religion and politics...

[jayp20]

Originally Posted by jawnbc

Mummy: Suh how wuz school today?
Girl: Jummy wuz bein' a deckhid.

The guys nearly sprayed their teas. After that we heard d1ckhead almost every day.

(I apologize if my attempts to orthographize a kiwi accent has offended)!

Hilarity!

[Weta]

Originally Posted by Song_Si

who do you trust?
Today's religion and politics discussion rolled into one.
It's a very small survey pool - just 626 people polled - seems an extremely small number to me.

I would concur with most on the list. I do have a modicum of sympathy for Dotcom being among that hall of shame.

I guess there must be a whole lot more that have invested their life savings with the Reverend Pastor Grand Inquisitor Father Superior Jedi Master Leader of Homosexual Reform and First Maori Pope His Excellency Bishop Brian Tamaki.

[Song_Si]

^ I'm not up with things at all re Mr Dotcom, his name surprised me as I didn't think enough people would 1. be aware who he was, or 2. have any reason to 'not trust' him.
I wasn't aware he had done anything in NZ except spend money.

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I'd have expected real estate agents to be the least-trusted profession; that poll gives:

Least trusted were telemarketers, door-to-door salesmen and car salesmen.

[Song_Si]

^ more on above. Journalists!

found the full list here

here are the ten 'least trusted'

31. financial planners; 32. Call centre operators; 33. Chief executive officers; 34. Journalists; 35. real estate agents; 36. insurance salespeople; 37. sex workers; 38. Car salespeople; 39. Door-to-door
salespeople; 40. telemarketers

[Weta]

Originally Posted by Song_Si

^ I'm not up with things at all re Mr Dotcom, his name surprised me as I didn't think enough people would 1. be aware who he was ...

I think that's funny!

Can you imagine that the NZ news media could keep quiet about this large as life 'international fraudster' in our midst. One who was 'hauled from his multi-million dollar mansion at gunpoint' wanted for extradition by the FBI, around whom tales of political scandal and bribery abound. The small matters of donations to Auckland City Councillors for fireworks and Mayoral campaigns, plus a spare $1m to Christchurch and some unanswered questions surrounding his residency application.


It's the biggest thing since, erm .................. the last biggest thing.

[carosapien]

He gave a ton of money to John Banks when he was running for mayor. Banksie asked him to split it up into smaller amounts so he wouldn't have to declare it and then was caught out when he lied about knowing Dotcom?

I tell you, NZ politicians make even 'international fraudsters' look honest

[YoungsSpecialLondon]

On religion: in my experience, NZ has a higher proportion of churchgoers than the UK, but religion is much less part of the cultural backdrop.

No church leader here has a profile as significiant as, say, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Brian Tamaki only makes the news when he pulls some stunt, he's only been around for a few year; the probability is that a few years from now everyone will have forgotten him.

The other two comments I'll make are:
1. NZ has lots of little churches, as contrasted with the UK in which the CofE, the RCs and the CofS account for the vast majority of churchgoers and religious observants in general.

2. a higher proportion of NZ churches are American-influenced fundamentalists than in the UK. NZ churchgoers will commonly express scepticism about evolution, for example, whereas a UK churchgoer will accept it. While there is an Anglican church here, it doesn't have anything like the reach or cultural influence of the CofE and is in decline. American-style fundamentalist churches are growing, as are the Roman Catholics. In the case of the latter, this is mainly due to immigration from Asia.