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Deep Glove Bruno posted:is standup crowd work really rough and unfunny in NZ? just judging from your story, and how my partner once got ripped to poo poo at a show till she left. her crime was sitting quietly and not laughing at stuff she didn't find funny. i only have those examples but i've literally never heard somebody talk about any other standup show in nz. a comedian once laughed at me cos I put my hand up instead of verbally answering "anyone here like thing"  it was a good show though
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i went to a comedy show on a tinder date, the comedian immediately sniffed out that it was a tinder date and spent the whole show ragging on us and yelling at her to kiss me i think i probably lost a few points with her for laughing my goddamn rear end off oh well
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Jul 30, 2023 22:31
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:is standup crowd work really rough and unfunny in NZ? just judging from your story, and how my partner once got ripped to poo poo at a show till she left. her crime was sitting quietly and not laughing at stuff she didn't find funny. i only have those examples but i've literally never heard somebody talk about any other standup show in nz. This wasn’t at a show, he was a friend of a friend, so it was a private group of large male “comedians” and one deeply uncomfortable woman. Steve Wrigley really did suck out loud though.
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Jul 30, 2023 22:33
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It's a huge generalization that contradicts some of these stories, but I feel like the comedy scene in NZ has improved greatly in the last 10-15 years. Generally sets are more original, good natured and less humiliating, the performers support each other more (looking from the outside at least), the audiences contain a smaller portion of sloshed farmers, and the material is often insightful as well as funny. If I had been an adult in the 90's, I'd probably never have bothered going to any gigs.
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Jul 30, 2023 22:56
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Can only speak to the current Auckland crowd, but by and large there seems to be more or less a consensus that comedy shouldn't punch down. For more comedy, National are revealing the centrepiece of their election campaign today: just one more lane bro. Four lanes from Whangarei to Tauranga, four lanes to the planes. (It's going to work. The only major transport infrastructure we're getting in the next 15 years is going to be another couple of lands from Hamilton to Tauranga, and another car tunnel through Mt Vic that will be just as choked with cars as the current one within five years of opening, just like the Waterview Tunnel in Auckland).
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Jul 30, 2023 23:02
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bike tory posted:Can only speak to the current Auckland crowd, but by and large there seems to be more or less a consensus that comedy shouldn't punch down. 40 million per km and with a cost that's extremely lowball, "party of fiscal responsibility"
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Jul 30, 2023 23:15
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I only know one commedian IRL and he was a loving dickhead who somehow pulled way above his league, but was abusive and manipulative and he hosed off to the UK and gor long covid and had a wahwah about it in stuff (I think) so I guess even covid has it's silver linings. I remember hearing a story about him once that involved his flatmate literally throwing his bed out onto the street and I thought "wow the old flatmate is a oval office" but then I moved in with him and I thought "wow the old flatmate was incredibly restrained"
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Jul 30, 2023 23:26
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"about half the population lives in the upper north island" is incredible code for 'holiday highway for aucklanders'
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Jul 30, 2023 23:28
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Gotta say, not the biggest fan of Guy Williams on the television but I saw him on Friday and when he's on stage he's there to loving eviscerate everyone and everything and it was pretty fantastic. Maybe avoid his shows if you're not into the audience participation side of things. As a poncy twat who sits in the front row I only managed to avoid the eye of sauron by virtue of there being a bunch of high school boys attending the same show.
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bike tory posted:Can only speak to the current Auckland crowd, but by and large there seems to be more or less a consensus that comedy shouldn't punch down. Utopia was a documentary. https://youtu.be/pCzCJzwrB_c
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Jul 30, 2023 23:43
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I've been to a few open mic stand up comedy nights and they were all good fun. People had a laugh, comedians didn't eviscerate anyone.
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Jul 30, 2023 23:47
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The most mortifying audience participation bit I've experienced was at Johanna Cosgrove's Hi Delusion. A brilliant show that ended with me receiving a lapdance infront of a cheering audience. Still recovering from that one.
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Lobsterpillar posted:40 million per km and with a cost that's extremely lowball, "party of fiscal responsibility" Hmmm I'm sure the citizens that have been so concerned over cycleways that cost $2m per Km will be up in arms about this latest announcement...
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Jul 31, 2023 00:16
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Why don't we compromise and add the extra lane but also have it blocked by bollards that only get removed at holiday season so they can be a cycleway the rest of the year
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Jul 31, 2023 00:23
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Labour should counter by saying that the new highway will let the ram raid gangs come from up north more quickly.
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Jaguars! posted:It's a huge generalization that contradicts some of these stories, but I feel like the comedy scene in NZ has improved greatly in the last 10-15 years. Generally sets are more original, good natured and less humiliating, the performers support each other more (looking from the outside at least), the audiences contain a smaller portion of sloshed farmers, and the material is often insightful as well as funny. If I had been an adult in the 90's, I'd probably never have bothered going to any gigs. the documentary series "funny as" is pretty good and IIRC goes into this a bit ep 1 (also on tvnz streaming): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbZRUbPwNI
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Jul 31, 2023 00:53
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if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually soil is probably pretty poo poo through there though
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northbound cars would go away and the reserve itself wouldn't be an island in a sea of traffic anymore
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Progressive JPEG posted:if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually i can see my (old) house!
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Progressive JPEG posted:if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually What if, and hear me out here, what if they just improved public transport and cycling options instead?
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ledge posted:What if, and hear me out here, what if they just improved public transport and cycling options instead? That's communism
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Slavvy posted:That's communism And that's just terrible
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Slavvy posted:That's communism I thought that was starving to death and/or getting gulag'd for jokes
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WarpedNaba posted:I thought that was starving to death and/or getting gulag'd for jokes no need to limit it
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Slavvy posted:That's communism 
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Progressive JPEG posted:if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually Nah they should bring back the flyover option
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Ain't Norway largely funding those policies a la big ol' oil wells, same as Saudi Arabia? Admittedly, there is a lot to be said for NordPolitik, but joining the EU strained their welfare structures pretty drat bad from what my Suomen mates tell me.
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Secondary teachers should get 14.5 percent pay rise, arbitration panel recommends. As it is looking more likely that National/ACT is the next government and they will probably attempt to privatise education, would the teachers in the thread vote for this?
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That reminds me, I heard some (primary?) teachers are moaning that their union payouts are being taxed at 50%. Anyone know why that would be, or are they just exaggerating because its 33% plus student loan and kiwisaver or something
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Possibly that and IRD looking at PAYE period to period as if you got paid that much every time?
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Progressive JPEG posted:if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually
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56 Fleur Fitzsimons (Rongotai) Labour releases party list for 2023 election https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/494829/labour-releases-party-list-for-2023-election labour must be confident that jag won't win
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Progressive JPEG posted:the documentary series "funny as" is pretty good and IIRC goes into this a bit Yeah I read the book a while ago. Standup in the 90s sounded like hell.
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exmarx posted:56 Fleur Fitzsimons (Rongotai) 
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Content to Hover posted:Secondary teachers should get 14.5 percent pay rise, arbitration panel recommends. As it is looking more likely that National/ACT is the next government and they will probably attempt to privatise education, would the teachers in the thread vote for this? Both parties went to arbitration on the condition that they would accept the recommendations. I think the union still technically has to ratify it, but yeah it's pretty much a done deal. I hope the dumbasses in NZEI who voted to accept our deal enjoy knowing that PPTA are getting $2k more than them in the payout. We should never have voted to accept. And National won't privatise education. This National govt has a way less radical education reform agenda than what John Key got elected with, and his government didn't manage to do much of their poo poo. ACT want their usual insane voucher system and to bring back charter schools again, but lol
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ledge posted:What if, and hear me out here, what if they just improved public transport and cycling options instead? that would be a benefit of this yes
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Progressive JPEG posted:if instead of a second mt vic tunnel they instead did a tunnel under/north of the basin reserve i think it'd be pretty good actually The soil is incredibly poo poo! There's a reason it's called the Basin: quote:The reserve had originally been a shallow lagoon linked to the harbour by a stream. However, the 1855 earthquake lifted Te Aro Flat two metres, and two years later a group of citizens succeeded in getting the provincial government to set the land aside as a cricket ground and public park. This is why that bit of land and Kent/Cambridge Terrace (the old stream) look so weird. The original plan was to make it deeper and turn it into a canal/port/drydock. Until the earthquake put the kibosh on that.
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Huh, funky. Always had an interest in soils, what with there being a phosphate pinch predicted for a good decade.
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Penny Simmons keeps banging the drum of reversing the Te Pukenga merger but good luck with that at this point. Would be nice if she could keep the SIT zero fee structure in place though, I'm all for cheaper education.
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Do you know when you see a headline and can predict with 100% certainty which moron wrote it?quote:Sorry Spain, Palmerston North is anything but boring
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