its your choice....

Its your choice dude.
Okay. So what are the alternatives?
Hellraiser 11 or the Princess Bride
True Stories (a general all purpose movie) or the Fast and Furious
Willow or some other ghastly shit.
Just saw a horrible little noise bomb going up the main road.
As long as new Zealanders chose to let this sort of stuff go past without doing anything about it then they have no alternative but to put up with it.
I recall being in a video shop a few years back and a young couple were arguing about which movie to hire on their limited budget. He wanted some gore fest ans she wanted something nice.
I didn't hang around long enough to see what the decision was but later that evening I was taking a walk and happened to be outside their house (?) and I knew that because they were sitting on the steps and she would not go inside and watch the crap.
I hope he learned his lesson but the real lesson is that new zealanders are bombarded with horrific nastiness by the media, how many times has TV3 repeated the Fast and the Furious for instance while John Campbell peddles his sanctimonious crap on the early show, and furthermore the children are being beaten by their parents and suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
But the mantra is its your choice to watch it or not.
Pull the other one you freaks.

Good Interview with Alan Blinder on 9-noon this a.m.
He and Kathryn Ryan covered a lot of ground.
and
There will always be bubbles in the future. That is the nature of capitalism. So if you are financially literate then you should know when to go short and long. The rest can take their chances!
erkkkkkkkkk.

WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED

AND DONT FORGET TO  READ,  Chasing Goldman Sachs by Suzanne McGee for an in depth analysis of how it all got pumped up in the first place.
Ignorance and greed.
Misplaced faith and trust.

Shave and a haircut two bits.
Noticeable that in the USA the burden falls upon the bondholders and the shareholders but in New Zealand its going to be the moms 'n pops who get trimmed
Hey its your choice!

LOMBARD
lots of money but a real dork.
How can you get a knighthood for strength of character and then lie to make money?
that is the question.

anyway.
here are some behemoths from the past
gross users of resources, heavy metals and poisonous processes.

and tee hee.

what do mountain men like most?

mountain women.

and David Letterman.

we have re runs here all the time

how they work out the schedule is anyones guess.

and I am very annoyed with you trying to diminish Harrison Ford.

thats not nice Dave and shows the bad side of your character.

on the other hand

Nice shot of Richie Mc Caw.

Why no interview Dave?

and

Getting to New YOrk when I was a boy involved either a sea voyage or a trip in a flying boat

grinddddddddddddddddddd.

Now every little pin headed kiwi with a bank loan jets off there just so they can come back here and say nothing much.

ya get that.

its worse when media figures do it.

They love to disparage you just so they can build themsleves up!

e.g. Jono and Ben.

one of them came back and made stupid remarks in the newspaper about Paul that were totally uncalled for and showed an infantile outlook on the world that Kiwis are renowned for.

house of four doors...

lovely day to day.

communion this morning.

take the sacrament and our saviour Jesus Christ lives within.

ya cant beat beat it.

I dont care ho wmuch you know.

JUs wanna know how much you care!

One of the ladies tasked me to find the words of "Gods Little Candles".

cowboylyrics.com

when I was a boy the rage was talent quests with the big one in the town hall/

THE TOWN HALL

remember them?

before corporated events centres.

Anyway this girl from around the corner would always sing Gods LIttle Candles and win every time.

ya get that.

I always liked Keanu Reeves and  here are two of his best.

As a consumer I demand that TVNZ show them at the first availlable opportunity.

You'll be lost there forever...

let them eat lunch...

Hard to listen to the crap on the radio at the moment.
Some schools believe that it is the parents job to feed their kids before they come to school.
So if they dont have the money therefore they can go hungry.
nice!!!!!
Warriors: Keep it up.
Conrad smith; good decision dude!
Ted: give em shit.

in a hurry today so all piccies no text
just like the comix!

Olivia Dehavilland

ho! on the run.

snow on the hills and biscuit tin lid stuff.

down to Greytown but the shop is closed

dang

a few minutes at the library and more piccies

wow

Robert Mitchum was one of the great ones

they dont seem to be able to make them like him anymore.

here there and everywhere

just got back.

cops out on the road today

hope they get all the noisy little shits in their jappacrappas

after the eighties and self regulation, alchohol at every dairy and 'choice' the whole of New Zealand just thought it meant whatever they chose to do then they could do it.

and they did.

Now we have a generation of shitbags uglying up the place with their stupid cars and all the rest.

nobody is happy unless they are making a nopise and pissing someone else off.

a nation of users.

not doers.

when did ever one of these arseholes ever make anything except a frigging mess?

It works if you work at it!

The Big Shag...

Cyd Charisse

Hello out there...
Is there anyone out there?
Went to town this a.m. and it was freezing.
there was a big Shag at the waters edge of the Waignawa as we crossed the bridge so the fishing must have been good.
it was on the rise.
the river that is.

Grabbed The Passionless People Revisited from the CDC Library yesterday and I couldnt put it down.
Criminal Minds and Castle went past in a blur.
I saved a couple of chapters for tonight!
He has the narrow mean spiritied anti intellectuall conformist ignorati of New Zealand down to a T.
The chapters on meetings and dispnsers of government patrongae were a scream. edvard munch or franz kafka style if ya no whaddimean.
It made me laugh this a.m. as I waited to go out.
I was listneing to 9-n00n and the PM's science advisor was on talking about the science challenge fund.
I was waiting for Kathryn Ryan Ryan to ask him how much the Challenge Governing Group was being paid to attend meetings but she never did. !!!!!!!!teee heee.
anway time for a new segment as Dave would say;
CHICKS IN THE MEDIA
Jude: I gotta girl named bony moronie.
Linda hallinan; hip maybe, hot yeah, happening nah. (married)
Ingrid Hipkiss; medium rack, show us ya rock.
Alison Mau; nice in paisley but needs a headband for the whole effect
Wendy Petrie; straight from the horses mouth
Robyn Malcolm; shake your monay makahhhhhhh...

BTW Dave Letterman: I hope Felicia is coming back.

Mr O.
keep up the good work
if necessary give the press a few slaps
they need it
they have been to the best schools  all right but in the big washup they dont know anything.
Strange but true.
and
they been doing a lot of unflattering pics of you here lately.
they are slavish followers of any old crap that the GOP peddles.
In the local mind the Dems are akin to red hot commies and they have to do you down at every turn.
more pinheaded stuff.

Like dude why dont the  rozzers do something about the boy wussers in the widerapper?
hmmmm.
that seems to be a tricky question.
anyway they are just sneaks and now that they have had their wings trimmed in Masterton they sneak off to Eketahuna and make a real mess of everything.
they need their arses wiped and their clocks cleaned if ya nowaddiemean

Walking past ARROWFM at lunchtime and there was real country music oming out of their pavement speaker.
Tony Florrance doing a crackerjack job keeping the flame burning!

its time to bum again....



Paulette Goddard



not much to say today.

the guy next door lent me his filmography of John Wayne  yesterday and I have been having a trip down memory lane.

All those Saturday afternoons and Friday night double features at the Regent and State theatres. sneaking in fish and chips and a milkshake at Pages on the way home.

Or maybe a pie at the copper kettle.

Its all so long ago now.

great fun.

simple and no bullshit. 

Dr Humphrey Bate and the POssum Hunters: The old hen cracked and the rooster crowed.

larrrffffsss...

bullying and trivia in new zealand...

Trivia is triumphant in NZ.
Like there is never any really depth of analysis.
todays example is from like 9-noon where like Kathryn Ryan interviewed like british academic Claire Denbury from the Cambridge Corpus, a project to list all the words and phrases in the English Language.
There was no mention of Denburys academic specialty and it sounded like Denbury was a professional pommie. i.e speaking a dialect learned off the telly and trying to be upper class at the same time????
larfs.
anyway she is like many cunning linguists who have never studied logic whcih manifests itself in not understanding the use of the word 'so' in logic nor being aware of the invalid use of interrogatives.
this is inexcusable.
but to the main point, bullying is epidemic in New Zealand and it comes from the top down.
Like bullying is is enforced and re-inforced by the use of interrogatives in the media which  have trickled down off the telly from low rent pommie soapsand become become part of everyday speech. like they all do it doan ay.
The linguists at new Zealand universities who specialise in pandering to kids have categorised interrogatives as 'tag endings" when in fact they are linguistic devices designed to ensure complicity and obedience, aren't they.
When the media run one of their annual anti bullying campaigns they dont seem to be aware that they are the main contributors to verbal violence and their lack of standards and ability to analyse themselves is a prime cause.
I guess they are so used to having people kiss their bums because they are on telly or sumfing that they cant stand the thought of anybody disagreeing with them can they.

RANDOM STUFF

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi


Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury,pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.





O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen



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