Posts by Sacha
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Having said which, you'd also need a host with the wisdom to stop guests like Lee steamrolling over the others.
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And the whole show (the first time I've lasted more than five minutes) was, as the kids say, epic fail.
Agree - although that was a particularly egregious example. I do wish the cult of celebrity had less sway and we could have a host with the wisdom to shut up and let the guests speak. He has to be one of the worst interviewers I've ever laid eyes on.
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Lee was frankly ghastly in that interview.
In the context of my complaints here yesterday about the bias of the show, it is worth noting that Holmes felt compelled to mention Shearer's experience under fire.
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the little-mentioned divide between the 'old generation' (which includes those descended from Otago goldminer stock like myself) and the 'new generation'.
Agreed. The huge regional differences within "Chinese" also tend to be glossed over, especially Mainland vs Hong Kong. I recall some good discussion hereabouts at the time of the first Bananas conference that introduced me to the "1.5er" concept.
Mind you we do the same when we use the blunt label "Pacific" - or even "Maori" for that matter, as if iwi are all the same.
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I checked the Q & A transcript
Simon, worth checking out video footage if you can. The transcript probably doesn't convey the blustering rudeness adequately.
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Sorry, thread moving too fast. Giovanni, I don't want to get into a prolonged diuscussion about diet either, but large parts of the world's population are and have been vegetarian for ages - and not just because they can't afford a steak or three. Andin's right about the agriculture as the dominant source of food. Not malnourished either - if anything, it's pretty clear that euro diets have too much nutrition for the lifestyles we live - unless you're hunting, farming and raising a dozen children every day, of course.
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Oh, I know this one: mostly in bodies of water, right?
Chowder.
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ConorJoe, vegetarian I presume? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Sadly, I suspect there's a germ of truth in that.
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Keith, thank you for resisting the lazy media tide that lumps Chinese, Korean and Pakistani into one simple and manageable blob of people who our grandparents felt wary about. Race is a distraction in this and the longer it's fed by some campaigns the more certain we can be that they have nothing else to say.
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