Posts by caycos
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Tracey,
Interesting - I'm from Wellington, but Waikato is my rugby team too :)
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It all depends on the phrasing of the question - I was born in Lower Hutt, 'grew up' in Hamilton, now live in Wellington and my family moved back down South (Timaru...) after I moved out of home to go to uni in Hamilton.
But if the question is 'where are you from' I'd probably say Wellington.
I was overseas during the February earthquake, and everyone who found out I was a kiwi expressed concern and asked if people I knew were ok. Not being from Chch was irrelevant to them - Christchurch *was* New Zealand at that point in time.
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Actually Richie has a stress fracture of the foot (?) - but it's ok, that was top story a few days ago :)
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All I have to add is that this newly-released Amanda Palmer song is... appropriate
http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/map-of-tasmania-feat-the-young-punx
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One word which has really been everywhere that I've been looking this year is privilege. Obviously not a new one, but more and more present.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to chris,
Oh true - the earthquake was pretty huge.. I really think it ought to be a twitter tag though. #eqnz!
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I'm thinking Pike River has to be up there, for the event/words that are most evocative. or maybe that should be #pikeriver...
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I nabbed a copy for my nephew, but if it wasn't for the inscription to Adam from The King, it might have been staying on my shelf instead!
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I do think we should remove vote-splitting (so that an electorate vote implies a vote for the candidates party)
Disagree - last election I was in Ohariu-Belmont. I voted for Charles Chauvel because Peter Dunne... But I party-voted Greens because I really wanted them in parliament. I didn't want to give my party vote to Labour, but voting for the Green candidate would have been a wasted vote. In fact, vague recollection is that if all the Green candidate votes had instead gone to Chauvel it would have been verrrrry close between him and Dunne.
edit: actually I just checked (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohariu-Belmont_%28New_Zealand_electorate%29) and it wasn't quite that close. Point remains that voting Green candidate would have been silly.
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You know, I was visiting some family last week, and was at a gathering of my sister's in-laws. National voters I think.
They thought that everything should go back to FPP because of all the terrible minority parties (those awful greens! and ACT!) that MMP let in... So I wouldn't be so sure.