Posts by andin
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to DexterX,
I would say that you need to get on with “it” – what ever it is you do – in a more positive light.
You know where you can stick that positive light.
You do condescension quite well -
there has never been any detailed analysis of Think Big effect. One view is that if NZ had not thunk big the balance of payments problem in the late 1980s would have been devastating to the economy with out the income derived from the think big projects.
One view? I suppose is that an attempt to give your point of view legitimacy?
Most of whatever profit there was flowed to the private owners but ultimately recent economic thought suggests that the policies of Think Big may have had no effect on the balance of payments at all. And any present support is often along party lines.
But that is beside the point, economics has come to dominate a lot of peoples minds. I just think when that happens its a bad sign of no collective direction so we just turn on each other.
Theres been no deep analysis of why there were so many people born post WW2 in the US, UK, Aust, and NZ they got most of the babyboom. It wasnt just a 'bulge in the snake' there was some reason for it. In my area I tend to blame six o'clock closing, Victorian attitudes to conception and no television.
Now I find myself sometimes wishing I hadnt been born when I look at how my contemporaries have screwed up. Raise the age for all I care my job and future prospects are dim enough already. Respect goes where the money is as if that is some indicator that of something more than animal cunning, it aint. -
Apologies for my outburst to Damian and Russell. But....
Did I say stare him down?
Ok pendant look him in the eye.
It a rare "privilege" to be lied to by someone as you "look them in the eye" or as they perhaps see it "telling their truth". Something I hope you get to experience and savour one day. I have in my "more than most" years on the planet had to endure being told someone else's truth on more than one occasion knowing there is little I can do about it, except not have much to do with that person again, by design or choice, as they, seemingly delighted, with themselves for this "truth telling" just carry on. And such rancid behaviour is spreading to unlikely places as work environments.Try listening to people with an open mind. Don’t assume you know what they really mean. Don’t judge them on appearances. You might be surprised. You don’t actually know it all. No-one does. However, everyone has something of value to contribute. If you let them.
The cosy consensus makes things easier but it is wrong.
Reading that I feel like I'm back in some not too distant past era(the bad bit)
I'd much rather use my critical faculties (as faulty as they may be & faults I hope I'm aware of) when I listen to someone thanks, and I assume nothing. You seem to making all the presumptions. -
Cracker: Spotted, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Looked him in the eye as you ask your questions?
What is this, the Wild West?
Have I stared the guy down... piss off -
'demonstrating the media's inadequacies in a highly amusing manner'. He calls them as he sees them.
It’s being a representative voice for the disenfranchised.
the man’s got style.
Fuck me! you should read what you write sometimes and be forced to look at the history of said politician. Yep, matchsticks in the eyelids for you, if you keep it up.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Young, dumb, and full of come. Wind them up and point them in the right direction. That's how the generals think
Most young males are. Sometimes they grow out of it or else you get old, dumb etc...
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to Russell Brown,
Oh, damn. I get it now. You’re a parody!
Bugger! me and my seriousness
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to bulbul,
So the ugly truth come out – it is simply the young people wanting not to pay now when it is their turn and but standing in line again when it is their time.
Bashing a particular group for having been born at a particular period in time and done the best they can by living frugally, brought you all up, and saved up some money to supplement their sickly super payments.
Your reducing a contemporary difficult situation to a personal point of view and passing by a bit of recent history, like some current politicians. Not a good look.
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to 3410,
Here?
Thanks, I kinda hoping people will stop by Dyan's writing on the way.
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Richie McCaw could pretty much win any electorate.
Sez as lot about the mind of the electorate and the unfounded adoration given to those who are called leaders on the lounge room equivalent of what passes for a field of battle.
Or to use a quote from here"The theory is that competion draws each individual along, bringing out of him or her the best he or she has to offer. Competition and the resulting fame are thought to be among the great achievements of our rational meritocracy. They promise both self-improvement and participation.
“The reality is almost the opposite. In a world devoted to measuring the best, most of us aren’t even in the competition. Human dignity being what it is, we eliminate ourselves from the competition in order to avoid giving other people the power to eliminate us. Not only does a society obsessed by competition not draw people out, it actually encourages them to hide what talents they have by convincing them that they are insufficient. The common complaint that we have become spectator societies is the direct result of an overemphasis on competition."