Posts by Emma Hart
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I'd die in a ditch before I would publicly condemn my 14 child no matter what he/she said. Thats what family means, FFS.
Well, I must be a shit parent too, because I disagree. Would I take the issue public if it wasn't already? Nope. But this wasn't done in private. (I'm not actually saying that this particular case is black-and-white because geez, how many non-homophobic kids have said 'UR so GAy LOL'.) But if we were talking really serious public abuse of a particular minority group, damn straight they'd have to apologise as publicly as they delivered the insult. Then we could send them to a few of those remedial Big Gay Outs.
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We were so excited we immediately said hi, and he barely glanced up as he grunted 'F**k off' at us. We were so proud.
My brother used to live in Piha. He was walking home from a party one New Year's Eve and got hungry. Seeing as he was passing another party, he wandered in, went into the kitchen, and started making himself a snack.
And! Neil Finn! Neil Finn walked in and said "Who are you and what the fuck are you doing in my fridge?"
Brilliant.
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It reminded me of Jeremy Clarkson on QI describing seal flipper as tasting '__exactly__ like licking a hot Turkish urinal'.
Lots of you haven't licked it yet, right? The envelope, not the urinal.
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Failing that light rail from CHCH to Ashburton & CHCH to Amberly encompassing all of the northern res devs up there?
I wouldn't go quite that far yet, but it seems logical that Chch is going to spread outside of the Green Belt - Templeton, Kaiapoi, etc.
The big problem with commuter rail in CHCH is the brilliant decision to move the 'central' railway station out to Riccarton. I guess there was a good reason for that at the time, but I dunno what it was.
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... and as a final insult, the gum on the back of the envelope tastes really disgusting.
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Dick Hubbard may be socially conservative, but he's prepared to look past his own background and beliefs.
I'd be really really happy to be proved wrong, and it looks like I might be. But, honestly, it's not the sincerity of his homophobia that worries me. If he's genuine, it still worries me. Because, okay, he didn't think gay people deserved basic rights, then he met some and realised he was wrong. Is he going to have to do that with every single other group? He seems... awfully malleable.
And yeah. Almost every time someone talks to me about Hubbard, they start talking about Banks. Swney seems okay. But I also wonder why I care at all about the Auckland mayoralty.
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Perhaps I'm dreaming that considerable numbers of people could move towards my mode of work, commuting to the office on foot from the bedroom
Sometimes you can look forward in time just by looking overseas. In California, where telecommuting seems be a lot more common than it is here, groups of e-lancers have started renting office space and all working in the same physical space, on their different projects. Simply because people miss that face-to-face bouncing ideas off each other dynamic that you get from a communal workplace.
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In all seriousness, Emma, I felt like shit about it.
I'll sit down later and finish the job, but it does get me down. Because if I've got vote fatigue over it, how do less politically-obsessive people feel?
And I'm more than a bit pissed that Bob Parker's going to win the mayoralty because people have heard his name before.
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North of the bridge - I'll come out of the closet and admit that ten minutes with the candidate information booklet brought me to the conclusion that the most responsible act was to rip my ballot paper into very, very small pieces and burn it.
LOL. By the time I was asked to not only FIND seven Health Board candidates I could bring myself to vote for, but then rank them in order of preference, I gave up. Someone might have thrown the booklet.
Actually, Hubbard delievered a mea culpa at the GABA meeting, and essentially said he was ignorant and didn't really know any gay people when he signed that silly letter about gay parents. I'm more inclined to believe him than I am Banks, and it sounds like the crowd at the meeting was too.
And that's why Auckland has the Hero parade back, right?
I would like to believe him, but I'd need something like him publicly saying he was in favour of gay people being allowed to adopt. I'm terribly, terribly cynical about Road to Damascus Conversions.
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b) Cantabrains still don't get out much <wink>
LOL. Chch public transport is great, as long as you live inside the city. If you live in Rolleston, you can drive past the closed Rolly railway station and all the way into town right next to the railway line, but you can't take a train.
We have geography on our side, too. Most days in the summer, we don't use the car. My kids walk or bike to school - three whole blocks without getting run over, abducted or murdered! My partner bikes to work in the CBD. From Riccarton, biking takes about the same amount of time as walking, depending on the direction of the wind. And some of the cheapest property in town is in Philipstown, right next to the CBD.
But Auckland... I'm a big lefty liberal greenie, and I wouldn't use public transport in Auckland.