A fun night
The end of last week turned out to be one that, as someone on my Facebook page commented, Sir Geoffrey Palmer would disapprove of.
Wednesday night started at 9 pm and ended at 3 am. The Nat’s caucus party on Thursday started at 5 pm and again the night ended around 3 am and on Friday a boozy lunch started at 1 pm and I finished drinking around 9 pm.
I guess this makes me an official heavy drinker – like Karl du Fresne. And soon we will hear what proposals are going to Government to try and “fix” us.
Anyway back to the Caucus Party – it was a very fun night. The location of Premier House made it a very well behaved night also, so not a lot of extra pages for the book. It was my first time inside Premier House in literally a decade. I did enjoy asking a staffer if they had a tapu lifting ceremony performed there earlier in the year 
Everyone was in a pretty good mood, and the election seemed a long time ago. The food was superb, but there was a slight under-estimation of the number of people who would still be there at 11 pm, when the food stopped. So someone did a whip around for pizzas, and I got to make the call to Dominos to deliver a dozen pizzas to Premier House.
What I found disturbing was when I went down to the front gate to tell the Police about the order, and the officer there greets me with “Oh you’re the guy who ordered the pizzas”. As I had ordered them just a few minutes ago from my cellphone, this reinforced my paranoia that I am being monitored
At some stage after midnight, a few of us went down to Courtney Place. By coincidence ran into several Labour MPs at Hummingbird, and enjoyed some drinks and conversation with them. I tried hassling one progressive Labour MP about the Easter trading vote, asking him if he didn’t feel dirty that they only won, because God squaders voted with them. The response was when you win, you only feel bloody glad that you have won. Damn it- he is right.
Eventually the Nats threatened violence against me if I remained with the Labour MPs, instead of the National ones so drifted across, and finished up around 3 am. It goes without saying I am firmly against the proposal to have bars close at 1 am!
Friday lunch was at the new Cafe Ortega on Majoribanks Street. The food was simply superb. Oysters as a starter, followed by a superb squid and chorizo sausage mixture. And my boneless chicken breast on pappardelle pasta was the envy of many. Highly recommended.
Busted Blonde blogs the lunch in more detail.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:48 am
…Lush…
December 14th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I wouldnt say you are deemed a heavy drinkier, it is the festive season…….
December 14th, 2009 at 8:09 am
DPF wrote “The response was when you win, you only feel bloody glad that you have won. Damn it- he is right.”
And that is what’s wrong with the politics. It’s not about winning at any cost but doing the right thing.
December 14th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Great to see what our pollies are up to in Wellington. However we in the provinces can’t match your haute cuisine !!
This type of function happens all over the country in all types of organizations.
However, when does that become “binge drinking” ?
Not a great example. I just think that alcohol has far too much importance in our society. I enjoy a glass of wine at a meal or a beer when it is warm. But getting “sozzled” and in a stipor at 3am in the morning is just madness.
The details of how people suffered after the function is just disgusting.
Whether you are a pollie,a top blogger or a petrol head,bikie,young teenager,fifteen year you are binging on the same problem. Alcohol !!
December 14th, 2009 at 8:11 am
“I tried hassling one progressive Labour MP about the Easter trading vote, asking him if he didn’t feel dirty that they only won, because God squaders voted with them.”
Yeah, cos it all about forcing people to go to church against their will.
Just once I would love an issue to be debated using nothing but the facts, no spin, no scaremongering, just the truth.
What is so wrong about asking the working people of NZ if they want to be forced to work Good Friday and Easter Sunday, what are you guys so afraid of?
[DPF: You want to force them not to work. I want them to have a choice. My proposed law would give three millions workers the legislative right to have Easter off. Your bizarre status quo protects only 200,000 workers and for Friday and Sunday only - they don't even get two days in a row off as they can be forced to work Saturday and Monday.]
December 14th, 2009 at 8:38 am
So DPF, not content being kicked out of the VRWC for consorting with the bloody Maoris, you now freely admit socialising with members of what was, until a year ago, the most corrupt government in New Zealand’s history? I’m sure the VRWC’s legal counsel will have something to say about this when it’s wake-up time in Hong Kong!
December 14th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Your ability to drink is simply staggering. But I do know from my own experience of Wellington that the “real” good juicy conversation only happens when everyone is in their cups and it is very late.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:10 am
“You want to force them not to work.”
Rubbish, I want the situation to stay as it is.
“I want them to have a choice.”
You know very well that 99% of the people in retail will have no such choice at all, if you are so keen on the idea then lets make it the same across the board, lets pass legislation that makes Easter Sunday and Good Friday a day of work for EVERYBODY.
“My proposed law would give three millions workers the legislative right to have Easter off”
Is this the same type of assurance we were given when weekend trading was introduced?
“Your bizarre status quo”
It is not my ‘status quo’ DPF, it is the law of the land and a law that most want to see continue, now I know that National are not keen on democracy (despite campaigning on it) but do you really want to see 200,000 workers forced to work against their will just so you can have your idealogical victory?
[DPF: First I love the insane idea that every employer in the land is a criminal who will willingly break employment laws. I can only presume you have never been an employer. I have employed hundreds of staff and go out of my way to not break the law, and indeed to be a good employer.
Your insistence that many,most or all employers can not be trusted makes an intelligent debate impossible. It is like someone saying banks should not be allowed to open as they may steal your money.
Secondly you seem to think that weekend trading was bad for employees, and that there was some sort of legislative guarantee people would not be forced to work - off memory there was no such thing. However as a 14 year old student I know that I loved being able to earn extra money by working Saturdays. You make the mistake of thinking everyone is like you and would rather not have the choice of earning extra money.]
December 14th, 2009 at 9:46 am
” The response was when you win, you only feel bloody glad that you have won. Damn it- he is right. ”
And that friends is both the Nats greatest strength and their greatest weakness at the same time.
The essence of Conservatism is not about “winning” (which really means “defeating” the other side) but about doing the corret thing for the good of the country and its future. BUT – taking away the blood lust for victory at all costs (as exhibited so amazingly well by HC) means that there is not the strength of purpose or the willingness to make the killer thrust when the enemy is on the floor mortally wounded.
If the situations were reversed, you would see the Left looking to put the boot right in in the most vicious and damaging way and yet we get the Government of today mocking Phil (who is damaged goods) and being distracted by shit like AGW and a white winter in Copenhagen instead of identifying and tearing up Phil’s likely successor(s).
Unless of course John is playing a very long game of removing Labour’s policy options and forcing them to repudiate the past and moving left, left, ever more left as identified by J Armstrong on the weekend.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:13 am
“So DPF, not content being kicked out of the VRWC for consorting with the bloody Maoris, you now freely admit socialising with members of what was, until a year ago, the most corrupt government in New Zealand’s history?”
Nothing new with that. DPF is a quintaessential Wellington insider, who thrives on networking and personal contacts around Johnnysburg, so he’ll drink with demons and Satan himself, if necessary.
[DPF: Only if Satan is shouting - as the Labour MPs were
]
December 14th, 2009 at 10:23 am
DPF
‘Your insistence that many,most or all employers can not be trusted makes an intelligent debate impossible’
It’s a bit early for a tantrum don’t you think?
Why not put the issue to a referendum?, why don’t National campaign on the issue?.
“Secondly you seem to think that weekend trading was bad for employees,”
Where did I say that DPF?, once again it seems that the truth is not going to be a part of this debate.
Funnily enough I think I might have seen you post on how appalling our nations productivity is, this is despite working some of the longest hours in the OECD, I would have thought a man like you would understand the issue of work/life balance but it seems I was wrong.
You also make a number of assumptions that are wildly incorrect but as I do not have an ego the size of Texas I do not feel the need to correct you.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:46 am
a ‘fun night’..eh..?
getting bladdered with m.p’s..?
in wellington ‘watering-holes’..?
(fuck..!..that’s not on any short-list of mine..
and as a lifestyle..?..(shudder..!..)..)
(different strokes’..i guess..eh..?..)
and um..!..don’t you all tire of just saying the same thing..over and over again..?
do you realise..that without the succour of a serious mind-altering substance..ie alcohol..
that you are all/the conversation is..terminally boring..?
and really..!..dpf..am i the first to tell/warn you you have ‘serious alcohol issues’..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
[DPF: 20 demerits as you don't learn that this is not a site for you to lecture me. If I want advice on how to do armed robberies then you can give me advice]
December 14th, 2009 at 11:01 am
tsk tsk..a bit of a hangover..?..have we..?
‘the wages of sin’..eh..?
(and ten out of ten there for over-reaction..eh..?
i blame the chicken-breast..!..)
(heh..!.
hey..i’m feeling fine..!
dug my first veggie-garden yesterday..!
you outta try that for ‘fun’..eh..?
and hey..!..you ‘celebrate’ your food/alcohol excesses..
..but nobody dare critique/comment..eh..?
(why not just block comment on that thread..?..or ask for ‘only nice ones’..?..eh..?..)
(btw..a good hangover cure..is a big/fat joint..eh..?
the best ‘cure’ is a coupla lines of stonking bolician marching powder..)
..it can only help..your poor/poisoned body/mind..
alcohol is a ‘poison’..eh..?
you do know that..?..eh..?
(you’re welcome..!..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 14th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Phillip Ure said “do you realise..that without the succour of a serious mind-altering substance..ie alcohol..
that you are all/the conversation is..terminally boring..?”
Terminally boring? Pot; meet kettle!
December 14th, 2009 at 11:05 am
for ‘bolician’..read ‘bolivian’..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 14th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
[DPF: (to Philu) If I want advice on how to do armed robberies then you can give me advice]
BURN!
December 14th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
and as for the/any ‘armed-robbery-advice..?
it’d be best summed up as..
‘don’t do it..!’..
it’s a mugs game..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
[DPF: 20 demerits as you don't learn that this is not a site for you to lecture me. If I want advice on how to do armed robberies then you can give me advice]
aw classic !!! suck on that philwhore heh !
December 14th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Ah classic, but that alone would be such an underutilization. His advisory services abound in other disciplines including advanced welfare bludging, drug testing and distribution supply chain management, parental advisory, robo-plagiarism for bloggers and keyboard sadism.
December 14th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
oh no..!..not the ‘keyboard sadism’..!
oh..!..the humanity.!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 14th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
getstaffed 4:01 pm,
Is that when you’re cruel to keyboards, or when they’re cruel to you?
Maybe after a few tokes Phool’s keyboard starts autowriting – does Phool control the keyboard, or is it the other way around?
Maybe he deserves our sympathy?
December 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I come not to condemn the alcoholic but to honour him in verse:
To David:
THE HORSE AND MULE LIVE THIRTY YEARS
AND NOTHING KNOW OF WINE OR BEERS
THE GOAT AND SHEEP AT TWENTY DIE
AND NEVER A TASTE OF SCOTCH OR RYE
THE COW DRINKS WATER BY THE TON
AND AT 18 IS MOSTLY DONE
THE DOG AT 16 CASHES IN
WITHOUT THE AID OF RUM OR GIN
THE CAT IN MILK AND WATER SOAKS
AND THEN IN 12 SHORT YEARS IT CROAKS
THE MODEST SOBER BONE DRY HEN
LAYS EGGS FOR NOGS THEN DIES AT 10
ALL ANIMALS ARE STRICTLY DRY
THEY SINLESS LIVE AND SWIFTLY DIE.
BUT SINFUL GINFUL RUM SOAKED MEN
SURVIVE FOR THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN
AND SOME OF US THE MIGHTY FEW
STAY PICKLED TILL WE’RE 92
Cheers Johnboy
December 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
“Maybe he deserves our sympathy?”
Maybe he deserves to stop using his teenage kids as an excuse to be a parasite.
This is the man who pretends to care for the poor yet in the same breath steals from them every week.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
gee..!..the vagaries/moveable feast that is demerits..eh..?
star-bored calls our host a ‘lush’..
..and not a murmur of censure..
later on..i say essentially the same thing..
and whammo..!
dpf spits the dummy..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
btw..what happened to the regular kiwiblog diet of busty (tiger-type) women in tight military uniforms..
..caressing/riding gun barrels.. and the like..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 14th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I make that 100 demerit points Ure. A two week ban. Play the game you shameless cheat.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:47 am
..” lush ” as in ..a lush spread you drugged up retard…