A vertical plank
May 31st, 2011 at 9:53 am by David Farrar
Photo from Stuff.
No doubt ACTish supporters will decry the PM for wasting time which could be used to slash spending, and Labour supporters will say it is all an evil Crosby Textor trick to win over the planking vote.
I think it is just kind of nice that John won’t let his office stop him from being a Dad, and doing stupid things with the kids.
May 31st, 2011 at 10:02 am
It’s been finally confirmed: Key is a planker (with an “o”).
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:09 am
And we were starting to get on so well Manolo, but it has been confirmed that Manolo is a Planker ( with a “wa”)
To be fair Manolo you left yourself wide open for that.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:13 am
It’s been finally confirmed: Key is a planker
Actually Key is not planking – his umm son is.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:13 am
Touche!
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:19 am
Any day now Labour will tell us how Max should have had his hand parallel to his body [i.e. palm towards hips], and cite this as evidence of National’s mismanagement of the economy.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:23 am
Good to see Max practising safe planking at his age.
And Mum will be delighted he was thoughtful enough to take his shoes off.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:24 am
I only wish the amount National is borrowing every week would stay like a plank. But it’s going up, and up, and up.
Greek style default in National’s second term?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:30 am
BEREND! Once again what the hell are you offering as an alternative for your inceasent fucking myopic bitching about John Key?
You’re just being an annoying one track stuck record. Say something else or say nothing.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:30 am
Family photo, to short planks.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 10:48 am
Im more impressed by the zebra striped beanbag in the background – was it a prezzy from Paula Bennett??
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:00 am
Planking indoors on a safe low-to-the-floor item of soft furniture with his dad nearby and socks on his feet. Hardly the poster boy for teenage rebellion. Max needs to dye his hair green, snort a lot of drugs, and then do something disgraceful that will embarrass his parents and make the newspapers.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:00 am
I think DPF should make this a caption contest…
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:06 am
“to short planks”
Oh, the irony
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:15 am
@ Tookinator
It’s already been done:
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2011/05/caption-contest-vertical-planking.html
Unsurprisingly, most of the captions have been left by a certain Green Party supporter from the south who dislikes John Key with a passion, and who is unable to blog here. I’m delighted to have given him the opportunity to show his true colours, and now to expose him to wider ridicule via Kiwiblog
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:34 am
An outrage! This shows what a bad father John Key is! Doesn’t he realise that if a child planks on a sofa he may fall off and be run over by a train!
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:40 am
My wee grandaughter reckons that Max is wood wooking, now I see why.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:46 am
One young Australian did a stupid thing on a balcony and fell to his death. What will Key do for an encore: be pictured looking on lovingly while his son has his first cigarette?
The boy may be a planker, his father’s a plonker.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:49 am
“Ok Max, fine! I’ll proof-read Bill’s Budget myself”
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:50 am
oh and……..SLAP!!!!
Vote:that’s for Maggie
May 31st, 2011 at 11:53 am
I’m loving this, all the whiney losers are up in arms about John Key being a normal dad with a normal family. Boohoo
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 11:59 am
Maggie, JFO.
Seriously, are you just one big stereo typical pinko? Planking was devised to sort out the gene pool.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Maggie, too slow as usual, Manolo did that plonker thing 1st post.
My reply to him also applys to you Maggie.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I wonder if John Key watching his son Max Plank feels a quantum of uncertainty.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:16 pm
John doesn’t look too happy about it to be honest.
In the next shot, key will be dishing out a hiding and stern “now go and think about what you have done”
Damned crazy kid!!
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:20 pm
@ Shunda; part of planking is to be poker-faced for the photograph. Key does just that; he’s planking standing up. Oddly, I can’t imagine that Helen Clark would have ever allowed a photo like that to be staged and taken …
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Is stand up planking even valid?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 12:52 pm
If Crosby Textor actually got paid for half the stuff that the leftard loons ( hi Magic Bullet! ) imagine they do, they’d all be retired to private islands a long time ago.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:03 pm
When I was a teenager, I was into wanking, not planking. What is it with the younger generation?!
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:04 pm
> Is stand up planking even valid?
To be fair, that’s the most animated I’ve seen John Key in a while.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:11 pm
> When I was a teenager, I was into wanking, not planking. What is it with the younger generation?!
Relax, there’s plenty of time for Max to be a wanker…just look at his father who’s matured into a prize one.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:13 pm
You know what is going to happen? Phil Goff is going to try and do it too and he will either end up falling out his office window or accidentally molesting a young boy.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Shunda, take a closer look at the pic of the PM…he seems to be staring at his son’s butt
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Can someone please explain to me what is wrong with planking?
Lying down on things harms no-one. Falling off things might be harmful, but so what? People have been falling off things since there where things and the world seems to have turned out OK.
What next: no one should be born because they eventually die?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:32 pm
ross said
You must have missed his post-Budget speech then Ross; the one where he ripped your hero Goff to shreds
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:33 pm
hey ross, how about those teachers earning $70k huh? What a bunch of plankers they are.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Relax,he’s demonstrating an apptitude for German scientific research.
http://www.mpg.de/en
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Granny Herald has published a picture of a father and son having a bit of harmless fun in the privacy and safety of their own home.How this sells newspapers is beyond me, all it does is illustrate that John Key and family have a wicked sense of humour.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Oh Maggie, you overstuffed chicken. You just can’t stand the fact that NZ is now led by a PM who is personable, likeable, affable and best of all – this PM is electable!
Your love affair with Labour is a legend in your own hand – but the fact that you are affected by myopia only proves again (if it was ever needed), that lefties are driven by a “my way or the highway” ideology based on blind hate for anything but socialism.
And it looks like you’ll be remaining in Brisbane for a lot longer yet too – by comparison to John Key, your man is an electoral pariah at the helm of a ship taking water as it wobbles toward the drop off at Niagara Falls.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 2:47 pm
The usual diet of name calling from people whose mouths are stuck on full steam ahead while their brains are in neutral. Is inane drivel really the best you can do?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 2:47 pm
What a side splitting series of comments from the resident stork:
Ross says:
1.04pm: “To be fair, that’s the most animated I’ve seen John Key in a while.”
1.11pm: “Relax, there’s plenty of time for Max to be a wanker…just look at his father who’s matured into a prize one.”
1.17pm: “Shunda, take a closer look at the pic of the PM…he seems to be staring at his son’s butt ”
Hey, Ross – this stuff is hilarious. But best you don’t give up your day job.
What? You haven’t got one?
Quelle surprise…
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 2:51 pm
The Irony Lady strikes again!
Vote:You really told ross what’s what that time Maggie.
May 31st, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Welcome aboard.
If you are using any handheld electronic devices, please now ensure they are switched to cheerleading mode.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Adze
I noticed. Very good.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Elaycee, Key is everything you say. So are most used car salesmen and insurance agents.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:24 pm
“Son, I think it’s time you got a girlfriend”
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Good for them.
Vote:Have you seen the FB NZ Planking championships page?
May 31st, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Maggie said
That may be true Maggie. But even used car salesmen and insurance agents rate higher on the integrity scale than Labour Party MP’s or their lackeys.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Maggie – you just don’t get it, do you?
John Key is liked! His popularity as PM is actually higher than the National party preference. That means that (even) Labour supporters prefer HIM as PM instead of Goff!
Bwahahahahahahahaha
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:44 pm
You’re quite right Elaycee; on the Herald Digipoll 53% supported National, but 67% had Key as their Preferred Prime Minister. Poor old Phil just can’t take a trick. Maybe he should try planking – on his motorbike
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:48 pm
But Maggie, perhaps I should offer you some sympathy – after all, you are probably still stuck in the time warp thinking of life when dear leader was in charge.
What a comparison:
John Key (and you agreed), is personable, likeable, affable and electable. He is also reasonably photogenic.
Head Grinch was surly, spiteful, taciturn, full of vitriol and was kicked out. Apart from the grossly misrepresenting photo shop versions of her visage, she usually wore an expression similar to a Clydesdale chomping on a cactus. In fact, someone should have taken the Labour Party to the fair trade people because her photoshopped version was nothing like her real life persona.
The only thing in common between John Key and Head Grinch is that they have both held the keys to the 9th floor office suite.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Let it be known that our Prime minister has a backbone.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 3:53 pm
In my day we called it sleeping…..
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 4:59 pm
You should see some of the comments over at the standard, it will give you a good chuckle.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 5:26 pm
elaycee@3.48: CLASSIC!!
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Is it any wonder National is getting away with borrowing $300 million per week when this is what the media are focusing on?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 6:22 pm
You mean we have a sofa as PM?
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 7:45 pm
JK: “and for my next illusion ladies and gentlemen. Levitation….
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 8:54 pm
The Economist recently wrote that the most disappointing aspect of Australia was the poor quality of political leadership. Both Gillard and Abbott were seen as unable to understand the larger picture, having no vision and driven by public opinion polls.
TE is right and the same applies to NZ. Like, Abbott, Key is a photo opportunity on legs and little else, and like Gillard, Goff simply doesn’t connect with voters.
Elaycee, when you start a post with ”you just don’t get it” I know you have nothing useful to say.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Maggie, you’re clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so sometimes it just has to be spelled out for you.
Your hate for John Key / National is well known because you repeat variations on the same theme in every single post.
You’re simply an easy target, so if you keep spouting your usual socialist dribble, then you’ll need to get used to being the subject of hilarity.
Vote:May 31st, 2011 at 9:19 pm
I’m still thinking of Maggie on the back with the legs waggling in the air.
Yuck!
Vote:June 1st, 2011 at 12:41 am
Guys why make yourself look stupid when with a bit more effort you could be utterly moronic. Come on, you’ve proved you can do it – try harder.
Vote:June 1st, 2011 at 8:16 am
Maggie – resorting to the usual lefty tactics of bluster and hot air but totally lacking in credibility and substance. Nothing new.
Looks like you’ll be a good fit within the Labour campaign ‘strategy’ team currently fronted by Trevor Mallard. He has no substance either – he just just flings crap around in all directions in the vain hope that someone will believe a tiny part of it. Indeed, maybe you can become Labour’s ‘go to’ man in Brisbane and they may task you to try and dig up some dirt on the PM. That could be right up your alley. You may even be more successful in Brisbane than Mike Williams was in Melbourne last election. But I doubt it somehow.
Now, promise me you’ll buck up – debate some policy / debate some real issues but please leave out the usual lefty propaganda. We had our fill of that whilst your idol Klark was at the helm.
Vote:June 1st, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Elaycee, your lecturing me about debating policy is the equivalent of Mladic lecturing against genocide. Take your own advice.
Vote:June 1st, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Oh Maggie – you’re at it again! Don’t you ever learn? Where is the substance? Where are your policy ideas?
You come roaring into discussions complete with a massive red chip on your shoulder, an IQ to match your shoe size and with more than enough hot air to fill an airship the size of the Hindenburg.
All gas and no gaiters.
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