Posts by BenWilson
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I think calling the bach pomo is over the top. It's just eclectic. I'm sure it does serve a purpose of saying the owner has wealth and lacks (or eschews) traditional tastes. I'm equally sure it's just the ticket for such a person to chill out in and feel proud of. They need not be particularly hollow for this - it would be hollower to give a shit when what you're really bitter on is the man's politics, and/or his failure to disclose them so close to an election. For that, I'm slightly bitter on Key too. But his bach is an innocent bystander. It's like hassling his kids.
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Masochism only goes so far
My eyes saw "Machismo" and it was my first double take in years.
Kracklite, so if I get you, John Key's pad is really a simulation? I thought I saw jaggies...Is Key himself one too? A mere Avatar (note pomo capitaliSation).
Kracklite: "No more than I need to be."
Which could be a lot or a little. I like it. Who needs to let anyone know what you really think?
Anyway, as an example, someone used this situation: a man loves a woman and says to her, 'I love you' and that is modernist, but...
Classic. I thought 'I love you' was old school, and it was more modern to say 'I get you'. Postmodern would thus be 'I would have got you but there was a fuzzy cloud'.
the one thing worse than a snob is an inverted snob
I can think of a lot worse than both, but that doesn't make either good (or virtuous or flourishing for that matter). I seek the Unsnob, who is neither Snob nor inverted snob.
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Aha, I finally see the objection. It's not that it's bad modern. It's postmodern. It all becomes clear, it's an academic thing. There was me thinking it was just because John Key had it, and you don't. Oh, and John Key is the leader of the National Party. But clearly it's got nothing to do with that and everything to do with the clash of ideas at cloud 9.
If only I could see what was postmodern about it. Unfortunately I picked up a book on postmodernism and they started the book off by saying "No one can tell you what postmodernism is". So I'm kind of lost.
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And the D4J stuff on The Standard is definitely creeping me out.
Ewww, never had the displeasure to visit before. It seems to work as a lightning rod for trolls?
I wouldn't get too freaked by either Burns or Slater. There is no doubt an enormous number of people already who feel creeped out by both of them, and I guess it's a good thing to know about them if only to steer clear. Don't let the mojo leak on their lame accounts.
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If you judge it in terms of modernism then it's not a beautiful pad and that photo tells you all you need to know.
I'm not sure why I should judge it in those terms. It looks to me like John Key's hat tip to wanting to have a nice time at the beach, and it looks like it would serve that purpose admirably.
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And I must say, this all reminds me not to engage with these people at all.
It's a bit like arguing with Christians at the door? Horribly tempting, and always a waste of time. I'm perfecting my non-engagement script - last time:
"Hi there, we were wondering if you'd heard of Jesus Christ?"
"Yup"
"Are you a Christian?"
"Nope"
"Is there a reason for that?"
"Yup"
<uncomfortable silence>
"Is there something we can help you with"
"Nope"
<uncomfortable silence>
"OK then, bye"
"Yup"I have to say you hung the equivalent of "Any Christians wanting an argument, I'm right here" on your gate for Slater. OK, he did the same with his cretinous post on Minto, but as with most brawls, who started it gets lost in the question "And why didn't you leave then?".
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Tom, that really is a first glance mental image all round. It may be a beautiful pad and a crap photo. And you'll be laughing on the other side of your hand if someone gets mauled by a shark there and it actually does have something to do with crabbing.
I'm not saying it is a beautiful pad. I don't really know, and I think no one else who is commenting here does either. If they do, perhaps they could give us some more shots. I don't know how saying it's plonked down without any sense of context can be maintained in absence of any context. Maybe it's totally surrounded by ostentatious gauche Aucklanders.
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If you've got a body that doesn't turn a pair of budgie smugglers into a breech of multiple UN Conventions...
The kind of body that annexes your seat on a plane? Not as yet. It's more the kind that solidly asserts that the armrest only looks like neutral territory.
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There seems to be a lack of context, perhaps spartan != contextual, or is that merely a cultural artifact from a more modest era ?
That sounds like a fashion crime all right. Where are my budgie smugglers?
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Physiotherapy? Are you going to tell me with good posture and a few sit-ups I can make wearing a pair of shorts no more restrictive than speedos? You and your physio snake oil....
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