A red worm
November 22nd, 2011 at 5:04 pm by David Farrar
A friend e-mailed me this link n Wikipedia.
Eisenia fetida (older spelling: foetida), known under various common names such as redworm, brandling worm, tiger worm and red wiggler worm, red californian earth worm, is a species of earthworm adapted to decaying organic material. These worms thrive in rotting vegetation, compost, and manure; they are epigeal. They are rarely found in soil, instead preferring conditions that are inimical to some other worms. In this trait they resemble the Lumbricus rubellus.
When roughly handled, an eisenia fetida exudes a pungent liquid, thus the specific name foetida meaning foul-smelling. This is presumably an antipredator adaptation.
Seems appropriate – a red wiggler worm.
Tags: The Worm, Wikipedia
November 22nd, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I wonder if it would be possible to train half a dozen of them to form the letters of “Labour”.
Nah…forget it. Even worms have standards.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Yeah right farrar you tory turd. Key got his arse kicked, and it turns out the test audience was fairly picked. Your slimey liitle mate in parliament just got his arse kicked, why? cause hes full of sh*t. eat it up and stop mewling your pathetic excuses.
[DPF: 100 demerits. Goodbye]
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 pm
This leftie despairs at the way the spittle-flecked, utterly insane among his fellow lefties continue to insist that black is white, when it is patently obvious that the opposite is true.
Looking at you, quinnjin…
Labour are f*cked. Some of their leading lights are the sort of people who slag Sir Peter Leitch off as some kind of class traitor and scumbag.
Lunatics like you are a big part of the reason – for some unfathomable reason, the party seems intent on preaching to the likes of you, in the hope that if they do it long enough, the rest of the country will see sense and come around.
You only have to ask Roy Morgan how well that’s working out for them.
This election is the one where there’s the kind of crushing defeat that leads to heads rolling, dead wood being cut, and hopefully some kind of resurgence for the future.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:13 pm
I thought you were literally calling the Labourites worms… would that be a stretch? Hmmm
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:26 pm
DPF whilst labour may well have got plants In The Audience Paul Henry did not even attempt to provide an unbiased opinion. Henry was simply dreadful. Key struggled to get his message out clearly. Goff hit the emotive buttons of poverty, children and the poor. He had Key on the back foot for the first 25 minutes. Key came back in the second half but by that stage was not able to dominate.
We all tend to see and here what we want to however.
Neither are particularly good debaters and it shows. Key clearly won the second debate which was important. It would have carried him to a strong win had he not become embroiled in this rediculous teapot saga. A problem of his own making whether or not the journo was acting illegally or not. What the hell was he thinking to even talk about Brash etc when he had invited the media to a photo op.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Quinnjin is being very rude with that post; there is nothing wrong with supporting one fellow over the other but no need for swearing and personal abuse.
During the last 3 years I have been at a loss as to why the left have been critical (often hysterically so) of the National government. Considering the current government has more in common with the Holyoake era than Muldoon or Bolger I genuinely cannot understand what they are actually opposing, or why.
The (mercifully brief) days of scorched earth economic policies based on absurd theories are well and truly over; the best known example of this was the appalling ‘Mother of All Budgets’ by that dreadful Richardson woman.
People should remember that was over 20 years (!) ago and a distant memory, and it was a brief period of insanity by the National party.
The only relevant historical precedent would be, say, the 1963 election when any objective observer would be scratching their heads wondering – (on the presumption that people voting for the opposition party are presumably ‘voting against’ something) – what the 43.7% of electors who voted Labour were so up in arms about?
Therefore I can only conclude the left wing criticism is due simply to “we want to be the government, we want ministerial office and if I don’t get it I will stamp my feet” – a kind of Helengrad enduced affrontery that some people have the damned cheek in daring to oppose the Labour party at election time.
On Saturday you people will find out the underlying level of support within the general public for Helengrad.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:48 pm
@ RRM – well said. It’s nice to have an intellectually honest Leftie around.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:56 pm
It makes a pleasant change, doesn’t it? take, for instance, the Labour line about “100,000 NZers have moved to Australia”.
Perhaps they should be honest and tell us where THEIR children are currently residing – tell us whose children are currently swanning around the World on their parents credit cards (whilst the poor of South Auckland cannot afford to travel abroad).
Liars and hypocrites
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Peters! ho ho very droll. Schurely nobody is serious about his rise from the crypt.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 7:00 pm
@RRM – Its actually bloody awful how this current bunch of muppets has buggered a once respected Labour party.
There can be no doubt that a clean out of the deadwood and an injection of fresh blood / fresh ideas, is needed.
Perhaps the process can start during the BBQ on Sunday…
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Check out the Blue Sea Slug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus
It is silvery grey on its dorsal side and dark and pale blue ventrally.
With the aid of a gas-filled sac in its stomach, it floats at the surface. Due to the location of the gas sac the sea swallow floats upside down. (Which means it lack a spine)
The true dorsal surface is completely silver-grey. This coloration is an example of counter shading, which helps protect it from predators from below, sides and above. (Which means it is a coward)
Scientists have often argued over whether it moves on its own or depends on wind for locomotion. (Which means it lacks direction)
It, like most sea slugs, a hermaphrodite, containing both male and female reproductive organs. (This means it can go fuck itself!)
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Quinnjin sez “Key got his arse kicked, and it turns out the test audience was fairly picked.”
When I caught some of it Key was comfortable and doing very well, Goff too at those same stages did ok too, but that was also because of the massive distraction the worm caused. As a viewer I started paying more attention to their performance eg theatrics and delivery etc. Wouldn’t say Key’s arsed kicked (nor Goff), as the debate became an entertainment joke. Thanks some numpties at TV3, for deciding to bring the worm out of retirement (probably also as some sort of social media experiment) …. I think the public remember the after-effects of the 2002 Peter Dunne worm incident … and are over it. Let’s hope no other media are dumb enough to bring it out for a third time. Talk about another self-inflicted media distraction from the real elections issues (judging also by the way MSM today spent alot of coverage discussing it).
As for the test audience … pluuuuzeee, again never again as well. If people haven’t figured out who they are going to vote for by now, then please, please don’t inflict them on the audience/viewer by having them decide what is good about JK and PG. For gawdness sake, how fricken ridiculous!
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Can you sink any lower Farrar? We still have a few days to go until the election who knows what you have in store.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Eh, YesWeDid? DPF’s post is a bit of humor.
Unlike say The Stranded, where they take things too seriously I mean check out their thread called “Key to lay police complaint against debate worm”. How misleading because the thread doesn’t even talk about Key laying a Police complaint but the author then takes himself too seriously in his write up, so it was obviously not meant to be funny. In fact one could say they have stooped to scrape the bottom of the long drop and seem to be happy amongst the turds with their false sincerity, at least DPF isn’t stooping anywhere near that level and loves a bit of timely irony!
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 10:28 pm
The pungent fedit liquid is the bile that eminates from the likes of quinnjin, BWAV, phool et al. Truly nasty peple.
Vote:November 22nd, 2011 at 10:30 pm
YesWeDid – go get a dictionary and look up ‘humour’. Let us know if you have any trouble understanding.
Vote:November 23rd, 2011 at 8:06 am
@Put it away
Vote:You need to be more understanding of YesWeDid.
Being humourless along with bitter and twisted is all he has left now that all the lefts dirty tricks have failed.