Posts by Julie Fairey
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I'll roll my eyes if you promise to roll them back when you're done with 'em :)
I have absolutely no idea what this means. Are you flirting Grant?
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At the risk of stepping into this debate or dragging it somewhere else new and worrying, perhaps references to the laws of people, rather than the laws of men, might be in order?
Roll your eyes if you will, but seeing as how the three of the most powerful people in our legal realm (PM, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice) are in fact of the womanly caste, maybe we could use terms that include the possibility that chicks might be involved in our lawmaking?
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My favourite bit (so far), was when Grant wrote the following to the blog OWNER:
Russell. Are you only here to disagree with everything I say? Doesn't that take a lot of unnecessary effort?
Pure. Comedy. Gold.
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Thank you David.
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@FletcherB I agree! Also what about thread-crashing? That really riles my styles.
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@ Susan *applause*
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Wow, I must have really mis-read David's post because I didn't think it was about abortion at all. Stupid me commenting about death and organ donation!
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Do we actually call the time of death in NZ? This is something I was musing on last night, after being present at the passing of someone recently. I didn't notice anyone doing the whole American TV thing of looking at the watch and pronouncing the time.
Donor stuff is tricky. I strongly want any of my body that is useful to be recycled if it can be. But I also understand that when I'm going/gone it is actually my family who are left to deal with that, not me, and if not donating my organs would make them feel better then it might be a bit rough of me to insist (quite apart from the difficulty of enforcing that!). I don't envy the medical professionals who have to deal with families over this issue.
In the case I mentioned above the person who died felt very strongly in favour of donation, and we had discussed it a few months previously (didn't even know he was sick!). As it turned out he wasn't a candidate for donation, for medical reasons, so it never came up, and I'm glad we didn't have to make those decisions in the context of an unexpected bereavement.
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Ah, nervously harking back to something in the original post that isn't about NZ music...
Took my hubby to On the Conditions etc for his birthday last Saturday and it was one of the best comedy shows I have ever seen. Meek was fantastic, and given that he was also one of the main actors in The Hollow Men, which we saw in April, he is definitely up there as one of my favourite NZ actors at the moment. Someone get that man on Shortie St (or maybe not...)
Lyn has her review of Mero's play over here, and we got into a bit of a discussion about whether Meek's fly was down deliberately or not.
And on the issue of Nats liking it too - on the night we went there were a number of them in the audience, including the MP for Northcote and Messr Farrar (not sitting together I should note).
After an hour of good political satire we went to an attempt to do a NZ Daily Show, called Good Evening NZ, and sadly it was awful. Radar was there too, he will back me up I'm sure. They even made jokes about how their jokes were falling flat. Oh dear.
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Oh sorry, I simul-posted with Graeme - I would trust his legal advice far ahead of mine, I didn't finish law school.