Posts by andin
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Hard News: What did you do yesterday?,
Nice video Dyan.
Waitangi day slept mainly, worked on the fucking car, got ready to move...again. Watched TV started with Seven Blunt just to stop myself from getting too uppity.
It fucking worked. dumb now. -
Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Hilary Stace,
comfort food
Do fries go with that shake!
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Russell Brown,
We all have to reach our own accord with mortality, and if Holmes in his final days found that in the idea of God, that’s his business and his right.
Well No. With his death approaching this was probably the first time he thought about such things. The rudimentary nature of his thoughts betrays him in his words.
The only spirit that exists between us are the ones we create by our words and actions in this life. Behaving like an arsehole believing you have some kind of divine right to , or at that end of your days fall into the lazy trap of believing something outside of this existence will makes amends, somehow, is a luxury we cant keep affording ourselves. I will just raise the issue of gun rights in the US and leave it at that. Maybe if we have hurt someone or wronged them, seek them out and make amends. These appeals to a god is just lazy.
Sorry to disagree with you Russell on this, but I do. I shared a J or 2 with him there was a split between the private and public persona and perception. I never went out of my way to watch or listen to him. Seemed to me he tried to aim for an "everyman" appeal, and Im suspicious of such things. -
Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Keir Leslie,
people need to get paid.
Yep, that just raises a host of problems related to the way we live, that we arent looking at in much detail. Or are being railroaded into...
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Hard News: Music: Summer Season,
clappity clappity
Yes the year is hardly one month old and sanity is thin on the ground. Yacht rock eh! the saccaharine soundtrack to a period of excess that saw a generation look up its own arse and get mesmerised. And ZZTop were part of that, girls and cars hmmm... And what followed, EC, yeah well...There's littleish smattering of madness here, here and here. Still someone managed to muster a bit of anger.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m a long way from understanding my brain, much less anyone else’s.
Shit we dont need a brain introduction service do we? aHa! I think I've found a gap in the marketplace.
Well you know it where it always is haha, Unless.... -
Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Islander,
who knows how family currents & expectations mould people?
By watching beautifully as you seem to have.
When it comes to bad, urm, behaviour families have to "learn as you go" (sounds corny I know)
Or the state apparatus will step in. And that seems a fearful prospect. It shouldn't be. -
Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
the patriarchy hurts everyone.
It does, and it really is time people stopped buying into it.
And yet we still celebrate the birth of a man/god annually who supposedly died for something(I'm not quite sure what). It kind of ensures the patriarchy continues.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to James Bremner,
make believe world of gun free zones and leaving people defenseless when there are crazies
I love it when people say we're living in make believe worlds. We live in societies of our creation. They are not immutable!
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to David Ivory,
Creating a culture of awareness but not sensationalism is going to be hard – it goes against the grain. But it has a better chance than gun laws in reducing mass shootings
Change gun laws first seems the best idea. Then deal with the underlying social issues, which is going to present greater difficulties and will take a lot longer. Maybe generations, who knows.. The US has a long way to go there methinks.