The Daily Blog Open Mic – 24th October 2022

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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22 COMMENTS

  1. For the swelled heads in Groundswell – the ones who wouldn’t know teats from a tangle.
    They probably think wellies is a friendly name for Wellington bureaucrats. Fred Dagg we loved you. RIP inside John Clarke’s magical head as well as outside. (That word well again, let’s try to hear more of it, plain and simple, even if Fred isn’t around any more.)

    If it wasn’t for your wellies…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tAWwqKNI7g
    We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14
    Fred Dagg on Real Estate advancement
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFlstJ4u8E

  2. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477174/passenger-punches-driver-in-head-after-row-over-bringing-lit-cigarette-on-bus

    Simple anti-social violence like this is expensive to cure, and NZ is making no attempt to build a civil society or even to cure those who offend. I suggest we have stocks where people who can’t consider others or work in with what systems we have left and feel entitled to do anything they want should be given a lesson that all can see.

    Prison is expensive and why take someone whose head is in a mess and spend a lot of time in with similar others expecting to have something good happen. What a piece of work is man – Shakespeare being satirical about how satyrical* we may be underneath.

    If we all try to be a bit gooder and deliver and expect fair behaviour, we could be better, better, better – oooooh! nah nah nah nah-nah-na-nah
    Part of the requirement while they are in the stocks will be that they have to sing Hey Jude right through with all the nah-nahs.
    https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/heyjude.html

    *What is Satyric?
    n. 1. often Satyr Greek Mythology A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. 2. A licentious man; a lecher.

  3. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00158/one-stop-ticketing-solution-for-public-transport.htm

    Oh gawd – all set for another major stuff up this time in transport. Or we are putting all our important transport eggs into the hands of some giant corpse. When can we get it through our heads that these technical advances we have made are glorious expensive toys that we will fall off and scrape our knees from and run home to mother bawling? But she will have decdided to let out her innate masculinity and gone off in a space ship or turned into a guru handing out poetic sounding nostrums not realising that its not the latest trend – Nostradamus did it centuries ago.

    Stick to simplicity and get those convoluted fools out of the political seats and use the Chamber for discrete concerts for the upper classes. Keep them corralled up with their dainty habits and fools fancies and we get on with the living for our time left, working at useful stuff, then throwing in some loving and singing. Let’s do things the unflash way, manually.

  4. News that S(UK)s – https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2210/S00034/exit-liz-truss-enter-lettuce.htm

    …British politics has revealed hidden depths, each one being sought as each prime minister succumbs. The announcement by Liz Truss that she would be resigning came after a mere 45 days in office. In terms of duration, this would make her the shortest serving PM since the Tory George Canning, who died of tuberculosis in August 1827 after holding office for 119 days.

    The sequence of events from the moment Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th is bound to induce vertigo. She promised a package of eyebrow raising energy-price guarantees and tax cuts on September 23rd. She fantasised about growing Britain and demonised a fictional cabal of anti-growth opponents lurking on the opposition benches and on the streets. Central to such policies, as Tim Bale of Queen Mary University describes it, is “the myth that we can have Scandinavian levels of welfare on American levels of taxation.”

    The boys and girls that have done their internship as political gofers, in the UK had better attend another Alma Mater. Why not go right away before a new wave of pandemic rolls over us like mustard gas in the First World War!! Brush off the fallout on your CV – come to the UK in its brief period of vacation from stuff-ups that anyone of moderate working brain would detect. You will shine compared to our current crop of basking lizards.

  7. Australia admits that NZ has a few tricks up its sleeve. Introduces another sporting contest – a race to the bottom. Tourism minster says that now Uluru/Ayers Rock is not available for tourists to toil up, there needs to be a new attraction of interest, and going downhill is likely to be easier so more popular with tourists looking for ways to fill their time.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/477240/australia-taking-notes-on-new-zealand-wellbeing-budgetsAustralia's Budget, to be released on Tuesday will have a “wellbeing” section, modelled on the New Zealand budget concepts.
    New Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said his country should start to measure wellbeing in other ways than the usual economic statistics, such as measuring the state of the environment or access to childcare.

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