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I'll keep you in line
If you'll bring me the cheque
Just take your time
I'll take all you can get
You'll keep no secrets from me
All I want is a little more back this time
Shut your mouth
Put your money into it'Precious', by Fur Patrol
Dedicated to Alan Hubbard.
And staying on the Julia Deans tip:
__Don't talk to me like I'm one of your cynical peers
Talk to me like a lover__Is one of the best lyrics I've heard since ages ago. And anyone who doesn't own a copy of her recent solo album, 'modern fables', should go out immediately and buy one.
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Yup, that's why I think harm should certainly be viewed more rationally, but that it's not the only factor. There is also the question of the basic human right for adults to harm themselves. I've always seen the Harm Principle as a heuristic, and as with all heuristics, ends up seeing the heuristic as the end-in-itself. But that was not the idea behind Utilitarianism at all, it was meant to balance harms and benefits, and the benefit of "having a good time" is actually really, really important IMHO. Indeed, most people live entirely for those times, everything else is just drudgery.
Cheers dc_red, I'll actually bow on LSD, I'm only making my choice to 'leave it to later' because it's not such a widely used drug and therefore a much harder sell on evidence.
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On the subject of drinking restrictions, one would expect, if the advocates of lowering the drinking age were right, that crime by 18-20 year olds would have increased between 1999 and 2001. According to stats, it didn't, figures were fairly flat (they went up substantially later in the decade, possibly due to increased reporting)
I'm also interested in what happened when opening hours were relaxed and alcohol outlets expanded. Does anyone know offhand the years for that?
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@Rich - maybe not crime, but A&E visits by that age group (and younger) certainly did. As did rates of unplanned pregnancy and STDs.
Not that we should be surprised, that 18 & 19 year olds chose to drink in the same way as everyone else was. But it is disproportionately high in their case.
@Ben - again, I agree completely. I don't take drugs (legal or otherwise) because I'm interested in causing my organs moderate amounts of harm. I really like "having a good time". Unfortunately, Jim Anderton doesn't. And without wanting to prejudge the Law Commissions' upcoming report into drugs, even though it will suggest a more rational approach, I doubt there are too many sentences by Sir Geoff ending "...on the other hands, drugs can be really fun."
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So if you fit that category, and want to win, feel free to repost your entries. And the other thing is, the best idea, if it's awesome, could actually end up as a t-shirt, so it would help if I didn't have to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat to work them out!
Yeah, I did sort of wonder why people were being so cryptic. Just to be absolutely clear.
Where I am going you can't save me from
Nigel Brown
andDon't talk to me like I'm one of your cynical peers
Talk to me like a lover from
Seraphine PickETA: Got them back to front.
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So Many good lyrics. Keep thinking of things it would be amusing to draw instead.
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It Was Christmas Day
When Michael Fay Gave His Money Away
Jesus Didn't Have a Lot To Say
We'd All Forgotten His Birthday
Able Tasmans - Michael Fayartwork to be supplied by Allen Hubbard
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Easy fix for unwanted pregnancies would be to put a dose of oestrogen/progesterone in every RTD sold. Rather like folic acid in bread?
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@Rich I'm guessing that was an accidental cross-post, but I'd love to hear the song.
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Credit cards and a Maserati
He don't go to films 'less he knows they're arty
He likes women's lib and the Values Party
He's a rasta, he's new wave
Don't do nothing 'less he's told exactly how to behaveToy Love, 'Rebel'. Can Judy Darragh make it into a lei and press it on to the shirt? :)
I always liked that bit in the Blams' 'Don't Fight it Marsha...': I want you to be happy but I'd rather you were still with me. Perhaps we can arrange something as well, because I'm really into Don McGlashan's creepy stalker/psycho songs (see also'White Valiant').
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Surely the best ones are the misunderstood ones...
Four hundred children and a crap in the field,
You picked a fine time to leave me loose eel
Or...
Suddenly someone is there by the turnstile, The girl with colitis goes by -
Bad Politics, Baby!
the Dead C can do their own artwork for this one
Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School for several years, I think he'd be able to provide something without too much trouble.
(Bet you didn't know that about him, Mr Daktari!).
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I see a Rugby World Cup merchandising opportunity here. Personally I spent my Hipster Years deliberately avoiding The Exponents, so I'd find a T-shirt with their complete lyrics very helpful in crowd situations.
But otherwise (and without going beyond where the original post ended with The Verlaines) maybe:
I love this imported German beer
They know how to make it over there.with Michel Tuffrey to knock up the obligatory can of sponsor's product.
And the follow-up:
Totally written-off but there's laughter at chaos...with Ewan McDougall to do the honours.
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Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School for several years, I think he'd be able to provide something without too much trouble.
A heck of a painter, eg these examples
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Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School....
I didn't know that... knew he did art... ta for that and the link Philip
Really really like the new Gate album and thanks to this thread and my choice I am now eyeing up a Bruce Russell designed T shirt http://www.thewire.co.uk/shop/items/482/
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"... and there are no sheep on our far-arms"
(Artwork by Collette)
"There is no Depression in New Zealand" by Blam Blam Blam
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Let's go, let's go, to Australia,
Your dole cheque came, with the right name,
and it's easy to score a joint"Let's Go" by Vivid Militia
(Artwork by Chris Knox)
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She came on like November, pretending to be summer
Phoenix Foundation, "Gandalf"
Artist - Heather Straka
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I want to be a rebel,
but mummy says
I'm not allowed to be,
so I live in mass conformity,
I'm lost in uniformity"I'm Normal" by The Killjoys
(artwork = Michael Smither "Kawaroa Paddling Pool")
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she's got a mind but it's the clothes they see through
"Victoria" by The Exponents
(Artwork: "Putting Victoria into Victorious" by Miriam Saphira)
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Also, +1 for :
- Goldenhorse "Riverhead"
- Toy Love "Rebel"
- Blams "Don't Fight it Marsha"
- Darcy Clay "Jesus I was evil" -
Do the Headless Chicken
Down at The Rising Sun
Bowing to the Lord of the Smoking Mirror
And those boys who go to so much trouble
To be Rasputin's double
They look so grand behind their big car doors
With the girls who remind you of weeping soresPatrick Reynolds, maybe?
Footnote: Never thought this would be good for English language tuition, but hey, clearly that's just me.
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I stayed at this masquerade
And had another drink
I was hoping to bring sin to my sheets'The Drinker' - Phoenix Foundation
And maybe said sheets could be colour fieldy bits by Gretchen Albrecht.
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So if you fit that category, and want to win, feel free to repost.
Toy love
Bride of FrankensteinMake me a bride he said
From one who died he said
Sewn up, so fine
Bride of FrankensteinWould have to be Joe Wylie to do the art.He's bloody good.
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In a sleepy little town
where soft breezes blow...That'd be John Rowles. And that'd have to be Heather Straka again.
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