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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
We know that the MSM like to pimp ‘Saint Ashley’, but the NZ Herald has taken the adoration too far… Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
A Letter to the Spinoff
Mother of Four I would like to complain about the Spinoff article A mufti day is enormous fun but time to give it a new name. One of my teenagers sent the link to me with a “WTF???” attached to it. I can’t help but agree. Our language is
Beijing Boasts of Controlling US Think Tanks
The same people who adamantly insist that the 2020 US Presidential election was the fairest, free-est, best-run election in the history of elections, ever, also screeched for four years that the 2016 election was “rigged” by “Russian collusion”. Anyone who voices even the slightest doubt about either is
Daily News Roundup – 9 April 2021
Covid: India travel ban Luke Malpass (Stuff): Is the the ‘temporary’ India travel ban proportional or a massive overreaction? Keith Lynch (Stuff): What the numbers say about the India travel ban 1News: Michael Baker says halting arrivals from India ‘absolutely right thing to do’ 1News: Temporarily halting travellers from India
The BFD Stuff Up of the YEAR!
Well I guess that’s that then… Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
The Faces of Anti-Asian Hate
Remember #StopAsianHate? The hashtag trended on Twitter for days, in concert with a frenzied campaign by the mainstream media. It all reached a crescendo when a satisfactorily white shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian, at “massage parlors” in Atlanta. Never mind that the shooter’s stated motive
Daily News Roundup – 8 April 2021
Vaccinations and leaked figures Jason Walls (Herald): ‘Leaked’ document shows NZ vaccine rollout is ‘miles’ behind schedule, says National Party Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Government has vaccinated a third of its original target – leaked report Rachel Sadler (Newshub): How New Zealand’s vaccine programme will ramp up, why targets aren’t
Stuff ‘Journalists’ Prove What Even Blind Freddy Already Knew
Two Stuff journalists spent the inaugural slow train from Hamilton to Papakura proving what even the dimmest fool already knew, that the train is a whole lot slower than the versatile and ubiquitous automobile: We left five minutes after the train-catchers, as we forgot something at the office and
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
A teenager who is an expert in being married? I don’t think so. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Racism Nonsense
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com God help us all – More contrived offence-taking nonsense from Foolish Foon just when I hoped he was improving. Commenting (needless to say) on the harmless quip by Sky Sports commentator Joe Wheeler to the Otago rugby captain’s praise of their star Japanese player,
Daily News Roundup – 7 April 2021
Travel bubble announced with Australia Luke Malpass (Stuff): Trans-Tasman bubble brings palpable relief to Parliament Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern manages expectations over transtasman bubble (paywalled) Herald: Editorial: Bubble a significant and welcome step Jo Moir (Newshub): The public handbrake on an Aussie bubble Hannah Martin (Stuff): Public health
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
The writer attempted to use gender neutral language by avoiding the use of gender pronouns to hide the sex of the police officer. They were doing so well until right at the end of the article where they got sloppy. For some reason, they did not attempt to hide the
Bryce Edwards Is on the Naughty Chair
Last Thursday, April 1st, Dr Bryce Edwards, political analyst in residence at Victoria University of Wellington, ruffled the very considerable plumage of species Iratum dominae – better known to us as Megan Woods, Minister of Housing, earning him a personal rebuke: Arousing Woods’s ire was Dr Edwards’s column for