Posts by Russell Brown
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I know alcohol's really bad and gives you cancer and everything, but my delivery for the balance of the Whisky Galore contra (and then some, by the look of it) just arrived.
Oh. Wow.
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RB answered first, and stole my thunder, but I would also add that Pokies are addictive, and have hooked a lot more ppl than the Horse Racing (equally moronic) ever did.
It's teh dopamine.
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Oh come on... catchy tune, but I don't think you need a Ph.D. in textual analysis to get the subtext. We care, they don't; we love all the colours of the rainbow, and they don't. Gag...
What else is a campaign song supposed to do but strike a positive position though?
I think you're being overly sensitive about it. Compared to the 2005 National billboards or Dr Brash's unfortunate declaration that Labour voters couldn't be mainstream New Zealanders, it seems most unobjectionable.
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a wee fistful of party pills laced with STFU.
You reckon we could get Jacqui Dean calling for a ban on STFU? That would be legendary.
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You know something, it's not only protestors who need to get off their moral superiority trips, and treating people who don't think like them as something slightly less than human.
I missed the verse that said that. Is it only on the special edition CD?
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Why does there need to be? I think those pokie bars full of braindead morons suck, but there's a simple answer - don't go to them. People should be free to do what they want without there having to be a "community benefit".
Got kids? A lot of those people pouring their money into pokies do. Are you saying society has no interest there?
The irony is that the interested parties who want to keep the pokies in pubs invariably argue for the community benefit of the revenue they raise for sports teams etc. Unless, of course, the money is actually going to people running complex frauds involving fake invoices and stuff ...
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Like every other English speaking society it is impossible for us to have a sensible debate about drug policy.
I think one reason for that is that it's all so fscked up at the United Nations level. If you don't go hard and ban everything that everyone else is banning you're seen as a backslider. A bit like anti-terror laws, really ...
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One of the things that really doesn't make sense about the present system is that drugs are illegal if they can be construed to be illegal (ie: by arguing that a substance is an analogue of an already restricted drug) -- and if they can't, they're legal until further notice.
This is what happened to methylone, the ingredient in Matt Bowden's Ease pills. Having taken it (when it was legal) I can say that it was a far more desirable, and safer, legal high than the scary crap the London Underground people are selling.
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Hi folks. I'm a bit late with this post, so i thought I might as well kick it off on System asap.
I'm pretty sure I have the above correct, but if anyone knows different, please feel free to say so.
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Politics is not just about developing our own vision of how the world should be, its about how we organise ourselves in light of the fact that we all see the world differently. The "system" is not a monolithic structure that was set up to oppress the masses, its a constantly renegotiated compromise of incompatible forces and desires. Boo to the far left, and its mirror image on the right.
That's really nicely put WH.
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