Back Benches and Champagne
Another fun night watching Back Benchers yesterday. Cactus Kate was in town so we settled in early at 5 pm. Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar, and the bar owner being at the table next to us. However the staff redeemed themselves by following the instruction to automatically bring out a new bottle whenever the existing bottle got below 20% full.
We ended up with a very mixed table with Kate (ACT), myself (Nat), Will de Cleene (Greens/ACT), a 9th floor staffer (Labour), a National Radio presenter and an Electoral Commission staffer. Made for a fun night, which once again ended up at Mighty Mighty in Cuba Mall.
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Tags: Back Benches, Cactus Kate
July 17th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Fuck’s sake David are you trying to induce me to vote Labour? How many of us post here regularly (myself absolutely included) with sentiments along the lines of ‘We are struggling to make ends meet, and times are really hard right now?’
Tough, I know, but I really have bigger concerns right now than the qulaity of the champagne I am (not) drinking.
ps ban nome
rant over.
[DPF: I don't have kids, so can afford to spend more on myself. I'm not going to pretend to be something I am not.]
July 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am
it’s an incestuous little village you live in..isn’t it dpf..?
reason number 53 to move the capital back to where it belongs..
(and to leave wellington to slump back into the gale-ridden provincial hell-hole..it so richly deserves..)
..and..to break up that small/nudge-nudge/wink-wink/mutual backscratching cabal of ‘approved’ gatekeepers..
eh..?
(to ’smash the ring..’..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 9:14 am
” Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar,”
Amusing
sounds more pretentious than amusing
July 17th, 2008 at 9:15 am
” Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar,”
yea berating a waitress for something outside of her control is hilarious..
your friend sounds like an asshole
[DPF: People have to be there to get it. It was a humorous exchange, and the target was actually Boycie the owner who also took it in good humour]
July 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I thought Cactus Kate didn’t like drinking with Socialists?
[DPF: She doesn't. She objected several times
]
July 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
“..Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar,”
(..is anyone else thinking ‘pretentious wannabe wankers bullying minimum wage bar-staff’..?..)
(in a bar..in wellington..??..how ‘up yourself for no reason’ is that..?..eh..?..yagottalaff..!..eh..?..)
and isn’t that..in essence..the difference between ‘the right’ and ‘the left’..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
[DPF: No the difference is a sense of humour and the ability to laugh at oneselves. God people are so thick - the "berating" was aimed at the owner sitting next door, and was about winding him up.]
July 17th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Riiiight. I took a look at the front page of his blog, and saw one mention of ‘peak oil’ and also ‘natural capital’. Who would have thought ACT had a green wing…if that’s what he is.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Whew phil, that wouldn’t be the “green eyed monster” rearing its (very very) ugly head in your comments would it?
Mind you I suppose anyone who:
a) Is a successful business person and;
b) can afford to drink her champagne of choice and;
c) is a net contributor to the economy of the country every time she visits and;
d) couldn’t give a flying cuss for what you think is;
fair game from your point of view
July 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
maybe phil went a bit deep – i’m with dime
July 17th, 2008 at 10:03 am
phil youre just a bitter wee fella
but im still not impressed with waitress abuse.. its gotta be one of the worst jobs in the world.. they certainly work harder than me lol
[DPF: Dime, rather than be a sanctimonious bastard, why don't you think with your brain. Do you think I would have blogged about it, if it had in any way been abusive, bullying, or anything like that? No of course not. It was a humourous exchange for the benefit of the owner. I have been patronising the BB for 18 years and have excellent relations with staff and management, so get off your self appointed high horse]
July 17th, 2008 at 10:03 am
It was a pleasant surprise to see Cactus there. She’s looking Mighty Fine.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am
david..
in other times in my life i have quaffed large amounts of ‘labelled’ champagne..
..now i have the occaisonal black beer..(and i mean ‘occaisonal’..)
..i have also been fortunate enough to have travelled a bit/lived in other countries..
..i really dislike flying..(it’s that whole ‘can in the sky’ thing..)
..exactly what is it i’m meant to be ‘green-eyed’ about..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Did you have to put a RED line on the bottle to indicate how much 20% was?
July 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I have to agree with Dime, while Kate writes a great blog there is no excuse for taking the piss out of those who are out there earning a living.
Anybody who abuses (no doubt loudly so that EVERYBODY could hear that Kate was drinking expensive champagne) a waitress and laughs it off as humour needs a laughingly hilarious head but.
Acting like a complete and utter fuckwit is not reserved exclusively for left wingers, while they are obviously more inclined to act in that fashion we should not condone Kate’s behaviour just because she leans to the right.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hey hey, where's that sense of humour?
So it was about laughing at HIM?
July 17th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Phil – you just sound like a miserable cock. And most of the rest of you deserve another 9 years of Helengrad.
Wellington is a city of highly paid bureaucrats with a higher per capita income than Auckland. It’s a disgrace that the BB doesn’t have decent champagne. The owner of the BB rakes it in and I am sure equally couldn’t give a stuff about any comment I made as he creamed in a very good night’s profit.
I actually physically cannot drink beer or wine, it makes me feel ill. So unless I am going to drink tap water all night, then I have to consume something don’t I?
I didn’t take the piss out of anyone…….well excluding the obvious PSA delegates, Standard bloggers and other bottom feeders from the public tit in the bar who quite frankly, deserve it and I don’t care how they feel about anything.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Heh
July 17th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Just winding you up Kate, testing that famous right wing sense of humour… feck, it made ME laugh.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Quite right Kate
You have earned your money fair and square through your own abilities and you should be proud of that, and not be ashamed to treat yourself. If other people can’t respect that, well, maybe they should be voting for Liarbour after all.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I don’t know what pisses me off the most, socialist left wing wankers sucking on the public tit or a bunch or yuppie right wingers loudly proclaiming their wealth.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am
[DPF: Dime, rather than be a sanctimonious bastard, why don't you think with your brain. Do you think I would have blogged about it, if it had in any way been abusive, bullying, or anything like that? No of course not. It was a humourous exchange for the benefit of the owner. I have been patronising the BB for 18 years and have excellent relations with staff and management, so get off your self appointed high horse]
well it was hard to get all that from:
“Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar”
and then the staff “redeemed” themselves…
ya wrote it like you were being an asshole is all.. i can only judge on what you write.. and Dime loves to judge
((((((HUG))))))
July 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I wonder which socialists Catus Kate was objecting to having to drink with: the Labour 9th floor staffer or the National Radio presenter?
Meanwhile is it not time to move, in this age of the web, email and teleconferencing, some govt dept’s out of Wellington in order to ’share the wealth’ especially since the highest paid these days are civil servants? The rest of the nation, I’m sure would like to see some of that disposal income that seems to be burning a hole in civil servants pockets, to find its way into the tills and paychecks of those throughout the country who generate it in the first place.
Of course a good alternative to that is TAX CUTS and govt to STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY.
PS If someone wants to drink gallons of bubbly and pay for it from earning an honest crust I say go ahead and enjoy yourself , ya drunken sods.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Heh – what about those executive retreats that get so much criticism – isn’t that exactly what they’re doing?
[/can't-please-some-people]
July 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Ummm, so if you can’t physically drink wine, how can you drink Champagne? It’s made from pinot noir and chardonnay (and small amounts of pinot neunier and occasionally meslier, to prevent the pedants chiming in). Serious question by the way, I’m intrigued.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
You must be fucken kidding, right?
July 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Quite right Kate
You have earned your money fair and square through your own abilities
Fair and square? Ability? I thought Kate was a lawyer?
July 17th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I think someone somewhere found out that public service CEOs are paying themselves more that Private sector CEOs. I don’t think the stats include teachers & nurses & the like (could be wrong).
July 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Fine, so “especially since the highest paid CEOs these days are public service CEOs” might be true. What, there’s like.. 30-odd of them?
Or the lawyers, or accountants, or admin staff, PAs, or IT departments, or yada yada
July 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am
“..[DPF: No the difference is a sense of humour and the ability to laugh at oneselves..”
no dpf..the difference is ‘laughing at’ what you righties consider your ’servants’/'inferiors..
(pub-owners would fall into that category..legalised dope-pushers that they are….
and kate..
“..Phil – you just sound like a miserable cock..”
and you kate..sound like someone i have met/seen before..
..and who i laugh at from a distance..and avoid like the plague..
(terms like ‘petrie-dish’ come to mind..)
so..there you go..from one ‘miserable cock’..to another ‘miserable cock’..albeit more of a metaphorical designation..in your case..
unless…??
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Dunno, depends on whether you count ALL the govt agencies. But off topic, do you know how many of them are lesbians?? (Someone actually asked me this the other day – I told him: all of them
July 17th, 2008 at 11:56 am
“..Ummm, so if you can’t physically drink wine, how can you drink Champagne? It’s made from pinot noir and chardonnay (and small amounts of pinot neunier and occasionally meslier, to prevent the pedants chiming in). Serious question by the way, I’m intrigued..”
methinks it could be an affectation..
..she does seem prone to them..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I’m intrigued at this outrage at DPF and Cactus Kate’s fun night out. I’m in the middle tax bracket, and while I couldn’t afford good champagne every night, it’s certainly not out of the budget if I wanted to have a special night out with pals.
Is conspicuous frugality the new black?
P.S. All the public servants I know are on modest incomes, and most would earn more in the private sector.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
They have money and they spend it?
OMG!!!!! CRUCFY THEM!!!!
9 years of socialist programing in action.
BTW phool you reputation as a total big ignorant fuckwit who just dribbles on without any basis in reality remains well secure.
Wellington has consistantly better weather in terms of sunshine, wind, rain and sunshine hours compared to that fetid shithole swamp called Auckland. This is based on Met office records not you socialist sponsored drug binge rantings you sad little condom avoid.
I speak as a Aucklander*
Given a choice of drinking with and your kind who ask for WINZ quote with the menu or David and Kate who spend like a pair of druken sailors on pay night and hate commie dickwads half as much as I do its a no brainer. So even you should be able to grasp it.
*I’m a lot better now thanks.
BTW David I hear you were defending some of the commenters on this site. WTF for? I personalyl don’t need or expect you to defend me any more than I’d expect you to defend phool and his ilk. We’re all grown ups more or less able to express our own thoughts for which you are not personally responsible. People whop can’t define between your opinions and those of commenters are the same sort of reality impared dullards who write letters to soap opera characters thinking they are real.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I’m not outraged; I’m pissing myself laughing. It’s like DPF dressed up in his Nat/ACT stereotype outfit, and wandered STRAIGHT into that one. What an idiot.
Cactus Kate: “Whaaaaaaaat? No bollie? Git out oorv mi sight, you prole. I tell yuh Dayviiid, it’s a blardy OUTrage” * hic * * grimace * *etc. *
July 17th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Drinks-after-wanker, oops I mean ‘worker’
Here is some quick links:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10491439&pnum=0
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/07/public_sector_wages.html
and no I don’t include teacher, nurses etc as ‘civil servants’? I don’t think anyone would, also hard to compare them anyway becuase most in these professions are public sector funded anyway, very few private.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
You had me at wanker.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
and the fascinating thing is..that in their own minds..they are unique/’special’/superior..
..not the hackneyed materialist-cliches they appear to observors..
(the insistance on ‘good champagne’ being one of the more obvious manifestations of this mentality..
..their treatment of their (material) ‘inferiors’/’servants’ being another..
‘deeply shallow’..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Actually compred to the likes of you they ARE superior, in spite of what your mummy told you.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Richard Hurst, Murray, why the abuse? I can’t be bothered reading your links but I maintain that apart from possibly senior management and advisory positions (i.e. the minority of staff), wages are low low low compared to the private sector. So let’s stop comparing apples and oranges.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I didn’t abuse you and I didn’t link to anything, why the shotgun susie approch?
July 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
funny how people that refuse to work and dont have a lot call hard working people “materialists”.. just cause we like toys :p
July 17th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Richard Hurst
Murray:
If that wasn’t referring to me then I withdraw.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I didn’t abuse you, I suported abuse of you. No need to get all formal and huffy.
I thought slipery was the flavour of the week.
As an aside people I abuse generally are not in any doubt that they have been abused.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
“wages are low low low compared to the private sector”
Ever think there might be a reason for that?
Or why they’re working in the public sector rather than the private sector? Could the two be related?
As for the brouhaha over the waitress, Boyce deserves everything he gets in the neck. I still reckon he waters down the Guinness.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
If you drink that vile muck you deserve it bugg.
Bleh. Wheres the single malt.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“I still reckon he waters down the Guinness.”
WHAT????????
If that is the case then the man deserves all the shit that is thrown at him, anybody who waters down Guinness should be shot.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
“If you drink that vile muck you deserve it bugg”
A Denier!
July 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
“A Denier!”
Worse – a lager-lover. *shudder*. Guinness is the nectar of the gods.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Ahh yes – Fake-arse Guinness from Otahuhu. There’s no other drink when you’re in a fake-arse “Irish” (or even “English”) pub is there?
I wonder if the Backbencher has those little cards, for casting a shamrock pattern into the scum of bubbles on top?
July 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Sigh. It’s not scum, it’s called the head. Shamrocks are for tourists and NZ Guinness tastes almost identical to Irish Guinness. Is all non-Dublin Guinness fake then?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Guinness does not travel well, so it’s best to drink the local produced variety. Lager is for ladies.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Murray is a <falsetto>cock-muncher!</falsetto>
I’m not abusing you, I’m singing. Don’t get on your high horse.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Goodness did we have a little side trip to Doc freud there made-up-name?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I stand by my pathalogical fear of guinnnes. The one time in my life I had a mouthful of the stuff my father told me it was good for pregnant women. Since I’d just gotten the “I think I might be” phone call from my girlfriend the resulting explosion is not a fond memory for all parties.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Fear of Guinness?? Good god, Murray, man up. Nothing to be scared of at all – a baby in every bottle and I for one would lick it off a sore leg. Jesus, I wonder if I can sneak off for a pint now?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
What does that mean? That I’m a suppressed homosexual? Oooooh good insult. Gays are bad. Gays are horrible. Yep.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
If its a pint of whiskey I’m there.
Keep your Irish aphrodisiac.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
No you’re a latent coksucker.
SEE when I insult you its noticable.
Dumass penis breath, gtf over yourself.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
* yawn *
July 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Ooo good cum bak.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
we really don’t get enough singing around here…
July 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Nor laughing at oneselves.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
What “cum bak”, Murray? I was dismissing you.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
*flaaaaame wwaaaaar!* (one can hope)
July 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Well thats another good thread well and truly stuffed.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
RRM – your anti-social poisonality disorder had led you to mix up the head on a great pint with what you see in the mirror. I understand it happens to Trevor Mallard all the time.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Isn’t “* yawn *” the internationally-recognised code for “I’m still bored, you’re still stupid, this stops now?”. Or has it changed.
I know! I want people to stop talking about beer and PS wages, and keep laughing at Cactus Kate.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
By the way, RRM, while I’m aware of “fake-Irish” bars, there are plenty in this country owned and run by Irish people. Are they fake too?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
On yawn – yes.
I prefer to laugh at the visions that have been conjured up of monocoled, top-hatted ‘tories’ swallowing expensive champagne while using the proletariat as their foot stools.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
kate..!..the champagne/wine question..
malady..or affectation..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
philu: and you kate..sound like someone i have met/seen before.. ..and who i laugh at from a distance..and avoid like the plague..
philu: kate..!..the champagne/wine question..malady..or affectation..?
You really have no shame. Or has the years of drug abuse just eroded your mind to such a degree you can’t think logically anymore? Just fuck off phil. Go do another line, have another pipe or smoke another joint and leave the grownups to talk, hmkay?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Bearhunter – An Irish bar in Ireland is a real Irish bar. An Irish bar anywhere else is touristy bullsh*t!
Buggerlugs – your deathly serious attitude to all of this makes me think you really, really need to go and have a beer and chill the f*ck out!!
July 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
“..and leave the grownups to talk, hmkay?..”
when are they arriving..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
and..um!/sigh!..pot only..thanks..!
July 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
David
73 comments on what we had to drink. You obviously need to attract a better class of comments to your blog. Simply awful. Even the Pinkos at our table didn’t moan this much. In fact, I will go as far as saying the guy from Dear Leader’s office was 99% more intelligent and pleasant than the animals from the nut farm that are your comments threads.
If I was a 6 foot Southlander with dirty gumboots who gave a bar owner shit about not serving Speights there would not have been an issue.
Which explains quite succinctly why I live overseas.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Nah. If we take out the comments that got sidetracked into arguing who
can takeis the biggest joke, there’s not nearly so many.July 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
If it’d been posted on this blog, there’d have been exactly the same issue. Also, as the Backbencher does serve speights, there’d have been an added WTF? slant to it.
I’m still waiting for people to laugh at themselves.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Jesus Kate
After reading that fucking moan I am quite glad that you and your head up your arse attitude ” live overseas”
I thought you were supposed to be the epitome of the tough shelia, sadly it seems you are not much more than a thin skinned, over sensitive (typical) kiwi with an inferiority complex.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Being a long time reader of CKs blog and the receiver of more than my share of her barbs can someone paint a word picture of her.
But dont spoil my vision of a leggy blonde with looks to match her brains.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Just goes to show that when push comes to shove, beer is closer to most people’s hearts than mere politics. In the words of Yeats:
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
RRM: I have friends who are Irish and own pubs. They are by definition Irish pubs, or does one’s nationality decompose once one leave’s one’s home?
July 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
“If I was a 6 foot Southlander with dirty gumboots who gave a bar owner shit about not serving Speights there would not have been an issue.”
Since we’re talking about that sort of thing, what champagne DID the Backbencher have that wasn’t up to expectations?
They must have at least had dirty old Lindauer? And that’s pretty drinkable, although I’m sure no gutteral New Zealand bubbles could ever compare with the the sugary alcoholic delights that are available *overseas* where everything is bigger and better!
July 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
big bruv and i agree on something..!
let the bells peal out..!
and kate..!..q.e.d…eh..?
and i guess from your refusal to explain/clarify your ‘champagne only daaahling..!..you know i can’t drink common wine daahling..!’ claim is just..
bar-talk/affectation..eh..?
and..a lawyer..eh..?
can i just say..that is the cherry on top of this particular cake..
and daahling..!..your debating/arguing the case skills..!
i take it you do no court/advocacy work..?
and are just on of those purely parasitic lawyers..?
thanks..!
it’s been both fun..and illuminating..
..for us all..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
At last! A sense of humour! [/equal-opportunity-piss-taking]
July 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Umm
Eeeeeek.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
and perhaps..’doing a cactus kate’..
(synonomous of you-know-what)..
..might just have slipped into the vernacular..
(local only..!..of course..!..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Was the ninth floor staffer there as a spy for the ninth floor or sounding out the possibility of coming over hence the need to remain anonymous.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Drunks after wanker
if you think $45k for a receptionist in a government agency isn’t in the higher pay bracket then you’re right, otherwise I think they are well overpaid.
How about a totally unq\ualified (unless you count 5th form certificate a qualification) manager on $189k
The final example, an executive assistant, whose main task is to make travel reservations, on $60k
I personally know all these people, they work in a government agency, part of a ministry, in Wellington!
That’s why Wellington has the highest AVERAGE income in the country.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Ms Kate
Firstly, may I applaud your taste! I get terrible headaches and hangovers from cheap wines, including champers, and so can easily see that you have refined your taste to avoid agravating an affliction. Good on you!
Second. We rarely get to discuss the reasonable habits of Ladies on these threads. More often it is the policy and lies of in-the-closet lesbians, so forgive us if the sensible among us (that does not include Shit for Brains Phil, or Green with Envy Drunk after Wanking) take advantage of your presence as an ether-eal lady in our midst to indulge in a little joyous banter.
Go well and far down the paths of your ambitions.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
And there we have it! The Right really do have better senses of humour than the Left [/smirk]
July 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
1. $45k is just above the average wage, and IMO a pittance. For a receptionist? No idea what the going rate is so can’t really comment.
2. Who knows what qualification is appropriate for a manager. If they’re effective, then pay them what they deserve. Can’t comment.
3. Something is terribly wrong there — an EA should be doing PLENTY more than that. Or are you exaggerating to, you know, make a point.
Oh true, you know three people that fit your argument, that makes you right!
What Robyn said. Two different public services, obviously. Why are we bothering now?
July 17th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Cherrrrrist… get out much? *retch*
What is it with you dorks and the handle-abuse? We’re all chortling.. yous are TRU funny. Ow. Ho ho. Etc. Fatuous cnuts.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
drinks-after-worker: Oh true, you know three people that fit your argument, that makes you right!
Or, instead of talking out of your arse you could run a few Google searches and see what the truth is. But, like a typical fucking socialist you want everything handed to you on a platter.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=277&objectid=10487515
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/07/nice_for_wellington.html
http://www.interest.co.nz/ratesblog/index.php/2008/07/10/bureaucrats-wages-rising-faster-than-for-the-rest-of-us/
That last one is the most telling. I’ll quote from it:
To sum it all up then. The government has employed 16% more bureaucrats in Wellington in the last four years and has paid them 18% more per hour to work there. It has asked them to work 1.5 hours less a week. Meanwhile the rest of us are working 1.8 hours a week longer than we used to and our wages have fallen further behind those of the bureaucrats.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Kate rocks- she has earnt the right to drink what she wants. She obviously wasn’t been nasty, just joshing.
Drinks-after-worker = FOOL
Service/food/drink in NZ is pretty average for the price we pay for it, and I guess Kate is used to being able to spend her money on what she wants, and choses not to spend it on crap. When she is faced with the choice of crap or nothing, its quite ok for her to josh around with the bar owner.
Don’t you get a little bit upset when they run out of steak and cheese at the $1 pie shop drinks-after-worker? or do you suck it up and eat potato and mince. I don’t know and I don’t care, but you sure come across as spiteful.
If it would make you feel better I could fawn odiously over you but I just ate dinner (salmon) and I would rather keep it down than throw it up.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Mel;
the way it was written was “Highly amusing as she berates the waitress for the lack of decent champagne available in the bar”
Which leaves it far from “obvious” that she wasn’t being nasty, especially if you don’t believe in shooting the mesenger. (And especially in this town, where you see selfish people in suit bars berating the staff all the time for things that are hardly their fault!!!)
But fortunately DPF has issued an uncharacteristically high number of clarifiers on this thread, which presumably set the record straight that the “berating” wasn’t actually berating at all. But you do appreciate where the criticisms are coming from don’t you?
July 17th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
@Melanie R: LOL what? None of that makes the slightest sense. Try again.. perhaps look up the meaning of some words before you do though — starting with “odious”, “spiteful” and “obvious”.
BTW it’s kinda surprising that the Backbencher has no good ‘champagne’ to hand — since at CellarVate (their off-license) they stock several excellent quality sparkling wines, and all new Zealand ones at that. As I type this I’m looking at bottles of Hunter’s Miru Miru Reserve, a Park Estate Cuvee, and an Okahu Sparkling Rosé on my shelf.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
RPM:
Yes sorry I didn’t explain myself well I should have said that I read the whole thread and saw how DPF is going to great lengths to explain it was all in good fun, hence my comment. I don’t think DPF would take part in bullying of some poor hospo worker anyway.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I’ve been away from this blog for a few months and have been missing the fun and games.
But I really believe I have never seen David commenting so much on one thread
and I will be bold to say he hasn’t.
But doesn’t this say something about NZ
You can have all the money in the world and patronise the right places and still experience mediocrisy.
This definitely confirms to me the politico’s are wrong even comparing us to oz.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Sigh, shows how few of you actually know and have met Cactus Kate. If you knew her you’d understand that this is a non story. Shows how stupid some people are that they thought this was anything remarkable.
Kate must be pissing herself… I agree, some of this is so retarded I am glad I too live overseas.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Dear God – do you think DPF you could implement some kind of IQ test before people are allowed to comment on your blog. Lets not make it too high – but just high enough to try and get rid of some of these idiots. (which I mean of course, in the nicest possible way).
xx K
July 18th, 2008 at 3:54 am
I agree clintheine. It is a total non story.
I too am most happy to reside overseas.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:34 am
This thread sounds like Bubbles DeVere from Little Britain.
“CHAMPAGNE, CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE!”
July 18th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Too sad when a little dry humour is not understood.
IN one case it leads to accusations of high and mightiness
IN the other it leads to accusations of fawning
Ah well, time to go back to the real world and deal in politics and economics, without the diversions of taste and humour which so anger the lefties that visit here
So now. Is it 100 or 150 USA banks that will fail before Christmas? And will that lead to 12% motgages here in NZ IRRESPECTIVE of what the reserve bank does with the OCR?
July 18th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Clint and Kiwigirl
While I hardly ever agree with most of the people on this blog I have to say they arent dumb
so your “IQ” and “retard” comments are way off base
just shows that like Cactus Kate you two are pretentious too
you seem to think you’re better than others and that the bloggers here care what you think
they dont
which is why hardly anyone reads your blog Clint
and why people only read your “Porn” blog for the sex info Kiwigirl
July 18th, 2008 at 8:33 am
fght fight fight!
July 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Have a gander at Kate’s blog, it seems that she feels she has the right to act like a prize fuckwit because;
1 She makes a bit of money
2 She only abused the waitress after having a crack at the boss first (yeah, that makes it acceptable)
3 The waitress probably votes Green
4 The waitress was no good as a salesperson
5 She makes a bit of money
6 Did I mention that she makes a bit of money and cannot drink anything else but top quality champagne
I guess it just goes to show that you can take the girl out of Matamata but……..
It also shows that the greater Waikato produces its fair share of two legged cows to go along with all the four legged varieties.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I’m quite sure the “berating” was in jest & good natured. I’m now also quite sure that this:
Is untrue.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
oh..!..she’s a matamata gal..?
we should cut her some more slack..eh..?
i mean..if matamata were your ‘hood’..
..the combination of the excitement of partying with wellington beaurocrats..
..and relief at just being out of matamata..
..could ’send you off the deep end’..give you ideas above your station..?
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
July 18th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I’m sorry, clintheine..
.. but if you have to KNOW Cactus Kate in person to UNDERSTAND that this is a non-story, then your logic is FAIL.
CK’s public persona is that a notoriously self-obsessed facile bitch (no offense) and the general reading of this anecdote by everyone here who was not on the scene is that her behaviour (complaining about lack of quality bubbles, berating the waiting staff) was not even remotely out of character with that. But lucky you — you know her well enough to get the joke.
Read the post again — the real retard here is DPF for posting about a private moment between friends in such a way that it left most with no chance but to misunderstand and wind up at the wrong conclusion. And along the way, reinforce people’s conceptions of Tories as boorish, facile twits. Good work, buddy.
I’m glad you all do, too.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Pascal, talking out my arse? You know as well as I do that you can make stats say anything you want them to.
Did I not say “Two different public services, obviously. Why are we bothering now?”? i.e. *yawn*
July 18th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
“oh..!..she’s a matamata gal..?”
I’m from Matamata.
The toffs make me embarrassed to say that.
You couldn’t believe the way they try to look like they from Remuera.
They have no class, no manners, no breeding and show the lack thereof.
Very unsophisticated and base personalities.
And I’m a published author and degree student with a good dose of nous
and can speak quite intelligently with authority on this blog
So there!
July 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am
“Short Shriveled and Slightly to the Left” nice to know that you feel qualified enough to cast assertions about myself and Kiwigirl, and you had the cheek to call us pretentious. Hmmn. It is amazing looking at people like yourself who really actually think that this is a big deal, because nothing really goes on in your life, so instead you feel obliged to make your rather bizarre opinions on others, none of whom you have met. Go on living in that bubble, but awfully nice of you to visit my blog which seems to be humming along rather nicely.
Drinks after work – Ahh yes. Have you had your morning pills yet? CK is thoroughly good value and to be honest the “berating” she would have given any bar staff would be in good humur appreciated by all. So yes, a non story that has got you all lathered up in excitement because you have no life. Perhaps you and Slightly Shrivelled should get a blog together and look down on all the people who have fun in bars, or who have taste in beverages.
Christ. Go on, say something else dumb… I can’t wait to read it.
July 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
clintheine:
reading comments FAIL
following threads FAIL
comprehension FAIL
attributing sentiment to wrong commenter WIN
being a fucken retard WIN FOR LIFE
Try again, idiot.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Ahh, I rest my point.
Thank you come again.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
clintheine ,,
I gave you a positive karma for your gracefulness
But I guess there’s no other way to be after that post
July 19th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
“but awfully nice of you to visit my blog which seems to be humming along rather nicely.”
uh yeah,…. Clint…….uh sorry about saying you were pretentious……I guess I was way off base
July 19th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
heheh yep lefty
If Im ever in town we should go for a drink!
Cheers Riki.
July 20th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Clint clint clint clint clint… only an intellectual midget could find a positive result in having your ass handed to you on a plate like that. So enjoy that ass! Yummy.. ass.
Gravy?
July 20th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Eek. Reading Cactus Kate’s columns I have always assumed the writer was a gay man.
However, I have to confess to the same predilection for sparkling wine, be it from Champagne or Marlborough or even the Barossa Valley. The bubbles are somehow gentler on the stomach than still wines, which are often heavier, more acidic and less conducive to digestion.
Most pubs/bars don’t cater for me and Kate (is she really a girl?). But things are getting better. House bubblies that begin at the level of Jacob’s Creek pinot noir sparkling and Lindauer Special Reserve methode champagne are perfectly respectable and excellent quality for the price, but if you are trying to get a bottle of Krug or Kristal at the Backbencher, then good luck to ya. If know Wellington, you’ll know you’re in the wrong place for that.
[DPF: Don't be silly.]
July 20th, 2008 at 2:47 am
quit it with the homo-erotic sexual harassment drinksafterwanker.
take your ass play else where please.
HTH’s
July 20th, 2008 at 4:35 am
I think he likes me. I can’t blame him, I am good company. I will remember not to ever offer him the finest champagne if we bump into each other in a bar, he can have his Lindauer.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Clint, scroll up. I said:
I’m a slut for good qual. sparkling wine. Anyone who knows me knows that.
expat:
Your words, not mine. Grow up. Having your “ass handed to you on a plate” is a metaphor for being pwnd. *yawn*
Captain Haddock:
DPF:
The bloggers who drank Molesworth. Get thee to Arbitrageur.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
drinks:
quote >> … having your ass handed to you on a plate like that. So enjoy that ass! Yummy.. ass. Gravy? << unquote
Absolutely no homo-erotic undertones there – Yeah right.
Fizzy wine is for girls.