Posts by Sam F
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My money's on "sub-prime", thankfully not literally.
"Te Qaeda" comes a natural second, followed by "the beltway" - which is so openly American-imported and ludicrous it's got to be emblematic of something.
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Rest easy Margaret - 22 year old male here, and I tend to think pretty much the same way about this stuff.
What stops me from commenting here more often than I do is a sense that I've seen less of the world and am less in tune with the issues of the day than other posters, and hence that I'm less qualified to enter the discussion. Most PAS commenters seem to be older than I, more keyed into the media and politics, and much more erudite in their posts. It always seems as though someone else has already said it far better than I could, and I'm deathly afraid of saying something lame which kills off a good discussion. No worse feeling than your first post in a thread being the very last one.
Of course, sometimes this is just because I'm arriving later than everyone else to a topic, like here, but there's always that nagging sense that I've brought the discussion to an unnatural end rather than simply addressing an empty room (which is embarrassing enough already). But I guess that's life on the intertubes.
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__Is that the actual North and South Asian Angst cover kitty?__
Nope, the Lucky Cat belongs to us, always.
Well, obviously, but it was a pretty neat reference anyway. :)
Still gutted that there won't be any more, but again, all the best.
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Oh lord, I missed something. Is that the actual North and South Asian Angst cover kitty?
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Was hankering for a new YP post and got one, but not quite what I was hoping for!
All the very best. I've enjoyed your blog immensely and will miss your writing.
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Second Life is ugly, high on bandwidth costs, and full of the kind of people who will willingly pay real money to exchange for virtual money to buy unrealistic virtual genitals. And Russell's right - compared to the rest of the net there is bugger-all going on in there.
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It's worth noting that the craziest of the Kiwiblog commenters has in fact been the repeated subject of police attention, armed offenders squad included. He complains about it too.
I'm thinking this can only be one of two people on there...
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Oops... should have edited that a bit better. But yeah, you get the idea...
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This is the only culinary war story I have: in China, at the end of November last year, I went out for dinner with my girlfriend's family. It was a very nicely decorated restaurant which, I was told, specialised in turtle soup. I assumed the gas-fired pot in the middle of our table was for steamboat-style cooking of vegetables etc.
Girlfriend asked me if I was sure I was comfortable with turtle soup, to which I said, sure, why not? Soup is soup. A minute later she asked again, and I again said it was fine, a little uneasy about it now.
Someone came out with a tray about ten minutes later upon which sat a large, mud-brown river turtle, about nine inches long. It jerked its head away nervously into its shell as some of our party inspected it for freshness, and then it was taken away - and brought back five minutes later, when it was slipped gently into the boiling pot, pulling in its head as it went.
I had some of the soup out of good manners - and a kind of manic morbid curiosity - but politely declined when I was offered the head.
I hadn't realised that turtle was on the menu, but thought I'd pass on it and leave it at that. Well, I wasn't to be so lucky, because a live river turtle was brought to our table for our inspection, then plunged directly into the boiling gas-fired pot in the middle of the table.
The blood made good soup, but I couldn't go as far as actually eating the meat once they'd taken the body away and prepared it for table. And that's all I have to say about that.
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{quote}I'll point out a local Iraqi wire agency that is increasingly posting dispatches in English.{/quote}
Thank you, sir - that just got a permanent spot on my bookmarks.