Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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This thread is doing really well for a non-political* theme. I'm rather enjoying reading it and I've learned a few things along the way.
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Picture - skanky under-dressed woman lying on a couch going 'here's my tits'.
So, is she a woman who looks at porn, or is she the porn women look at? Cos she does nothing for me either way.
The caption is funny - "Acceptable past-times?" It is as if they are questioning whether her background and history are acceptable.
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I'm not a fan of bootcamp training for troubled youth.
Back in 1993, I was an unemployed school-leaver on the dole (yay!). I was kinda happy spending my days writing, doing a couple of drama courses, student radio stuff, and obsessing over music.
But Ken, my randomly selected case manager at NZ Employment Service (the predecessor of Work & Income), wanted me to go the army bootcamp thing that was the cool new thing for unemployed youth.
I did not want to spend however many weeks it was away from home, being yelled at by some army guy, so I told him that I'd rather do something based in Hamilton, and that seemed to please him. He ordered me upstairs to check out my options (result: I hadn't failed School Certificate, so I didn't qualify for any other courses).
10 years later I was again on the dole, but this time Work & Income actually had a useful course with real-life skills that helped me get off the couch, metaphorically speaking.
I'm sure that basic training in the army can help some people, but wouldn't it be better to have something that more specifically addresses the needs of those people?
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Anyway, for the record: Suicide Girls has nothing to do with suicide.
Gothic cheesecake! It seems to me that if you were a depressed young men or woman, Suicide Girls seems more like something to live for than a reason to die.
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Telecoms behavior once again reminding me of Monty pythons "Great twit of the year" skit.
It's not just Telecom's behaviour - Yahoo arepart of it too!
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Given that the BDO moved to vid-blogs rather than text-blogs is that an indicator of how the local blog community may head?
I was about to say that some people can express themselves better verbally than in written form (and vice versa) so that a video blog might be more comfortable expression for them.
But then I realised - just as there are people who will write stuff like "omg here are pics of my kitten hes realy cute!!!!!", there are people who talk like that too.
But it's a lot easier to upload a short clip of Rage Against The Machine being awesome at the Big Day Out than it is to describe that experience with words. Is it the lazy way?
Another thought for 2008 - if 2007 was the year that everyone got a Facebook account, then 2008 is going to be the year that people finetune their Facebook experience. I've already filtered out a few people who I don't mind having as friends, but I quickly got tired of having their frequent updates cluttering up my feed.
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Try having a fiery, but literal-minded, AS teenager, who has perfected the vowel-less "fuck". As far as he's concerned, he's saying "f-ck!", so he's in the clear.
Tell him he cnt say that. (That's a vowelless and punctuationless can't, not a vowelless cunt.)
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I love Flickr. Without any effort from me, my two Shihad BDO photos are now up on the official Shihad blog (which they need to actively update more often)
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And I believe you when you say that you'd turn down one of those invites on principle ...
Well, I'm yet to be invited to a hospitality room, but I'm more than happy to be ethically challenged by such an invite next year!
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I never know who most of the bands are, and if I do, they're too loud for me.
The first BDO had two stages and it was all rock. Now there are seven stages and a greater variety of music. You can stick to the smaller stages, totally avoid the main stadium and have a much quieter, nicer BDO, and, like Jo said, even leave early.
Some, uh, older BDO-goers do it with the air-conditioned comfort of a hospitality room, but that's cheating.
It can be a bit of an ordeal at times, but there's always something good there.