Posts by Danielle
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a clear signal that this is not a desirable choice may be required
I find that wording rather chilling.
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Relationship fraud
Is that dobbing in people on the DPB for having overnight visitors? Because I thought we tried that in the 1990s. FFS, do we not pander enough to our whining minority of meanspirited little weasel busybodies already?
(Yes, the rage, it continues unabated.)
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I think this may be where my patented 'fuck those people, because they're assholes' approach really comes into its own.
(The WWG, obviously. Not beneficiaries.)
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Fear not, I will. (I'm sure that they're deeply interested in what Enraged Mother of One, Glen Eden, has to say.)
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to Lilith __,
Do op-ed columnists dream of being allowed on a Government Working Group? They might as well be.
Hmmm. How much rage can I sustain over Facebook, Twitter, email *and* PAS at once? Lessee...
[pause for tallying]
.... it appears to be a practically infinite amount.
GRAR!
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My theory is that NZ drivers are aggressive to the point of psychopathy.
I agree. I don't cycle (my mum won't let me. No, seriously), but I am a slowish driver who tries not to upset cyclists and who spends a lot of time pulling over in rural areas so that the meataxe-level-mad people who populate our roads don't try to overtake me on blind bends. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with us but it would be nice if we had some sort of public service announcement programme in place. The other day on FB I suggested a slogan something like 'just think how long this journey would take you in a horse and cart, and stop being an idiot'.
As a friend who visited here from the UK once said to me: NZers are some of the nicest people in the world…until they get behind the wheel of a car, and then they go all Jekyll and Hyde and become some of the ugliest people in the world.
My husband has said this exact thing ever since immigrating here. 'You're all so laid back! Why do you become such assholes behind the wheel?'
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I love vegetables and herbs, and I love cooking, so I really wish I didn't hate absolutely everything about gardening. I keep waiting to find myself liking it, but at 36 I'm not likely to have a road to Damascus moment, am I? Did anyone get into it much later than me?
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
The only programme I really cannot excuse anyone watching is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, with vile Ty.
I like watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition *because* Ty is so awful. If he came and yelled outside my house with his bullhorn I... would not be held responsible for my actions. But also, his merry band of douchey hangers-on are so fantastically fake! Weeping and hand-holding and smugly nodding... oh, it's deliciously manipulative and foul, that show. And there's something so 'hey, fuck you, poor people!' about it: they travel around helping this tiny minority of 'worthy' people in trouble and give them stuff that's just crazily opulent, when they could obviously build five or ten perfectly nice houses for average families instead. Mmmm. Rage. My burning hatred, it gives me such joy!
(I do sincerely like Tux Wonder Dogs, though. Give me that as a double feature with A Dog's Show and I'm in heaven.)
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I believe there's a body of slash around this.
I have a feeling that sentence could be used about pretty much anything ever, at this point.
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I'm a southerner x2 (electric boogaloo).