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Written By: Demeter - Date published: 3:55 pm, March 19th, 2010 - 19 comments
New instalment from John Key impersonater “Plumedekiwi”, in which the PM gets his linguistic knickers in a twist over national standards….
If you haven’t seen the other vids by Plumedekiwi, check him out here
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 14 comments
Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members?
Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972.
That gives a taste of …
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:52 pm, February 19th, 2010 - 10 comments
In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 9:19 am, February 19th, 2010 - 8 comments
Click through to see Phil Goff take John Key down a peg. Sloppy home insulation. Sloppy, broken cycleway promises. Sloppy, unfilfulled Youth Guarantee. Sloppy & uncaring on unemployment. Sloppy abuse of the people of McGehan Close. A sloppy, do nothing PM.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:15 am, February 1st, 2010 - 17 comments
It was probably well intentioned – and to be fair we don’t know the full facts yet – but on the face of it putting kids in police cars at a school fair then doing donuts and figure eights around the field looks like pretty poor judgement.
On the other hand, I’m just a little bit …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:01 pm, December 24th, 2009 - 8 comments
One of the stranger Internet campaigns has being going on in Britain. It has resulted in this excellent track being the Xmas number 1 single this year (it is in my programming playlist for special bugs). Far better than the usual mulch, and enough to wash out the taste of John Keys version of Snoopys …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 4:45 pm, October 5th, 2009 - 19 comments
Just found the trailer on youtube. No word yet when it’s coming to New Zealand.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:53 am, September 23rd, 2009 - 3 comments
More at: theyesmenfixtheworld.com
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:45 am, September 21st, 2009 - Comments Off
Eddie’s piece on the importance of joining your union if you want to avoid a pay cut reminded me of another Peter Seeger classic:
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:38 am, September 12th, 2009 - 7 comments
Following on from the workers’ rights/class war theme of the last few days, here’s an old classic:
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:37 pm, September 7th, 2009 - 3 comments
The last video I posted had Democratic Congressman Barney Frank taking the fight to a woman in the audience of a townhall meeting who had just compared the proposed health care reforms to Nazism. He finished by saying: “trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:20 pm, September 5th, 2009 - 16 comments
An old favourite came around on the playlist. It sounded like the ostriches that occupy the sewer and appear here for our entertainment… So I tracked down a live performance by Leonard Cohen.
The Man from Uncle version with the studio soundtrack is pretty funny as well.
Lyrics over the page…
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:39 pm, August 30th, 2009 - 6 comments
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:47 pm, August 7th, 2009 - 20 comments
John explains how what he said was taken out of context, and he outlines his views on climate change.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:00 am, August 6th, 2009 - 11 comments
John Key has recently acted like a jerk to a young mother worried about what climate change is going to mean for her future and that of her child. Essentially he said that she should stick to what she knew.
Bearing in mind the complete lack of understanding that both John Key and his NACT government …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:46 pm, August 4th, 2009 - 4 comments
An old favourite.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 14th, 2009 - 18 comments
Not to be outshone by their leader’s latest efforts, looks like Young Labour have been busy with a little video project of their own. Nice.
(Hat-tip: Red Alert)
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:45 am, July 11th, 2009 - 1 comment
Sometimes writing is hard. Especially when one is hungover for the third morning in a row. Thank God for Youtube.
This one goes out to all our readers who are, or will be, addled by swine flu.
Honestly, if you aren’t watching The Daily Refrain, you’re wasting your life.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 5:24 pm, June 20th, 2009 - 18 comments
Obama kills a fly with his bare hands. Awesome.
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 8:31 pm, June 18th, 2009 - 15 comments
So. There’s this dude who writes a song a day (weekdays only) and puts it on Youtube. Calls it The Daily Refrain. He’s been going three weeks now. Mostly pretty funny and well written. Great little project. Seems like he’s a Kiwi. He’s put up one about the child-beating referendum which is brilliant.
Hilarious. But my …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:16 pm, May 12th, 2009 - 5 comments
Makes you wish we had some good political satire here.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 12:29 pm, May 10th, 2009 - 2 comments
Di Mackey of Woman Wandering had this video in a post. Looks like someone had a lot of fun making the video to Blerta’s Dance All Around the World.
Hat-tip: indirectly from the hand-mirror
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 8:44 am, April 24th, 2009 - 11 comments
If you’ve been watching your Fox News, you know that the US is turning socialist. It’s going to be Sweden any day apparently. The Daily Show went to Sweden to get a taste of the fate that awaits Americans.
The tunes they play while visiting Robyn’s apartment… They’re great songs but do they suddenly seem to …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 8:34 am, April 21st, 2009 - 8 comments
Uncanny spoof of John Key. Has all of the mannerisms…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:50 am, April 5th, 2009 - 6 comments
For some reason the convolutions in this video reminded me of the twin comedy act of Worth and Grosser this week. Not to mention Key doing a weak-kneed ‘bollocking’ in a direct contrast to his expectations of what Labour should have done last term.
This video is one of the best (and earliest) funny cat videos. …
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:35 am, December 23rd, 2008 - 8 comments
Rather than decorating their tree, some committed Labour Party staffer seems still to be hard at work posting maiden speeches to YouTube.
The Greens have theirs up too [link].
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 1:52 pm, December 15th, 2008 - 39 comments
Tourism New Zealand has recently launched its dedicated YouTube channel – Have Your Say – where tourists can post video messages about their experiences while visiting here via a mobile studio.
Here’s what our new PM, Minister of Tourism, and veteran YouTube user John Key had to say.
But while John’s out there on YouTube doing the hard sell on …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 12:05 pm, December 15th, 2008 - 15 comments
[The shoe-thrower is a journo from a Baghdad newspaper taking his opportunity to make his feelings known during Bush's surprise farewell visit to Iraq. In Arab culture, the sole of the shoe, being dirty, is insulting.]
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 2:19 pm, November 20th, 2008 - 7 comments
Some jokers have given new lyrics to the Dr. Dre and Eminem classic. Hilarious.
My favourite part is Hide’s cameo.
Hattip: Dolla$Trada
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:05 pm, November 17th, 2008 - 13 comments
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