h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, as I have had a strict atheistic social-democratic upbringing, I'm happily unaware of Deadly Sins, no matter how many...
Wait a minute:
There was that film, wasn't it...? Yeah, Seven with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. I figured out the plot halfway through the film. Very dissapointing.. I guess that's the punishment for reading too many crime-novels..

I have the same problem with dialogue and jokes in the movies - I can tell what's coming before it happens or it's been said. Sometimes I'm laughing before they get to the punchline.

My upbringing was Catholic, though not especially strict, and I'm now lapsed. My father votes right-of-centre (or at least he did - he doesn't discuss politics in that way), my mother's left-of-centre (with very old ties to the NZ Labour party).

So really I'm your basic wishy-washy liberal - leftwing instincts with a sneaking admiration for the right. As Ben Elton put it, I want everyone to have a job but if there's one carpark left at the supermarket I'd kind of like it to be mine.

Seems like we're in the same club then, The WishyWasy Liberation Front.
I'm trying to persuade my father to break his lifelong habit of voting Labour. He is so frustrated because the old Mother Party have been undermined by political inbreeding and dillution. In some issues the Labour party are more conservative than Høyre, the Conservatives! I'm going to vote for Rød Valg Allianse, the most leftist alternative we have, mainly because we need a good watch dog.
There's a economist named Torstein Dahle that I would really like to have in the government.

The Green Party are the most Leftist party in NZ, but mostly because the conservation issues force them onto that side of the spectrum. The Christian Parties are, praise the Lord, not even a blip on the radar. And in spite of being the most vocal party, ultra-conservative Act (big business, privatising unnecessary asects of govt, tax cuts, etc) is way down in the polls.

Voting for me is all about the political stance of the party - election promises never enter into it (basically because they're not worth s**t).

Election promises, called valgflesk, election-bacon, is never worth anything. Peace, freedom and everything gratis...
This is election year and the latest thing now is to send "open letters" to eachother in the newspapers, ridiculing the opposition ! Four years ago we ended up with a Christian-green-center-right coalition, with the Cristian-center-wish-wash as Prime Minister. He didn't last long before the young yuppie labour inbreed took over. By then the damage on the budget was already done, tying up a couple of billions for child-pensjon, money to keep the women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen!