A remarkable memory
November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 pm by David FarrarKris Faafoi, the Labour candidate for Mana must have been a child prodigy. On Q+A yesterday he said:
KRIS
Yeah, I was born and raised in Christchurch. My parents are Tokelauan. The biggest percentage of Tokelauans in New Zealand are right in Porirua East. I’ve been kicking around there since I was a youngster. I remember when the McDonald’s came in; I was there when the Mitsubishi factory was going strong.
McDonalds opened up their first NZ store in Porirua in 1976.
Now I understand Kris is 34 years old, which means he was born in 1976. So Kris must have been an exceptional toddler to remember McDonalds coming in, when he was less than a year old.
UPDATE: Whale Oil has photographic evidence of Kris being in attendance at other historical events, such as the Lee Harvey Oswald assassination, the Arafat-Rabin peace accords and storming the beaches of Normandy.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Burn Kris
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I remeber when McD’s arrived. Didn’t see Fafoi there.
Maybe he was at the opening of KFC in Takapuna as well… I’ll check my photo album.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 12:46 pm
And a worry when McD’s opening is a highlight!
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 12:47 pm
The survival of the left requires poor recollection of past events so that they could be spun to the public in the right manner.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Ah, another professional liar. Lying is an indispensable requisite for any aspiring politician in today’s NZ.
Vote:Just think of Philip Field, Winston Peters, Michael Cullen, and the ineffable Nick Smith. All PhDs in the art of lying.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Genetic memory runs strong in Pasifikans.
I remember shit that happened to my ancestors like it happened to me.
…though going to McD’s isn’t quite like institutional racism and cultural bias.
or is it ?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:08 pm
He was probably under sniper fire as well. Perhaps he and Hillary Clinton can swap stories while she’s here.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Reflects just what a vast sad impact the fast food industry has on these people . . .
Vote:Shame! . . .
And COMPENSATION !!
November 1st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Come on, he just means he remembers the first time he went. Knowing Kris since high school I can guarantee his name does not belong in some of the above company. I may not agree with his politics but I hope/know he will go a long way.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
“Born & raised in Chch”
Must of had most excellent vision to have seen that store opening at 300+ Km’s away.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Sounds like he’s had one too many chicken nuggets if you ask me.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Shit, what a filthy stinking liar.
Vote:Guess you must get really bent out of shape about people who lie about how many tranzrail shares they own, not raising GST, tax cut’s north of $50 for the average worker, job creating cycle ways, amazingly visible blind trusts and their ability to close the wage gap with Australia.
I suppose it does pay to pick your battles though.
November 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
He’s obviously a dirty bloody liar.
(Unless I’m mistaken in one or another of my assumptions…?)
Some huge calls are being made on this thread. Hope you don’t get egg on your faces. :-/
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I don’t think Kris is a liar. All of us have childhood memories which are less than reliable. However if you are standing for political office it is a good idea to be very cautious about what you claim, when it is relatively easy to check your memories against hara data.
The apt comparison is to Hillary Clinton who claimed her mother told her she was named after Sir Edmund, even though he was not famous when she was born.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Sounds to me like one Mr Mallard has been training him.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Well this confirms one of my suspicions about socialists. They inherit their views and opinions 100% from their parents and never question the validity of these opinions and views. Clearly his parents might have remembered Mac-D’s opening in P-Town, so hey like their political views “always tick the red team son” he’s never questioned anything from there….
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Its Porirua Richard, it a was a parade day.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Did it occur to anyone, that Kris is recalling a different Macca’s opening and not the one from Porirua in 1976?
Gee, I like to put the boot into Labour/Greens as much as the next person but childhood memories? Hands up anyone whose memory of their childhood years is still vivid enough to recall every detail exactly.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Hahahahaha
He’s an upcoming politician, who here is genuinely surprised by this slip of the tongue?
The best lie from a politician has to be the old “we were under sniper fire” by the infamous Hillary Clinton. Ah let the good times roll.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Perhaps Bevan because there’s still only one McDonalds restaurant anywhere near Porirua? There’s one in Plimmerton and one in Johnsonville.
http://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurant
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Sorry, Bevan, I didn’t zoom in closely enough on the map – it appeared there was one but there are two, and I don’t know when the second one opened.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Perhaps Bevan because there’s still only one McDonalds restaurant anywhere near Porirua? There’s one in Plimmerton and one in Johnsonville.
Who gives a shit? He could be recalling something from a family trip for all you know.
Do you remember everything that happened to you in your childhood in exact detail?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Yes Bevan, I do, because like Kris I am a genius.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Yes Bevan, I do, because like Kris I am a genius.
touche
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:18 pm
@Auberon
There are two McDs currently in Porirua, but neither are the one Kris was talking about,
Of the current ones There is one in the North City Mall Food Court, ( which would have opened in the mid 90s) while the other on a site that used to be a Georgie Pie/ then car yard – which only became a McDs this year.
The original Porirua McDs was in Cobham court on the corner of Hagley Street.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Sounds like Kris likes to romance. Usually this characteristic is built into the person. Something to note for the future.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Yep, so Bevan’s point isn’t wrong. Kris could of course claim that the one that opened on the old Georgie Pie site is the one he remembers.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:26 pm
If he loses the by election he should apply for Mr Wilce’s job as head of Defence Intelligence Section..
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:29 pm
@Shazzadude, ‘cept he said “came in” not opened, its is fairly clear he implied there was no Mcdonalds in Porirua before it.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:43 pm
There seems to be all sorts of research to suggest that our memories aren’t as good as we think they are, and how we can make mistakes.
Politicians and would be politicians seem to have these more than most of us though, and for convenient reasons. Tony Blair apparently had all sorts of childhood memories of watching particular players for Newcastle United, until someone crunched the numbers in the same manner as DPF and wondered what the pram access was for St James’ Park back in the day!
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 2:54 pm
@Shazzadude, anonymouse: I have visions of Faafoi having an “Oh FUCK!” moment and googling like made to find something that backs up what he said.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:07 pm
He had to make up something that sounded credible, after all in all likelihood he spent most of his youth high as a kite sniffing clue!
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Shazzadude if kris remembers the new McDonalds it would have been as a car park only back then the site was the bottom tavern.
FFS Labour this may be a safe seat but could you at least put up a candidate that has some affinity for the area. There is alot of ill feeling in the electorate. FWIW I was at a friends for dinner on Friday night and she as telling us her neighbours are voting Green this time round, rusted on labour prior to this.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
“He had to make up something that sounded credible, after all in all likelihood he spent most of his youth high as a kite sniffing clue!”
At the risk of demerits…you are a f**king tool
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
@CHFR – I’ve never met anyone that votes for the Greens. Must have been a ‘I’d better get another drink’ moment when you heard that across the dinner table.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Forgive his misspeak. After all he is a Labour party member, so par for the course.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Zapper: At the risk of demerits…you are a f**king tool
Your not likely to get demerits for calling that wanker a fucking tool. Fucking c*nt on the other hand (with a u instead of the *) is likely attract at least 10. But I’m sure DPF would access the post you are responding to and take that into account.
As for the fuckwit you are responding to, one can only hope the dickhead receives at least 50 when DPF comes across the comment.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I wish more people would sniff clue. All those clues going up noses would have to be good for them. Gwilly, back to red neck convention – adults talking here.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Well at least Kris can remember. JonKey cannot remember his view on the Springbok tour even though he was aged 20 at the time …
[DPF: So you approve of someone faking a memory but disapprove of someone not faking a memory? Interesting]
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:01 pm
micky
Who really cares if Key was pro or anti tour?
That is the problem with you lot, you are still fighting battles that were won or lost thirty years ago.
BTW…we won that battle as well, a great series and a great result against the Boks.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:03 pm
bruv – wish i had have been older during the bok tour. i woulda loved to get involved in some hippie bashing!
what was the lefts problem with the bok tour anyway? did we not select their fav player or something?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Dime
It was great, you could bash a hippie with complete impunity, the cops just looked the other way…..or so I am told
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Zapper suggests:
Yes he does. Not because he’s a proven liar (not yet, anyway) but because he’s an oleaginous professional politician groomed (at the taxpayer’s expense) in a Parliamentary office and then levered into a safe seat to begin a lifetime career as a party yes man, loyal only to the leadership of the day and not to the people he supposedly represents; with no beliefs beyond those he’s told to have, and no goals beyond self advancement.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
You were part of the Minto/Richards rent-a-crowd lot BB.
Tell the truth.
Right alongside those Black Power fellows who protested so often about Jaapie racism.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Not me Tinman…I sat atop the Millard Stand in the freezing cold and rain.
The game was lost but the day was won.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 5:08 pm
my view of Faafoi in the debate is that once elected as MP for Mana, they wouldn’t see him again until late next year. Mana in a vehicle for him and that’s all
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Whaleoil’s pix are very clever.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Mickey Savage
As you are known and are an elected onto a board that is paid for by tax monies, I find it fucking offensive that you refer to the Prime Minister under some juvenile attempt at a play on words.
Now if you had the bottle to call him that when you meet at your PTA/ Park commission meetings I’ll be impressed otherwise its just fucking childish.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Who remembers the 70′s ???
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I WAS around when the Porirua McDonald’s opened. It was the first McDonalds to open in NZ and got there by stealth.
The restaurant (fittings, equipment, etc) had been imported into NZ in 1975 for use as a working display at various Easter shows / Winter shows around the country. Back in those day you had to have an import license from the Department of Trade & Industry to be able to import almost everything foreign, and DTI issued a license on the basis that the whole shebang would be re-exported when all the shows were over.
However, it was a very popular attraction and the businessman who imported it used some behind the scenes influence to defy DTI and keep the restaurant in the country, setting it up in Porirua. The rest they say, is history.
Except for one small twist of trivia. “The businessman” was none other than the late Ray La Varis who at that time in the 70′s was a very controversial and vocal critic of the Watersiders Union, claiming they were a bunch of thieves and communist looters who regularly stole the goods they were meant to be unloading off ships.
La Varis ran as the National candidate for Taupo in the 1975 election, sweeping out the long serving Labour MP Jack Ridley in the tidal wave that saw Muldoon elected PM. La Varis only lasted one term before Ridley came back and defeated him in the 1978 election
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 6:03 pm
As you are known and are an elected onto a board that is paid for by tax monies, I find it fucking offensive that you refer to the Prime Minister under some juvenile attempt at a play on words.
Oh I must have missed it when that came out! So come on, out with it – who is he?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Nine candidates are vying for the Labour nomination in Te Atatu after sitting MP Chris Carter withdrew his name following a split with the party.
Phil Twyford, who has twice missed out on other seats; former race relations conciliator and sitting MP Rajen Prasad; communications consultant Kate Sutton; lawyer Greg Presland; business owner Nick Bakulich, law student Jim Bradshaw; barrister Michael Kidd; university lecturer Hamish McCracken and community advocate Ann Pala.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 7:01 pm
He simply mis spoke! Just like Hilary. And all the rest of them.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 7:40 pm
It may have already been mentioned but it wouldn’t be hard to have confused the Johnsonville McDonalds opening. It’s not far down the road and would’ve been about the right time for an early childhood memory.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 8:26 pm
[DPF: So you approve of someone faking a memory but disapprove of someone not faking a memory? Interesting]
Sigh. I thought you said you weren’t calling him a liar?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I seem to recall that it is not only John Key who cannot remember what he did in his youth.
Did Klark not say that she ‘could not remember” if she spat on returning Vietnam soldiers?
Or was that Goff?
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Maybe Kris is going for the Vietnam Vet vote?
“I was there man! I WAS THERE!”
Interesting take on Whaleoil too.
http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/2010/11/01/i-remember-when/
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Oh she spat on them alright, i know one of the recipients of that spittle, and the red paint and not to mention the burning babies prams pushed into the ranks.
Goff hung the Viet Cong flag in the cenotaph.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Apart from the shame of being a smelly filthy Labour Party apologist, why the fuck would you be proud to say you have been at a McDonald’s opening?? Even if you were still not long out of the womb. Now I know the Mana folk get ‘em on McDonalds early, but those fies must be buggers when you only have gums and big lips to chow down.
Vote:November 1st, 2010 at 10:45 pm
God, did any one else have their eardrums burst by that screeching Green bitch on Q&A?
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 12:50 am
Manolo is very selective in his memory of liars, He missed John Key or that Nat character who lied about his CV. Key, of course, was very comfortable with that.
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 am
RP if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Sit in your basement and count your coinage instead.
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 8:21 am
More like, sit in the basement and fiddle with his daughter instead.
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 8:23 am
More like, sit in the basement and fiddle with your daughter instead
..as does pollywog on a regular basis im sure….
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
In the dark ,i honestly can’t tell the difference between your daughter and rich pricks, starboard, and neither can they.
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 8:55 am
..when does your parole expire polywog?…
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 9:10 am
When does your visa get revoked starboard ?
cos come the revolution i’ll be round your digs at the crack of dawn rounding you and yours up and shipping you back to whatever cave in europe you originally crawled out of
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 9:12 am
..im waitin for you and yours pal…just make sure ya well kitted out with armour and not those stupid lookin grass skirts ya wear around the house..damn things attract flies…
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
hah…you wont even see or hear us coming. I’ll have you bagged and tagged and have your missus cookin me eggs before you know it.
i might hang on to your daughters though. they could be worth something in a trade.
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 9:32 am
mate you be still in bed ( with ya daughters ) at 12 eatin the night befores KFC…
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
man…i hope you got some nice guns i can keep as trophies too
Vote:November 2nd, 2010 at 11:39 am
mate my shotgun will be shoved in your ass..you can take it with you after Ive taught you your lesson..
Vote:November 17th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Despite the fact that Tory bloggers are suggesting that Mana voters are idiots and that Kris Fafoi is a hopeless candidate, I predict that he will take the seat well with a larger percentage of the vote than at the last general election. The Tory candidate is arrogant and her party has only helped those on the hills and northern parts of the electorate. BEST WISHES KRIS.
David – Auckland
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