Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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not really in the vein of the thread, but was on Stuff.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/86934611/canaan-downs-the-land-of-milk-honey-and-good-biking
This is pretty benign, but it did annoy me because I thought I was going to read an informed article about biking on Canaan Downs (which I've done) and the Rameka Track (which I haven't but I'm planning to).
But, it turns out she's written an article about not going to Canaan Downs, nor Harwoods Hole, nor the Rameka Track, because she didn't actually go there - she didn't like the look of the track (which is actually a reasonably benign gravel road).
I suppose I'm not the target audience, because the first hand account of going to the cafe just off the main road and the petting zoo, weren't of much interest to me.
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What the hell? Is this just an article about twitter people being morons?
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Seems so. It's in their "Entertainment" section, so whoever "edits" it clearly thinks searching for smartarse tweets is what passes for entertaining nowadays. Fark me, but I'll be glad when Twitter suffers its long overdue demise. What will Stuff use as new sources then, I wonder?
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@taniwharugby seems like a pretty reasonable article to me. It's important to moderate forums and comments sections, there are people out there that just want to troll instead of having an actual debate, and they add nothing. I'm all for free speech (as you probably all know) but someone that has the sole aim of trolling needs to be given the boot.
TSF does that really well. Far better then anywhere else that I've found. We have some pretty intense debates, but they are by-in-large all from people that actually want to get their point across. Not people that just want to troll for the fun of riling others up (I'm 50/50 on Winger in this regard, but lean towards him actually believing what he says, as crazy as that is...)
The other alternative of news outlets shutting down the comments sections doesn't sit well with me. It's what idiotic Youtubers do when they want to tell others how to think and refuse to listen to any other POVs. Those people can fuck right off.
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@No-Quarter I mentioned elsewhere (May have been in here) the moderators there seem like people rather than a bot or program or whatever...meaning some of the shit they want to now weed out, is all of their own making.
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It's long overdue,, stuff comments is full of Winger clones and tards who blame John Key for everything from the weather to their own failure at life.
Any article about vaccines or 9/11 just brings hordes of losers out of the woodwork , occasionally it's funny but in a ffs I'm glad I'm not that commenter kind of way. -
I can't see prince ever visiting Invercargill ...... http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/87305300/does-invercargill-have-a-new-prince
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I can't see prince ever visiting Invercargill ...... http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/87305300/does-invercargill-have-a-new-prince
Let alone as a teenager still at school and not yet famous.
Bum fuck shit holes at the arse end of the world don't exactly scream inspirational spots to go and write a myriad of future hits.
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Top story at the Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11762854
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I might have missed one but I'm pretty sure this is the third complaint upheld against John Campbell for lying since he left 3 well over a year ago.
I think Helen Clark summed him up best " a sanctimonious little creep".
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@jegga they don't make cool stories unless they make shit up...as I have said on here before, I know they lied on Campbell live about a story I saw happen.
in my old job we used to get threatened with 'we'll take you to Fair Go' a fair bit...fortunately, at the time, Far Go were pretty good and only took a story if they felt it was a valid one.
I was contacted by them twice, but once they were provided our side of the story, they realized it was a non-event and it was done, never ended up running with either.
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@jegga I was at a workshop in Auckland a few years back and he and his types were having some kind of seminar in the room next door and he and most of his mates looked like they needed to be punched then.
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@taniwharugby I don't find that hard to believe .
I think I would probably punch the blonde one first .
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@jegga IIRC I think that was what he looked like at the time, he was wearing some outrageous purple suit, I remember at the time thinking I'd love to punch the dumb fluffybunny, cos it was around the time he was getting his face in the media over his party pills.
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@taniwharugby yeah he was everywhere in the media raving about how cool his party pills/chemical cocktails were a few years back. He started some embarrassing band and was going out with a penthouse pet . I bet she left either as soon as the money ran out or he decided long blonde hair suited him.
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