Posts by Rich Lock
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On 'The Wire' vibe...does anyone know if we're going to get 'Generation Kill' out here? Or is that something I'll have to look elsewhere for?
I found BSG season 1 for $30 at the warehouse, and I know that I'll probably need to complete that set once I find the time to watch it.
Yes, you will. BSG is the only TV series of recent times I've decided I actually need to own, rather than just renting.
I got the first half of series 4 for Christmas, and watched the series 4.5 webisodes on youtube, so I'm more or less caught up.
Tip for anyone planning to watch the webisodes on youtube - DO NOT scroll down into the comments unless you like spoilers.
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This stuff prectically writes itself.
Although it would seem that it would benefit from a decent spellchecking editor....
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This stuff prectically writes itself.
Although it would seem that it would benefit from a decent spellchecking editor....
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I wonder what Russell's next political post will be like.
"Their eyes met across the floor of the house, the distance between them so little physically, yet so immense politically.
She hated him for what he had done to her beloved Criminal Justice amendment, and yet, when she found herself staring across the floor at the dull refelction of light from his permanently smudged glasses, the appropriate words to respond to his sallies and counter-thrusts seemed to catch in her throat...."
This stuff prectically writes itself.
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>(When I worked at a public library, we used to hold up those books as they came in and see which pages they fell open at: invariably the throbbing manhood scenes!)
Ah, a fond memory emerges. The school library. A copy of Clan of The Cave Bear. Our English teacher suddenly Very Disappointed In All Of Us. Good times.
Seriously, what did they think? That scores of teenage girls were just deeply, deeply interested in prehistoric Europe?
Heh. Back in the '80's, when I was a hormonal teenager, there was a fad for releasing cheap paperbacks of popular sci-fi movies - all written by Alan Dean Foster, if memory serves. In our school bookshop, 'The Terminator' novelisation used to fall open at pg 63....
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Super classy, Rich
Wait. Rich, in fine form, tells a super-annoying MRA to bugger off, and you're attacking *him*?
Having caught up on 3-4 days worth of posts after the weekend, and mulled it over, I actually think it's appropriate for me to extend an apology for the way my comment was worded, if not for the point itself.
PAS is a rare oasis of civilised (if occasionally heated) debate.
In contast, there are several NZ general/specific interest forums (i.e. non-political) which I no longer frequent because they have effectively been taken over by the swivel-eyed nutter brigade - the only amusement to be gained from them is from seeing how many posts on the most innocous of topics it takes before the words 'nanny-state' or 'PC gone mad' crop up, or how quickly the most innocent of discussions can be reduced to a foul-mouthed slanging match. And that gets old reeeal quick.
I'd hate to see PAS go the same way, and to be partly responsible for it. So, um, sorry.
However, my point still stands. There are certain phrases (poo-words?) that are used across the political spectrum - 'feminazi', capitalist/fascist pig', 'PC gone mad', 'liarbore dykeocracy' etc etc, which primarily serve to indicate that the user is a parrot with no original point to make, and it is quite safe to tune out whatever they are saying. 'The demonisation of men' (or varients thereof) just happens to be one that presses my buttons harder than the others.
As a white middle-class hetero male, I'm not actually feeling particularly oppressed at the moment, Chuck old son. I'll let you know when it's time for me to join in the 'we shall overcome' chorus. Don't call me, I'll call you.
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genuine LOL from me for that, Mark.
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I believe....
I have seen a photo...
The demonising of men....
Very few men.....
most men.....
some women think..... .
I cannot be bother looking up a source.....
If men and women were treated equally before the law....
Most lefties are not prepared to debate an issue
Chuck, for someone who claims to want a robust debate, you rely awfully heavily on speculation, hearsay, rumour and isolated cases, at the expense of an analysis of inconvenient things such as, y'know, facts..
and as for this particular dogwhistle...
The demonising of men....
When there is pararity of men and women in boardrooms, parliament, and pay, when women can stand up and do a job without being called a bitch or a lesbian, when women can work in offices without being subjected to, and having to tolerate, crude and heavy-handed flirtation verging on harrasment, then and only then will I start taking any notice of any whining limpdick who uses this phrase or varients thereof. Until then, I think the echochamber of kiwiblog is probably the best place for you.
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Apologies to anyone eating breakfast....
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I have a well-repressed desire to try frizzled tarantula (one of the very few edible spiders) - well repressed because I think them rather noble beasts, and the chances of getting one to frizzle in ANZ are -very very very remote. Reported to Taste Like Chicken.
There was an article in The Herald about 3-4 months ago (bought in from the UK Independent, if memory serves) where a guy went round quite a few countries trying out different local 'delicacies'.
Tarantula (in Cambodia? Vietnam?) was the one thing he really had trouble with. Quite like putting an enormous sack of chewy pus in your mouth, apparently. With 8 hairy legs as a bonus feature.