@MartinAshton_NZ @irisshackleton And BTW, it’s simply a variation on what the Norse did to the existing Old English plural form when they arrived.
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@gatjames
English teacher. Background in ethnomusicology, radio, music making and writing. Slowly learning NZSL.
Tāmaki-Makaurau Katılım Kasım 2008
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@MartinAshton_NZ @irisshackleton Lazy? It’s inventive in the same way that Shakespeare would create new words out of existing words (nouns to verbs, etc).
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In New Zealand we unapologetically say youse.
♡ mari/cohe ♡@noinconsistency
"y'all" is the best thing ever invented cuz why on earth does english lack a plural form of "you"
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@secondzeit If so, has A.I. generated a Van Velden/Parmar hybrid? I thought it was Parmar for a second.
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I also wonder if this is an AI version of Seymour and van Velden
Family First New Zealand 🇳🇿@familyfirstnz
Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour rightfully asks the press gallery why there has been a conspiracy of silence around Maiki Sherman apparently calling Lloyd Burr a “fa***t”. It took Ani O’Brien to leak the story on her personal Substack, whereas it should be the job of the mainstream media to uncover exactly what happened and then report on it. Are journalists intentionally trying to protect their own? #familyfirstnz
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It’s pretty funny that it’s fatigue with all things Māori but not fatigue with complaining about all things Māori.
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@secondzeit God forbid we remember and acknowledge as many people as we can who were killed in and affected by war.
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Lest we forget war is supposed to be about white men
William McGimpsey🇳🇿@TheZeitgeistNZ
The lengths 1News went to to shoehorn a celebration of “diversity” into their coverage of ANZAC Day were pretty incredible. Every second mention in this piece is of Pasifika, Haka, Waiata, Karakia, Niueans, Italians, Japanese, Turks, etc. Then Simon Mercep caps it off at the end by informing us it’s “not just a Kiwi day”. This is finger in the eye stuff.
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And that, frankly, is bullshit.
The PCRF is a legitimate charity that has been funding aid and relief and food and medical treatment in Palestine for 35 years
The kids have set up a petition to change the school's mind, and you can sign it here: change.org/p/organize-a-p…
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So. Not to get political on this apolitical website for people having a nice time online, but my kid's friend is trying to organise a bake sale to raise $ at their high school, and the school says it's too political.
Because the $ is going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund
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@PulpLibrarian A lot of films were made in NZ at this time, early to mid 80s, due to tax breaks to incentivise more production. So a really interesting variety of films in that period. Haven’t seen this one!
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Battletruck (1982). A Kiwi take on Mad Max, even if the lead actors are all American. Michael Beck battles James Wainwright after the Oil Wars leave the world in desperation.
Shot on the Central Otago plains of New Zealand it's all action, lots of carnage and the aforementioned battletruck smashes everything in its path. John Ratzenberger's in it too!
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@BenThomasNZ @firehorsemia It’s like singing, It’s Raining Tacos, in reference to trade with Mexico.
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I really hate the otherisation of migrants from India NZF is engaging in but it is funny that the nationalist party’s equivalent of Enoch Powell’s rivers of blood is now a baleful warning of a torrent of delicious food (catered specifically towards European tastes lmao)
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Butter chicken tsunami sounds like the tailend of a big Saturday night at the NZ First conference in Palmy
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So it turns out the small Brazilian town of Rolandia has a waxworks museum.
First up Nelson Mandela
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@SgtPepperNZ Hobbies and food can indeed be cultural but there are innumerable values to bring to them, not just western Christian values (whatever those would be…).
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@gatjames @JoelMacManus I’m pretty sure the OP was putting them adjacent to “western Christian values” in his list, not saying they literally are..
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Sir, these are just hobbies and food, not "western Christian values".
Fubadu@foo_4_thought
First & foremost it’s western Christian values. Rugby, league, cricket, fishing hunting, camping, outdoors, the haka & supporting the All Blacks Laid back “she’ll be right” attitude DIY approach to just about everything Saying “sweet as bro” and “aye” BBQs, turning up unannounced, borrowing a cup of sugar from the neighbour Fish & chips, meat pies, and pavlova If you don’t know what our culture is, if you don’t think we have a culture, then honestly fuck off to wherever you came from because you’ll never be a kiwi.
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@SgtPepperNZ @JoelMacManus He didn't say they're not culture or cultural practices. He said they're not (western) values.
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@JoelMacManus Please explain how hobbies and food are not culture
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@JoelMacManus @au_border_force And together those things also read like copy for a local ad campaign to sell burgers or cars.
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@secondzeit @BasicBishopNZ Is this that Peter guy? For a bunch of “we embrace all speech” obsessives they do have a very specific sub-genre of speech they always go back to.
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@BasicBishopNZ Always weird to see the FSU types in NZ talking about western civilisation in that Douglas Murray-ish way
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You can just be a cool, chill guy.
You don’t have to be pro-New Zealand or pro-Western Civilisation.
Just be normal.
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@SikotiHamiltonR Totally. As you say he's gone in a circle.
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@gatjames I think so. Amazing how many similarities there are between Stalinism and Randism, really. The dreadful socialist realism that Stalin promoted is quite similar to the aesthetics Rand demanded. Perigo's hostility to 20thC art & music is in line with that of the CPNZ.
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1/5 I'm fascinated by people whose politics or religion change drastically over their lifetime - atheists who convert to a strict religion, or communists turned Cold Warriors. Lindsay Perigo has had one of the strangest journeys in NZ politics. But has he travelled in a circle?
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@SikotiHamiltonR I guess what I’m saying is, his sadism was perhaps hiding in plain sight behind a thin veneer of whatever objectivist or free philosophy he was touting.
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@SikotiHamiltonR I get Sideshow Bob vibes from Perigo (not the hair obviously and he seems to have no issue with Bart); particularly his love of "high culture," his accent and his RW politics. I'll never forget him on that Willie Jackson show where he mocked what he called the "Mordi" language.
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@secondzeit Why not? After all, Mike’s Minute is often longer than a minute.
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