Posts by linger
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Russell Brown,
Her October trip was to attend a conference on corruption.
Which presumably means a conference on the subject of corruption, rather than the alternative reading “aided by”.
(... This is attending a conference.
... This is attending a conference on drugs. ... Any questions? ) -
Busytown: School bully, in reply to Ianmac,
Those observations strongly suggest that, concerning homework, these parents really wanted ... a secret ballot.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
so: Conservatives = Flat Earth;
NZF = My* Little Corner Of The Earth...
and the entire collection = Muddle Earth!* "Our" would be too inclusive for them.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
(Does that leave NZ First as Flat Earth? possibly a label more suiting the Conservatives though.)
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Can we go back to first principles here: just why should we believe that the known history of the Australian Labor and Green Parties should have much relevance for the future of the NZ Labour and Green Parties? Might be similar party names; but not the same people.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
And they have a summer school with an English language programme – hence some of my former students can legitimately claim to have “studied at Harvard” on the basis of a semester spent there at some time during their MA studies at my own university.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to nzlemming,
Yes indeed. Though a columnist writing “I’m sure of my beliefs, in spades” is, regrettably, a tautology these days. Also fits with the “just world” reasoning noted by Virginia above: “I must be right because I have a privileged position”.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I AM NOT A DATA POINT – my next t-shirt. Sorted.
I love that. Prisoner reference, check; but also the delicious irony that wearing a messaged t-shirt does rather make you a data point.
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Notes & Queries: Little CD in a Prospect…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
* The first reference link seems no longer to work; try 10 Ways to Show Love to Someone With Depression
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It would help immeasurably if the MSM were to decide that, PM or not, Key's "suspicions", "suggestions", and other such freshly squeezed opinions do not deserve to be treated as news. Some chance of that though.