Comments on: Impossible!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:05:24 +0000

? I don’t see Ross Taylor wearing a nose stud.

By: frank_db

frank_db — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:23:26 +0000

OK, on a more serious note.
Why is the captain of our cricket team wearing a nose stud?
Did they(cricketers) like the netball team,jump the fence when no one was watching?

By: peterlepaysan

peterlepaysan — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:15:44 +0000

Both Danyl and Joyce are skewered on this.

Well it is the barbecue season where I live.

Anyone for a pair of raw prawns (limp)?

By: kim

kim — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:33:55 +0000

well i kinda missed it, both the satire and the “impossibility”… i just already had Joyce’s “if the University of Auckland needs me to be the highly visible hand of the market, I shall be that highly visible hand” statement already in mind so i even missed that i missed the satire.

hint: not everyone reads kiwiblog i probably would if the posts were less frequent and comments were switched off…

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:03:09 +0000

Excluding apartments, there were just over 14,000 consents issued for new dwellings over the last year.

Shit on Farrar as much as you want – I don’t care and neither, I suspect, does DPF. That doesn’t change the fact that Labour’s policy is, in this case, BONKERS.

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/Construction/BuildingConsentsIssued_HOTPSep12.aspx

By: Sanctuary

Sanctuary — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:45:45 +0000

And yet Peter Williams repeated a variation on Farrar’s bullshit this morning on breakfast T.V. as a criticism of Labour’s housing policy. The intellectual laziness, lack of curiosity and downright stupidity of acting as a repeater on state T.V. of a widely and immediately ridiculed piece of spin from a government propagandist defies belief. Something to remeber next time “MSM” journalists get up on their hind legs to criticise the blogsphere.

By: nommopilot

nommopilot — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:30:21 +0000

“Don’t take DPF’s post as a willingness to engage with critics of his analysis”

Heh. Wasn’t really expecting (or caring about) engagement, but I couldn’t bring myself to comment on the Kiwiblogh.

By: Lee C

Lee C — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:57:22 +0000

If Joyce wants to spend taxpayer cash to ensure more engineering students I wish he’d invest it in stimulating the kinds of jobs they’d be willing to train for, and assisting employers to recruit them, rather than threatening to penalise educators for the heinous crime of meeting a proven existing market demand for humanities and lower-level foundation students.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:04:08 +0000

@nommo: Don’t take DPF’s post as a willingness to engage with critics of his analysis. He’s merely trying to demonstrate that he is a good kiwi joker (TM) with a sense of humour (TM, patent pending).

By: gn35

gn35 — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:03:21 +0000

“But the way Danyl presented it, he was satirising Joyce’s _announcement_, NOT the estimate of a new engineer every 2 hours. That seemed to be Danyl’s calculation. Otherwise, what was the point? Self-satirising? Go back and read it again!”

Ok but its Friday night and you can be excused for reading the comments bottom up. Fair enough. But Joyce still does have a point. For once.