Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="600110" data-time="1469432432"><p>
The editor's pick headline that some fucktard at Stuff wrote this morning. (Was the story about the IOC letting the Russians compete.)<br><br>
IOC DEALS BLOW TO CLEAN ATHLETES.<br><br>
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11680769'>http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11680769</a><br><br>
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<p>Polly Gillespie puts the lie to the concept of ugly on the outside beautiful within.</p>
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<p>I know she's immensely popular with her demographic but what on earth do they find attractive about the whining me, me,meness of endless conversations about her vajayjay :idiot2:</p> -
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<p>goddamn they really are just taking the piss now arent they.</p>
<p>"Erin Speedy" would have to be a pseudonym, no way anyone's going to publicly confess to writing that piffle.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><u><strong>Toy shop disappoints customer with shonky toy car.</strong></u></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><em>--Stuff-</em></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">A local child is said to be "disappointed" at the complete lack of wheels on her newly-purchased brown toy car. "My mum took a photograph of it (see below) next to my favourite green car. Compared to my favourite green toy car, this one hardly moves at all" said little Erin Speedy. "I have to push it and push it but it hardly even zooms along the floor at all." </span></span></p>
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<p><img src="http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/2/e/q/r/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1d2ek2.png/1469252915915.jpg" alt="1469252915915.jpg"></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>The new brown toy car (above, brown) pictured next to the child's favourite green car (green).</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Ms Speedy revisited the toy store to inform a sales clerk that "my new toy car leaves this funny little sludgy oily trail and doesn't appear to have any wheels." Their reply? "That's because it's leaking pretend transmission fluid. Keep pushing it around the floor, shithead."</span></span></p>
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<p>reminded me of this :)</p>
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<p>Grant is a really nice bloke, she on the other hand is exactly as you'd think: self centred, narcissistic and a bit pathetic really. Her "tribute" to Jonah article ( which as you probably remember was a story all about her in which Jonah featured briefly at the end ) says everything about her and there's something very sad about a 50 something radio "personality" swanning all over 20 something singing stars on the radio.</p>
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<p>with her face like that, i am surprised Grant wasn't the one drinking himself into oblivion. Or at least until she looked good. </p>
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Long interesting article about how old media basically fucked itself<br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/case-against-media.html'>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/case-against-media.html</a> -
<p>words fail me</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1'>https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1</a></p> -
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words fail me<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1">https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1</a></p></blockquote>
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One words didn't fail me-fuckwits. -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/83166703/hilary-barry-steals-hotel-room-safe--for-hilarious-social-media-video'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/83166703/hilary-barry-steals-hotel-room-safe--for-hilarious-social-media-video</a></p>
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<p>Apparently hilarious.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="604368" data-time="1470738260"><p>This is quite depressing as usual the clip at the end is funny, but depressing.</p></blockquote>
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Yeah that's depressing alright. It's sad to see what were once proper news gathering organisations reduced to advertorial Buzzfeed wannabes. The NZ Herald has a headline right now "iPhone 7: Should you buy it, or wait?". When did speculation about a phone that's not even released yet, lifted wholesale from news.com.au, become newsworthy? Once it might have warranted a smallish article in a weekly lifestyle section, but now it's right there alongside other thought provokers like "Mariah Carey's "sexy" billboards banned" (sexy? But they've got Mariah Carey on them, how can they be sexy? And by the way it's an airport in fucking California, why the fuck do we care?) and "The dark side of avocados".<br><br>
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<p>Yeah that's depressing alright. It's sad to see what were once proper news gathering organisations reduced to advertorial Buzzfeed wannabes. The NZ Herald has a headline right now "iPhone 7: Should you buy it, or wait?". When did speculation about a phone that's not even released yet, lifted wholesale from news.com.au, become newsworthy? Once it might have warranted a smallish article in a weekly lifestyle section, but now it's right there alongside other thought provokers like "Mariah Carey's "sexy" billboards banned" (sexy? But they've got Mariah Carey on them, how can they be sexy? And by the way it's an airport in fucking California, why the fuck do we care?) and "The dark side of avocados".<br><br>
It doesn't seem to have dawned on the Herald yet that their only point of differentiation is NZ and local news. If they lose the local focus and compete with Buzzfeed, don't be surprised when their readers choose Buzzfeed.</p>
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<p>Are you saying that the best way for them to survive is to carry the Hilary Barry story?</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="605710" data-time="1471307334"><p>Are you saying that the best way for them to survive is to carry the Hilary Barry story?</p></blockquote>
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There's a Hilary Barry story? How so, isn't she dead? I'm sure I read the obituaries somewhere.
