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Discussion of Paula Bennett degenerates into bitterness on The Standard (Nov. 6, 2013)

          • chris7328
            6 November 2013 at 5:53 pm
            – Paula Bennet telling it like it is
          • Morrissey29
            6 November 2013 at 5:59 pm
            “Telling it like it is.” Chris, your loyalty is of the same order as that desperately mugging Hamilton West MP behind Bennett—unstinting and clearly uncritical.
            Since you obviously respect her, or pretend to at least, maybe you should tell her that every time she says something cruel or dishonest, she puts on another kilogram.
            • chris7329.1
              6 November 2013 at 6:18 pm
              Its amusing how quickly the left descend to personal attacks when they hear something they don’t like so are you saying theres something wrong with being overweight? That if shes overweight she can’t do her job?
              You can attack her policies, her views etc etc but attacking her over her weight is a bit, well desperate really
              Women have enough hurdles to overcome (especially in politics) without people like you expecting them to live up to some (probably impossible) body image
              • felix29.1.1
                6 November 2013 at 7:50 pm
                I’ll trust you not to take Morrissey as speaking for anyone but his deluded self.
                • Morrissey29.1.1.1
                  6 November 2013 at 8:05 pm
                  I’ll trust you not to take Morrissey as speaking for anyone but his deluded self.
                  “Deluded”? How so? You’d better explain carefully and clearly why you’re suddenly in Camp Bennett, so as to dispel the impression that you are irresponsible and lazy.
                  • felix29.1.1.1.1
                    6 November 2013 at 8:09 pm
                    Piss off Morrissey you twisted fuck.
                  • McFlock29.1.1.1.2
                    6 November 2013 at 8:13 pm
                    “Thinking Morrisseey is a deluded fuckwit” does not equal “Supporting Paula Bennett”.
                    Believing those two statements to be equal is to be deluded.
                    Was that explanation clear enough?
                    • Morrissey29.1.1.1.2.1
                      6 November 2013 at 8:26 pm
                      “Thinking Morrisseey [sic] is a deluded fuckwit” does not equal “Supporting Paula Bennett”. Believing those two statements to be equal is to be deluded.
                      Was that explanation clear enough?
                      No it was not good enough, as I’m sure you knew perfectly well as you sent that ill-advised, illogical message of support for our struggling friend into the blogosphere. You foolishly decided to back a surefire loser by coming in behind felix’s indolent exercise in abuse. I advise you to desist from this path, my flocculent friend; we all know you never prosper in these exchanges.
                        • Morrissey…
                          6 November 2013 at 9:11 pm
                          Indeed.
                          Cancel that nasty message I posted about you being untrustworthy; your gracious admission of defeat shows you are indeed the gallant we always suspected you were.
                          🙄
                          • wtl…
                            6 November 2013 at 9:19 pm
                            I’d watch out if I was you, your comment is getting awfully close to saying you *wned someone, which is something that lprent highly frowns upon.
                            • Lanthanide…
                              6 November 2013 at 9:23 pm
                              If it were up to me, Morrissey would’ve been banned months ago.
                            • lprent…
                              6 November 2013 at 10:05 pm
                              Close, but not quite there. Not like this one from my work field where someone traced a vessel course with the word below…
                            • Morrissey…
                              7 November 2013 at 7:00 am
                              …your comment is getting awfully close to saying you *wned someone…
                              This is very awkward. I receive a gracious concession by my friend and occasional adversary felix. I try to behave like a gentleman, and acknowledge his good manners—and I find I’ve blundered into another minefield.
                              Lower down this thread, two more people have coyly rolled their eyes in the submission posture; I have also politely saluted their good manners. Could you explain how that makes me the one in the wrong here?
                            • lprent…
                              7 November 2013 at 9:37 am
                              It is pretty simple. Claiming victory in an environment where the best that can be hoped for is “..agree to disagree..” merely starts flamewars of the na-nah-de-dah type that are so common when you listen to the playgrounds of primary schools. One side claims “victory” / “owns” / “pwned” and resolutely holds to that. The other sides pour derision. And it escalates….
                              Eventually I have to wander to crack heads as the shrill screaming of the children disturbs the adults and they start to defend their offspring..In fact school sports matches often descend into this.
                              I find that grabbing the first person to claim victory and exiling them for some time works wonders at reducing my workload. Which is of course my primary motivation. My secondary is that I don’t have to read the boring squealing.
                              So argue all that you like. But to try to claim victory without a very explicit statement from the other person (something that I see maybe 5 times a year here) and you will find this is a very dangerous business. Start gloating and (as you say it) you find the site becomes a minefield…
                      • McFlock…
                        6 November 2013 at 9:21 pm
                        Was that explanation clear enough?
                        No it was not good enough
                        Your answer is irrelevant to the question.
                        You really are in a wee universe all to yourself.
                        ‘The Breen Delusion’. Heh, catchy.
                • chris7329.1.1.2
                  6 November 2013 at 8:59 pm
                  I know, I’m probably on his list now… 🙂
              • MrSmith29.1.2
                6 November 2013 at 8:56 pm
                But Chris I bet all those staving beneficiaries are finding it hard to take instruction from someone who can’t even control how much she puts in her mouth.
              • Morrissey29.2.1
                6 November 2013 at 8:51 pm
                Thanks for the support, mon amie. Call me a susceptible ninny, but I’m always chuffed when a woman rolls her eyes coyly like that.
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Godawful new Hobbit song fails to impress as Panel plumbs new low (Nov. 6, 2013)

6 November 2013 at 5:08 pm
“A little bit insipid….”
Godawful new Hobbit song fails to impress as Panel plumbs new low
The Panel, Radio NZ National, Wednesday 6 November 2013
Paul Brennan, Joe Bennett, Ellen Read, Susan Baldacci
Long-suffering listeners to The Panel have been assailed by some utterly disgusting, insultingly shallow and banal aural dreck over the last eight years. Just off the top of my head, I recall the cruel laughter directed by the likes of Chris Trotter at victims of state repression; the mad anti-democracy rants by Michelle Boag; the snarling attempts at character assassination by Dr Michael “Bonkers” Bassett; the honking hypocrisy of lawyer and former ACT MP Stephen Franks, a spokesman for the knife-loving S.S. Trust, lecturing in tones of heightened gravitas about modern “wickedness”; the halfwitted observations of Nevil “Breivik” Gibson; the insane raving of Christine (Spankin’) Rankin; and the haughty denunciation of “these people” (Egyptians) by Rosemary McLeod.
But, even bearing in mind all of that depravity and mediocrity, I believe that the nadir was reached at 4:45 this afternoon. For some reason, producer Susan Baldacci saw fit to play thirty seconds of “I See Fire”, a dire, plodding, tuneless dirge by Ed Sheeran, written for the latest New Zealand taxpayer-funded Peter Jackson snore-fest The Desolation of Smaug. After what seemed like thirty MINUTES of sub-Chris Rea pap, there was an uneasy silence in the studio. Realising that he was expected to say something vaguely supportive about the dog, Joe Bennett showed uncharacteristic restraint and said: “It’s not to my taste.” Not even Ellen Read, who is a diehard supporter of the dodgy deal foisted on the National Government by Warner Bros. that has led to such truly terrible “product”, could work herself up into defending this one. After an uncomfortable pause, she delivered her verdict: “It’s a little bit insipid.”
Susan Baldacci, a little taken aback by the lack of respect for this piece of shit, lamely explained that Sheeran had written the dirge for the end credits—“which is not where they’re going to play a real rocker”. She got no support from Paul Brennan, obviously as appalled as Bennett and Read.
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If, like me, you’ve been of the opinion for the last decade or so that the song Céline Dion sang for Titanic was the worst in the history of the movies, then you may change your mind after you click on THIS….
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/05/listen-to-ed-sheerans-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-song-i-see-fire-4175112/

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