The Daily Blog Open Mic – 6th April 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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That ‘Grand Coal-ition’. We have stopped coal-mining haven’t we? Or are we In Trans-ition? I think it’s time to bring back that saying about being a ‘Claytons’. Remember that. I see somewhere there is a company drilling for oil in a supposed drill-fee area. Open that, close Whangarei Refinery and – being flexible is the name of the game.
Claytonsadjective
Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
Etymology: From a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as “the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. The drink itself did not impress consumers and is now all but forgotten; the term came to be represent fake substitution or lack of commitment. For example, a half hearted union strike might be called a ‘Clayton′s Strike’.
https://www.definitions.net/definition/claytons
Right to Repair Movement – there was something on Radionz Tues about it but can’t find it.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/10/26/right-to-repair-legislation
https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/industry-scrambling-slow-right-repair-movement-momentum-grows