Posts by Danielle
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West-wave, where there is never any actual swimming going on
Slander! Our family spends lots of time at West Wave. There are also big, well-utilised lap pools in that complex AND a little warmer pool for the babies and kiddies to do their lessons. (And the wave pool - which doesn't run all the time, incidentally - is quite deep at one end and does require some dextrous floating, at the very least.)
I like Pt Chev beach because my other closest beach is Piha, and it's a little intimidating for me: although I love ocean swimming, I'm a poor swimmer. At Piha I just stand at about thigh-level and get thwacked by the surf (like James Mason at the end of A Star is Born, but without the suicidal bit), but at Pt Chev I'm brave enough to lift my feet off the ground and paddle about a bit.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Joe Wylie,
And every misogynist just happens to have a woman for a mother.
I don't get why this is such an awful argument that Kyle's making. It's honestly not all that controversial to note that *in general*, those born in the years following World War II were relatively prosperous compared to those who had come before and those who were born after 1965. IN GENERAL. Due to the confluence of a number of factors, many of which had nothing to do with the tax burden. Which doesn't negate the experiences of those baby boomers who were not prosperous or became less so (see: my divorced mother) or, indeed, negate my bizarre non-Gen-X-typical experience of randomly being pretty prosperous myself. It merely means that those experiences are less common. I don't understand how this is 'scapegoating' on Kyle's part, unless I missed a post of his where he said 'it's all your fault, you dirty boomers!' I think he's discussing it as just... something that happened.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to recordari,
Exqueeze me?
Where 'glorious' may also mean 'awe-inspiring, in a bad way'.
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which hadn’t been a consideration in the North for quite some time
I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'quite some time': in many northern states miscegenation laws were still in effect until the mid-1950s, for example. Actually, I see someone has handily broken down the stats here. I love the internet!
The south definitely sucked the most, no question. But the north hadn't entirely sorted itself out, either.
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That list is fairly wide ranging and includes events that arguably have parallel roots, albeit still planted in race issues.
True, but that's the point: voting isn't everything. The north just 'waiting for the south to get with the programme' with enfranchisement doesn't really take into account the glorious fuckedupitude of the whole country.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
in the North it just wasn’t an issue by the 60s
I know this isn't quite germane to your point, but I don't think that's entirely true either.
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Simon, I don't think the 50s were that long ago. (That may be because I heard "niggers" used seriously in casual conversation by white people a mere few weeks ago, of course.)
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Uh, yeah. 'Men want war, guns and money' is just as gross as 'women want a big diamond ring and long walks on the beach'. *People* of any gender want a wide variety of things.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to recordari,
America can go get screwed
Yeah, well. There are a few of us with personal connections there, just as you have personal connections in Queensland, so 'fuck them, because *this* is what's really important' is... a problematic outlook. At least for me.
(Please do talk about Queensland, though!)
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Although... I am getting a bit sick of his 'plague on both your houses' false equivalency bullshit. One side IS significantly more crazypants than the other. It's so strained on his part, the insistence that they're both the same.