General Debate 12 November 2010

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pollywog

ok how about this

hmmm…damn strikethough
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November 12, 2010 1:27pm
Ryan Sproull

Here’s an end-tag:

But does that help?
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November 12, 2010 1:29pm
Fletch

~~gee you guys~~

grrrr
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November 12, 2010 1:30pm
Ryan Sproull

Or maybe this… Fixed?
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November 12, 2010 1:31pm
pollywog

i had it
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November 12, 2010 1:33pm
Lance

Whoop whoop … pull up
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November 12, 2010 1:33pm
Ryan Sproull

There’s only one thing for it. We’re going to have to italicise everything.
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November 12, 2010 1:35pm
RightNow

this looks like fun
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November 12, 2010 1:36pm
kaya

OK here is what I put in originally that started this whole mess. With ( substituted for

(p)Thanks for the HTML link Pete. Always wanted to know how to do (b)that(b /)

Does that help anyone figure out how to fix it? I can see I did the / in the wrong place and with a space too.
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November 12, 2010 1:36pm
RightNow

italicised
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November 12, 2010 1:36pm
pollywog

right thats it, i’m taking my bat and ball and going home 🙂
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November 12, 2010 1:37pm
cabbage

~~holy shit~~
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November 12, 2010 1:38pm
Ryan Sproull

Don’t tell people how to do it, Kaya! Now everyone will do it!
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November 12, 2010 1:38pm
Lance

Ahh Dave…. someone broke your blog
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November 12, 2010 1:39pm
RightNow

:.:’.’.::’
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November 12, 2010 1:40pm
RightNow

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November 12, 2010 1:43pm
Sarkozygroupie

God, sorry everyone for starting this off! Hahaha.
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November 12, 2010 1:43pm
Ryan Sproull

Well, look, it’s fucked anyway until DPF deletes comments 765045 and 765070.

So I might as well underline and italicise everything too.
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November 12, 2010 1:45pm
cabbage

bah!

stillstruckthrough?.

or are we now bold?.
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November 12, 2010 1:46pm
adze
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November 12, 2010 1:46pm
OECD rank 22 kiwi

This is 😈
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November 12, 2010 1:47pm
Ryan Sproull

Okay, I’ve fixed one of them.
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November 12, 2010 1:49pm
Ryan Sproull

No, not me.
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November 12, 2010 1:50pm
OECD rank 22 kiwi

Someone broke the internet 😆
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November 12, 2010 1:51pm
OECD rank 22 kiwi

Boo, fixed now 🙁
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November 12, 2010 1:51pm
Sarkozygroupie

The interweb is fixed, the interweb is fixed and I’m still a ge-ek
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November 12, 2010 2:01pm
OECD rank 22 kiwi

kaya says at 12:51 pm:

That doco you linked to isn’t available in NZ dammit.

That documentary was only broadcast in the UK a couple of hours ago. Given that the documentary producer and director is Martin Durkin expect it to be picked up by all the right kind of blogs shortly.

That’s right, the man behind the “The Great Global Warming Swindle” has hit another home run with “Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story”.

It questions the size of the state and demostrates that a low tax environment is best. Awkward questions would apply to both John Key and Bill English from this documentary.

Fun fact:
The UK spends more on welfare than it collects in income tax.
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November 12, 2010 2:05pm
Manolo

A delicious irony: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-panel-probes-stimulus-waste—-at-Ritz-Carlton-107236598.html
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November 12, 2010 2:27pm
Mr Magister

@Pete George

How did you type the blockquote tags without them actually being recognised and used?
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November 12, 2010 3:15pm
pollywog

huh…what happened ???
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November 12, 2010 3:30pm
Pete George

I’d noticed from past errors that if you type special characters the editor replaces them with code. So I typed a less than character plus blockquote with no closing character and submitted, then went into Edit and noted the code for it, etc. I’m sure this could be looked up somewhere but I did it by trial and error.

<blockquote
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November 12, 2010 3:31pm
kaya

Manolo – re your link – “a delicious irony”.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-panel-probes-stimulus-waste—-at-Ritz-Carlton-107236598.html

That is stunning in it’s bullshitedness.

Members of a key panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, have scheduled a meeting on November 22 to consider ways to prevent “fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.” The meeting will be held at the super-luxe Ritz Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.

The group is the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, a sub-committee of the larger Recovery Accountability and Transparency board (sometimes known as the RAT board). The stimulus bill set up the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, or RIAP, to make recommendations to identify and prevent waste of the bill’s $814 billion in stimulus spending.

Holy fucking hell batman, I was sure that was a Monty Python sketch when I read it, I could imagine the office of the RAT being next door to the Ministry of Funny Walks. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragically sad and dangerous.
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November 12, 2010 4:21pm
Fletch

Mr Magister – just go HERE and type the code you want in the box and it will give you the escape codes to paste in here so they come out right. eg –

<blockquote></blockquote>
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November 12, 2010 4:24pm
jcuknz

For those on the left who want a good laugh I would mention that my previous posts were based on what I heard at an ACT reginal conference and iidiots here are calling it excrement … LOL 🙂
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November 12, 2010 5:05pm
Pauleastbay

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4339640/Southland-man-jailed-for-seal-attack

But you don’t go to jail if you are a All Black hooker and you just shoot them!!
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November 12, 2010 5:18pm
OctagonGrappler

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hYuFpAKj9hkar9L-H_nDHXHxlFQA?docId=N0271791289397586847A

This is great news for chines students wanting to study for residence in the UK. It will add enrichment and tolerance all round. Preference should got o asians and not local brits so another good move.
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November 12, 2010 6:05pm
kaya

http://dailyreckoning.com/government-spending-a-lesson-in-how-to-go-bankrupt

Contrarian stuff (or maybe not anymore!!)

This fellas articles make a lot of sense, US based but relevant to us.
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November 12, 2010 6:06pm
CharlieBrown

Is anyone else pretty concerned how the government is nationalising someone elses property? That is what they are attempting to do with Lady Hillary’s watches. Whether or not they are hers or Sir Ed’s childrens, the fact that the government is trying to get its filthy, socialist hands on it is plain wrong. How can the government declare that a private item is of national significance?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10687111
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November 12, 2010 8:41pm
big bruv

Is anyone else pretty amazed that the Black Caps are 126 for one?
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November 12, 2010 8:44pm
RightNow

bruv, even with over 126 batsmen they can only muster 1 run?
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November 12, 2010 8:51pm
big bruv

Yes, we needed to even up the odds a bit.

I think you will find that Chris Carter batted at number 73, initially he was not keen on playing but when he heard that there was an overseas trip involved he was as keen as mustard.
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November 12, 2010 9:06pm
nickb

Pleasantly surprised bruv.

Although I am surprised they picked Guptill oveer Watling in the first test.

Mind you, both could play (thereby strengthening our batting which is desperately needed) if our best wicketkeeper hadn’t decided that he only wants to do half the job.
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November 12, 2010 9:08pm
RightNow

You’re doing a heck of a job Barry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0
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November 12, 2010 9:50pm

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