Posts by giovanni tiso
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Internet provision is one big thing I am not looking forward to when looking to return home. It all sounds far too much like going back to dialup (shudder!) to me.
It depends where home is. In Wellington and Christchurch you get the TelstraClear cable and it's a very smooth experience. I'm sure the service is more expensive and slower than in the UK - gotta be - but it's still pretty fast and roomy and I've gone two years with nary a glitch. Plus they give me five bucks every time I mention their name in a blog.
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A circle-jerk?
Crickey! I realise you made that comment after 8 30 pm, but perhaps you ought to consider some sort of parental advisory-type warning. Some of us are young and impressionable. Well, impressionable anyway.
On a related note, it's good to see that the likes of the CCD are absolutely crap at indoctrinating young minds.
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Actually the encouragement of fighting in ice hockey is one of the things I dislike the most about the sport.
I stand corrected.
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Kyle is an Anaheim supporter, I'm sure he'd have more than a little to say in defence of the institution of the hockey fight. That doesn't make the quote he gave us any less scary.
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It's not about the answers, but about the questions. I don't care what he eats or listens to, but I do care about his political philosophy and policies. Oh, wait: we might be scared off by the former and there are none of the latter. So let's ask about the movies.
Way to hit the nail on the head.
Thus far, the Herald's effort amounts to a puff piece of the highest order, and while I'm no political operative I suspect the leader of either party would kill for one of those at this stage of the campaign. It does not demonstrate collusion, of course, but surely one is allowed to question the journalistic value of the piece, all the more since it's touted as an unauthorised expose`? I'll reserve my final judgment until next week, but thus far I'm very unimpressed.
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the defense plans to show that residents of Pensacola are more likely to use Google to search for terms like “orgy” than for “apple pie” or “watermelon.”
I myself often search for a combination of the three.
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Here's your evidence.
Hard hitting.
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Last year, I got about halfway through Ulysses before I was forced to give it up due to boredom.
I let this slide earlier, but... we really need to start a Ulysses appreciation thread and fix this thing.
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So what of Hansel & Gretal?
A story of child neglect, abuse, imprisonment and cannibalism.Don't get me started. What cracks me up especially is the fact that H&G go back to live with their dear old father instead of, you know, murdering him in his sleep. Although perhaps that part was left for the sequel.
I don't see anything particularly 'political' about The Satanic Verses or The Bible,
I beg your pardon?
but I sure wouldn't be walking down the street in Tehran with either tome conspicuously tucked under my arm.
Questionable, in the case of the bible, but surely you wouldn't walk around Teheran with an image of the prophet tatooed on your forehead either, no?
Look, back in the day astronomy used to get you into trouble, so of course I'm not saying that books doesn't have a rather illustrious history of being burned, oftentimes along with the author. But pictures, religious, political or otherwise, share in that history too (did I mention graven images?).
When it comes to violence and sex, I would argue that images get banned first. I don't have hard data to back it up or anything, but since the invention of film (and more recently of video games) the news in this regard are made by the likes of The Clockwork Orange (the film) and Grand Theft Auto, rather than, say, by The Clockwork Orange (the novel) and American Psycho.
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Last year, I got about halfway through Ulysses before I was forced to give it up due to boredom. Did the book actually make me mental?
The corrupting power of Ulysses has always been a bit of a mystery to me too. Surely a couple of chapters devoted to masturbation are not enough to destroy the fabric of society?