Posts by Jackie Clark
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
I don't have an open feed I guess, so if anyone did that to me, I'd spit tacks. I take my gossiping very seriously.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Sacha,
Oh, I'm mean alright.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Danielle,
I just hate that sort of thing, intensely. When I bitch, I want it to be private. What's the fun of talking about someone, if they know????
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
I think that what that regular did comes under the modern equivalent of trolling. But I'm old school, and I'd just say it was shit stirring. Not to mention bloodymindedness, and also BETRAYAL.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to James Butler,
James, sometimes there's these things called Great Blends where people can meet each other. If you don't come to the next one, I, for one, shall be sorely disappointed.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Clint Fern,
Oh yes, Collins does remind me somewhat of Meurant. He had a very nasty and dismissive way about him which she seems to be emulating. As for Greg O'Connor, I understand his stance in that anything any member of his union does could not possibly be wrong. He is a bit indiscrimate, but.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Andrew E,
Exactly.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Clint Fern,
I don't know that that's fair, Clint. I have a couple of friends who are police officers. One's a bit old school at times, but the other is a lovely young man. Both of them have had abuse hurled at them for absolutely no reason than that they were there. I think there really is ALOT more disrespect for the police than there used to be. I think the reasons for that are myriad, but either way, it can't be easy for the good ones.
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
That riot certainly wasn't Dobbyn's fault - but the rioters? That was scary. They really were completely out of control. And Simon's so right. Those years after the Springbok tour were very, very worrying times. I was 17 in 1981, and marching with my mother and sisters down a street in Kingsland, trying to get to Eden Park. We never got there, but I vividly remember baby cops with riot gear, staring us down. My sister hysterically screaming at them "What would you mothers think?" and senior police officers standing behind the riot lines, giving instruction to these young men just out of police college to "pick your man and take them down". One thing I worry about alot recently is how very easily we could go back to that ugliness, with all the seemingly draconian legislation currently being pushed through. NZ was a very divided society in those times and it seems to be heading that way again.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
Luckily, in surveys, they always put it as "over 10 hrs a week" so that always makes me feel better.