Politcal Caption Competition

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1. Dontcha mean Seyless?

2. I guess you’ll find out how ACT will make New Zealand better in October, you already know how Labour has made our country “better”.

3. In real life to achieve equity, the repressed minority stands all over the faces of working class taxpayers to peer over the fence.

4. Labour Party Election slogan

   “Vote Chippie or get Seymour”

5. The Dancing Dervish or is it Whirling Willy. It seems a serious spiritual exercise requiring practice, concentration, contemplation. Just going on tv in dancing with the stars doesn’t suffice – Axe are mere babies; will need centuries before political wisdom.
   Rumi’s Whirling Dervishes: An Ancient Sufi Dance
   However, Rumi’s whirling dervishes is not just a source of entertainment for the devoted members of the Mevlevi Order of Islam. To them, whirling and spinning is a customary meditation practice. It is also a worship ceremony that aims to reach Karma, the source of all perfection.7 Hune 2022
   Rumi’s Whirling Dervishes: An Ancient Sufi Dance – Made in Turkey Tours
   madeinturkeytours.com https://madeinturkeytours.com › whirling-dervishes

6. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018901393/anna-funder-how-george-orwell-wrote-his-wife-out-of-his-story
   I question the opinions of a modern woman imbued with today’s sexual line as evinced by middle class femmes. The political ideas that have etched their way into people’s heads from Orwell must come from a different view of society, a curtain has been lifted, and he has seen more of society than others. He apparently had loving relations with other women than his wife. But at the end of the day, the world is breaking down, going to pot and there was economic depression and disaster with war hovering and disturbance of life and love and future. His mind would have been filled with creating the story of his times. His wife Eileen knows that he has something worthy to say and helps him, but is not left with much of himself and his thoughts for her. And he probably was suffering as she was, from poverty which ended with his tuberculosis.

   The woke madam of today couldn’t find the intellectual rigour and selflessness to do what she did. Good on her, we owe her a lot. She seems on a par with the SOE (Special Operations Executive) women who organised and assisted Resistance work along with men in WW2 behind enemy lines. (About – https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/SOE)

   I think there is a parallel too with our Ettie Rout, she had a fond husband I think but was full on with the urgency of trying to help the NZ soldiers fighting overseas. The excess primness of the time didn’t allow for talking about sexual disease; many women apparently thought that men could just abstain. And were shielded from the real news of the hell and sorrow that soldiers encountered. So she bullied the government to supply kits for self-care but first organised for private assistance. Many men would have returned ravaged by disease such as syphilis otherwise. Her husband left her, and found a partner who was able to actually share his life. Ettie’s return as a single woman was not warmly welcomed and I think her friends were unable in nice society, to mix with such an unladylike, common woman – she went away and died in Raratonga.

   Driven people tend to step apart from the everyday ways – and do more, go further than all except the few; the idea and need is paramount and they sacrifice much or all sometimes. Her story – Jane Tolerton’s Ettie Rout: New Zealand’s safer sex pioneer honours an irreverent, heroic figure of the New Zealand World War One story. A safe-sex campaigner ahead of her time. https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/ettie-rout-new-zealands-safer-sex-pioneer-9780143573241

7. I’ve put into wrong place should be Open Mike – about George Orwell. Sorry.

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