Posts by chris
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said seriously, in context, and meant with hate.
id est: zazzlessly
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and zagging...
The extra viewer that caused her to miss. What had I done?
It's a slippery slope Hadyn, superstition has caused me to forgo entire tournaments in recent years. I guess on analysis of the Silver Ferns' performance and your own actions, you'll be able to write a couple of sub clauses granting yourself a little more leeway in the netball anti-jinx stratagem
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Super thread, ideas, sparks, fury, info, laughs and so much more. <pendant> May I suggest something like the IPA(provided by most online dictionaries) for pronunciation discussion (or some alternative).
wʊmən=woman
wɪmɪn= womenAlthough many New Zealanders' 'ɪ' may be replaced by the lazier 'ə', all open to subjective use of course. The otherwise immaculate tone of the discussion drifts south a just a little when an educated group uses the roman alphabet to attempt to distinguish pronunciations. Having said that I dig your original WIMMIN Jackie, that's how I was taught as a tot, and more or less the same as the phonemic description.
My vote for thread of the year. Great idea David, you're enterprising spirit is inspirational.
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I'll just slap the little cracker upside the head until his ears ring like a cathedral bell.
At a glance, this sentence seems far more borderline wrt NZ FOS limitations than any of the expletives being bandied about. God blessed you Craig.
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Sorry Keith, I arrived late, and I brought no surprises.
Freedom of speech is being free to say what you want without interference; not from the police, not from lynch mobs, not from your neighbours. They don't get to arrest you, strip you of any of your other legal rights, beat you or gag you.
But they will fine you $6750.
Surely you are aware of that axe hanging over your head as you write. Surely you can't fail to miss the glaring reality that numerous lexical combinations warrant dire consequences...in a democracy.
this is precisely why democracies have freedom of speech
A pejorative platitude to lull people who live in democracies into feeling better about the right to publicly criticize your own government and depart from the established propaganda models - In itself a massive stretch of the concept of freedom - in itself counterproductive to the task of preserving freedoms, and certainly detrimental to any attempts to increase the parameters of the ever superlative term 'freedom'.
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"Most people think I'm British but the truth is much worse than that. Like the Governor-General I was born in New Zealand. However, I'm at least half what they colloquially call in Europe a Gypo.
Arguably more offensive (certainly more specific) than the original comment for which he was apologizing. The man's thought processes disgust and yet for a window into this cretin's mind: If Dikshit when pronounced /dɪkʃɪt/ is an 'appropriate' name for an indian, and if being a gypsy is 'much worse' than being British (which is obviously still not highly regarded given the comparative) then what race, nationality or ethnicity would feature at the top of Henry's schema?
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racism.....................................||...................................politics
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I'm with the group pointing out that "New Zealander" is not an ethnicity - it describes everyone who is a citizen of this country, whether that citizenship occurred at birth, or in a ceremony 5 minutes ago.
Is "New Zealander" not included as an 'ethnicity' to gauge/ reveal something more? Republicanism perhaps?.
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Yeah, that's in sharp contrast to the more recent.
"That is the right course of action,"
re: the suspension from the Keyster. It seems his moral compass is on 24 hour delay. I never thought I'd say it but bring back Helen. Key's response on the show defied what a leader should do.
If he can't stand up to the likes of the mere Paul Henry for what is right and good and just for the nation then what can he do?
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You make a valid point Ben. I'm a big fan of the first Ali G season so my post was a little knee jerk there.
Ben Gracewood, my hat off to you. I think your gesture made a difference.
I'm feeling that too bro.