The Daily Blog Open Mic – 1st October 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
RIP Nigel Latta who passed away yesterday.
Latta had stomach cancer and died on Tuesday, September 30, aged 58. His wife, Natalie Flynn, announced his death on Facebook this morning, posting: “Nigel passed away with the same dignity and positivity that he carried through life.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/fans-pay-tribute-to-the-way-psychologist-and-broadcaster-nigel-latta-dead-at-58-changed-their-lives/P2INVD7VYJEM5GLT7HYVDPLLRM/
Just over six months ago, commenting in The Standard, I stated that Radio New Zealand was a propaganda outlet for the government. That sent the “moderation” team (LPrent, Incognito, and weka) into paroxysms of fury. Mr Prent dished out a two-month ban, and “weka” unilaterally upped it to six months….
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-23-03-2025/#comment-2029222
Today, I decided to make a rare perusal of the site, and it seems that Mr Prent is as angry as he ever was. In the course of one discussion he says to one Gareth Wilson: “BTW if you con’t want a pigfucker answer, don’t try using a pig-fucker comment in the first place. And please don’t whine like a child about it.”
After another contributor (Puckish Rogue).chides him for that crudeness, Mr Prent makes this hilariously inept attempt at an explanation: “Well if the dipshit pig-fucker doesn’t take time to read the basic history in the links that I carefully put into the post, why shouldn’t I take sadistic pleasure in jamming the lesson in.”
Interestingly, at the start of the thread, Mr Prent loftily denounces “the echo chamber of slogan dribblers created by Bomber and Pat O’Dea at the daily blog.”
https://thestandard.org.nz/gaza-peace-proposal-ignores-the-terrorism-of-the-zionist-state/#comment-2045620
I seem to remember Puckish Rogue to be bright and on point to match his interesting pseudo. This blog seems to have reasonable filters,