Posts by Rebecca Williams
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totally agree with paul ... poor little emo kids, getting a bashing from their so-much-cooler-and-more-grown-up compatriots. careful, you'll give them something to cry about!
i for one am willing to admit (now that i'm so big and grown up) that my main thing when i was an adolescent was that i was "different". why, how, what, when? i couldn't tell you now, as it was all in my head way back then, but it was very important to me at the time!
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judging by the rapid recycling of decade defining looks over the last few years, won't the naughties retro parties start happening in 2010 or '11?????
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american govt tested LSD on troops without their consent or knowledge as well. how nice!
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pure genius! people love to talk about their injuries don't they? as evidenced by my poor father, who worked as a case manager for the ACC for 15 years. should have seen him dodging and diving through the aisles in the supermarket trying to avoid people he just knew would give him the long drawn out version of the latest news about their horrible injuries ....
my worst / funniest injury - i was minding my business, cycling to work along great north road, through the grey lynn shops. low and behold a little zippy sports car shoots in front of me, parks, and flings open its unreasonably long driver's door before you could say "hits the door, flips over the handlebars and lands unceremoniously on her arse on the road, breaking her left elbow in the process!"
even funnier, the little guy driving the car (five foot two, irish and apoplectically apologetic) picked my quite hefty frame up off the road and lifted me bodily to the footpath. he must have been in shock.
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crikey, what a relief! thank you so much for that post anke (i notice a lot of people have said thanks). i have been home from four years living in the UK for just over a year, and have an eight month old baby boy. like many others who have lived overseas for a number of their young adult years (is 29 - 34 young?) i seem to have developed a somewhat idealised idea of what kiwiland is through the lense of homesickness and absence.
i am anti-smacking to the core of my being and i have watched with absolute horror the media circus and my compatriots marching to defend their belief that it is their right to harm their children! i just can't believe it! it really is such a relief to see someone writing down and publishing pretty much what i also think about the whole deal. it is my last hope that, as someone else commented, if people really understood (no thanks to the media coverage) what the intention of this bill is i.e. to remove "reasonable force" as a defence for violence towards children, they would support it without a second thought.
sorry for the essay of a post - but the last poll i saw about this debate placed 75% of respondents in the totally disagree with the repeal of S.59 camp and i just felt so despondent ... at least on the anglican website (just) it was closer to 50/50 .... mind you, the former poll i quote was on treasures.co.nz (did i mention i'm the mum of a wee babby???? har har).
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jeez, and i just thought it was a funny story about hanging out with allan bollard!