Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Friday, November 12th, 2010
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In this episode we ask you to believe that we planned for a rant about war to come out around Armistice Day and that this episode isn’t just the random wafflings of a pair of Mark Corrigans that was going to happen anyway. Do it!
Tags: "Court of the Red Tsar" book , "Fog of War" film , "The Yes Men" , "Young Stalin" book , 9/11 , Aceh , Afghanistan War , Africa , AK-47 , American Civil War , Angola , Archimedes , Australia , Ayatollah Khomeini , Baath party , Balibo (film) , Balibo 5 , Best Coast , Bill English , Britain , business confidence , Canada , cartography , colonialism , communism , Costa Rica , credit cards , debt , defense , domino effect , Don Brash , East Timor , Falkland Islands , France , Gallipoli , genocide , George Bush snr , Germany , Google , google maps , government spending , Gulf War , Hiroshima , history , Hitler , immigrants , India , Indonesia , industrial revolution , Iran , Iran-Iraq war , Iraq , Iraq War , islamic extremism , Israel , Istanbul , Japan , Jews , John Key , Jordan , Korea , Ku Klux Klan , Kuwait , Labour Party , League of Nations , Malaysia , Manchuria , Marxism , Mexico , Michael Cullen , Nagasaki , national debt , National Front , National Party , nationalism , Newtown , Nicaragua , nuclear weapons , NZRAF , Ottoman Empire , pacifism , Pakistan , Pearl Habour , Peter Dunne , Poland , Portugal , prison labour , public sector , racism , Rape of Nanking , Russia , Saddam Hussein , Saipan , Simon Sebag Montefiore , slavery , socialism , South America , Stalin , Suharto , Syria , tax cuts , Terrorism Supression Act , The Hobbit , the holocaust , The Phillipines , the UN , Tokyo , UAE , USSR , video games , Vietnam , Vladamir Putin , war , welfare , Wellington Phoenix , Winston Churchill , World War I , World War II
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
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SPORTS! The Delhi Commonwealth Games is upon us and it’s covered in shit . How will our athletes fare in the scatological fallout as John Key dares them all to a game of ‘poo chicken’? In that vein we delve back into other shitty sporting events like the Montreal Olympics where New Zealand pissed off all of Africa, the 81 Tour that John Key doesn’t remember, and celebrate the legacy of Eddie the Eagle :
Tags: 1981 Tour , 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks , Africa , All Whites , athletics , Auckland , Australia , Australian Institute of Sport , beaurocracy , Bhopal , bribery , Britain , bus , busses , Canada , capitalism , colonialism , Commonwealth Games , communism , construction industry , Cool Runnings , corruption , crime , Dave Currie , David Garrett , Delhi , East India Company , Eastern Bloc , Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards , Edinburgh , elderly , faeces , famine , film , food , Football World Cup , France , gangs , Garth McVicar , genitals , Germany , Gleneagles Agreement , hide the poo , high school , Hunterville , India , indian food , Inner Circle , internet , Iran , Islam , Israel , John Candy , John Key , Korea , libraries , London , London Olympics 2012 , Manners Mall , margarine , Michael King , Montreal , Moscow , Munich , nerds , New Zealand military , news , Olympic Games , oral sex , Paris , parties , poos , Prussia , racism , Resource Management Act , Rob Muldoon , robbery , Robert Mugabe , Rugby World Cup , Russia , Scotland , Seoul , sexual assault , skiing , South America , Sport , sporting bans , Stephen Wilce , stuff.co.nz , tennis , terrorism , The Human Centipede , toothbrushes , Vichy France , vuvuzelas , Winter Olympics , Zimbabwe
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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How to completely infuriate a Frenchman. Show him this photo:
Then play him this episode, in which we list the reasons France has no right to complain about anything ever at all. Not even the above picture. Or America. France started it. Shut up, France.
Tags: academia , activism , advertising , Africa , Akaroa , Albert Uderzo , America , anti-America , Asterix , Auckland , Battle of Dien Bien Phu , bigotry , Bill English , books , Britain , Burger King , Canada , capitalism , Carla Bruni Sarkozy , cartoons , Celts , Chad , Charles de Gaulle , Cinderella , Cleopatra , colonialism , comics , cuisine , Dr Who , drugs , druids , Egypt , Europe , facism , farming , fast food , France , François Mitterrand , Franz Ferdinand (band) , French Resistance , gays , Germany , Gerry Brownlee , Ghostface Killah , globalisation , Greenpeace , Hergé , homophobia , Irish , Jacques Chirac , John Boscawen , John Safran , junk food , Karl Marx , Kmart , Kraftwerk , language , liberals , Louis XIV , Maori , Matt Smith (actor) , McDonalds , methamphetamine , Naomi Klein , Napoleon Bonaparte , nationalism , Nazis , New York , Nicolas Sarkozy , p , Paris , Paris riots , protest , protests , Prussia , punk , puns , Rainbow Warrior , René Goscinny , romans , Ronald McDonald , Rugby World Cup , Rwanda , Scotland , Scots , Scream (films) , shrooms , South Korea , Statue of Liberty , stuff.co.nz , Subway , suicide , Te Reo , Tintin , Turkey , Vichy France , Vietnam , Wellington , World War I , World War II
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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Australia is going through a bit of an upheaval at the moment, but it’s still going to be shit. Dan and Dave reminisce about the Nats’ promises to stem the flow of Kiwis crossing the ditch, illustrated by this billboard of theirs which invoked that most Australian of political institutions: Kidnapping . Meanwhile, grumpy Brit voters are getting what they asked for . And at home, drink driving goes to the next level of ridiculousness with these two winners.
If you’re wondering about this donk business…
Tags: "nanny state" , A-League football , aborigines , Alan Bollard , alcohol , asylum seekers , Auckland , Australia , banks , beer , beneficiaries , Bill English , bouncers , Britain , Canada , CER , Chris Lilley , commodities , Conservative Party UK , Cricket , donk , drink driving , economics , economies of scale , Europe , Football World Cup , France , genocide , Geoffrey Palmer , global economic downturn , GST , heroin , Home & Away , immigrants , immigration , Jenny Shipley , Jim Bolger , John Key , John Safran , Julia Gillard , Katy Perry , Kevin Rudd , Lesotho , Maori , Melbourne , Middle East , Mike Moore , mining , Monty Python , nightlife , p , Palmerston North , police , political correctness , poor people , racism , refugees , Rob Muldoon , Rove McManus , Ryan Nelson , shoes , Sport , Sri Lanka , stuff.co.nz , Sydney , Tauranga , tax , tax cuts , Te Puke , Thatc , The Wire (TV show) , UK election , Underbelly , VAT , war , Wellington , Whanau Ora , white people , wine , women
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