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Labour leader David Shearer reacted angrily yesterday to reports that his office was in turmoil, that two key advisers were leaving, and that his deputy Grant Robertson could be preparing for a challenge.
Suggestions that his chief press secretary Fran Mold and political adviser John Pagani were leaving were wrong
Suggestions that his new chief of staff, Alistair Cameron, was Mr Robertson’s man were also wrong.
And suggestions that Ms Mold had fallen out with his former chief of staff, Stuart Nash, over his leadership style were wrong.
It did not bear any resemblance to fact or truth.
Two words, David Shearer, courtesy of Mallard and Little – Simon Lusk
The timing couldn’t be worse for Labour; Parliament resumes on Tuesday, and they should be in full attack mode. Instead they’re fighting fires within. It’s almost as though some party insider (the some one who’s leaking to WO perhaps?) has planned it that way…
Israel’s ex-security chief says leadership ‘misleading public’ on Iran:
Yuval Diskin said an attack might speed up any attempt by Iran to obtain a nuclear bomb.
Mr Diskin, who stepped down as Shin Bet chief last year after six years, said he had “no faith in the current leadership” of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Barak, according to Israeli media reports.
“I don’t believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings,” he said at a public meeting.
Why the f…. would we donate for hospital treatment in a country that has free hospital treatment!!!!!!! Really dumb police making the dickhead climb a fence whilst handcuffed – although they don’t say whether he was handcuffed behind his back or in front. But he shouldn’t have run in the first place either!
“..Scientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics.
Could the taboo be ending?
On last week’s episode of the drama “Mad Men,” set in 1966, Roger Sterling, the embodiment of the classic old-boys club figure, accompanies his younger wife to a dinner party where the guests “turned on” to LSD.
After a night of laughing fits, tears, dancing and hallucinations – the couple have a profound conversation about their marriage’s failure.
Sterling wakes up the next morning feeling that he’s been given an entry into “the truth” -
- and in a shockingly sincere tone -
- declares that it’s going “to be a beautiful day.”..”
Tim Groser said on The Nation that he thinks Maori language should be compulsory for five year olds. It establishes a concept of multiple languages, and helps learn additional languages later in life. He thinks that will be good for trade.
krazy kiwi
You didn’t answer my question on your belief in intelligent design
Are you a god made the world in six thousand years nut job?
or
Do you cop out with the years in the bible are gods years.?
When it comes to alt science its important to understand why people have such weirdo ideas
There is a definite link to superstitious beliefs and a lack of analytical thinking
No mention in either of the online versions of the Sunday “newspapers” about the Banks affair…has ne one seen the hard copies? It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
griff – I believe God is the source of life and of the cosmos. I have no idea how many solar years are involved in the subsequent periods of rapid or gradual or stable evolution, but suspect hundreds of millions, or billions. Based on your final comment I guess there are no scientisis living or dead who proclaim(ed) a faith. Right. Got it. Now back to your crayons
DG – see “Loophole may close”, which includes an explainer:
Political candidates are required by law to declare donations if they know who made them. Breaches are punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000.
University of Otago Faculty of Law professor Andrew Geddis said candidates were allowed to meet potential donors and advise them how to give anonymous donations.
“If the candidate subsequently learns a large ‘anonymous’ donation was made to her or his campaign in the days after the conversation, the candidate can claim not to know who it came from,” Geddis said.
He said it would be “a bit odd” and “in tension with the spirit of the law” if Banks asked for the donation to be split in two.
“It makes no difference to the requirement to disclose if the donation comes in one $50,000 amount or two $25,000 payments.
PHILUTION (n) – the deliberate, systematic and unwanted disruption of debate on a blog post characterised by repetitious link-whoring, gratuitous insults, and appalling grammar e.g
“Phil’s arrived, and the process of philution is underway..
I had the idea that you were proud of your belief in intelligent design
You have backtracked some wot from champion of ” teach the debate” laws like as passed in Tennessee lately
Are you a little ashamed of your Nutjob altscience beliefs?
PG: yes I saw that…but I strongly suspect there is more to come, and I dont think, given the circumstances of this particular “anonymous” donation that what Geddis says will save him.
However in a statement to RadioLIVE a spokesperson for the Prime Minister says John Banks has assured him he has stayed within the electoral rules at all times.
It went on to say that if people have concerns about Mr Banks’ mayoral campaign, those concerns should be taken to the relevant authorities.
Groser’s idea (teach Te Reo to young primary students) is compelling, but I seem to recall this was discussed not that long ago; Sharples said that there were simply not enough teachers of Te Reo.
Perhaps we could start small, and make Te Reo part of the teaching qualification (with a bit of culture/immersion thrown in), and just teach the very rudiments to children to begin with.
Copy and paste reply to eszett from yesterday’s GD (I didn’t get home till late).
It would have been easy to supply a link. I did a search on the title and all I came up with was right wing blogs and fox news regurgitating strauss’ piece. Might be me, but I could not find that website. Even if it was taken offline, it would have been cached somewhere.
And who is connected with the “keeping GOP Honest” site?
President Obama’s campaign launched a new effort today to refute Republican attacks on the Democratic president, using both technology and grassroots supporters.
The Obama campaign created the “Truth Team,” with a presence in 13 key states, and set a goal of reaching two million supporters.
The digital part of the organization includes three separate websites: Attack Watch addresses attacks that Republicans have made against Obama; Keeping GOP Honest attacks Republican proposals; and Keeping His Word discusses the president’s record. So far, the first two sites are mostly dedicated to criticizing former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s proposals, and rebutting Romney’s attacks on Obama.
@Pauleastbay – read that the other day. Those are the same people that Obama, the Uk and France helped into power. This Arab Spring is working out really well, isn’t it?
Banks is a conservative
Act has always been a liberal party
hopefully we will see viable party’s of both conservative and liberal views develop on the right
The weird beast that is act with a conservative head will hopefully die along side the political future of banks
PIA lol. If the evidence supports the idea that learning a language early makes for an easier adaptation to other cultures, that’s what makes it compelling. Choosing a local language has the advantage of understanding locals better (which can only be useful – plus many words sound remarkably similar to other languages in the pacific rim). It doesn’t have to be about buying into some airy fairy notion.
PIA it’s a bit like a computer programmer learning C when they’ve only previously learned COBOL. If you learn C, it’s much easier to learn Java, C#, Objective-C, C++ etc. Even though there are probably more people who currently program Java than C, the syntax is related.
I’m all for the Maori language being available at all schools in the country. But compulsory? No way, that’s where I balk.
By all means, make it compulsory to learn a second language – could be Maori, German, French, whatever. But please don’t force Maori down our children’s throats. They need to learn skills that will be useful to them in life. If their parents think that Maori will be useful to them, fine. I’d rather my children learn a main-stream language such as French.
We are failing to teach English and basic maths in low decile schools
And some would like us to teach a stone age language thats is dieing out even though we spend millions on propping it up.
WHY
The horse is dead let it go Two more generations and it will be a novelty reserved to kapa haka groups and racist party’s
The future is not in the stone age.Teach a Chinese language if you would like to expand the cultural understanding in New Zealand.
Teach Maori if you like grass skirts and cannibalism.
Ah, yes, Fletch, tom was a lot faster yesterday.
Or did you just copy and paste his post?
And did you actually read the original post? Now that you actually have it from the horses mouth.
I’d be curious what exactly do you object to in that post?
Why did Strauss not link to that post in his piece in the wjs? Would have been relative easy.
Probably because it didn’t support anything he actually said in his piece. He made some wild speculations and accusations with very little substance.
adze – so why not learn Java first? When I did COSC121 the vogue was to pointlessly learn Modula-2 which absolutely no-one uses in the real world, because the principles are the same as some actually useful languages. Total waste of time. Just learn the useful languge first. Same amount of effort is required to learn. You’re advocating the equivalent of learning to drive a tank as an aid to learning to drive a car. You’ll never need to drive a tank. Just learn to drive a car.
As a matter of fact I am learning Java (I also plan to learn C, as the Arduino platform uses it, but that’s another topic).
Any other language would be useful at the cognitive level. I just think Te Reo would also be useful in terms of learning where some local perspectives come from (which, if nothing else, is essential in negotiation).
Yeah Yeah…Shearer will see off the fake challengers to give him some ‘gravatis’ in the eyes of a pathetic and ignorant public…NZ Labour’s ‘moving forward in action’ moment…and NZ’s usual Pravda-type journo’s will go along with it as Fairfax has also been sold down to about 80cents on the ASX last week….newspaper anyone ?
Philunthrepee (n) – the deliberate, systematic rorting of the welfare system over a life-time by an able-bodied idiot ~ he justified his philunthripee by claiming his nearly adult son required him to be at home or at the public library around the clock, even during school hours . adj. Philunthrepic ~ his philunthrepic behaviour was attributed to extreme laziness, selfishness and a sense of entitlement. syns. arsehole, lazy bullshitting little prick
As someone well practiced in the art of communicating whilst functionally illiterate
There is a vast difference between communicating ideas and being good at spelling punctuation and hand writing
To some degree the revolution of the information age negates the handicap of functional illiteracy
Who needs to write or spell with spell checkers and word processing as universal
Its more the adults who fail to read or add at even the basic level that we need to worry about
Teaching them Maori is a total waste of time. It limits their horizons to the content of a stone age culture and little more.
His drug-addled little bird brain. He conjured it up a while ago. I’ve suggested to him that when he’s repeated it enough to the point that he actually believes it, he might then try this little mantra: I must stop being a lazy bludging little prick and get a job, I must stop being … etc. Eventually, if we’re all lucky, he might start to believe that as well.
I only wish I was Key’s adviser. I’d have the lazy little prick off the bludge by lunchtime.
It was re-assuring to hear David Parker tell the nation on Q&A that there was absolutely no move afoot to roll David SHEARER and that he and the Labour Party were in behind and perfectly happy with his leadership.
It seemed more a case of Parker telling us all that he doesn’t think there is, or needs to be, a challenge.
Given that the most likely alternatives right now are David Cunliffe (whom Parker thought he was standing against) and the guy who was supposed to have run as his loyal deputy, I’m not at all surprised that Parker doesn’t think there is any cause for a change in leadership.
Certainly more to come. Will be very interesting to see how sophisticated the and restrained the information flow will be if it comes from Dotcom, in the meantime a 1,000 hacks will be digging and be being fed morsels.
I wonder about the timing of it all, particularly that Dotcom has a lot more important stuff on his plate. However, he could simply be confident with good reason.
Philunorrhoea (n) a constant dribbling of the keyboard accompanied by an unfortunate burning sensation in the eyes of a reader. ~ The comment presented with clinical signs of philunorrhoea in the form of a jumbled assortment of elipses and questionmarks, interspersed with the ocassional letter. See also Philurrhoea
Philurrhoea (n) a looseness of the bowels induced by excessive exposure to philunorrhoea ~ the avalanche of philunorrhoea was of such epic proportions that the reader was bent over double with such a violent attack of philurrhoea that he/she barely made it to the lavotory in time.
I would seriously question the mode of hunting – six people spotlighting but separated in groups or alone.
Spotlighting at all with high powered rifles is very risky, as it’s often impossible to know what’s in range behind any target. Bullets travel much further than the light from a spotlight.
davinci: Very clever sir…unless you are a comedian already, you are in the wrong game…but where is the subject of our derision? Cooking up? Making sure “the nipper” has got his underpants on the right way?
griff, delayed responding to you. I’ve been at church
I had the idea that you were proud of your belief in intelligent design
Jump to conclusions much?
You have backtracked some wot from champion of ” teach the debate” laws like as passed in Tennessee lately
Not in the slightest. I was you who made the unfathomable leap that allowing objectivity and enquiry, rather than insisting on certainty in teaching of science was a somehow driven by creationists.
Are you a little ashamed of your Nutjob altscience beliefs?
No. I’m amused a lot by you though. In our earlier discussion I answered the same question about my beliefs.. the same way as at 9:11 above. You really should keep up.
Science education groups are outraged, arguing the law has nothing to do with academic freedom — and everything to do with finding new ways to undermine the teaching of evolution with trumped-up “controversies” and unscientific “weaknesses” disguised as science.
Dubbed the “monkey bill” by opponents, Tennessee’s law is the latest round in the long-running battle about teaching evolution in the science curriculum of public schools.”
Sort of the same approach to reality as your monkey business denial on climate change.
As I have told you many times alt science makes me laugh
they are almost as fun as lefty global conspiracies to take over the world.
David Garrett (1,501) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 9:09 am
PEB: the comments beneath suggest it is a hoax…
No mention in either of the online versions of the Sunday “newspapers” about the Banks affair…has ne one seen the hard copies? It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
Now DG, That’s the penance you are supposed to do so that in the future you will remember and will instead take a bike, But remember you can be charged DIC Bike. So be careful, enjoy a brisk walk and smile and then the world will wonder what the F..K you have done today.
Its great.
You’ll be looking forward to kicking off the week with a wave of philuphoria tomorrow morning! (n. an almost overwhelming sense of well-being experienced by recidivist welfare bludgers at the prospect of another week on the public tit.)
DIC on a bike? Really? I’m unsafe on a bike after two beers. If I was stopped and DIC’ed if would have been a miracle that I’d made it to the copper with the breathalizer
philubotomy n. The inadvertent removal of an abnormally shrunken brain (esp. through drug use) through the nasal passage with a small pair of tweezers. ~ With another day of unemployment in prospect, he allowed himself the luxury of pursuing a particularly annoying nose hair but the combination of of a sneezing fit and shakey hands resulted in him performing a philubotomy.
krazykiwi (7,785) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
DIC on a bike? Really? I’m unsafe on a bike after two beers. If I was stopped and DIC’ed if would have been a miracle that I’d made it to the copper with the breathalizer
Ah tis but true in this land of nannies and pimps. (oh and wierdo’s too. Nearly forgot Phil).
A sloping rail, used on a stairway, designed for the safety of stairway users. Often used as a slide by philusites who wish to take the quick and easy way down. Frequently surrounded by philophobes who look forward to the final encounter between the philusite and the bottom of the philustrade
phool “..the simplest of choices in the sufferers’ life are marked by an agony of ‘what-if’s?’/..’on-the-other-hand”s…”
says the guy who can’t make it through/complete any comment/statement without half a dozen occaisions/examples of not being able/willing to choose/decide between/from two words/phrases so he puts/uses a slash/stroke between/betwixt them.
And fail to see/grasp/understand the irony/idiocy.
Put it away 9:31 am. Nailed it. They could perhaps learn a trade. That way they could get a second job at above minimum wage to pay all the extra taxes they’ll be facing. The taxes they’ll be paying to suport all the stuff the political class have inflicted on us over the last fifty years.
philugmatic n. Unexcited by work. ~ … so being a somewhat pointless and philugmatic individual as a consequence of chronic philubitis and his philugocytic nature, and having limited employment options by virtue of being rendered a philustine, initially by his philandectomy and then the subsequent and unfortunate philubotomy, he chose the path of philunthrepee and his jaws remained clamped tight on the public tit accordingly …
Scott, it’s not been Phil doing the baiting today. He’s tried a bit of a weak response but he’s probably feeling philthy about da mode of attention he’s been getting.
Philistine – 2. a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.
Philistine – 3. a person who is hostile or indifferent to employment.
Philistine – 4. a person who is hostile or indifferent to readable prose.
phil – where’s the abuse? You steal money from me (and from the family next door, and the ones down the road from you) on a daily basis. man up and take it. better still, have some dignity and show some respect for your fellow NZers by getting an income-earning, tax-paying job.
Now thats all great fun,
and i think that Scott Chris got it in one. @ 3.30. Because….
The object of your derision has no shame. No ‘kin nothing. (an embarrasment to New Zealand some may say.)
But when he is being mocked, derided, scoffed at, laughed at, he will cop that and suck that up and even be
encouraged because at least the thing he fears most hasn’t happened so far.
He isn’t being ignored.
Just imagine you have amounted to fuck all in your whole pathetic life (all you can claim to fame to justify
your existence is that you have procreated a sprog) all you have left is to try and be a smartarse on a blogsite
and then you are ignored. What have you got ?
But now here is a serious question.
Imagine that you live in a group of unit title properties.
You are the only proprieter out of 8 that doesn’t own a cat.
The woman next door has 4 cats.
Every morning you go outside your front door to find that cats have shit in your flowerbed or on your lawn.
It stinks. There are legions of flys.
You have done every thing you can think of to discourage these cats from shitting by your front door.
Fenced your whole garden off with chicken wire.
Spread citronella all over.
Spent a poultice on cat repellent from the garden centre.
Asked your neighbour to provide a catbox with kittylitter on her own section to entice her cats to
shit in their own nest.
Nothing has worked so far.
Are you now within your rights to go to the final solution.
Bury a set rat trap just below the soil in their favourite spot to crap.
While i am pretty sure that that would solve the problem, it may cost a cat its foot.
(i have considered shooting a cat with the noise suppressed .22 and throwing its body up on the road to look like
road kill but as an animal lover i am loath to do that.)
Have you had this problem yourself, how did you solve it ?
Is the rat trap beneath the soil going too far ?
inphooltrate v. The act of intervening in a discussion by a person who is the subject of a discussion but who has not been invited and is not welcome to participate in it.
Philutopia n. A place where welfare is denominated in equal portions of cocaine and heroin, where the library next door burnt to the ground but not before the part-time librarian/chemist was forced a surrender the internet-connected PC at gunpoint, where the dogs graze lazily between the stands of hemp (being slavishly tendered by right-wing gardeners), and where dependent children are endued with the notion that all this is normal and reasonable, and that it should be paid for by those outside Philutopia. See also Philuboots.
Bereal — please. The English language is so much the richer from Pill’s contribution. It all goes back 30 years when a drug crazed Ure raided a pharmacy and so gave us “highPhillooting”
Your all mad.The phoolfacation of philu Takes up considerably more space than his link whoaring
Why do we have to be reminded twenty odd times a day that philu is on the dpb
Do you all think he will be an easy lay cause hes a solo parent?
i guess you blokes know you are giving him the best day of his sick non life so far.
This will give the drong the biggest hardon he ever had since he came back from being banned.
He will be able to show ‘the nipper’ when he gets home.
“Look son, dad is not just a zero after all.”
Some people do still talk to me.
disclosure: DG is away from the keyboard at this time. Northern Wahine takes full responsibility for this post. *insert appropriate emote here, I choose a *smirk*
philusaurus. (n) – A member of the pond scum leech genus. An ugly, slimy creature that sucks an existence from the lifeblood of others. A parasite by definition, the philusaurus can be found in any location where a free lunch can be hoovered.
This is what happens when you get the ignorant to teach an anti-bullying programme – he ends up bullying Christian high school students.
Two weeks ago, the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association sponsored a national conference for high school journalists in Seattle. They invited San Francisco-based sex-advice columnist Dan Savage as a speaker. Savage reportedly began his speech by announcing to the teenagers, “I hope you’re all using birth control,” and made lascivious comments about his “husband.”
More than 100 students reportedly walked out of the event after Savage, who founded the “It Gets Better” project — widely praised as part of the “anti-bullying” movement — used obscene language in attacking religious beliefs against homosexuality:
“People often point out that… they can’t help with the anti-gay bullying because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there in Timothy, it says right there in Romans, that being gay is wrong,” Savage tells the crowd in a short video posted on Tumblr by a student attendee.
“We can learn to ignore the [expletive] in the Bible about gay people the same way we have learned to ignore the [expletive] in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation,” Savage said.
At this point, student Jenny Patterson yelled “That’s bull,” and walked out. As other students followed, Savage called them “pansies,” she said.
Patterson said she had put up with Savage’s cussing and “references to how good his husband looks in a Speedo and how he has to pry him off.” But his attacks on Catholics, Mormons, and Christians for their stance on homosexuality went too far.
“I didn’t come to hear someone preach to me about how wrong my beliefs are,” said Patterson, 17 . . . “I don’t know what the agenda was behind [Savage's] session, but it was unnecessary.”
Problem here seems that today you all have philaddiction Addicted to phil
Makes for fun reading and Philsintheday( reads general debate on kiwiblog).
Must say I commend Phil on his good humour whjile all this has gone down. Most of the rest of you would have got struck done with philinsanity. (as in sent to the madhouse)
There’s a Space Shuttle mission to the moon with two monkeys and a blonde woman on board.
The headquarters in the US calls:
“Monkey number 1, Monkey number 1 to the television screen.”
He sits down and he is told to release the pressure in compartment 1, note the temperature in engine 4 and to release oxygen to the thrusters.
So the monkey does the pressure, checks the temperature and releases the oxygen.
A few moments later headquarters calls again:
“Monkey number 2, monkey number 2 to the television screen.”
He sits down and he is told to add Carbon Dioxide to room 4, to stop the fuel injection to engine 3, to add nitrogen to the fuel compartment and to analyse the solar radiation.
So the monkey does the carbon dioxide, the fuel injection, the nitrogen and the analysis of solar radiation.
A little later on, headquarters calls again:
“Blondie please, blondie approach the screen.”
She sits down and just as she is about to be told what to do she says…..
“I know, I know!! Feed the monkeys, don’t touch anything.”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the concept explained any better than this.
“Well you see,it’s like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first..
This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells.
Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells.. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
And that is why you always feel smarter after a few drinks.
Viking – that must mean the “I really shouldn’t put the moves on that fat chick” braincells are staggering around in an emaciated state with buzzards circling.
This is probably the most significant thing the phool has ever done in his sad no account life…be the fall guy for others…but he will see this as a victory!! After all, he has got more attention here than he ever had on his sad little site…
Comments from newer people about the resident magpie are quite good. He is trying hard by making comments about the comments about him.
But nobody is communicating with the Phool, that is a good thing. Won’t be long before he spits the dummy.
Phantastic
Keeping Stock – to pre-empt this from plunging off in another direction, please consider the following as doing that possibilty to death …
Uranyl – not selecting one word [for fear of making finite decisions] but using several similar alternatives and separating those with forward slashes [see uranyl retentive]
Urban – not saying anything derogative about ‘The Boy’
Urban myth – you can say stuff about ‘The Boy’ after all
Urinate – incontinent use of ellipsis
Uralic – an old news item that Phil thinks is new
Urchin – what gets dribbled over most
Urn – oxymoronic
Urological – Phil thinks it is correct, so it must be
Urophilia – something that pisses Phil off
Urostyle – double spaced writing without capitals or logic but with overuse of ellipsis and multiple word choices separated by forward slashes
Urticate, urtucating, urtications – pain caused to index finger overuse in scrolling past urostyle posts
Uruguayans – people bereal hates for encouraging Phil
Uruk – what bereal would like to happen to Phil
Uroscopy – people who also post one phrase to a line and double space those lines
urticate – using ‘..eh?…’ in ending a comment
A Redneck went to the hospital as his wife was having a baby.
Upon arriving he sits down, and the nurse says,
“Congratulations, your wife has had quins, 5 big baby boys.”
The Redneck says, “I’m not surprised, I have a penis on me like a chimney.”
The nurse replies, “You might want to consider getting it cleaned, the babies are black.”
A big-game hunter went on safari with his wife and mother-in- law. One
evening, while still deep in the jungle, his wife awoke to find her mother
gone. Rushing to her husband, she insisted on them both trying to find her
mother.
The hunter picked up his rifle, took a swig of whiskey, and started to look
for her. In a clearing not far from the camp, they came upon a chilling
sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a thick, impenetrable bush,
and a large male lion stood facing her. The wife cried, “What are we going
to do?”
“Nothing,” said the hunter husband. “The lion got himself into this mess,
let him get himself out of it.”
Prime Minister John Key today rejected calls to stand Banks down from Cabinet and said he was happy with the assurances he had received from the ACT leader.
I wonder if this is the right move by Key.
Somehow I don’t think is going to end well, and Key should have done much more to distance himself, fast. At least neutralise his response to leave options open, not endorse the guy. He could have at least done that.
Even though Hulun was the worst PM we have ever had, she had brilliant and accurate political instincts in situations like this – even if she didn’t always do the right thing, as say, per Peters, she always instantly knew what the right thing to do, would have been. Something which Key lacks completely – he just doesn’t have the training and sadly his advisors who are supposed to cover that for him – Messrs Brownlee and McCully – don’t fill that bill, at all – quite the opposite in fact. Consequently to the public he comes across kinda like Sergeant Jones from Dad’s Army in that way and I think this will be one of things where it shows – again. Why the hell does ANYONE rate McCully? On anything. I have always wondered. This is not rocket science FFS, is it.
Two indigenous Australians were driving their well used and abused old EH Holden wagon in the outback recently, when off in the distance they saw a police “booze bus”.
Rather than trying to avoid it, the driver headed straight for it. As they pulled up, the driver wound his window down and said ‘Gidday brudders! Two cold cans of Emu Export, tanks!’
The copper glared at him and said ‘You must be drunk! Get out of the car and blow into this tube!’
The driver said ‘Sorry boss, I can’t blow in ta dat fing, I gotta a letter from me doctor in Alice Springs saying dat I’m asthmatic
and I’ll pass out if I blow inta dat.’
The cop smirked and said ‘OK, in that case, we require you to give us a blood sample.’
‘Nah, nah sorry, boss,’ replied the driver. ‘Can’t be doin’ that eifer. Got a letter from the Red Cross in Darwin sayin’ that I’m a haemophiliac and I could bleed to deaf rel quick if I gave a blood sample. Nah, sorry, boss, can’t do that!’
By now the copper was getting very irate so he demanded that the driver provide a urine sample for testing.
The driver shook his head and said
‘Nah, sorry boss, can’t do that eifer.’
The copper protested ‘Surely you haven’t got a letter for that as well!!!’
‘Blood oath, mate!’ says the driver,
‘It’s from Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister of this lovely Country of Australia . She’s apologised, and it says that you whitefellas can’t take the piss out of us blackfellas no more!
On a serious topic, as drones flood US police departments and are arriving into Australia, how long before a sycophantic National government softens us up for their use here?
It’ll be worth going to the mattresses for that fight!
May be an urban myth, Bereal, but try leaving a few clear plastic coke bottles half full of water round the lawn area – makes them want to do No 1 instead, possibli. (Your mileage may vary and I don’t have the problem so haven’t tried it myself.) FWIW.
Alternatively when I was a kid I used to prop an upside-down box up on the lawn and have a bit of string leading into my bedroom window, with some bread in the box, hoping to catch the odd sparrow, but it never worked and I never caught one although frustratingly the bait was gone when I got back from a break, I noticed a few times. However if you’re bored one day and you put some delicious catfood in it and you trigger the trap and leave them there for awhile that might scare them enough they never venture onto your lawn again. Perhaps you’d better check the RSPCA about that one lest you be arrested for falsely imprisoning a cat.
On a serious topic, as drones flood US police departments and are arriving into Australia, how long before a sycophantic National government softens us up for their use here?
You mean a false flag Luc? Some sort of explosion that topples Sky City perhaps? Blame it on “awab tewwowists” and bingo, the sheeple even demand those drones (as well as being strip searched at the airports) in order to “pwotect us?”
Well its happened before obviously hasn’t it. Why not here?
I’m surprised the Herald didn’t pretend that Nigerian lady with the knife awhile ago was Al-Qa’ida – perhaps they know we’ve got a few more braincells then your average Brit or American eh?
Be real
the most effective cure is owning a large brown boxer dog that is trained to attack strange cats on sight
As an added bonus the dog also works for trick or treaters, Jehovah Witnesses, politicians and Mormons
Of course the dog is so silly he would not know wot to do if he actually caught one.
Last boxer was better he did know wot to do with night time shopping Maori.He gave two or three loverly bite shaped tattoos
Gordon Bennett….the old “bottles of water deter cats/dogs” thing??? so last century…
OK Dave, in person I’d recommend a cattle prod to Beryl but I’m not allowed to say that because everything these days thanks to you bloody poofy politicians is so namby fucking pamby we can’t even electrocute animals without the whole woolly woofter lefty brigade getting up in arms and issuing prosecution notices all over the place, hence my water-bottle suggestion.
And since you were a politician at some stage then by definition and implication and law even, this is in fact, ALL YOUR FAULT. Period.
Normally I wouldn’t have mentioned all of that but you made me with your 7:50. So it’s still all your fault, although I know I could have emailed you with this, so perhaps it’s 1% my fault and 99% your fault.
This is what happens when you get the ignorant to teach an anti-bullying programme – he ends up bullying Christian high school students.
Yeah right. You can use the bible as a justification to bully young people, but when someone calls your bible bullshit, you walk out? Really? Very rich of you to call Dan Savage ignorant, Fletch,
When people stop putting up with christian bullying which they had too endure for centuries, suddenly the poor christians become the “bullied”. It’s exposes how truly ridiculous your positions are.
Questioning your twisted moral opinions based on some obscure writing by some backward goat-herders two millennia ago is not bullying. Especially not if you justify your own bullying and discrimination based on that obscure writing.
It’s merely ending the undeserved privilege, that you have had for such a long time, of not having to justify your positions with thinking and reason.
Good to hear in the video the cheering of most students.
Mr Savage’s keynote address was presented in a large lecture hall for thousands of people.
‘People often say that they can’t help with the anti-gay bullying acts because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there in Timothy, it says right there in Romans, that being gay is wrong,’ Mr Savage said. ‘We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible and what it says about gay people.’
He compared dogmatic acceptance of anti-gay teachings equivalent to adhering to verses about slavery and eating shellfish, two issues that have been reinterpreted in modern day. Many people in the audience met his statements with applause, but some Christians did not appreciate Mr Savage’s comparison and walked out.
Great journalistic teaching as well, when they teach you to walk away when you hear something that offends you!
Bill Mather [New Rules April 27] is amazed the US Supreme Court allowed Mitt Romney’s team to get a $10 million “anonymous” donation.
“For all we know,” Mather jests “it came from Vladimir Putin, or Mel Gibson, or Kim Dotcom !” – audience applause and laughter.
At least, I presume you listen to the iTunes audio – HBO won’t even let me buy the video. Which reminds me, I must email Sky about that – I believe they holds the rights to HBO shows here and that is why we can’t buy the ones they don’t show.
phil, Proverbs was made for you, my ignorant and arrogant hence foolish friend
10:18 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
12:15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise
14:16 A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.
The thing about the Bible phil is its full of layers – meanings within meanings. Every single word of every single sentence in the entire Bible has multiple layers of meaning, even the geneology records, believe it or not. The layer I’m personally on in my own journey at the moment re: the proverbs is understanding precisely how profoundly flawed and incorrect and misdirected King Solomon was in the Book of Proverbs in terms of what he was doing when it was being put together vs what it says. It’s not my main area of current interest just one of the peripheral ones. Christianity is a fascinating journey phil, only fools never begin it.
Does it never occur to you for example to wonder why great minds throughout history have devoted their whole lives to this field? People who dismiss it as mere “God bothering” never cease to astound me, in their stupidity. Quite frankly they sadden me too, but I never mention that aspect of it, since I know they would look at that as mere condescension, which it is, from their frame of reference. But I don’t come from their frame of reference so I don’t worry about what they might think, about that.
Let me know when you make a start on delayering ‘Revelations’. As you know, religion doesn’t count for much in my life but I admit to a certain fascination with the last Book. It is sufficiently cryptic to make ones brain hurt when reading it.
I’ll have leave it to you to bring me up to speed.
I believe that philu is referring to the strain of Cristian god bothers that believe that the end is nigh and have prepared a grab bag for such a civil defense emergency.
Mind you that would seem a little strange under such a scenario wot would you take?He knows who you are so no ID required. Maybe some sweeties to suck while you wait at the gates for st peter or the local bureaucracy to deal with your case. A role of pooh paper cause you now they always have shit ones in public places
I too was a Christian until a) I read the Bible and b) starting thinking for myself.
eszett if you ever thought you couldn’t do both at the same time, I know, not think but know, you are not looking at Christianity as I know, not think, it to be.
Some people get influenced in their view of Christianity by whatever it is the humans who happen to be around them at the time think its all about.
As you know, I hope, since you say you used to be a Christian, that sometimes whatever the humans say about it has nothing whatsoever to do with whatever it is that you and God truly in fact have going on deep inside and I just hope you’re giving that relationship the opportunity it needs.
I’ll have leave it to you to bring me up to speed.
Try reading Romans as well nasska.
Fully understanding that book is a serious task at least equivalent to Revelations.
Why don’t you just ask the Lord, seriously, with true heart and soul and without smirking, to lead you to you the best possible explanation on Revelations, and believe that such will come to pass. That’s all you have to do. It’s not very difficult, is it.
eszett, this is that same Dan Savage who came up with the term “Santorum” for google, and who joined a political campaign of someone he disliked, and tried to give the flu to everyone by licking doorknobs, coffee cups, etc etc…
I went from doorknob to doorknob. They were filthy, no doubt, but there wasn’t time to find a rag to spit on. My immune system wasn’t all it should be—I was in the grip of the worst flu I had ever had—but I was on a mission. If for some reason I didn’t manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary’s hands, I wanted to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I could, and hopefully one of them would infect the candidate.
So, much as it pains me to confirm a hateful stereotype of gay men—we will put anything in our mouths— I started licking doorknobs. The front door, office doors, even a bathroom door. When that was done, I started in on the staplers, phones and computer keyboards. Then I stood in the kitchen and licked the rims of all the clean coffee cups drying in the rack.
What a piece of shit work. He is being condemned by conservative gays even.
Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, called those statements “outrageous” and demanded an apology.
“Dan Savage should apologize for his comments and should apologize to the high school students in attendance whom he called ‘pansy-asses,’” continued LaSalvia. “It is ironic that someone whose claim to fame is fighting bullying would resort to bullying tactics in attacking high school students who were offended by his outrageous remarks.”
LaSalvia said people of faith should be treated with respect.
“Dan Savage’s outrageous anti-Christian tirade hurts – not helps – the fight for gay rights in this country,” LaSalvia said in a statement. “There is nothing incompatible between being a Christian and believing that all people should be treated equally, and Dan Savage’s attacks on Christianity only fuel those on the extremist fringe who oppose gay rights.”
@ Yvette – that’s going to be one of my questions to Peter one day. Like him I’m impulsive and sometimes say things before engaging the brain. It’s going to be cool to have an eternity to get to know him!
I think id nip round the back looking for some of those 53 virgins.
Mind you that profit of the “one true god” tm did have a thing for goats.
I could never work out the lion lays down with the sheep thing
Seems that in this world interspecies copulation is somwot frowned upon.
It traumatized my childhood. Sunday school and that picture of the perverted lion and sheep.
Do you think acc could help with counseling?
But what if you blot your copybook between now & departure date? You could end up chatting to one of Satan’s offsiders while undergoing a spot of roasting.
You have it wrong all you have to do is send ten dollars to the church of the bleeding hart located somewhere in los Angles California and next week they will say your prayer on the radio and all your dreams will come true http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4
Except not the sheep and the Lion thats just wrong..
Well in the last couple of weeks I have been on a mission to help my old pal Phool. I have sent him lot’s of links to the trade me and seek websites, on those sites are hundreds of minimum wage jobs that Phool could be applying for.
I do this because I know that Phool does not have the internet at home, he is at the library using the rate payer funded internet (I never did find out what Auckland library is open 24 hours) and I did not want poor old Phool to waste bandwidth seeking out job sites.
See nasska, I really am a generous and good bastard.
Your chance to be a good guy was when that union man pushed you in the chest in the meat works big bruv, a more immediate moment, 3 knives at the hip – than decades later calling out insults, I’m sure you’ll agree.
No not at all phil fool. You see this is the rather elementary distinction between spiritual and physical which the Bible makes terribly obvious in fact its so obvious to my own mind personally I rather think it’s designed.
1. It was not at the meat works, it was a suburban butcher shop
2. I am not sure how asking Phool if he has found work yet can be construed as an insult, can you enlighten me please?
eszett, this is that same Dan Savage who came up with the term “Santorum” for google, and who joined a political campaign of someone he disliked, and tried to give the flu to everyone by licking doorknobs, coffee cups, etc etc…
Yep, that’s the one.
And you are quite good at twisting the facts.
Firstly it’s not Dan Savage who came up with the definition, but one of his readers.
He then googlebombed Santorum.
And why? Because he didn’t like him? Aren’t you omitting some important facts here, Fletch? Did Santorum not openly and publicly compare homosexuality to “man on child” and “man on dog”?
A fair response if you ask me to a politician prominently promoting bigotry and ignorance.
Again, you guys just can’t deal with people who stand up to you.
Ahh the unwashed masses who have been brainwashed by liberal professors.
I feel sorry for the next generation.
Says the guy who applauds the brainwashing of children with religious nonsense.
No, those guys have learned to think for themselves and make up their own minds.
If anything, one needs to feel sorry for those who are brainwashed to stand up and leave and stick their heads in the sand every time someone challenges them.
As you know, I hope, since you say you used to be a Christian, that sometimes whatever the humans say about it has nothing whatsoever to do with whatever it is that you and God truly in fact have going on deep inside and I just hope you’re giving that relationship the opportunity it needs.
Don’t you worry, Jimmy, I am giving god a chance at our relationship as much as I am giving Santa and the Easter Bunny at the relationship we used to have. And boy, what a deep relationship did we use to have.
Funny how it came all to an end with all three in very quick succession
Don’t get too hung up about me having been a Christian, it certainly wasn’t by choice. I was brought up in a very catholic environment and was being indoctrinated early on. Thankfully I inherited analytical and critical thinking and made use of it. Proud to say that I never made it to first communion.
krazykiwi (7,795) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Says the guy who applauds the brainwashing of children with religious nonsense.
Clearly to avoid the stinging accusation of brainwashing, every parent should raise their kids to believe what you do.
Every parent should raise their children to have an open mind, be inquisitive, learn and think for themselves.
If they don’t, then hopefully the schools will do that for them.
krazykiwi (7,795) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Says the guy who applauds the brainwashing of children with religious nonsense.
Clearly to avoid the stinging accusation of brainwashing, every parent should raise their kids to believe what you do.
Every parent should raise their children to have an open mind, be inquisitive, learn and think for themselves.
If they don’t, then hopefully the schools will do that for them.
Of course, some think that’s a bad thing.
Where ever did you get the idea that schools taught people to be open minded and inquisitive? If teachers were that then they wouldn’t be school teachers.
So, who is going to be sacked and sued for libel now.This putfit should be cleaned out from the top. Right at the top. Dishonest, bullying etc etc. Customers would not be tollerate this in any private organization.
Recording at odds with ACC extortion allegations
PHIL KITCHIN
Last updated 05:00 30/04/2012
A recording of a critical meeting between senior ACC managers and the whistleblower who exposed a massive privacy breach reveals the corporation misled its minister and the public.
The corporation has alleged that client Bronwyn Pullar threatened at the meeting to go to the media unless she was given a guaranteed two-year benefit.
However, a recording of a key meeting in December between Ms Pullar, her support person Michelle Boag – a senior National Party figure – and two ACC managers is at odds with the corporation’s claims that were included in a report ordered by ACC Minister Judith Collins.
The ACC was given a transcript of the meeting more than three weeks ago, but has refused to correct its report.
Where ever did you get the idea that schools taught people to be open minded and inquisitive? If teachers were that then they wouldn’t be school teachers.
From a radical left wing organisation controlled by the teachers union called OECD:
Funny that NZ is right up the in science and math, and NZ being constantly in the top rankings in bang-for-buck stats regarding education.
April 29th, 2012 at 8:01 am
SHEARER PISSED [off]
Labour leader David Shearer reacted angrily yesterday to reports that his office was in turmoil, that two key advisers were leaving, and that his deputy Grant Robertson could be preparing for a challenge.
Suggestions that his chief press secretary Fran Mold and political adviser John Pagani were leaving were wrong
Suggestions that his new chief of staff, Alistair Cameron, was Mr Robertson’s man were also wrong.
And suggestions that Ms Mold had fallen out with his former chief of staff, Stuart Nash, over his leadership style were wrong.
It did not bear any resemblance to fact or truth.
Two words, David Shearer, courtesy of Mallard and Little – Simon Lusk
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:07 am
And Tracy Watkins reports on the story again this morning; it just won’t go away.
http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/it-just-wont-go-away.html
The timing couldn’t be worse for Labour; Parliament resumes on Tuesday, and they should be in full attack mode. Instead they’re fighting fires within. It’s almost as though some party insider (the some one who’s leaking to WO perhaps?) has planned it that way…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:10 am
Israel’s ex-security chief says leadership ‘misleading public’ on Iran:
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:29 am
Why the f…. would we donate for hospital treatment in a country that has free hospital treatment!!!!!!! Really dumb police making the dickhead climb a fence whilst handcuffed – although they don’t say whether he was handcuffed behind his back or in front. But he shouldn’t have run in the first place either!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10802172
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:31 am
http://whoar.co.nz/2012/5-fascinating-new-uses-for-psychedelics/
“..Scientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics.
Could the taboo be ending?
On last week’s episode of the drama “Mad Men,” set in 1966, Roger Sterling, the embodiment of the classic old-boys club figure, accompanies his younger wife to a dinner party where the guests “turned on” to LSD.
After a night of laughing fits, tears, dancing and hallucinations – the couple have a profound conversation about their marriage’s failure.
Sterling wakes up the next morning feeling that he’s been given an entry into “the truth” -
- and in a shockingly sincere tone -
- declares that it’s going “to be a beautiful day.”..”
(cont..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:40 am
Tim Groser said on The Nation that he thinks Maori language should be compulsory for five year olds. It establishes a concept of multiple languages, and helps learn additional languages later in life. He thinks that will be good for trade.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:41 am
this thread has been philued. the drug pusher continues to pedal his wares.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Mitt Romney’s LDS hymn.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:51 am
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/outrage-as-egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-so-husbands-can-have-sex-with-dead-wives-up-to-six-hours-after-their-death/story-e6frev00-1226340604074
Puts a new slant on ‘ she lay there like a sack of spuds”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:00 am
@ krazykiwi; don’t you mean “philuted”?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:00 am
http://whoar.co.nz/2012/commentwhoar-the-nation-a-review-4/
garner and james discuss the ecquivacations around this govts’ ‘ring’…the balanced budget by ?..
james talks matter-of-factly about the upcoming lab/grn government..
..(they both seem to have noticed the world economic situation is ‘a bit iffy’…)
..james tries to propagate the farcical claim that we are ‘non-aligned internationaly’..
..(i guess he is able to ignore how we are eager mercenaries-for asking to america..’non-aligned’..?..who is he trying to kid..?..)
groser is interviewed…
..talks up our anti-nuke history..
.groser also pays homage of sorts to the long history of successive govts. working to build our relationship with china..
..saying:..’we would not be where we are today if not for them’..
..he also talks up the economic importance of china to nz..
..groser expresses his surprise at the relative failure of australia to build that relationship as nz has..
..he also urges caution in the restructuring at mfat..
..groser notes we need to make better use of our asian immigrants..(ed:..good point..)
groser then voices a good-idea..that all children should be taught maori/te-reo from age five..
..(this to open their minds to being bi/multi-language/cultural..and open to then learning other languages..
..(ed:..good idea/reasoning..eh..?..)
mmp-review is then reviewed..and the various anomalies highlighted..(act/epsom amongst them..)..(cont..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:01 am
krazy kiwi
You didn’t answer my question on your belief in intelligent design
Are you a god made the world in six thousand years nut job?
or
Do you cop out with the years in the bible are gods years.?
When it comes to alt science its important to understand why people have such weirdo ideas
Vote:There is a definite link to superstitious beliefs and a lack of analytical thinking
April 29th, 2012 at 9:05 am
KS – ‘philuted’ a much better term. Lets go with that.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:09 am
PEB: the comments beneath suggest it is a hoax…
No mention in either of the online versions of the Sunday “newspapers” about the Banks affair…has ne one seen the hard copies? It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:10 am
Does conned and philuted become conphiluted?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:11 am
griff – I believe God is the source of life and of the cosmos. I have no idea how many solar years are involved in the subsequent periods of rapid or gradual or stable evolution, but suspect hundreds of millions, or billions. Based on your final comment I guess there are no scientisis living or dead who proclaim(ed) a faith. Right. Got it. Now back to your crayons
pete –
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:15 am
DG – see “Loophole may close”, which includes an explainer:
So a fairly soft article but it suggests Banks may have some wriggle room, but it will still leave him very red-faced.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:16 am
PHILUTION (n) – the deliberate, systematic and unwanted disruption of debate on a blog post characterised by repetitious link-whoring, gratuitous insults, and appalling grammar e.g
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Thread PhailUre !
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:21 am
I had the idea that you were proud of your belief in intelligent design
Vote:You have backtracked some wot from champion of ” teach the debate” laws like as passed in Tennessee lately
Are you a little ashamed of your Nutjob altscience beliefs?
April 29th, 2012 at 9:27 am
PG: yes I saw that…but I strongly suspect there is more to come, and I dont think, given the circumstances of this particular “anonymous” donation that what Geddis says will save him.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Looks like Key is distancing himself:
Banks can’t bank on Key support.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:29 am
Groser’s idea (teach Te Reo to young primary students) is compelling, but I seem to recall this was discussed not that long ago; Sharples said that there were simply not enough teachers of Te Reo.
Perhaps we could start small, and make Te Reo part of the teaching qualification (with a bit of culture/immersion thrown in), and just teach the very rudiments to children to begin with.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:31 am
Or, alternatively, children could learn something of value.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:32 am
Copy and paste reply to eszett from yesterday’s GD (I didn’t get home till late).
It would have been easy to supply a link. I did a search on the title and all I came up with was right wing blogs and fox news regurgitating strauss’ piece. Might be me, but I could not find that website. Even if it was taken offline, it would have been cached somewhere.
eszett, the site and article are are here – http://www.keepinggophonest.com/behind-the-curtain-a-brief-history-of-romneys-donors
And who is connected with the “keeping GOP Honest” site?
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/02/barack-obama-creates-truth-team-refute-gop-attacks/v623KBtjGoKDvVt0NunvCK/index.html
It says at the bottom of the Keeping GOP Honest site –
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:35 am
David Parker is terribly unfortunate – he looks like the kid on American Dad
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:36 am
Banks very uncomfortable on Q+A. Trying desperately to avoid questions.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:43 am
@Pauleastbay – read that the other day. Those are the same people that Obama, the Uk and France helped into power. This Arab Spring is working out really well, isn’t it?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Except he isn’t drawn as well.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Banks is a conservative
Vote:Act has always been a liberal party
hopefully we will see viable party’s of both conservative and liberal views develop on the right
The weird beast that is act with a conservative head will hopefully die along side the political future of banks
April 29th, 2012 at 9:46 am
PIA lol. If the evidence supports the idea that learning a language early makes for an easier adaptation to other cultures, that’s what makes it compelling. Choosing a local language has the advantage of understanding locals better (which can only be useful – plus many words sound remarkably similar to other languages in the pacific rim). It doesn’t have to be about buying into some airy fairy notion.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:50 am
If you want to learn a language there are plenty to choose from that spoken by more than 0.001 % of the world’s population.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:53 am
Just caught the tail end of Q and A…Why the hell do they have Sue Bradford and Christine Rankin as “panelists”??
Can some net savvy person tell me how I can see the interview part of Q and A? When does it go up on their website?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Video last week was available from about 1pm. It will come up here: http://tvnz.co.nz/q-and-a-news
I thought Rankin was sounding quite sensible. And Bradfords is Bradford.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:58 am
PIA it’s a bit like a computer programmer learning C when they’ve only previously learned COBOL. If you learn C, it’s much easier to learn Java, C#, Objective-C, C++ etc. Even though there are probably more people who currently program Java than C, the syntax is related.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:02 am
http://whoar.co.nz/2012/commentwhoar-qa-a-review-5/
the panel is ray miller..sue bradford..and christine rankin..(ed:..a ‘good-mix’..)
holmes castigates english for the moveable-goal-posts of economic/surplus targets/timetables..
taurima interviews bennett..on what she is going about rising youth unemployment..(20% up since she came to power..)
..bennett tries to blame the recession..taurima will have none of it…
..and says the recession officially ended here three and a half years ago..
..taurima then harries here on the damning-figure..that 20% increase in youth unemployment..
..bennett claims she is ‘proud’ of her efforts to date..
..taurima expresses his disbelief at this ‘proud’-claim..
(83,000 young people..(!)..f.f.s..!..)
..bennett accuses taurima of being ‘emotional’..
..taurima retorts that ‘these are the facts’..
..taurima just hammers those two figures..
..83,000 young people doing nothing..and the 20% increase since bennett came to power..
..taurima then tries to get bennett to say when this figure will drop..(she refuses..)
..bennett then tries to defend just doing what she has been doing to date…her ‘reforms’..
..tairima asks does the govt have a responsibilty to create jobs..?
..bennett says ‘no..that dosn’t work’..(!)
..super makes up 41% of the welfare-state budget..
..(unemployment 4%…dpb..8%..)
..bennett refuses to entertain any reforms to super..
(ed:..taurima is the best interviewer in the country..and that was a cracker of an interview..
..pollies of all persuasion will blanch at interview-requests..and this is how it should be..)..(cont..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:04 am
I’m all for the Maori language being available at all schools in the country. But compulsory? No way, that’s where I balk.
By all means, make it compulsory to learn a second language – could be Maori, German, French, whatever. But please don’t force Maori down our children’s throats. They need to learn skills that will be useful to them in life. If their parents think that Maori will be useful to them, fine. I’d rather my children learn a main-stream language such as French.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:10 am
We are failing to teach English and basic maths in low decile schools
And some would like us to teach a stone age language thats is dieing out even though we spend millions on propping it up.
WHY
The horse is dead let it go Two more generations and it will be a novelty reserved to kapa haka groups and racist party’s
The future is not in the stone age.Teach a Chinese language if you would like to expand the cultural understanding in New Zealand.
Teach Maori if you like grass skirts and cannibalism.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Ah, yes, Fletch, tom was a lot faster yesterday.
Or did you just copy and paste his post?
And did you actually read the original post? Now that you actually have it from the horses mouth.
I’d be curious what exactly do you object to in that post?
Why did Strauss not link to that post in his piece in the wjs? Would have been relative easy.
Probably because it didn’t support anything he actually said in his piece. He made some wild speculations and accusations with very little substance.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Morning peeps.
http://nowoccupy.blogspot.com/2012/04/leadership-peculation-continues-over.html
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:27 am
adze – so why not learn Java first? When I did COSC121 the vogue was to pointlessly learn Modula-2 which absolutely no-one uses in the real world, because the principles are the same as some actually useful languages. Total waste of time. Just learn the useful languge first. Same amount of effort is required to learn. You’re advocating the equivalent of learning to drive a tank as an aid to learning to drive a car. You’ll never need to drive a tank. Just learn to drive a car.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:36 am
As a matter of fact I am learning Java
(I also plan to learn C, as the Arduino platform uses it, but that’s another topic).
Vote:Any other language would be useful at the cognitive level. I just think Te Reo would also be useful in terms of learning where some local perspectives come from (which, if nothing else, is essential in negotiation).
April 29th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Yeah Yeah…Shearer will see off the fake challengers to give him some ‘gravatis’ in the eyes of a pathetic and ignorant public…NZ Labour’s ‘moving forward in action’ moment…and NZ’s usual Pravda-type journo’s will go along with it as Fairfax has also been sold down to about 80cents on the ASX last week….newspaper anyone ?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Griff- Many of our schools let kids answer exams in ‘Txt’ speak, such is the high regard the English language is held in New Zealand these days…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Philunthrepee (n) – the deliberate, systematic rorting of the welfare system over a life-time by an able-bodied idiot ~ he justified his philunthripee by claiming his nearly adult son required him to be at home or at the public library around the clock, even during school hours . adj. Philunthrepic ~ his philunthrepic behaviour was attributed to extreme laziness, selfishness and a sense of entitlement. syns. arsehole, lazy bullshitting little prick
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:07 am
f.y.i..that person who commented@11.00 am is one of keys’ inner-circle’…an ‘adviser’…
..whoar..!..eh..?
..are they all as raving/rabid..?..those ‘advisers/that inner-circle..?..you’d have to ask…
..or is he/she an exception to the general rule…?
..if the former..(once again)..whoar..!..eh..?
.phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Lol da vinci.
Where did the “key advisor” thing come from anyway?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:12 am
Adze: where all his other “original” ideas come from…THC saturated blood…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:12 am
As someone well practiced in the art of communicating whilst functionally illiterate
Vote:There is a vast difference between communicating ideas and being good at spelling punctuation and hand writing
To some degree the revolution of the information age negates the handicap of functional illiteracy
Who needs to write or spell with spell checkers and word processing as universal
Its more the adults who fail to read or add at even the basic level that we need to worry about
Teaching them Maori is a total waste of time. It limits their horizons to the content of a stone age culture and little more.
April 29th, 2012 at 11:13 am
redbaiter outed him/her…
..a ‘media-adviser’..apparantly…
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:15 am
adze
His drug-addled little bird brain. He conjured it up a while ago. I’ve suggested to him that when he’s repeated it enough to the point that he actually believes it, he might then try this little mantra: I must stop being a lazy bludging little prick and get a job, I must stop being … etc. Eventually, if we’re all lucky, he might start to believe that as well.
I only wish I was Key’s adviser. I’d have the lazy little prick off the bludge by lunchtime.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:16 am
It was re-assuring to hear David Parker tell the nation on Q&A that there was absolutely no move afoot to roll David SHEARER and that he and the Labour Party were in behind and perfectly happy with his leadership.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:18 am
… translation … he’s a goner!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:22 am
backster,
It seemed more a case of Parker telling us all that he doesn’t think there is, or needs to be, a challenge.
Given that the most likely alternatives right now are David Cunliffe (whom Parker thought he was standing against) and the guy who was supposed to have run as his loyal deputy, I’m not at all surprised that Parker doesn’t think there is any cause for a change in leadership.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:23 am
David Garrett
9.27
Certainly more to come. Will be very interesting to see how sophisticated the and restrained the information flow will be if it comes from Dotcom, in the meantime a 1,000 hacks will be digging and be being fed morsels.
I wonder about the timing of it all, particularly that Dotcom has a lot more important stuff on his plate. However, he could simply be confident with good reason.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Philibuster
The art of fucking a thread by endless, irrelevant, meaningless nonsense.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Nookin’ – very good. How about Philibuster (alt) – shooting one’s own argument full of holes …
TVDM – Philunthrepee – still laughing (if I was younger I’m sure I’d be LOLing)
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Anyone know what philatio means?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Nookin: To attempt to copy the habits of one’s vegan dog? Because if they eat the same diets, surely the owner should be able to….well…you know.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:40 am
Nookin’
Swallowing your own nonsense?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:40 am
Hey! Are you guys Philuphobes?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Ouch !
i’m going to be much more carefull parking from now on.
http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-744542-1-1.html
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:48 am
bhudson
sounds about right to me.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:48 am
Philunorrhoea (n) a constant dribbling of the keyboard accompanied by an unfortunate burning sensation in the eyes of a reader. ~ The comment presented with clinical signs of philunorrhoea in the form of a jumbled assortment of elipses and questionmarks, interspersed with the ocassional letter. See also Philurrhoea
Philurrhoea (n) a looseness of the bowels induced by excessive exposure to philunorrhoea ~ the avalanche of philunorrhoea was of such epic proportions that the reader was bent over double with such a violent attack of philurrhoea that he/she barely made it to the lavotory in time.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:50 am
Nookin
I think you mean philutio.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:53 am
David Garrett (1,499) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 9:09 am
PEB: the comments beneath suggest it is a hoax…
……………………..
I’m taking issue with you over this DG, its in the media so it must be true, surely ( shirley???)…………….
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Another sad case of friendly fire: Hunter shot by friend
I would seriously question the mode of hunting – six people spotlighting but separated in groups or alone.
Spotlighting at all with high powered rifles is very risky, as it’s often impossible to know what’s in range behind any target. Bullets travel much further than the light from a spotlight.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Philutely n. welfare benefit collecting. ~ He sat on his arse all day enaged in his favorite pastime of philutely
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Philusophistry n. a system of principles founded on falsehoods, half-baked conspiracy theories and inanities, intended to bite the hand that feeds you
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
davinci: Very clever sir…unless you are a comedian already, you are in the wrong game…but where is the subject of our derision? Cooking up? Making sure “the nipper” has got his underpants on the right way?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
griff, delayed responding to you. I’ve been at church
Jump to conclusions much?
Not in the slightest. I was you who made the unfathomable leap that allowing objectivity and enquiry, rather than insisting on certainty in teaching of science was a somehow driven by creationists.
No. I’m amused a lot by you though. In our earlier discussion I answered the same question about my beliefs.. the same way as at 9:11 above. You really should keep up.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/craig-thomson-to-quit-alp-report-20120429-1xsiz.html
Australian general election looming in the next month?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
hudson – classic!
D Garrett
I suspect his philubitis is playing up ( n. Inflammation of the work ethic.)
Either that or he is busy undertaking his study of philulogy (n. the science of the destruction of language)
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
“…where is the subject of our derision?”
Isn’t there a protest march somewhere?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
A protest march?? That requires the expenditure of energy old boy!
davinci: You’re a clever bastard sir, and no mistake…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
davinci – love your work!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Philharponic n. An incessant droning of irrelevance.
Philustine n. An intellectual pygmy, often seen prevaricating in an attempt to exaggerate self importance
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Thats very funny you or other A
was trumpeting this http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tennessee-law-will-allow-teachers-to-challenge-climate-science
“Enacted April 10, the legislation instructs school officials not to prohibit teachers from informing students about the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of “scientific controversies,” such as biological evolution.
Science education groups are outraged, arguing the law has nothing to do with academic freedom — and everything to do with finding new ways to undermine the teaching of evolution with trumped-up “controversies” and unscientific “weaknesses” disguised as science.
Dubbed the “monkey bill” by opponents, Tennessee’s law is the latest round in the long-running battle about teaching evolution in the science curriculum of public schools.”
Sort of the same approach to reality as your monkey business denial on climate change.
Vote:As I have told you many times alt science makes me laugh
they are almost as fun as lefty global conspiracies to take over the world.
April 29th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
philunderer n. A man who repeated uderachieves in seekin multiple flirtatious liaisons.
philuctery n. A small box carried by rare men to hold writings of ridicule against religious oponents
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Philadelphia
If WC Field had only known he would never have made that immortal comment.
Philandectomy: Lobotomisation by gradual process of potsmoking and inertia.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
philo-philes:..(def:)..an unhealthy obsession with a stranger called phil…
..an obsession marked by both love and hate..and a surprising level of interest in the minutae of said phils’ life..
..generally seen as a marker that the sufferer should really make more effort to ‘get a life’..
philo-phobes:..(see above..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
philuharynx n. A cavity between the ears.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
David Garrett (1,501) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 9:09 am
PEB: the comments beneath suggest it is a hoax…
No mention in either of the online versions of the Sunday “newspapers” about the Banks affair…has ne one seen the hard copies? It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
It’s still a bit chilly out here to bike into the village…don’t drink and drive brothers and sisters! It really isn’t worth it.
Now DG, That’s the penance you are supposed to do so that in the future you will remember and will instead take a bike, But remember you can be charged DIC Bike. So be careful, enjoy a brisk walk and smile and then the world will wonder what the F..K you have done today.
Vote:Its great.
April 29th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
“philuharynx n. A cavity between the ears.” — the result of a philandectomy
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
ah maggie
You’ll be looking forward to kicking off the week with a wave of philuphoria tomorrow morning! (n. an almost overwhelming sense of well-being experienced by recidivist welfare bludgers at the prospect of another week on the public tit.)
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
DIC on a bike? Really? I’m unsafe on a bike after two beers. If I was stopped and DIC’ed if would have been a miracle that I’d made it to the copper with the breathalizer
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
garrett-o-mania…(def:..)
..signifies a walter mitty-type personality/defect..
..marked by an over-healthy confidence in ones’ worth..
..that self-worth invariably contradicted by the sufferers’ record..
..which is always criminal in nature…and across a range/variety of crimes/offences…
..(this is usually accompanied by a tourrettes-like inability to shut-up…
..and a pathological indifference to the victims of said crimes..)
..excessive alcohol-consumption is also usually present…
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Whoarphul: really horrible, mind-numbingly offensive as in “a whoarphul bludger..”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
philubotomy n. The inadvertent removal of an abnormally shrunken brain (esp. through drug use) through the nasal passage with a small pair of tweezers. ~ With another day of unemployment in prospect, he allowed himself the luxury of pursuing a particularly annoying nose hair but the combination of of a sneezing fit and shakey hands resulted in him performing a philubotomy.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
the pete-george-syndrome..(aka..the dithrerer-virus..)
..this condition is marked by an inability to decide…
..the simplest of choices in the sufferers’ life are marked by an agony of ‘what-if’s?’/..’on-the-other-hand”s…
..leaving the patient frozen where they always have been..
(this virus/syndrome is generally attributed to over-strict/demanding/perfectionist parents..usually the mother-figure..)
the only suggested cure is for them to surrender those choices/decisions to another…
..this sometimes found in a partner similar to the mother-figure…and taking their place..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Something for you all to rave over this Afternoon. Enjoy.
The Treaty, beautifully explained by a wise and honest Maori leader
http://johnansell.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/the-treaty-beautifully-explained-by-a-wise-and-honest-maori-leader/
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
krazykiwi (7,785) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
DIC on a bike? Really? I’m unsafe on a bike after two beers. If I was stopped and DIC’ed if would have been a miracle that I’d made it to the copper with the breathalizer
Ah tis but true in this land of nannies and pimps. (oh and wierdo’s too. Nearly forgot Phil).
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
the johnboy-syndrome:..
..this is found in elderly sots who have always drunk…
..and have therefor never matured into adults…
..and this immaturity is often marked by simple/child-like speech..and an over-reliance/use of smileys syndrome..
..with the level of drunkeness often able to be marked by the time of day/night..(they are often in synch…)
..(see also the be-real-syndrome..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
philugocyte n. A parasitic microbe that absorbs money.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
davinci.
Just love the philubotomy
Could it not also mean - “the old style enema, where a hose is pushed up the anus, and a soupy liquid inserted to encourage evacuation of the bowel.”
This would apply to philu extremely well.
Trouble is, he might enjoy it, and thus gain another addiction.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
the don-the-kiwi-syndrome..
..an unhealthy obsession with the faecal-discharges of others…
..(traceable-cause being physical-punishment used during patients’ toilet-training..)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Philustrade
A sloping rail, used on a stairway, designed for the safety of stairway users. Often used as a slide by philusites who wish to take the quick and easy way down. Frequently surrounded by philophobes who look forward to the final encounter between the philusite and the bottom of the philustrade
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Crikey; look what I started with Philution!!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
KS
Is that a rephilution or ephilution?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
phool “..the simplest of choices in the sufferers’ life are marked by an agony of ‘what-if’s?’/..’on-the-other-hand”s…”
says the guy who can’t make it through/complete any comment/statement without half a dozen occaisions/examples of not being able/willing to choose/decide between/from two words/phrases so he puts/uses a slash/stroke between/betwixt them.
And fail to see/grasp/understand the irony/idiocy.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Put it away 9:31 am. Nailed it. They could perhaps learn a trade. That way they could get a second job at above minimum wage to pay all the extra taxes they’ll be facing. The taxes they’ll be paying to suport all the stuff the political class have inflicted on us over the last fifty years.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Zapper 12:34. If it’s bad for Labor, it’s good for Australia. Thanks for the link.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Philucrat: One so lazy he gets others to pick up his benefit cheque for him.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Phil Ure wins again.
Phil baits, you react, you lose.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
philugmatic n. Unexcited by work. ~ … so being a somewhat pointless and philugmatic individual as a consequence of chronic philubitis and his philugocytic nature, and having limited employment options by virtue of being rendered a philustine, initially by his philandectomy and then the subsequent and unfortunate philubotomy, he chose the path of philunthrepee and his jaws remained clamped tight on the public tit accordingly …
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Gosh Scotty.
That’s a bit philharponical don’t you think??
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Scott, it’s not been Phil doing the baiting today. He’s tried a bit of a weak response but he’s probably feeling philthy about da mode of attention he’s been getting.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Scott Chris does not find the thread particularly phoolphilling.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
key is claiming ‘there is no evidence’ against banks..(!)
..hilarious..!
..cd someone email him that campbell-piece…?
..and the holmes interview from this morning..?
..’no evidence..’..(!)’
brilliant..!
..see key duck..see key weave…
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
“Phil baits, you react, you lose”
Is Phil Baits any relation to Norman Baits from Phsyco?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
“..a weak response ..”..?
and that from the master of ‘the weak response’..?..the great-ditherer himself..?
..even more hilarity..!
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
they do say the pun is the last refuge of the chronically-unfunny…
..this thread would seem to confirm that particular aphorism..
..phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Scotty figures its just a lot of tomphoolery.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
you do know that be-real will be chewing table-legs over this thread…eh..?
..and will soon be drunk enough to come along and abuse you all..eh..?
..steel yrslves..!
..eh..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Philtering out most of your crap isn’t weak. That’s almost always an instant non dither decision.
A fillet steak would be nice for tea tonight.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
the krazy-kiwi syndrome..
..a form of schitzophrenia,,
..marked by six days of the week of the most unchristian of troll-bile/abuse..
..followed by a day of pious-humbug..at church…
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
“..A fillet steak would be nice for tea tonight..”
are you sure..?..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Scotty’s phillopian tube is blocked.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Maybe its’s just that he’s become conphiluted.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Philistine – 2. a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.
Vote:Philistine – 3. a person who is hostile or indifferent to employment.
Philistine – 4. a person who is hostile or indifferent to readable prose.
April 29th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
“they do say the pun is the last refuge of the chronically-unfunny…”
Here are some really unfunny writers who should have consulted Phil before punning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
phil – where’s the abuse? You steal money from me (and from the family next door, and the ones down the road from you) on a daily basis. man up and take it. better still, have some dignity and show some respect for your fellow NZers by getting an income-earning, tax-paying job.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
GD today is phunny as phuck!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Philutelist
Someone who collects welfare stamps.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
krazy-kiwi..sshhh!!!..it’s sunday..!
..save/bottle it up for tomorrow..eh..?
..today is the day for pious-self-regarding-humbug..eh..?
..oh..!..hang on..!
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Phleece n. – to plunder; swindle.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
@ Pete George – surely you mean a phillet steak, with phries
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Now thats all great fun,
and i think that Scott Chris got it in one. @ 3.30. Because….
The object of your derision has no shame. No ‘kin nothing. (an embarrasment to New Zealand some may say.)
But when he is being mocked, derided, scoffed at, laughed at, he will cop that and suck that up and even be
encouraged because at least the thing he fears most hasn’t happened so far.
He isn’t being ignored.
Just imagine you have amounted to fuck all in your whole pathetic life (all you can claim to fame to justify
your existence is that you have procreated a sprog) all you have left is to try and be a smartarse on a blogsite
and then you are ignored. What have you got ?
But now here is a serious question.
Imagine that you live in a group of unit title properties.
You are the only proprieter out of 8 that doesn’t own a cat.
The woman next door has 4 cats.
Every morning you go outside your front door to find that cats have shit in your flowerbed or on your lawn.
It stinks. There are legions of flys.
You have done every thing you can think of to discourage these cats from shitting by your front door.
Fenced your whole garden off with chicken wire.
Spread citronella all over.
Spent a poultice on cat repellent from the garden centre.
Asked your neighbour to provide a catbox with kittylitter on her own section to entice her cats to
shit in their own nest.
Nothing has worked so far.
Are you now within your rights to go to the final solution.
Bury a set rat trap just below the soil in their favourite spot to crap.
While i am pretty sure that that would solve the problem, it may cost a cat its foot.
(i have considered shooting a cat with the noise suppressed .22 and throwing its body up on the road to look like
road kill but as an animal lover i am loath to do that.)
Have you had this problem yourself, how did you solve it ?
Vote:Is the rat trap beneath the soil going too far ?
April 29th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
inphooltrate v. The act of intervening in a discussion by a person who is the subject of a discussion but who has not been invited and is not welcome to participate in it.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
looks like be-real has reached the required levels of intoxication..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Philutopia n. A place where welfare is denominated in equal portions of cocaine and heroin, where the library next door burnt to the ground but not before the part-time librarian/chemist was forced a surrender the internet-connected PC at gunpoint, where the dogs graze lazily between the stands of hemp (being slavishly tendered by right-wing gardeners), and where dependent children are endued with the notion that all this is normal and reasonable, and that it should be paid for by those outside Philutopia. See also Philuboots.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Phlippant adj. characterised by a shallow or disrespectful levity.
Phlimsy adj. without material strength or solidity.
Phlop v. [1] to yield or break down suddenly; fail -n. [2] a failure.
Phlotsam n. rubbish floating directionlessly.
Phlue n. passage for hot air to escape.
Phlush n. [1]a rushing or over spreading flow. [2] waves of heat, as during fever, menopause, etc.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
aah..nookin..!..i too am a fan of the well-turned/tuned pun..(carlin…mmmm!!!!..)
..unfortunately none on show today…
..and it is a great gulf between the good-pun…
..and the rest..
..eh..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Bereal — please. The English language is so much the richer from Pill’s contribution. It all goes back 30 years when a drug crazed Ure raided a pharmacy and so gave us “highPhillooting”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
“unfortunately none on show today…”
Yeah, Phil, but it’s pissing down and there’s not much else to do.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
“..slavishly tendered(sic) by right-wing gardeners)”..
..do they starve their plants of basic nutrients..?
..and just rely on weather-forces..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Ah Nookin’. Now that is clever
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
exphooliate v. The unfortunate act of releasing a highphillooting criminal from incarceration to a life of philunthrepee.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Your all mad.The phoolfacation of philu Takes up considerably more space than his link whoaring
Vote:Why do we have to be reminded twenty odd times a day that philu is on the dpb
Do you all think he will be an easy lay cause hes a solo parent?
April 29th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
aren’t most men ‘easy lays’..?
..i thought it came with the territory..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
aphiluction v. An agitated reaction to putting shit on a benefit fraudster.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
(not) da vinci is gagging for a ‘syndrome-definition’..
and for just that reason…he/she ain’t getting one..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Aphiluence n. Wealth accumulated through a lifetime of philunthrepee.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Philates n. a fitness regimen that introduces sitting, bonging and babbleing.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
no matter how much he/she jumps up and down..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
This thread is Philabulous
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
“..a fitness regimen that introduces sitting, bonging and babbleing…”
you left out dog-walking/cycle-riding/light weight-training/no animal-bits-diet..
..my body is a temple..
..one nurtured by the magical ‘erb..eh..?
..phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Conphilugration n. Widespread condemnation of philunthrepee.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Ok i just about give up.
i guess you blokes know you are giving him the best day of his sick non life so far.
This will give the drong the biggest hardon he ever had since he came back from being banned.
He will be able to show ‘the nipper’ when he gets home.
“Look son, dad is not just a zero after all.”
Some people do still talk to me.
But seriously, what about those fuken cats ?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
and of course..no alcohol…
it so dulls the mind..
..(as evinced by the sots who lurk here…)
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
“..you are giving him the best day of his sick non life so far…”
hardly darling…i saw james brown at the apollo in harlem..
..i’ve been kissed by a dolphin..
..i’ve eyeballed with a whale..in the wild..
..i’ve seen my children being born..
..as just some examples of many..’best days’…
..eh..?
..and you..?
..phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Phortune – a government funded benefit.
Phounder – someone who doesn’t begin anything.
Phrantic – excited by nothing.
Phorum – an assembly for the discussion of a particular matter of no significant importance.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Looks like General Debate is becoming Philubate
No blame attaches to Philu for this set of affairs.
For once, I am on the side of Griff and Bereal, believe it or not!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
phil-thy…loathsomely dirty, vile. obscene:very unpleasant
disclosure: DG is away from the keyboard at this time. Northern Wahine takes full responsibility for this post. *insert appropriate emote here, I choose a *smirk*
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Haha – love it!
But we may have forgotten the notorious:
philusaurus. (n) – A member of the pond scum leech genus. An ugly, slimy creature that sucks an existence from the lifeblood of others. A parasite by definition, the philusaurus can be found in any location where a free lunch can be hoovered.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
“i guess you blokes know you are giving him the best day of his sick non life so far.”
Well, why not. We’ve been paying paying his way for 16 years or so. We may as well get some return for it even if it is only a day’s distraction.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
This is what happens when you get the ignorant to teach an anti-bullying programme – he ends up bullying Christian high school students.
http://bit.ly/IbgviF
Good for Miss Patterson and the 100 other students.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
“Bereal, believe it or not!”
Sounds like a new reality TV show. Anyone we know in it?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Thanks for noticing Nookin. I thought it was clever, too.
And it appears DG’s off course sub is as neanderthal as the man himself.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
fletch..!
..are ya gonna give us the details of the contents of yr rapture-pack..
..and do you carry it with you at all times..?
..’cos..ya never know…eh..?
..when that glorious event will arrive..
..eh..?
..do you include clean underwear..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
phoolatio – the art of acquiring cigarettes while in prison for armed robbery… whoar!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Philm Noir – a cctv segment on Crimewatch.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
[apologising in advance] did we already have –
philletio – verb, the act responding to Philu’s constant mouthings
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
krazy-kiwi..
do you have a rapture-pack..?
if not..why not..
if so..what’s in it..?
..and why..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
A philubuster is a debating tactic used on Kiwiblog that makes discussion of any other issue impossible.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
“..Philm Noir – a cctv segment on Crimewatch…”
that’s quite funny…well done there..!
..anonymous rightwing troll..!
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Problem here seems that today you all have philaddiction Addicted to phil
Makes for fun reading and Philsintheday( reads general debate on kiwiblog).
Must say I commend Phil on his good humour whjile all this has gone down. Most of the rest of you would have got struck done with philinsanity. (as in sent to the madhouse)
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:02 pm
the northern-wahine syndrome:..
..one where present-day indigenous females seek to re-create the oppression/subjugation to white men/masters meme…
..from colonial times..
.and always with short/corpulent men with nasty 70′s porn-actor moustaches…
..(this is recognised as a form of masochism…both the voluntary subjugation..and the interaction with the nasty 70′s porn-actor moustaches..)
..there is no known cure..
..phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
philuhardongst
What happens when u see all the fuken drongs queue up to suck your tit.
Why can’t we talk about sumsing important,
Vote:like thye cats that shit in my garden ?
April 29th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Yvette, did you really have to conjure up such images.
http://screencast.com/t/cehRSEwdfp
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
http://screencast.com/t/AOhUmZLO
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
A blonde finds herself in serious trouble. Her business
has gone bust and shes in dire financial straits. Shes
so desperate that she decides to ask God for help. She
begins to pray¦ God, please help me. Ive lost my
business and if I don’t get some money, I’m going to lose
my house as well. Please let me win the lotto.
Lotto night comes, and somebody else wins it.
She again prays¦ God, please let me win the lotto!
Ive lost my business, my house and I’m going to lose my
car as well. The Lotto night comes and she still has no
luck.
Once again, she prays¦ My God, why have You forsaken me?
Ive lost my business, my house, and my car. My children
are starving. I don’t often ask You for help, and I have
always been a good servant to You.
Please let me win the lotto just this one time so I can get
my life back in order.
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens
open. The blonde is overwhelmed by the Voice of God Himself
Sweetheart, work with Me on this¦ Buy a ticket.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
There’s a Space Shuttle mission to the moon with two monkeys and a blonde woman on board.
The headquarters in the US calls:
“Monkey number 1, Monkey number 1 to the television screen.”
He sits down and he is told to release the pressure in compartment 1, note the temperature in engine 4 and to release oxygen to the thrusters.
So the monkey does the pressure, checks the temperature and releases the oxygen.
A few moments later headquarters calls again:
“Monkey number 2, monkey number 2 to the television screen.”
He sits down and he is told to add Carbon Dioxide to room 4, to stop the fuel injection to engine 3, to add nitrogen to the fuel compartment and to analyse the solar radiation.
So the monkey does the carbon dioxide, the fuel injection, the nitrogen and the analysis of solar radiation.
A little later on, headquarters calls again:
“Blondie please, blondie approach the screen.”
She sits down and just as she is about to be told what to do she says…..
“I know, I know!! Feed the monkeys, don’t touch anything.”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the concept explained any better than this.
“Well you see,it’s like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first..
This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells.
Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells.. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
And that is why you always feel smarter after a few drinks.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Viking – that must mean the “I really shouldn’t put the moves on that fat chick” braincells are staggering around in an emaciated state with buzzards circling.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Some may want to talk about sum stuff.
i was trying to get sum help regarding cats shitting in my garden.
OK , all the philuhardongsts need to speak up first.
When u have all cum…. what about a serious subject.
Cats shitting in your garden ?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Having sort of started this, could I perhaps suggest that we ignore the bloke now, given that our object for the day has been phulphilled
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
So KS
Do you mean you have philcumd?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
This is more fun than skipping over Philu’s posts but me thinks we are Philatering the Ph(a)ilure
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Viking2.
“A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo”
What happens when the buffalo strike a patch of marajuana?
Vote:They get smarter and get the Govt to protect them
April 29th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Time to do the dishes. I endorse V2′s comments about the good humour which which Phil has received his roast.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
This is probably the most significant thing the phool has ever done in his sad no account life…be the fall guy for others…but he will see this as a victory!! After all, he has got more attention here than he ever had on his sad little site…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Comments from newer people about the resident magpie are quite good. He is trying hard by making comments about the comments about him.
Vote:But nobody is communicating with the Phool, that is a good thing. Won’t be long before he spits the dummy.
Phantastic
April 29th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Keeping Stock – to pre-empt this from plunging off in another direction, please consider the following as doing that possibilty to death …
Uranyl – not selecting one word [for fear of making finite decisions] but using several similar alternatives and separating those with forward slashes [see uranyl retentive]
Urban – not saying anything derogative about ‘The Boy’
Urban myth – you can say stuff about ‘The Boy’ after all
Urinate – incontinent use of ellipsis
Uralic – an old news item that Phil thinks is new
Urchin – what gets dribbled over most
Urn – oxymoronic
Urological – Phil thinks it is correct, so it must be
Urophilia – something that pisses Phil off
Urostyle – double spaced writing without capitals or logic but with overuse of ellipsis and multiple word choices separated by forward slashes
Urticate, urtucating, urtications – pain caused to index finger overuse in scrolling past urostyle posts
Uruguayans – people bereal hates for encouraging Phil
Uruk – what bereal would like to happen to Phil
Uroscopy – people who also post one phrase to a line and double space those lines
urticate – using ‘..eh?…’ in ending a comment
..eh?…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
I think the Phool has been roasted today. Celebrity Roast? only in his own dopetime
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
A Redneck went to the hospital as his wife was having a baby.
Upon arriving he sits down, and the nurse says,
“Congratulations, your wife has had quins, 5 big baby boys.”
The Redneck says, “I’m not surprised, I have a penis on me like a chimney.”
The nurse replies, “You might want to consider getting it cleaned, the babies are black.”
;o
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
A Mother in Law Joke
A big-game hunter went on safari with his wife and mother-in- law. One
evening, while still deep in the jungle, his wife awoke to find her mother
gone. Rushing to her husband, she insisted on them both trying to find her
mother.
The hunter picked up his rifle, took a swig of whiskey, and started to look
for her. In a clearing not far from the camp, they came upon a chilling
sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a thick, impenetrable bush,
and a large male lion stood facing her. The wife cried, “What are we going
to do?”
“Nothing,” said the hunter husband. “The lion got himself into this mess,
let him get himself out of it.”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Prime Minister John Key today rejected calls to stand Banks down from Cabinet and said he was happy with the assurances he had received from the ACT leader.
I wonder if this is the right move by Key.
Somehow I don’t think is going to end well, and Key should have done much more to distance himself, fast. At least neutralise his response to leave options open, not endorse the guy. He could have at least done that.
Even though Hulun was the worst PM we have ever had, she had brilliant and accurate political instincts in situations like this – even if she didn’t always do the right thing, as say, per Peters, she always instantly knew what the right thing to do, would have been. Something which Key lacks completely – he just doesn’t have the training and sadly his advisors who are supposed to cover that for him – Messrs Brownlee and McCully – don’t fill that bill, at all – quite the opposite in fact. Consequently to the public he comes across kinda like Sergeant Jones from Dad’s Army in that way and I think this will be one of things where it shows – again. Why the hell does ANYONE rate McCully? On anything. I have always wondered. This is not rocket science FFS, is it.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Quote du Jour: “Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.” Martha Burgess,
Fair to say many today have been imitating the magpie.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
“..Won’t be long before he spits the dummy…”
..steve..i’m as mellow-as…
..cat is draped over shoulder..purring in my ear…
..dogs around me..
..one munching/eating..
..not even near dummy-spitting here..
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Two indigenous Australians were driving their well used and abused old EH Holden wagon in the outback recently, when off in the distance they saw a police “booze bus”.
Rather than trying to avoid it, the driver headed straight for it. As they pulled up, the driver wound his window down and said ‘Gidday brudders! Two cold cans of Emu Export, tanks!’
The copper glared at him and said ‘You must be drunk! Get out of the car and blow into this tube!’
The driver said ‘Sorry boss, I can’t blow in ta dat fing, I gotta a letter from me doctor in Alice Springs saying dat I’m asthmatic
and I’ll pass out if I blow inta dat.’
The cop smirked and said ‘OK, in that case, we require you to give us a blood sample.’
‘Nah, nah sorry, boss,’ replied the driver. ‘Can’t be doin’ that eifer. Got a letter from the Red Cross in Darwin sayin’ that I’m a haemophiliac and I could bleed to deaf rel quick if I gave a blood sample. Nah, sorry, boss, can’t do that!’
By now the copper was getting very irate so he demanded that the driver provide a urine sample for testing.
The driver shook his head and said
‘Nah, sorry boss, can’t do that eifer.’
The copper protested ‘Surely you haven’t got a letter for that as well!!!’
‘Blood oath, mate!’ says the driver,
Vote:‘It’s from Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister of this lovely Country of Australia . She’s apologised, and it says that you whitefellas can’t take the piss out of us blackfellas no more!
April 29th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
On a serious topic, as drones flood US police departments and are arriving into Australia, how long before a sycophantic National government softens us up for their use here?
It’ll be worth going to the mattresses for that fight!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Yvette: that is very very good…sadly the subject is too far gone to appreciate it…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Cats shitting in your garden ?
May be an urban myth, Bereal, but try leaving a few clear plastic coke bottles half full of water round the lawn area – makes them want to do No 1 instead, possibli. (Your mileage may vary and I don’t have the problem so haven’t tried it myself.) FWIW.
Alternatively when I was a kid I used to prop an upside-down box up on the lawn and have a bit of string leading into my bedroom window, with some bread in the box, hoping to catch the odd sparrow, but it never worked and I never caught one although frustratingly the bait was gone when I got back from a break, I noticed a few times. However if you’re bored one day and you put some delicious catfood in it and you trigger the trap and leave them there for awhile that might scare them enough they never venture onto your lawn again. Perhaps you’d better check the RSPCA about that one lest you be arrested for falsely imprisoning a cat.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Crusaders 37-33. Phew!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Gordon Bennett….the old “bottles of water deter cats/dogs” thing??? so last century…
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
I was clearing out my late German grandfather’s wardrobe and decided to give all his old clothes to the local charity shop.
I handed over the bag of clothes to the assistant who was rummaging through it when a horrified expression formed on her face.
“How dare you bring this uniform in to my shop” she exclaimed angrily. “This is a symbol of pain, shame and humiliation.”
Hugely embarrassed at this turn of events, I quickly took back the bag.
“I’m truly sorry” I said. “I had no idea he was an Hurricanes fan.”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
“..Uruguayans – people bereal hates for encouraging Phil
Uroscopy – people who also post one phrase to a line and double space those lines..”
those two are funny…
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
On a serious topic, as drones flood US police departments and are arriving into Australia, how long before a sycophantic National government softens us up for their use here?
You mean a false flag Luc? Some sort of explosion that topples Sky City perhaps? Blame it on “awab tewwowists” and bingo, the sheeple even demand those drones (as well as being strip searched at the airports) in order to “pwotect us?”
Well its happened before obviously hasn’t it. Why not here?
I’m surprised the Herald didn’t pretend that Nigerian lady with the knife awhile ago was Al-Qa’ida – perhaps they know we’ve got a few more braincells then your average Brit or American eh?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Luc Hansen (3,560) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
On a serious topic,
Bugger serious, Kiwiblog hit new highs today.
Bereal, try a saucer of antifreeze in the garden – works wonders and you can keep the car going with the remainder.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Be real
Vote:the most effective cure is owning a large brown boxer dog that is trained to attack strange cats on sight
As an added bonus the dog also works for trick or treaters, Jehovah Witnesses, politicians and Mormons
Of course the dog is so silly he would not know wot to do if he actually caught one.
Last boxer was better he did know wot to do with night time shopping Maori.He gave two or three loverly bite shaped tattoos
April 29th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Vote:
April 29th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Gordon Bennett….the old “bottles of water deter cats/dogs” thing??? so last century…
OK Dave, in person I’d recommend a cattle prod to Beryl but I’m not allowed to say that because everything these days thanks to you bloody poofy politicians is so namby fucking pamby we can’t even electrocute animals without the whole woolly woofter lefty brigade getting up in arms and issuing prosecution notices all over the place, hence my water-bottle suggestion.
And since you were a politician at some stage then by definition and implication and law even, this is in fact, ALL YOUR FAULT. Period.
Normally I wouldn’t have mentioned all of that but you made me with your 7:50. So it’s still all your fault, although I know I could have emailed you with this, so perhaps it’s 1% my fault and 99% your fault.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Yeah right. You can use the bible as a justification to bully young people, but when someone calls your bible bullshit, you walk out? Really? Very rich of you to call Dan Savage ignorant, Fletch,
When people stop putting up with christian bullying which they had too endure for centuries, suddenly the poor christians become the “bullied”. It’s exposes how truly ridiculous your positions are.
Questioning your twisted moral opinions based on some obscure writing by some backward goat-herders two millennia ago is not bullying. Especially not if you justify your own bullying and discrimination based on that obscure writing.
It’s merely ending the undeserved privilege, that you have had for such a long time, of not having to justify your positions with thinking and reason.
Good to hear in the video the cheering of most students.
Great journalistic teaching as well, when they teach you to walk away when you hear something that offends you!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
twitchy-jim/reid..
do you have a rapture-pack..?
if not..why not..
if so..what is in it..?
and why..?
and do you include clean underwear..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Bill Mather [New Rules April 27] is amazed the US Supreme Court allowed Mitt Romney’s team to get a $10 million “anonymous” donation.
“For all we know,” Mather jests “it came from Vladimir Putin, or Mel Gibson, or Kim Dotcom !” – audience applause and laughter.
They haven’t heard, have they?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:15 pm
I was given one of those 2012 prophecy books for Christmas. It was the usual bullshit:
The world will end
Vote:Jesus Christ will return
Aliens will land
The Hurricanes will win the 2012 Super 15 competition.
April 29th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Yvette
You listen to Bill Maher!!!
At least, I presume you listen to the iTunes audio – HBO won’t even let me buy the video. Which reminds me, I must email Sky about that – I believe they holds the rights to HBO shows here and that is why we can’t buy the ones they don’t show.
But I will now read your posts with new respect.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
A little kid, crying, can’t find his mother in the supermarket.
The store attendant says ‘Well, what does your mummy look like?’
The kid says, ‘I don’t know.’
http://screencast.com/t/syoKyUixw
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
twitchy-jim/reid..do you have a rapture-pack..?
phil, Proverbs was made for you, my
ignorant and arrogant hence foolishfriend10:18 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
12:15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise
14:16 A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of understanding.
26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.
The thing about the Bible phil is its full of layers – meanings within meanings. Every single word of every single sentence in the entire Bible has multiple layers of meaning, even the geneology records, believe it or not. The layer I’m personally on in my own journey at the moment re: the proverbs is understanding precisely how profoundly flawed and incorrect and misdirected King Solomon was in the Book of Proverbs in terms of what he was doing when it was being put together vs what it says. It’s not my main area of current interest just one of the peripheral ones. Christianity is a fascinating journey phil, only fools never begin it.
Does it never occur to you for example to wonder why great minds throughout history have devoted their whole lives to this field? People who dismiss it as mere “God bothering” never cease to astound me, in their stupidity. Quite frankly they sadden me too, but I never mention that aspect of it, since I know they would look at that as mere condescension, which it is, from their frame of reference. But I don’t come from their frame of reference so I don’t worry about what they might think, about that.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
P.S. No, I don’t have a “rapture pack,” whatever you in your hallucination might imagine that to be.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
LJ
Let me know when you make a start on delayering ‘Revelations’. As you know, religion doesn’t count for much in my life but I admit to a certain fascination with the last Book. It is sufficiently cryptic to make ones brain hurt when reading it.
I’ll have leave it to you to bring me up to speed.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
All Hurricanes games will, from now on, be shown on the SKY Gay Adult Channel. A spokesman said:
“Watching 15 arseholes get hammered for 90 minutes was not considered appropriate for prime time TV.”
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
I believe that philu is referring to the strain of Cristian god bothers that believe that the end is nigh and have prepared a grab bag for such a civil defense emergency.
Mind you that would seem a little strange under such a scenario wot would you take?He knows who you are so no ID required. Maybe some sweeties to suck while you wait at the gates for st peter or the local bureaucracy to deal with your case. A role of pooh paper cause you now they always have shit ones in public places
I did read some were that a towel helps as well
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
And only bigger fools never leave it.
Vote:I too was a Christian until a) I read the Bible and b) starting thinking for myself.
April 29th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
I too was a Christian until a) I read the Bible and b) starting thinking for myself.
eszett if you ever thought you couldn’t do both at the same time, I know, not think but know, you are not looking at Christianity as I know, not think, it to be.
Some people get influenced in their view of Christianity by whatever it is the humans who happen to be around them at the time think its all about.
As you know, I hope, since you say you used to be a Christian, that sometimes whatever the humans say about it has nothing whatsoever to do with whatever it is that you and God truly in fact have going on deep inside and I just hope you’re giving that relationship the opportunity it needs.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Griff
I reckon that the best strategy for you & me is for us to wait until the reception committee are fitting LJ & krazykiwi out with their harps & clouds.
While they’re distracted we can pick the lock on the back door.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Leaping Jimmy –
Vote:In your unlayering, Peter, when he first denied Jesus after his capture, was in the company of another disciple. Who?
April 29th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
I’ll have leave it to you to bring me up to speed.
Try reading Romans as well nasska.
Fully understanding that book is a serious task at least equivalent to Revelations.
Why don’t you just ask the Lord, seriously, with true heart and soul and without smirking, to lead you to you the best possible explanation on Revelations, and believe that such will come to pass. That’s all you have to do. It’s not very difficult, is it.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
eszett, this is that same Dan Savage who came up with the term “Santorum” for google, and who joined a political campaign of someone he disliked, and tried to give the flu to everyone by licking doorknobs, coffee cups, etc etc…
What a piece of
Vote:shitwork. He is being condemned by conservative gays even.April 29th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
LJ
…”with true heart and soul”…..
Mission impossible…..the belief isn’t there.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
ps…
Good to hear in the video the cheering of most students.
Ahh the unwashed masses who have been brainwashed by liberal professors.
Vote:I feel sorry for the next generation.
April 29th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
@ Yvette – that’s going to be one of my questions to Peter one day. Like him I’m impulsive and sometimes say things before engaging the brain. It’s going to be cool to have an eternity to get to know him!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Yvette yes I think he was, but I forget who, perhaps you can tell me and why do you ask?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
will you have dinosaurs there..?
will you be able to ride them..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
I think id nip round the back looking for some of those 53 virgins.
Vote:Mind you that profit of the “one true god” tm did have a thing for goats.
I could never work out the lion lays down with the sheep thing
Seems that in this world interspecies copulation is somwot frowned upon.
It traumatized my childhood. Sunday school and that picture of the perverted lion and sheep.
Do you think acc could help with counseling?
April 29th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Keeping Stock
But what if you blot your copybook between now & departure date? You could end up chatting to one of Satan’s offsiders while undergoing a spot of roasting.
Back on your knees.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Phool
How is the job hunting going?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
what if the rapture came when you were having a wank..?
would you be forever frozen .. in-hand..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
don’t such practical questions/aspects trouble you..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
BB
How could you mention work to the man on the Sabbath of all days?
You Philistine!
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Nasska
Sabbath was yesterday, was it not?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:52 pm
You have it wrong all you have to do is send ten dollars to the church of the bleeding hart located somewhere in los Angles California and next week they will say your prayer on the radio and all your dreams will come true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4
Except not the sheep and the Lion thats just wrong..
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
nasska
Well in the last couple of weeks I have been on a mission to help my old pal Phool. I have sent him lot’s of links to the trade me and seek websites, on those sites are hundreds of minimum wage jobs that Phool could be applying for.
I do this because I know that Phool does not have the internet at home, he is at the library using the rate payer funded internet (I never did find out what Auckland library is open 24 hours) and I did not want poor old Phool to waste bandwidth seeking out job sites.
See nasska, I really am a generous and good bastard.
Now…I am off to help my other good pal D4J.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Nookin
Buggered if I know. The Concise Collins Dictionary holds thus:
1) The seventh day of the week, Saturday, Devoted to worship & rest from
work in Judaism & certain Christian Churches.
2) Sunday: observed by Christians as the day of worship & rest.
Mind you I don’t think the man in question had job seeking very high up on
Vote:his to do list yesterday either.
April 29th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Your chance to be a good guy was when that union man pushed you in the chest in the meat works big bruv, a more immediate moment, 3 knives at the hip – than decades later calling out insults, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
philu (11,646) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
what if the rapture came when you were having a wank..?
would you be forever frozen .. in-hand..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
philu (11,646) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
don’t such practical questions/aspects trouble you..?
phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
No not at all
Vote:philfool. You see this is the rather elementary distinction between spiritual and physical which the Bible makes terribly obvious in fact its so obvious to my own mind personally I rather think it’s designed.April 29th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Nostalgia-NZ
1. It was not at the meat works, it was a suburban butcher shop
Vote:2. I am not sure how asking Phool if he has found work yet can be construed as an insult, can you enlighten me please?
April 29th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Yes I wish the delete function was still available, that 10:09 doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Yep, that’s the one.
And you are quite good at twisting the facts.
Firstly it’s not Dan Savage who came up with the definition, but one of his readers.
He then googlebombed Santorum.
And why? Because he didn’t like him? Aren’t you omitting some important facts here, Fletch? Did Santorum not openly and publicly compare homosexuality to “man on child” and “man on dog”?
A fair response if you ask me to a politician prominently promoting bigotry and ignorance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
Who is the piece of shit here now. Fletch?
Again, you guys just can’t deal with people who stand up to you.
Says the guy who applauds the brainwashing of children with religious nonsense.
No, those guys have learned to think for themselves and make up their own minds.
If anything, one needs to feel sorry for those who are brainwashed to stand up and leave and stick their heads in the sand every time someone challenges them.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
LJ
Well, you can take comfort from the fact that it was a fairly hard subject
to explain at the best of times & at least you gave it a shot.
Did you know if you rearrange the letters in ‘religion’ it spells ‘ngoiilre’…
Yeah, still makes absolutely fuck all sense..
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Don’t you worry, Jimmy, I am giving god a chance at our relationship as much as I am giving Santa and the Easter Bunny at the relationship we used to have. And boy, what a deep relationship did we use to have.
Funny how it came all to an end with all three in very quick succession
Don’t get too hung up about me having been a Christian, it certainly wasn’t by choice. I was brought up in a very catholic environment and was being indoctrinated early on. Thankfully I inherited analytical and critical thinking and made use of it. Proud to say that I never made it to first communion.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
on and on they dance
they never tire, they strive to outdo themselves for their master.
Which one can demean himself more.
on and on, day after day,
from morning till night,
the philu drongs dance on.
See them dance, drong after drong,
the fuken idiots.
Which drong will be first to suck his tit tomorrow ?
Which drong will have the honour ?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Clearly to avoid the stinging accusation of brainwashing, every parent should raise their kids to believe what you do.
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Only one drong can have the ultimate honour each day,
first to suck his tit.
Then that drong will be rewarded beyond his wildest dreams.
philu will shit on him.
which drong will claim the prize ?
Vote:April 29th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Every parent should raise their children to have an open mind, be inquisitive, learn and think for themselves.
If they don’t, then hopefully the schools will do that for them.
Of course, some think that’s a bad thing.
Vote:April 30th, 2012 at 7:10 am
eszett (1,169) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
krazykiwi (7,795) Says:
April 29th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Says the guy who applauds the brainwashing of children with religious nonsense.
Clearly to avoid the stinging accusation of brainwashing, every parent should raise their kids to believe what you do.
Every parent should raise their children to have an open mind, be inquisitive, learn and think for themselves.
If they don’t, then hopefully the schools will do that for them.
Of course, some think that’s a bad thing.
Where ever did you get the idea that schools taught people to be open minded and inquisitive? If teachers were that then they wouldn’t be school teachers.
Vote:April 30th, 2012 at 7:14 am
So, who is going to be sacked and sued for libel now.This putfit should be cleaned out from the top. Right at the top. Dishonest, bullying etc etc. Customers would not be tollerate this in any private organization.
Recording at odds with ACC extortion allegations
PHIL KITCHIN
Last updated 05:00 30/04/2012
A recording of a critical meeting between senior ACC managers and the whistleblower who exposed a massive privacy breach reveals the corporation misled its minister and the public.
The corporation has alleged that client Bronwyn Pullar threatened at the meeting to go to the media unless she was given a guaranteed two-year benefit.
However, a recording of a key meeting in December between Ms Pullar, her support person Michelle Boag – a senior National Party figure – and two ACC managers is at odds with the corporation’s claims that were included in a report ordered by ACC Minister Judith Collins.
The ACC was given a transcript of the meeting more than three weeks ago, but has refused to correct its report.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6826982/Recording-at-odds-with-ACC-extortion-allegations
Oh dear. Time for heads to roll.
Vote:eh Ms Collins
April 30th, 2012 at 7:49 am
From a radical left wing organisation controlled by the teachers union called OECD:
Funny that NZ is right up the in science and math, and NZ being constantly in the top rankings in bang-for-buck stats regarding education.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf
The teachers seem to be doing something right.
Vote:April 30th, 2012 at 9:53 am
harriet. You are a ge(nus)nius. That was funny as hell.
Vote: