tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post386868659438524140..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: The Story Goes Ever On … Merry Christmas To All Bowalley Road Readers!Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22614143232844320292018-01-07T00:11:28.372+13:002018-01-07T00:11:28.372+13:00Countryboy, I have a fond spot for glyphosate and...Countryboy, I have a fond spot for glyphosate and/or (apparently) earthworms.<br /><br />I agree if justice was administered perfectly our present power structure would disappear completely, like Puna Ariki hill in New Plymouth, once the foremost Maori fortress in the area, now the foremost 'centre ' in that town, the hill having been completely removed for colonial fill (my summer holiday).<br /><br />Re Power , on same summer holiday, I found my Scottish g. grandparents' grave in Wanganui. Farmer he was only inscribed as the 'beloved husband', she as 'beloved wife'. Both their sons died before them. It reminded me of, in contrast to these humble, and humbled, Scots, the hustler Scots like Donald Maclean, the government landbuyer who had an 8 metre high Celtic Cross in Napier Cemetary opposite my house. And let's not forget William Colenso, that speaker of truth to power (Maclean and John Ormond (first of the 6,7 or 8?)). I imagined he might have been happier in Taranaki among his fellow West Country folk, yet he was a man of conscience and tbey are never happy in this world.<br /><br />Of course , speaking for truth as quite a few colonialist did, fighting for truth against your tribe is different and is both needed and sparse upon the ground--witness Nazi Germany. I don't think those Germans were wrong in their assessment of the British and French empires, but great PR job, Winston. Your words, at least, created a better world. <br /><br />sumsuchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8218900577722163662017-12-31T15:11:16.764+13:002017-12-31T15:11:16.764+13:00sumsuch
I'm not sure whether "kat" ...sumsuch<br /><br />I'm not sure whether "kat" and "Kat" are the same person.<br /><br />I don't mean this in an obscure metaphysical sense. <br /><br />It's just that I know "Polly" is "Polly" and you are "sumsuch".<br /><br />Is "kat" "Kat" in the same sense?<br /><br />We had a problem on this site at one point because people were confusing "Brendan" and "Brendon". Hence my concern.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-86537168648850290632017-12-30T14:34:29.698+13:002017-12-30T14:34:29.698+13:00I just can't do it. Wishing a " Merry Chr...I just can't do it. Wishing a " Merry Christmas" sticks in my gills like a post-toke panadol. You know the kind? The pill that makes it to exactly the gag reflex point then gets stuck. “ Uuck, uck, uck.... ! “ is all I can manage. <br />Look ...? Jesus...? Can you please come down/back/across and kick some right wing narcissistic sadist arse? Bring your Old Man? Do some smiting? Because they’re fucking everything up everywhere man. And making billion$, trillion$ and heaving in mirth in their lard encasements as the poor, the down trodden and the plain unlucky are seen to be tortured by them for laughs. Yeah, merry christmas indeed. <br />Where are you, God and the Boy? You do see what they’re doing to your oceans, your forests, your wee beasties and least of all, us. Take a look? Ok, sure. You made us humans in your image ( God has hair like the Trumpenator!? ) and gave us free will but what about the sentient wee beasties? You left them here without a hope. WTF? You know what a .270 cal bullet does to a Lion’s chest cavity? The lion doesn’t have a fucking chance, and yet? Merry christmas? Fuck off!<br />I say “ Merry Chickens and a happy new Earth Worms. “ <br />The day God and his kid come down/back/across and say “ Right you bastards! Here’s how it is. You fucker politicians, gun happy psychopaths, weed and insecticide manufacturing cocks and you dick heads that spray that shit around? All you mumbling hypocrites, you riche ponces in your panties sitting on the porches of your swanky mansions on lands you took from other humans because they had a different way of doing things? Come over here you fuckers. Now, see this ? This here is forgiveness... But first, you must confess to your dreadful, selfish, mean, nasty, calculating, greedy ways or by Christ! You’ll get an arse full of fish hooks. Serious! <br />Fuck merry christmas, I say. Merry The Good In Us instead. And lets hope the rest of those Right Wing losers die in spiritual agony as the last image they have is that of some homeless person they strutted past on christmas streets fading from their deflating eyeballs as their toxic souls leave for Hell on a one-way train. Or did scum bag douglas sell that off too? Ok. You might need to hitch a ride. Oh, Look! Here comes a Lambo driven by a Banker ...<br />The Lambo has Made in China stamped on it and the Banker just realised he couldn't bring your money with him. Hell, indeed. If you find yourself in the passenger seat, by and by, rub it in. It might not be too late to be 'saved'. countryboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906800965006947285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-54829526100002178712017-12-30T12:46:20.351+13:002017-12-30T12:46:20.351+13:00I think I may have agreed with one thing you wrote...I think I may have agreed with one thing you wrote in a post about April, Chris, but can't remember what it was :)<br /><br />However, we need all viewpoints, even the incorrect ones that would lead to the total collapse of the Free West.<br /><br />Have a great festive season.Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-88016666772153577522017-12-27T17:41:26.723+13:002017-12-27T17:41:26.723+13:00That was a very poignant and meaningful heading Ch...That was a very poignant and meaningful heading Chris. That great image and the lines beneath it were so fitting. <br /><br />It is great to go to the mall and see it thronging with people putting their dibs in to have a Christmas of some good cheer, but it is a materialist palace, the church of the neo libs. Someone, some people have to articulate what it is all about not just be caught in the unrealised feelings of the swirling throng, whirling and floating like a wine cork in a fast river.<br /><br />2018 what do you hold for us? Best wishes to those that plan to put their dibs in for a future of increasing improvements and repairs to prized past achievements.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-31328747783804151262017-12-26T23:58:10.128+13:002017-12-26T23:58:10.128+13:00Kat surely must be a function of the Labour Party ...Kat surely must be a function of the Labour Party central computer. There is no other explaining of, 'her'.<br /><br />I remember the retelling of the Xmas story in my church as a young child--I thought it was a news report: it was inspiring he had just been born.<br /><br />But of course it was the dead matter of the 'Living God', as Evangelicals hilariously describe a chap their children have no trouble at all in departing from.<br /><br />'On Fairy Stories', as described by you, a poetic way through.<br /><br />I take it you rely on stories to bring us to reason. To unite the hunter-gatherers with reality. We have 20 years to see if poesy will work its magic. Or is merely emissions like death gasps.<br /><br />(20 years is generous)<br /><br /><br /><br />sumsuchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-67525702123568888892017-12-26T17:45:41.220+13:002017-12-26T17:45:41.220+13:00Takes note...
Chris Trotter said Merry Christmas.....Takes note...<br />Chris Trotter said <i>Merry Christmas</i>....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36561192775458977042017-12-25T07:44:34.535+13:002017-12-25T07:44:34.535+13:00Merry Xmas everyone.
Have a good one Chris and fam...Merry Xmas everyone.<br />Have a good one Chris and family.Pollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-35768767678721149962017-12-24T22:22:28.551+13:002017-12-24T22:22:28.551+13:00Ardern, Kat, isn't salvation. No more than any...Ardern, Kat, isn't salvation. No more than anyone else. Her isolation amid her colleagues, if it is indeed isolation, says much. She coulda raised the benefits and eradicated child poverty 'in one blow'. <br /><br />How can you blow the official Labour Party show all this time? You know what it is post '84'.sumsuchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27728764041219601292017-12-23T23:31:23.575+13:002017-12-23T23:31:23.575+13:00But then.........
We're goin' out in the ...But then.........<br /><br />We're goin' out in the country to get down to the real soul,<br />I mean the real soul, people,<br />We're goin' out in the country, get down to the real soul<br />We're gettin' out to the west coast<br />Shining our light into the days of bloomin' wonder<br />Goin' as much with the river as not, as not, yeah, yeah<br />An' I'm goin' as much with the river as not<br />Yeah, yeah, right, yeah<br />You don't pull no punches, but you don't push the river<br />You don't pull no punches, and you don't push the river katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27564435375217269112017-12-23T22:19:05.230+13:002017-12-23T22:19:05.230+13:00I really do think we are a very lucky country to h...I really do think we are a very lucky country to have such a gift as Jacinda Arden. Its been a long time between drinks and big Norm.....but here we are.<br /><br />Its too late to stop now.<br /><br />Merry Christmas to all. katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36305869516465941362017-12-23T21:35:10.444+13:002017-12-23T21:35:10.444+13:00And a merry Christmas to you Chris
Thanks for al...And a merry Christmas to you Chris<br /> Thanks for all the research and words of wisdom.<br />Cheers David J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.com