WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

The Warszawa posted:

no

sudo rm -rf posted:

i watched the first episode of sherlock and it wasnt too bad.

you guys had me worried.

seems decent enough

Exclamation Marx posted:

this was our largest newspaper's main politics story for most of today



Is that the Prime Minister serving up beats? No, but this DJ looks incredibly like John Key. Photo / Crazy Dance Parties

What is it with John Key and social media? He has gone viral twice in the space of a weekend.

First up, Twitter spotted his doppelgänger spinning tracks and serving up beats in Britain.

A photo on the website Crazy Dance Parties - an outfit that promises to provide the finest disco entertainment for weddings and birthday parties in Essex - shows a DJ who looks incredibly like the Prime Minister.


The Key lookalike has song for all the lovers out there. Photo / Crazy Dance Parties

The young man is dressed in a crisp white shirt and burgundy tie and has a pair of headphones. We live in hope that he starts his sets by yelling: "Johnny's in the House."

There is a DJ in the Key family - the Prime Minister's son, Max. And it's Max and Key snr who is the subject of the second viral pic.

Following in the footsteps of Vladimir Putin, Key took a topless selfie of himself and Max by the pool.



The bare-chest pic was, we can report, snapped moments before plunging into the spa pool chez Key on the weekend.

John Key plays photographer. His son Max, standing behind him, sports cocked fingers and a hairstyle that can only be described as "in momentum".

"Pre birthday spa and yarns with the old man," explains Max, who turned 20 and posted the picture to his Instagram page in celebration.

Paul Henry asked if it was narcissism. Mike Hosking took to the airwaves this morning to quiz if he was under the influence. The 53-year-old, that is.

"No I was stone cold sober," said the self-portraitist.

Key the Elder was not channelling his Russian counterpart Putin, who is no stranger to topless imagery. There's Putin topless riding a horse, fishing, hunting. Basically, any excuse to go shirtless.

Key says he was happy to expose a selfie shoulder for some father-son birthday bonding time in the spa pool.

- NZ Herald

nutranurse posted:

Exclamation Marx posted:

something i saw today made the point that the neoliberal conception of liberty is freedom *from* things (government, taxes, etc) rather than freedom *to do* things (higher education, not dying from diseases of poverty, etc)

well that's my story goodnight everybody

OwlFancier posted:

It's weird cos you can phrase either as freedom from stuff, freedom from sickness, starvation, ignorance, etc. I think it's more that some people care about freedom from stuff they dislike rather than the freedoms they already enjoy as a result of those things they dislike.

Disinterested posted:

yes I've been posting in that thread since forever

I didn't say it's wrong to be hostile to jrode, just that people shouldn't claim they want him around and also bash the poo poo out of him. If you want to keep him around you have to troll him in a more subtle way.

If you want him gone, mission accomplished.

Berke Negri posted:

i always love the pathetic recognition that libertarians offer up that they're mostly all white men

zoux posted:

beause you came out of your mothers water you are an admiralty maritime product. when you were born you hvae to have a birth certificate. it has to be signed by the doc because that's where the ship is tied to.

nutranurse posted:

yeah, even conceptually they seem real hosed up

id give them money to stop

Literally The Worst posted:

dan abnett is a sci-fi writer who i like bc he read a lot of the same comics i did growing up (except he read them when they were new) so we have very similar influences on what we like in sci-fi and also he thinks there's a ghost in his house who helps him write his books

ThirdPartyView posted:

What's this .gif from, BTW?

nutranurse posted:

ive never actually seen the original conan movie

zoux posted:

is it just me or does paul reubens look insanely handsome here

Sharkie posted:

ugh. zappa. just ugh.

Sinnlos posted:

So drinking while still having vicodin in my system was probably not my best plan.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

That's not dadrock, that's cockrock.

zoux posted:

I hear the Sopranos.

paranoid randroid posted:

GOT YOSELF A GUN