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graham

I decided to wander through Aotea Square on my way to work this morning at 6:45, curious about the local branch of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

I was surprised that there were actually quite a few tents there – didn’t count them, but probably around 50 or so is my guess. (How many of them were occupied is another guess – I decided not to check that out :)). The majority of the signs, placards, and banners are home-made and hence do very little to give the impression of a well-organised protest. The only professional-looking banners I saw were those of Unite (man, I’m glad I no longer belong to any union). The general thrust seems to be “We’re p@#$ed off at the rich pricks” – probably evenly split between the original intentions of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement (ie bankers and financiers) and just “rich pricks” in general. A few anti-John Key, anti-National, and anti-Don Brash. The usual handful of “Legalise Marijuana” signs. I also saw one sign advertising “Medicinal Marijuana” … hmmm …

There was one sign (hand-written) about the general rules of the place – use hand-sanitiser, wear sunblock, etc. – but also included advice on what to do if pepper-sprayed. WTF? If this is a peaceful protest, why would they even expect that to happen? Sounds to me like they’re hoping for some martyr-opportunities.

Someone had breakfast cooking – smelled nicer than my Weetbix, dammit. (Wonder if they were Mad Butcher sausages?) And I’m fairly sure I saw Penny Bright turn up, just as I was leaving to go to work.
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October 18, 2011 8:06am
Pete George

The mayor has given his approval, for a while. Ocupation Octagon continues.

The occupation has made a has made a bold statement, but what is it, how long will it stay and what does it really hope to achieve?

It’s a knarly day here in Dunedin, not great camping weather.
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October 18, 2011 8:13am
KiwiGreg

@ graham thanks for hte update, I havent yet bothered to schlep my way up Queen Street to see our nation’s finest but no doubt will at some point.
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October 18, 2011 8:16am
graham

I might wander through there this afternoon to see if they’ve woken up yet … Other than a few people cooking breakfast, it was quiet. Everyone still asleep I guess, and me without a loudhailer so beloved of Unite, John Minto and Penny Bright 🙂
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October 18, 2011 8:23am
Other_Andy

@Graham

“………….just as I was leaving to go to work.”

And of course all the OWS’ were grateful for your contribution?
Aren’t you pleased that you are one of those gullible schmucks (Or was that “rich pricks”?) that work 40-50 hours a week to pay for their benefits, their interest free student loans, their subsidised public transport, their children’s “free” education and their “free” state housing?

Can you spare a few more dollars Graham?
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October 18, 2011 8:33am
Murray

I thought freedom camping was illegal in New Zealand.
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October 18, 2011 8:35am
KiwiGreg

@ Murray it’s ok to break the law if your cause is just
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October 18, 2011 8:36am
DavidC

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5804623/Large-fire-in-South-Auckland-coolstore

A fire safety investigator would examine the remnants of the building this morning and try to determine what caused the blaze.

Ha! My mate is production manager there, nothing wrong with the building, a fryer caught fire end of story. 12 hours and they will be running again.

Lying useless lazy fuckers in the media!
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October 18, 2011 8:37am
Murray

And who decides that greg?
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October 18, 2011 8:40am
Elaycee

Pete George says: “The occupation has made a bold statement,… ”

Really? All it has said to me is that the usual smelly placard wavers and dissidents have opted to get together whilst the long suffering taxpayers continue to pick up the tab for their benefits.

Rather than protesting the so called ‘rich’, they should be praying that the taxpayers of the world continue to support the drop out life styles of the great unwashed.

Maybe its time a few people turned up on the hour from midnight and tested out the latest in hand held air horns. 😀
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October 18, 2011 8:44am
Murray

Hey hippies, rich people are living in houses and eating breakfast, ever considered trying to join them by gee I don’t know… WORKING for it?
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October 18, 2011 8:47am
Dave Mann

@Graham Thanks for that really interesting report. Very informative and beautifully written, it gives the reader a real feel for the atmosphere. Thanks!
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October 18, 2011 8:48am
nasska

What a pack of soft cocks our home grown protesters have become. They are definitely a product of decadent city living. Surely there must be some ex army types who would be willing to give them a trumpet reveille at say 5am on each protest day.

By dragging their unwashed bodies out of their smelly sleeping bags at dawn they could increase the effective hours of protest by upwards of 20%.
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October 18, 2011 8:51am
Rich Prick

I just don’t get it. Apart from stinking up the joint, just what is it they hope to achieve?
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October 18, 2011 9:04am
Murray

What you want is a piper nasska, a little Johnny Cope in the morning.
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October 18, 2011 9:06am
Scott Chris

A protest is a function of those protesting, and those that pay them attention.

Seems they’ve got a few of you lot where they want you.

If the media weren’t by necessity pandering to the rubber neckers, then the kids’d all pack up and go back home to their X-boxes.

As for Dan Wealdon, well Elaycee posts a sobby eulogy, and then provides a link to the snuff movie.

~Classy~.
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October 18, 2011 9:09am
Other_Andy

Rich Prick

“I just don’t get it. Apart from stinking up the joint, just what is it they hope to achieve?”

Three dozen students, unsupervised, in tents with a lot of time on their hands…….
Apart from protesting for world peace and a Marxist utopia?
You don’t have any imagination do you?
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October 18, 2011 9:11am
peterwn

DavidC – like the Queen Street department store where there was a fire early this year. According to the media it was a biggie. 100 year old sprinkler system contained it, firefighters soon had it out – they blew the smoke out of the building – staff screened off the small affected area – opened for business at usual time. Cause – electrical fault in point of sale machine.
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October 18, 2011 9:11am
adze

RP – the goal is to get 50,000 “likes” – that’ll show your namesakes!
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October 18, 2011 9:12am
MT_Tinman

If they’re parked on some public lawn somewhere they’re obviously not looking for employment.

Why are they being paid at all?

Other_Andy (530) Says:
October 18th, 2011 at 8:33 am

Aren’t you pleased that you are one of those gullible schmucks (Or was that “rich pricks”?) that work 40-50 hours a week to pay for their benefits,

Who the hell works 40 – 50 hours a week?

Only on holidays mate!
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October 18, 2011 9:15am
graham

My 15-year-old daughter has returned from a weekend camp for St Johns – they had to get up at 06:00 every morning to be on parade by 06:30 (remembering this is during school holidays – lie in, what lie in?) Wouldn’t have been too difficult for her, she gets up at 06:15 or so every morning as she has to catch the school bus by 7:35. Yes she has missed it a couple of times, and my wife has had to chase the bus, and boy she did not let our daughter forget it.

Reckon she could teach them a thing or two.

The sad thing is, I could actually believe that some of the original protests had some merit. That is, the protests that started in America targetting excessive corporate greed and influence. But now the protests seem to be directionless, with no coherent policy, and unfortunately the majority of the people that are taking part in New Zealand aren’t exactly doing the cause any favours.
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October 18, 2011 9:16am
Rich Prick

Oh, I see. Why they put so much effort into something that will never happen probably explains why most of them are failed economic units.
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October 18, 2011 9:17am
Other_Andy

MT_Tinman Says:

“Who the hell works 40 – 50 hours a week?”

OK, count me as one of the schmucks.
Sigh…..
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October 18, 2011 9:20am
Other_Andy

@Graham

“The sad thing is, I could actually believe that some of the original protests had some merit. That is, the protests that started in America targetting excessive corporate greed and influence.”

Hmmmm…
Try excessive government greed and influence.

Questions:
1. What caused the ‘Real estate bubble’?
2. Which companies were bailed out and why?
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October 18, 2011 9:24am
kowtow

Passed the Octagon this am at 9. Not one beardie in sight,tents appeared to be empty. I reckon they were in a cafe drinking imported unsustainably and exploitatively grown coffee,paid for by the dole or student loans.

Who are they? Socialist Aotearoa, Nrml(Dope smokers inc.),a trade union flag,a Maori sovereignty flag and an anti Israel flag. So it’s the Dunedin rent a mob.

Hardly the 99% they claim to be.
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October 18, 2011 10:01am
Stamper

Labour’s Sport Policy gets the Thumbs-down

Trev’s Sport Policy looks like another failure to think matters through.
Per the NZ Herald – Manoj Daji [Chief Executive – College Sport Auckland] gives a real-world view of Trev’s policy. He lists many reasons why it won’t work in the Super City of about 100,000 secondary students.
“With the sport spread across the week we are battling for venues and facilities. Having all sport on a given afternoon would not only cause major transportation issues for schools but also place extra pressure on limited facilities and reduce the ability to draw on community volunteers for coaching and officiating, whom we are reliant on”
Looks like another one of his half-baked ideas.
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October 18, 2011 10:08am
Manolo

Unfortunately this is two years too long: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/17/report-venezuelas-chavez-only-has-two-years-to-live/#ixzz1b1wet3X2?test=latestnews
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October 18, 2011 10:19am
MT_Tinman

Other_Andy (533) Says:
October 18th, 2011 at 9:20 am
MT_Tinman Says:

“Who the hell works 40 – 50 hours a week?”

OK, count me as one of the schmucks.
Sigh…..

Other_Andy, if you’ve got it wangled so you can cut down to 40-50 hours a week you have my admiration.
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October 18, 2011 10:27am
Viking2

Call the fire brigade to the square at about 5.30 am in the morning. Tent on fire. that should do the trick.
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October 18, 2011 10:28am
Pete George

Who are they? Socialist Aotearoa, Nrml(Dope smokers inc.),a trade union flag,a Maori sovereignty flag and an anti Israel flag. So it’s the Dunedin rent a mob.

That is totally not what the occupations are supposed to be about but it was probably inevitable that they would become vehicles for protest organisations. It stuffs the whole ideal.
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October 18, 2011 10:29am
KiwiGreg

” It stuffs the whole ideal.”

What ideal? What’s wrong with an ideal of looking after yourself and your own and doing no harm to others like 80% of the population. Just a bunch of fucktards I wouldnt have in my home it looks like to me.
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October 18, 2011 10:33am
Fletch

Seems in the US, well known personages from the media are crafting releases for the OWS crowd and then reporting on it.
Another cache of emails has been released that shows same.

Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street email distro public and searchable.

The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media.
Journolist 2.0 includes well known names such as MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi who both are actively participating; involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals like Noam Chomsky, remains unclear. The list also includes a number of radical organizers, such as Kevin Zeese.

In these emails we see MSNBC’s Ratigan, hawking his book in the footnotes, instructing occupiers on how properly to present their demands and messages while simultaneously appearing on television reporting “objectively” on the story (when he’s not taking part in the protests himself as content.)

More – http://bit.ly/qwVUKP
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October 18, 2011 10:34am
graham

@ PeteGeorge:

And it seems that this is one of the big problems with the overall “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Some people are complaining that it is leaderless and lacking direction; others say this is exactly the idea.

One of the groups that probably started this, Adbusters Media Foundation, a primary protest organizer, stated that the central demand of the protest is that President Obama “ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington”. But then other groups started to join in, and seem to have hijacked the original intention for their own goals. In America, apparently the encampment split into two lines: those who want to draft focused demands about the unequal distribution of wealth in the United States; and those who want the protest to remain amorphous and to grow through spectacle.

At the end of the day, the fact that this is supposed to be a leaderless movement is gonna cause problems. Try getting common agreement about anything from that lot …
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October 18, 2011 10:40am
KiwiGreg

@graham Given Obama is the biggest spender on elections that’s kind of ironic. He’s spent most of his term paying off his union financial paymasters.
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October 18, 2011 10:42am
Other_Andy

@graham

Leaderless….?
Adbusters Media Foundation = Soros
Oama supporter and fundraiser.
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October 18, 2011 10:45am
graham

@Other_Andy: That’s my understanding, that it is leaderless. Admittedly, that is from the ever-reliable Wikipedia, so who know …

Adbusters proposed the idea originally, but I don’t believe they are now the primary force behind it. Are they? I stand to be corrected.
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October 18, 2011 11:25am
Other_Andy

@Graham

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9269-big-soros-money-linked-to-occupy-wall-street
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October 18, 2011 11:39am
Ryan Sproull

involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals like Noam Chomsky, remains unclear.

It should be no surprise that Chomsky’s expressed support for Occupy Wall Street.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/311959
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October 18, 2011 11:56am
hj

“A long drive home but a good day. There is something great about people acting to heal the environment in a deeply practical way.”
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2011/10/17/rena-oil-spill-day-12/
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October 18, 2011 12:23pm
Pete George

@graham – yep. And a further problem with it in New Zealand is we don’t have the same Wall Street or money influence in government to focus on, leaving it open to established protest organisations to hijack it as an opportunity for more of the same old.
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October 18, 2011 12:45pm
Other_Andy

“A long drive home but a good day. There is something great about people acting to heal the environment in a deeply practical way and make some political mileage while it lasts. Never let a good crisis go to waste!”
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October 18, 2011 12:46pm
James Stephenson

So from Graham’s report, we’ve pretty much got what Old Holborn observed in London then?

http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-lsx-eye-witness-report.html
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October 18, 2011 1:07pm
Pete George

The Game Animal Council Bill introduced into Parliament today is the culmination of UnitedFuture’s long-standing commitment to improve the way deer, tahr, chamois and wild pigs are managed according to UnitedFuture Leader Peter Dunne.

“UnitedFuture believes these animals deserve to be recognised as valued introduced species rather than the pests government policy has historically considered them to be; importantly this Bill does that by finally giving them their deserved status as game animals.”

“The Game Animal Council was born out of UnitedFuture’s confidence and supply agreements with both this National Government and the previous Labour Government, and proves once again what UnitedFuture is able to achieve in the MMP environment.”

“Hunting is an integral part of the Kiwi way of life, I am proud that we have given hunters a greater say in the future of their sport while preserving their right to hunt these animals for free,” said Mr Dunne

http://www.unitedfuture.org.nz/game-animal-council-bill-introduced-into/
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October 18, 2011 3:40pm
Manolo

More on Australian rugby: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/rugby-world-cup/no-games-to-glory-the-credibility-gap-in-australian-rugby-20111018-1ltzd.html
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October 18, 2011 3:51pm
adc

what’s with the NZ Herald dissing the IRB refs before they adjudicate our game?

How is this going to help anyone?

“How did these jokers get to ref the finals” they say. I hope those “jokers” don’t read the herald.
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October 18, 2011 4:54pm
chiz

May Wang charged.
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October 18, 2011 6:33pm
chiz

From a recent interview in Canta:

BU: Now, the Mana Party has been actively seeking the student vote…
HH: No, we’re not, actually. We don’t care whether students vote for us. We care that intelligent people vote for us…
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October 18, 2011 6:37pm
Other_Andy

This is hilarious…..

TEA PARTY Invades OCCUPY DC- (explicit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGcUnoNa5Q&feature=player_embedded
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October 18, 2011 7:19pm
Pauleastbay

Andy,, the vitriol in the comments was just outstanding, , confirms that to vote for a left wing party you cannot have a sense of humour.
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October 18, 2011 7:28pm
nasska

One fine day in Ireland, a guy is out golfing and gets up to the 16th hole. He tees up and cranks one. Unfortunately, it goes into the woods on the side of the fairway.He goes looking for his ball and comes across this little guy with this huge knot on his head and the golf ball lying right beside him.
‘Goodness,’ says the golfer then proceeds to revive the poor little guy.

Upon awakening, the little guy says, ‘Well, you caught me fair and square. I am a leprechaun. I will grant you three wishes.’

The man says ‘I can’t take anything from you, I’m just glad I didn’t hurt you too badly,’ and walks away.

Watching the golfer depart, the leprechaun says ‘Well, he was a nice enough guy, and he did catch me, so I have to do something for him. I’ll give him the three things that I would want. I’ll give him unlimited money, a great golf game, and a great sex life.’

Well, a year goes past and the same golfer is out golfing on the same course at the 16th hole. He gets up and hits one into the same woods and goes off looking for his ball.

When he finds the ball he sees the same little guy and asks how he is doing. The leprechaun says, ‘I’m fine, and might I ask how’s your golf game?’

The golfer says, ‘It’s great! I hit under par every time.’

‘I did that for you,’ responds the leprechaun, ‘And might I ask how your money is holding out?’

‘Well, now that you mention it, every time I put my hand in my pocket, I pull out a hundred dollar bill’ he replied.

The leprechaun smiles and says, ‘I did that for you. And might I ask how is your sex life?’ Now the golfer looks at him a little shyly and says, ‘Well, maybe once or twice a week.’

Floored the leprechaun stammers, ‘Once or twice a week?’

The golfer looks at him sheepishly and says, ‘Well, that’s not too bad for a Catholic priest in a small parish.’
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October 18, 2011 8:00pm
Ryan Sproull

This is hilarious…..

TEA PARTY Invades OCCUPY DC- (explicit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGcUnoNa5Q&feature=player_embedded

Hahaha, classic. They love the Second Amendment, but apparently can’t spell it.

Oh, after that it’s just two smug dicks walking around trying to look clever.
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October 18, 2011 8:10pm
Viking2

Over in the U.K., a very pretty young speech therapistwas getting nowhere with herStammerers Action Group.She had tried every technique in the book
without the slightest success. No-one was improving.

Finally, thoroughly exasperated, she said”If any of you can tell me, without stuttering,the name of the town where you were bornI will have wild and passionate sex with
you until your muscles ache and your eyes water.So, who wants to go first?”

The Englishman piped up.
“B-b-b-b-b-b-b-irmingham.”

“That’s no use, Trevor,” said the speech therapist. “Who’s next?”

The Scotsman raised his hand and blurted out
“P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-aisley”.

That’s no better.
There’ll be no sex for you, I’m afraid, Hamish.

How about you, Paddy?

The Irishman took a deep breath and eventually blurted out
“London.”

Brilliant, Paddy! said the speech therapist and immediately set about living up to her promise.

After 15 minutes of exceptionally steamy sex, the couple paused for breath and Paddy said

“-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-erry”.
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October 18, 2011 8:19pm
nasska

The psychiatrist was interviewing a first-time patient. “You say
you’re here,” he inquired, “because your family is worried
about your taste in socks?”

“That’s correct,” muttered the patient. “I like wool socks.”
“But that’s perfectly normal,” replied the doctor. “Many people
prefer wool socks to those made from cotton or acrylic. In fact,
I myself like wool socks.”

“You DO?” exclaimed the man. “With oil and vinegar or just a
squeeze of lemon?”
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October 18, 2011 8:26pm
Other_Andy

Ryan Sproull Says:

“Oh, after that it’s just two smug dicks walking around trying to look clever.”

Yep.
And (Although they can’t even spell) it wasn’t very hard with the OWSrs around them.
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October 18, 2011 8:26pm
Ryan Sproull

And (Although they can’t even spell) it wasn’t very hard with the OWSrs around them.

Sure, when they edited it down to those parts of those encounters. Cutting off the editing of the girl saying something like, “What are our demands? I can say what my demands are…” and she’s gone. Who knows what she said after that? Probably wasn’t the intensely entertaining genius of goading old men and women.

There are left-wing versions of the same thing, such as when Chaser’s War on Everything went around the South of the US asking people to find Iraq on a world map.
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October 18, 2011 8:49pm
Griff

Today on the off ramp of the bp service center Northern moterway I was pulled up by a police road block,Three cars and associeted officers All they were looking at was driverd licences. Asking you to wait while an officer cheaked your status on line. This has never happened to me before. New blitze or something senester?
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October 18, 2011 8:53pm
Scott Chris

Intelligence test. Answers at the end. Try doing it quickly.

1) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? ____________________

2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken? ____________________

3) I went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o’clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm? ____________________

4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?____________________

5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left? ___________________

6) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first? ____________________

7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear? ____________________

8] Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have? ___________________

9) How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark? ____________________

10) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburg to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what’s the name of the driver? ____________________

Answers:
1) All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o’clock,then another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o’clock,they will be taken in 1 hour.
3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.
4) 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
5) 9 live sheep.
6) The match.
7) White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole.
8] 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
9) None. It was Noah, not Moses.
10) YOU are the driver.

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October 18, 2011 8:54pm
nasska

Scott Chris

Thanks….next week I’ll start back at primary school.
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October 18, 2011 9:05pm
Viking2

National’s Tamaki shortlist released

Tuesday, 18, Oct, 2011 7:31PM

The National Party’s released the shortlist of candidates seeking to stand in Tamaki.

The seat’s been left up for grabs following incumbent MP Allan Peachey’s decision to step down at the election for health reasons.

Former United Future President Denise Krum has made the shortlist, as has former Wellington central candidate Mark Thomas who missed out in 1996 after then Prime Minister Jim Bolger endorsed ACT’s Richard Prebble for the seat.

Also after the nomination are former Auckland City Councillor Toni Millar, National Party Northern Region Deputy Chair Simon O’Connor, and Seby Reeves, son of former National MP Graham Reeves.

By Felix Marwick
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October 18, 2011 9:05pm
nasska

And finally one for our host:

Ist teenager: “Have you ever caught anything? I caught gonorreah once.”
2nd teenager: “I once caught Chlamidya.”
3rd teenager: I caught genital warts & pubic lice when I was sixteen.”
Ginger teenager: “A two & a half kilo kahawai.”
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October 18, 2011 9:13pm
Scott Chris

nasska

I might see you there. I particularly liked the North Pole one. Good riddle.
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October 18, 2011 9:59pm
TimG_Oz

Gilad is Free!!!
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October 18, 2011 10:12pm
Mick Mac

Yeah but what about the tens of tens that are going to be killed or maimed by those they have let out.
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Health Target 3 – Emergency Dept Waiting Times
Health Target 2 – Immunisations

Links

Justice in Brazil
No Right Turn
Peter Williams: Te Pati Maori End Game
Breaking Views
"Seymour is only doing openly what M?ori nationalists and their Pakeha allies have been doing, quietly for the past 50 years."
Not PC
Do the KCs believe in democracy
Utopia
More young offenders will get boot camp, bus drivers will get some protection – and there’s relief for southern farmers
Point of Order
Your Cheatin’ Ballot III: Pennsylvania Right Now
No Minister
Sowell says
Hompaddock
Open mike 22/11/2024
The Standard
The transgender agenda sunk Kamala
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
What does “reciprocity” mean in New Zealand laws?
Croaking Cassandra
A Day of Reckoning
NZCPR
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections.
Kiwipolitico
This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz