Posts by giovanni tiso
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Matthew Poole,
it's not impossible to be in the business of property development while still only owning and residing in one house at a time.
I'd be tempted to leave these hardy souls alone for the sake of simplicity. How many can they be, and at the end of the day they live in a house at a time for long-ish periods and can't possibly sway a market. Unlike serial house flippers.
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A CGT will worsen the accommodation crisis and in my view be paid for by tenants.
Why?
What is your evidence for this belief?I thought the evidence on the recent South African implementation was that it had done neither of those things... but I can't find the link right now.
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I'm turning 40 in ten days but I figure you're only as old as you feel inside, and since inside I feel 65 the passport age doesn't seem at all daunting.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Danielle,
[Tiso, I'm looking beadily at you]
Sorry, still adjusting to the idea that I need to add my bottled manhood to the emergency checklist.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I bet my kidney stone was bigger than Gio's.
Are you disrespecting Mr Jagger?
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Russell Brown,
I like the way they don't fuck about and just give you more morphine for as long as you can keep asking it though.
Oh yes.
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The latest Down Under Feminists' Carnival has a very useful round up to feminist responses to various kinds of rape apology in the Assange case. Not sure how I had missed Luddite Journo's post on Naomi Wolf, but I had.
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I've been married for a million years and we have two gorgeous kids but frankly if we have any more we'll have to buy a people mover, you know, one of those seven-seater bus things with the high sides and the small wheels and you just know it will steer like a cow, and if we do that I may as well just take out my testicles entirely.
Now this is probably the worst possible time to be telling you this, but we have three children, 9, 5 and nearly 3, and have been functioning very happily with a 1997 Hyundai Accent ever since we got number three.
If I think about it it's probably the single thing I'm proudest of in my life, but try not to focus on how sad that is.
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Speaker: What PACE actually does, in reply to BenWilson,
The degree to which I agree with you will depend on the degree to which you accept that art is a technical ability.
But not solely a technical ability (although yeah, that's what art actually means). One could in fact point to Tao Wells' aforementioned project and ask where's the technique in that? Or opine that what made several key artists in history stand out amongst their contemporaries wasn't that they were technically more accomplished.
Which is not to say that I wish to go down the road of separating art from craft - it is far too subjective, it varies too greatly between disciplines, it is full of arbitrary put downs. And I have much respect for craftsmen. Hell, my father was one of them. I'm pretty sure he wasn't an artist, though, and that Weta model makers aren't artists either, in that they are not fulfilling that role and responding to that need for our world to be imaginatively represented and critiqued. In that respect I think as a society we value what technicians do very highly, and celebrate the creativity of, say, software engineers or even translators. Whereas maybe we don't extend the same consideration to artists and intellectuals more generally.
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Speaker: What PACE actually does, in reply to BenWilson,
Thank goodness!
Yes, sorry for forcing you to have a conversation at knife point. I should really stop doing that.