tea break!!!!
3. Puckish Rogue 3

   14 June 2018 at 11:05 am

   Ladies and gentlemen…Mr Neil Diamond!
   • Ken 3.1

     14 June 2018 at 10:08 pm
4. Stuart Munro 4

   14 June 2018 at 11:06 am

   Brownlee has nothing intelligent to add – shame he’s too greedy to retire – he’s neither use nor ornament and never has been.
   • Unicus 4.1

     16 June 2018 at 10:46 pm

     So true

     The destroyer of Christchurch’s built heritage is a vile pedantic bully who operated behind the protection of the New Zealand army to destroy our nations irreplaceable architecture in favour of the financial interests of hedonistic property owners . He encouraged them to I cash up their insurance and turn to rubble buildings of exquisite beauty .The Victorian arts and crafts and myriad of other architectural styles that were that great citys built inheritance beat the earthquakes but could not survive the dreadful intent of Brownlee .

     The stain of his mis-deeds will remain on Christchurch forever
5. Wensleydale 5

   14 June 2018 at 11:17 am

   I wish I could insert myself into a job where I got to sit in a comfy chair and play mobile games while collecting a bloated salary on the taxpayers’ dime. Well done, Gerry. Treat yourself to another pie.
6. Gabby 6

   14 June 2018 at 11:35 am

   It’s encouraging that he feels Trev is capable of proceeding without Jeery’s sage advice.
7. Baba Yaga 7

   14 June 2018 at 11:46 am

   Of greater concern is the number of Labour MP’s in witness protection during QT, and the increasingly shrill response of some MP’s to opposition probing. For a recent example https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=200779.
   • ianmac 7.1

     14 June 2018 at 5:10 pm

     If you had watched QT today Baba, you would have seen just why that was a non story.
     • Baba Yaga 7.1.1

       14 June 2018 at 11:08 pm

       I did watch it.

       Another day of Mallard covering for the inept Kelvin Davis (although Davis tried valiantly to avoid accountability by answering in TeReo at the speed of light).

       Then Andrew Little was made to look like a lemon by Mark Mitchell (in fact Little totally confused what he had said yesterday, and continues to make ridiculous claims about the current prison population, both of which I suspect will bite him next week).

       And I particularly like the way Shane Reti is setting up David Clark.

       What a shambles of a government this is.
   • Hanswurst 7.2

     14 June 2018 at 7:57 pm

     Of greater concern is homelessness. And cancer. And global warming. Look over there!
     • Baba Yaga 7.2.1

       14 June 2018 at 11:09 pm

       Oh I agree. Shame the government isn’t doing a blind bit of good to address any of those issues.
8. WILD KATIPO 8

   14 June 2018 at 12:22 pm

   While it may seem a little negligent, I wouldn’t get too excited,… its not a huge misdemeanor, and certainly he would have been listening and checking in. Back in the day it was common enough to ramble in quite tanked from Bellamy’s,… can we blame them though?

   Having to sit through hour after hour of verbal farting off before one got to cut to the chase and get to whats real…

   It was a game of solitaire which can be picked up and put down … it was not like it was something that completely absorbed his focus.

   Maybe he should have played a game of spacey’s with the volume turned up to maximum instead…
9. ankerawshark 9

   14 June 2018 at 12:55 pm

   Its not great, but I wouldn’t give it too much air time………………
10. AsleepWhileWalking 10

    14 June 2018 at 2:39 pm

    So what was happening in QT that he didn’t give a shit about? Social Securities Act rewrite?
    • WILD KATIPO 10.1

      14 June 2018 at 3:01 pm

      LOL !

      Probably ! , but lets go easy on Gerry … I kind of like him for some reason 🙂

      Of all of those Nat scumbags ,… Gerry’s the most bumptious yet accident prone of the lot of them. Ugh,… the CH CH rebuild comes to mind… and an airport security door…

      But I notice he didn’t feature heavily in Dirty Politics … we can give him that credit…
11. JohnSelway 11

    14 June 2018 at 3:30 pm

    Let ye who hasn’t pissed around now and again at work cast the first stone.

    I’d be surprised if he was the only one who did such a thing.
12. alwyn 12

    14 June 2018 at 3:44 pm

    This reminds me of the time that Bob Jones ribbed Matiu Rata with a poster on Robert Jones House reading something like “Matt Rata reads comics”.
    Poor old Matt, a Labour MP for those less aged than myself, was spotted reading a comic in Parliament.

    He had a perfectly valid excuse. He had, during a break in proceedings, gone out to buy his kids their weekly quota of comics. He said he was merely checking out what sort of thing the comics his three children had chosen were publishing.
    He never quite got over it.
    Someone of the old school that I admired. Left Labour and started Mana Motuhake and worked tirelessly for the Maori land claims movement.
    • AB 12.1

      14 June 2018 at 4:47 pm

      I remember it well, Alwyn.
      Sir Bob’s infantile racism doesn’t seem to have improved with time.
13. Morrissey 13

    14 June 2018 at 3:56 pm

    Brownlee? Deadwood. Waste of space. Useless. National.
14. AB 14

    14 June 2018 at 4:22 pm

    Even Gerry knows it’s all empty theatre. He is doing what he can to counter the iron grip of ennui.
    If he was smarter, he would do something else to pass the time. Perhaps read Montaigne’s essays, including this gem from On Presumption, and take some encouragement from it:

    “No mind is so feeble and brutish that some special faculty cannot be seen to shine in it.”
15. WILD KATIPO 15

    14 June 2018 at 4:57 pm

    The man speaketh , – and gets heckled…. mildly.

    Gerry Brownlee heckled during Christchurch debate – YouTube
    Video for gerry brownlee getting stroppy you tube▶ 4:46
    
16. mary_a 16

    14 June 2018 at 5:18 pm

    I’m from the time when I remember MPs reading the newspaper in the House, some I suspect doing cross word puzzles to give their brains a rest from proceedings. That’s if they weren’t having a snooze, which was also fairly common back then.

    The state of play has changed now somewhat through the introduction of digital technology. Can read the news and or play games online, without too much interruption. Haven’t seen much snoozing of late, but some MPs do look a bit zombie like at times in the House!

    I’m not a supporter of Gerry or Natz by any means at all. However I’m sure Gerry is quick minded enough to pick up on something going down in the House and would jump on it quick smart should he feel the need to.
    • WILD KATIPO 16.1

      14 June 2018 at 5:33 pm

      Yeah , its a mountain out of a molehill scenario.

      Total piffle.

      Gerry ? , – you’re off the hook on this one.

      Next time do it properly and complete a crossword puzzle , for petes sakes…
17. Incognito 17

    14 June 2018 at 9:01 pm

    It’s not like he’s texting while driving a car, is it now? Only a really depraved character would do such a thing …
18. Ken 18

    14 June 2018 at 10:10 pm

    Lost interest in the job Gerry?

    Time to move on.
    • WILD KATIPO 18.1

      14 June 2018 at 10:24 pm

      Nah. Keep him on. Him and Judith will make a great team.

      He can play solitaire and she can… read a newspaper…. hell ! , I dunno… check current Swamp Kauri prices or something.

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