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dusty
Nov 30, 2004

Apropos of nothing, has anyone else picked up laudafinem.com?

Seems to be run by some nasty ex-NZ(?) lawyer types who are only too happy to breach thorny name-suppression orders, and have recently weighed in on the Matt Bloomfield/Slater brouhaha - makes me wonder if they're being paid to run hit jobs.

Also speculation as to who might be being investigated for repeated sexual offending against a young family member.

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A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

dusty posted:

Apropos of nothing, has anyone else picked up laudafinem.com?

Seems to be run by some nasty ex-NZ(?) lawyer types who are only too happy to breach thorny name-suppression orders, and have recently weighed in on the Matt Bloomfield/Slater brouhaha - makes me wonder if they're being paid to run hit jobs.

Also speculation as to who might be being investigated for repeated sexual offending against a young family member.

Looks like they're talking about the Mike Sabin thing? Interestingly if you google lauda finem there's a couple of those messages you get when copyrighted material has been removed. I googled the people who had made the complaints and they're both people that lauda finem has written things about in the past.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

swampland posted:

John Key should have just brought out some of those famous NZ artists who love the right wing as a counter balance

All three of them?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



The Rabbi T. White posted:

What really appears to be happening there is people trying to do well by the environment with a nice new Golf TDi are being charged the same rate as trucks to subsidize the hauling companies. I have no evidence at all to prove this, but it seems the only logical explanation.
Most trucks will assuredly pay more, not just because they're heavier for hauling purposes, but because features that are identified as to do with hauling like double-tyres and extra axles automatically push you up a grade regardless of how heavy the vehicle is. They also assuredly don't pay their fair share because they do most of the damage, but that's because otherwise we'd never have been able to cheaply privatise haulage off the nationally owned rail system so that we could run it into the ground and sell it cheaply.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
lauda finem is the blog that outed graeme thorne too.

it would almost be funny if sabin assaulted somebody while methed up; those allegations not so much.

dusty
Nov 30, 2004

I feel sorry for the dude @ TV3. Having a family member elected to the house which you cover must be awful. Having this going on, is another level of ghastly altogether.

He's not a bad journalist from what I've seen. His interview with Collins was epic.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Sean Plunket literally called Eleanor Catton a traitor and an ungrateful whore

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Sean-Plunket-Eleanor-Catton-a-traitor/tabid/506/articleID/69858/Default.aspx

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



How dare she MOONLIGHT on her GOVERNMENT JOB and write a book. She should write books the correct way - on the unemployment benefit - and stop using government money to criticise the government.

Oh wait.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Eleanor Catton sets up grant to give writers 'time to read'

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Ugh, such a green party skank move - [attribute this to the MP/Talkback host of your choice]

dusty
Nov 30, 2004

Only sluts read books.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

quote:

"I don't see you as an ambassador for our country, I see you as a traitor," Plunket said.

"I'm only having a crack at you now because you're being such an ungrateful hua, Eleanor Catton."

RadioLive network director Cliff Joiner confirmed the word used was "hua", a Maori slang word.

Tom Roa of Waikato University's Maori department said "hua" was a shortened version of "upoko kohua", which meant "may your head be boiled and eaten".


Ah, so instead he wanted her murdered.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

No hua used to talk about paua guts/poo poo, basically the part of paua you don't eat is hua.

Whether that's actually what he meant is something else. His intonation is weird as gently caress anyway so it's hard to tell.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

fong posted:

No hua used to talk about paua guts/poo poo, basically the part of paua you don't eat is hua.

Whether that's actually what he meant is something else. His intonation is weird as gently caress anyway so it's hard to tell.

He talks exactly like the type of person who would poo poo talk an "intellectual" for speaking their mind about how poo poo their country is.

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Or someone who would intentionally chose a word like that so he could say "No, I'm using ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT WORSE THAN IT IS" when people get upset. We all know that "ungrateful hua" is a perfectly common phrase, but who has ever heard anyone use "ungrateful whore" in any context whatsoever?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
it's a 'nicer' way of saying whore with scottish/irish pronunciation, the only relation it has to te reo is plausible deniability

the Herald posted:

"Sean has addressed his earlier comments on air - he defined a hua as 'just a woman who annoys you'," Lorimer said.

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

(and can't post for 5 days!)



Another great headline from Stuff.co.nz, leaping to defend the plucky underdog Plunket in the face of these unfounded accusations of misogyny from the 'nasty left'.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

I think National have pulled off a remarkable PR coup; they've successfully convinced people to equate criticism of the government with being unpatriotic.

Soviet Space Dog
May 7, 2009
Unicum Space Dog
May 6, 2009

NOBODY WILL REALIZE MY POSTS ARE SHIT NOW THAT MY NAME IS PURPLE :smug:
Remember last year when it was the left being nasty and personal, and really they should all just stop that personal attack rubbish and get on with discussing the issues

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Soviet Space Dog posted:

Remember last year when it was the left being nasty and personal, and really they should all just stop that personal attack rubbish and get on with discussing the issues

Yeah the Left have no respect for people. Also, the Greens formulated their financial policies while they were on the pot haha am I right who wants to have a beer with me, John Key?.

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

(and can't post for 5 days!)

Catton's vicious attack on the democratically elected representatives of the NZ people is a personal insult to the majority of New Zealanders, thus the nasty left is at it again.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
Catton made a comment about the political nature of the government, Key made one back, didn't really see much more to it than a left vs right thing. You either agree or you don't.

But Plunket, lol. I hear the word 'Hua' busted out now and then, but it's not something I think I've ever heard anyone say on the radio outside of readings of fiction. He's successfully made it all about him, but we should cut him some slack because it's the only time he'll ever be mentioned in the same realm as Catton.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
I saw the point made on twitter that no one is actually refuting what she said, but arguing that she shouldn't have said it at all.

swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoCRAswbNA

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Exclamation Marx posted:

I saw the point made on twitter that no one is actually refuting what she said, but arguing that she shouldn't have said it at all.



Chemically castrate this man and remove his children.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Leave the kids alone :rolleyes:

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

Slavvy posted:

Chemically castrate this man and remove his children.

Nah, just burn him to death in the town square.

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

poo poo on the windscreen of his big ugly SUV that he can't park properly so that when he puts his wipers on it smears poo all over the window.

Lobsterpillar
Feb 4, 2014
He reminds me of Jonah from Summer Heights High. "Puck you, sir" while smugly telling everyone he never said "gently caress you", but everybody knows what he means by it. Why do grown adults get away with this poo poo?

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

(and can't post for 5 days!)



Stuff's 4th headline update of the day determined to prove Catton's comments were 100% accurate.

e: also holy poo poo Slater called Catton a 'Taliban Fighter'.

El Pollo Blanco fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Jan 28, 2015

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

El Pollo Blanco posted:



Stuff's 4th headline update of the day determined to prove Catton's comments were 100% accurate.

We should demonise people who get famous for speaking up about tall poppy syndrome!

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

El Pollo Blanco posted:

e: also holy poo poo Slater called Catton a 'Taliban Fighter'.

[green] Taliban, presumably :rolleyes:

Coffee Grindr
Jul 4, 2008
Stimulating

Lobsterpillar posted:

He reminds me of Jonah from Summer Heights High. "Puck you, sir" while smugly telling everyone he never said "gently caress you", but everybody knows what he means by it. Why do grown adults get away with this poo poo?

This is what I find most outrageous about this. The coward can't even own up to his words, he busts out the childish "well I ACTUALLY said..."

And people are actually buying it.

He absolutely did not use the word in the context he is saying he did. He's just a loving manchild who can't own up to his own mistakes.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

The Hamster Man posted:

This is what I find most outrageous about this. The coward can't even own up to his words, he busts out the childish "well I ACTUALLY said..."

And people are actually buying it.

He absolutely did not use the word in the context he is saying he did. He's just a loving manchild who can't own up to his own mistakes.

Remember this any time he accuses someone of playing the race card.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Whoa hang on so he's actually ruled out his plausible deniability? I was sure he'd try to use the "no no I said hua not whore"

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

fong posted:

Whoa hang on so he's actually ruled out his plausible deniability? I was sure he'd try to use the "no no I said hua not whore"

No he's still sticking with that.

quote:

Radio host Sean Plunket has clarified what he meant when he called Eleanor Catton an "ungrateful hua".

The comment was made on air this morning, and was misheard by several listeners as "ungrateful whore".

Plunket this afternoon said he "certainly didn't call her a whore", but the issue had sparked an interesting language debate.

"[Hua]'s got a whole lot of meanings, actually... 'head up arse' is another one that would be applicable," the RadioLive host said..

"I use it as a way of saying, 'you ungrateful scoundrel'..."

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Butt Wizard posted:

Remember this any time he accuses someone of playing the race card.

This won't happen unless he does something stupid like disrespect a popular all black or that great all round bloke, JK

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010

Exclamation Marx posted:

[green] Taliban, presumably :rolleyes:
Is this actually an honest-to-god real thing? I saw it for the first time today in an article about Catton, and I'm hearing it again here. Is "Green Taliban" really a thing Slater's people are saying?

holy poo poo I've only been away from NZ for two loving years what the everfucking poo poo happened. I mean we were always kinda poo poo but jesus christ really?

Also I'm laughing my rear end off at Plunket's chickenshit backpedaling. It's like a 7 year-old boy saying whaka as "fucker" then going "NO MUM I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN CANOES".

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Waka jumping a great nZ political past time

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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

This won't happen unless he does something stupid like disrespect a popular all black or that great all round bloke, JK

Does he strike you as the kind of person who wouldn't call Maaaaaaris out for doing something uppity?

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