David Farrar has provided a damning post, mocking Labour’s Darien Fenton for suggesting the rich be fined more than the poor for traffic offences. Full of magnificent mockery, the post however completely ignores (either willfully or accidentally) the real argument behind such a fining regime.
Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique?
Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.
I have always prided myself on being economic with words. Vintner’s Luck can be summed up thusly: “Wine. Fallen angel. Breast cancer. Fungicide. Keisha’s tits.”
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If this guy was a better speaker, this would have been one of the greatest pranks of all time. As it is, it’s still not bad.
For context, he somehow got on the speaking list at an anti-immigration protest, and delivered this:
Let me say up front, I’m a supporter of strike action. If you don’t think you’re being treated fairly by your employer, and discussing it with them isn’t fixing it, then what better way to get the message across that simply refusing to work on their terms. It’s an important part of a functional employment landscape.
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Thank you Telecom. Thank you very much.
I mean, I know that any liveblog invariably contains some sort of messy tirade against the poor bastard providing the technical services for it – in this case, Jackson James Wood’s cellphone hooked up to Telecom’s XT network.
Poor, disadvantaged Joel Cosgrove and Heleyni Pratley of the Wellington Workers Party are up in arms that they have been trespassed from Victoria University for protesting fee rises, in a press statement entitled Victoria University: No Free Speech Here Thanks.
Wait… hold up a second.
This weekend Daniel and Jackson will embark upon a journey to the undoubted arsehole of New Zealand: New Plymouth—no offense Palmerston North, of course. It was close.
Some of our readers may remember recently, when Jackson spearheaded an earnest campaign to win the seat of Mount Albert from his stronghold in Wellington. Resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media, the campaign was still a great success, with almost tens of Mount Albert residents swinging in behind Wood.
An avid reader of AbsoluteGenius pointed out this remarkable resemblance to me earlier.
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