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nzjanette.bsky.social
Yeah, we don't hear about the fact that the govt had to bail them out just after he left.
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finger-post.blog
My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.
"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters. 

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."
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violetblue.bsky.social
Everyone thought I was a Fish-bender while I ran around as a Beef twister, missing my old life as a Sampler of drugs and aspired to be an Examiner of underclothing, but the truth is that I spent Fifty-two years as an imbecile (classically trained as an Emasculator). Ah, the dreams of a Cow-banger...
waltydunlop.bsky.social
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
nzjanette.bsky.social
Oh, this is so tough.
I'm glad hospice is able to help you.
nzjanette.bsky.social
Less than I thought.

I've obviously been saying lots of variations of bloody hell that's some bullshit. 😊

I'd have thought there'd be a few more fucks and fuckings in there though.
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musicalchairs.bsky.social
More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)
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barryhannah.bsky.social
All because these petty partisan fuckheads couldn’t stand the idea that “the other party” had done a decent deal for New Zealanders.

Fucking coalition of losers. LOSERS.
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nzjanette.bsky.social
Tagging the @profanity.accountant to see if I am profane.
nzjanette.bsky.social
He's the boss, he's the pip/ he's the championship!

Instant earworm.
nzjanette.bsky.social
It's sooo pretty. And it looks extremely cosy.
nzjanette.bsky.social
Yep. It's incredibly reckless and always expensive and damaging to the company. But people keep going for it anyway.
nzjanette.bsky.social
😊 Funny, Boss Cat doesn't have the same ring at all.
nzjanette.bsky.social
A cartoon from the past.
It was my fave when I was wee.
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pmax.bsky.social
Sure, the ferry cancellation was a disaster for NZ financially and the reduction in scope of the project will cause irreparable damage to our infrastructure but the new contract will enrich China so on balance it's a net positive, gotta give Willis the W on this one.
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okbjgm.bsky.social
the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.
nzjanette.bsky.social
I'm not a comms person or a politician, just an outside observer, but this seems to me to be a matter of urgency for Labour.
The intensity of this kind of questioning is only going to ramp up, so Labour politicians need to plan ways to fend off the right wing framing and shift the narrative.
#nzpol
nzjanette.bsky.social
And he doesn't have to accept right wing framing and narratives about the Greens and TPM. They should have strategies in place to fend off this kind of bullshit without buying into it.
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acgeddis.bsky.social
Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...
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jarrodbaker.bsky.social
was anyone else curious what a $90,000 Rolex looked like? well: www.partridgejewellers.com/rolex-cosmog...
It’s a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, which Partridge Jewellers sell for $90,200
nzjanette.bsky.social
And he doesn't have to accept right wing framing and narratives about the Greens and TPM. They should have strategies in place to fend off this kind of bullshit without buying into it.
nzjanette.bsky.social
Yes! These are not good faith questions, they're attempts at gotchas. He doesn't have to engage with them. He's not privy to or answerable for TPM's internal issues.