Posts by Deborah
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Being a man means thinking you don't have to read the manual.
I always regard manuals as opinion pieces.
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Late to this discussion (I've been out working, y'know), so.... I see, and hear, and accept what Russell has just said, and I am certainly not trying to undermine that.
But this is the thought that has been running through mind as I read the whole thread...
The thing is, I'm old enough (just!) to be the 'your mum' person for several people posting here.
And I disliked the stereotype as much as Joanne did, for much the same reasons.
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My eyes are filling with tears for a person I never knew, but whose on-line writing and conversation gave me so much delight. Finn was a pleasure to engage with.
The story about you hugging Finn to try to save him breaks my heart, Sophie. I hope you can carry on to the fanulous life that I'm sure Finn would have wanted for you too.
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it is unusual that Labour is faring so poorly given their generally strong (especially economic) record.
I'm not sure that their economic record is so strong now: I detect real nervousness about the NZ economy. For everyone who is cock-a-hoop about houseprices coming down, there is someone who is very worried about the main asset losing value, and maybe even dipping below the amount they owe on it. Even then, the smallish fall in house prices is not really going to make them any more affordable.
Then there's the price of cheese issue. Aside from the price of cheese itself, which seems to have become a bit of a meme, the overall price of food has gone up, making things just that much more difficult for households, even if they are getting Working for Families.
So even if Labour's overall economic record is strong, I suspect that the belt tightening in households all over the country will be making people worried. And that may undermine support for Labour.
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Here's a fantastic comment that Finn made. This was around about the time he first started commenting on Public Address.
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This is so very sad. I will miss him.
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Here's another language / radio spectrum argument. Che, you will recognise where I am cribbing this from....
1. English enjoys a massive subsidy from the government - road signs, official communications, letters from government departments, learn to read books in schools, language used all the time by pollies, laws, everything is written or spoken in English.
2. Te Reo enjoys no such subsidy. In fact, Te Reo speakers have to fight hard for every little bit of support their language gets.
3. Ensuring that there is a guaranteed Maori radio spectrum is one way of redressing the huge imbalance between the subsidy given to English, and the subsidy mostly not given to Te Reo.
A language is a dialect with an army.
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Just so, Jackie.
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Tricia Helfer is the one true Goddess in our house
But Craig, you've said that before about Helen Mirren. You're mot two-timing, are you?
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<SPOILER>
And what's with killing off the love interest in Hamlet? Didn't he know that sales would be much better if he'd let Ophelia and Hamlet get married and live happily ever after?</SPOILER>And as for that 'identical twins' lark in "A Comedy of Errors" - how hackneyed is that!