Posts by Jackie Clark
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Muse: Rugby World Kitsch, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Pop in for a bevvy, Geoff. Our house will be a RWC free zone in the midst of the suburban chaos. Well, my bit of the house will be, anyway.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yes but to be fair it has to be interactive, and I'm starting to get a bit disillusioned with it. I don't follow a shitload of people, and of the ones who follow me, only about 3 actually ever respond to anything I say. So addicted as I am to it, it is becoming a bit bad for the old self esteem.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Islander,
I don't do twitter on my cellphone!
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Islander,
I wish you'd do twitter. Seriously.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Ignoring is good, Geoff.
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I'm always surprised that Mark de Clive-Lowe's funky self is never talked about here.
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Hard News: Media7: Doing it for the Kids, in reply to Islander,
It's true, Islander. Kids need to do edgy stuff sometimes and there just isn't space for it in our society, so it's replaced either by sporty stuff, or over excited kids, who have no idea about consequence, doing ridiculously life shortening or prison worthy stuff.
Can I add my dislike for the phrase “overweight or obese”?
It certainly is a scare tactic that has more to do with bullying of adults than concern with the health of children. Whilst people like Jamie Oliver, and countless other worthies, do their bit to change the culture of "fast food", work I much admire because I do the same thing in my way with my colleagues and with the children I teach, it does worry me that there is a wont in the medical community, especially, to hit people over the head with the phrase you and I so dislike. Shouting out supposed statistics at people, as you say, adds nothing to the debate around what we put in our bodies, but only fuels our dislike and judgement of fat people.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sacha,
It seemed to me, but I could be wrong, but I don't think so, that there was somewhat of a lighthearted " I know more esoteric expressions and people than you do". But once again, that could just be my inferiority complex rearing it's ugly old self.
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Oh, look. It's a pissing contest. Puhlease.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
It's a very busy day today. Writing/catching up on assessments. Meeting a new team member and explaining sociocultural theories of teaching to them, and having a discourse about what constitutes learning. (Oh, look, another example of someone with a liberal arts degree using it in an unexpectedly productive way in a career which if we follow Danyl's argument, should never have happened).
No. I do think (a) it’s okay to insult people when they insult me and (b) this happens more often on the internet, because people aren’t communicating face to face.
No excuse.
FWIW, PAS is a much “safer” place for women to post than Kiwiblog, and obviously that counts for something pretty significant in my book.
Yes. I don't bother with Kiwiblog, and quite frankly, what I read yesterday at Redbaiter's site frightened me tremendously.
But seriously, as recently as 3 months ago the people here seemed largely cool, and entirely scary. Then I met a bunch of you and you seem entirely cool, and not really that scary at all.
Which brings me back to my original point.
I figured in the end that half the problem was the internet in the way, that if I was going to reengage with PAS, I would have to meet the people, to display good faith by my actual presence, and to discuss personal matters that I had never even raised before, in order to contextualize myself for people. It was a valuable experience, and I kicked myself for not having done it years earlier, for having maintained deliberate aloofness out of mostly erroneous opinions on the purity of my rational discourse.
I suspect Danyl, and others, could learn alot from you, Ben. I admire you for your effective critical reflection. In terms of what you talked about later on in the thread, I don't do robust argument except if I'm face to face. And the older I get, the less I can be bothered anyway. If a thread intimidates me, I just don't engage, or I put my own relational personal thing on it.