Posts by HORansome
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OnPoint: Other People's Wars, in reply to George Darroch,
Whilst the Hollow Men is very good, I prefer the documentary. It's easier to get through and trying to persuade others to read the book is difficult.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to George Darroch,
I've been told to stop eating my trusted Indian. The neighbours are being to talk.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Aye, the fish sauce thing is awkward (and also eggs are apparently vegetarian, as are shrimps). I'm probably going to Malaysia at some point next year. Anyone know if it's going to be possible to be vegan there?[1]
1. A friend of mine stopped being a vegetarian a few months because she moved to Russian (so as to get used to eating meat again) because, having lived there before, she said it was next to impossible in Winter to survive on a vegetarian diet.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to BenWilson,
Whilst Food Alley is good, the Thai place at the Ponsonby foodcourt wins hands down (for me) because of their excellent yet reasonably priced vegetarian dishes. It also helps its on my walk home...
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Russell Brown,
Given what you've just quoted, I think McDonald might be a spambot. Either that or he comments under a different name but in the same style on my blog.
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I filmed an awful lot of video on the iPad at the last party. The only thing stopping me from editing it on the iPad is how awful my singing is. Video editing on iOS is delightfully easy, though.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to James Butler,
Not according to the research; reading and writing are still hard to learn skills which we have no natural inclination to pick up (children only do well at it because their brains are much more plastic than adults).
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Also, "Halo." Look what happened there.
(It's okay, though. I can now play "Marathon" on my iPad.)
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
I can sort of[1] see what you mean if we're talking about the police commanders rather than the arresting officers, which makes more sense of the "psychological bruising" claim you made. I thought you were making some claim about the officers being shellshocked by the earthquake (which somehow made their behaviour forgivable) and couldn't quite see why you would think the police would be more affected by the quake than the rest of the populace, but you meant the bruising caused by the reporting of the incident and the actions of the police after the event.
So, yes, We (well, Russell and me; I won't assume to know the internal psychological states of Comrade Tiso) were talking past each other; you meant police in one sense and I meant it in another. Apo-logies all around, as Hugh Laurie once said on "Blackadder."
1. I'm only saying "sort of" here because I still think the duty of care the police have towards us, the public, means this kind of thing should never happen. Some might say I'm asking too much of the humans who make up the police but, frankly, if the standards for getting into the police force weren't so low, we might not get such problematic behaviour from its individual officers.
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Thumbs up to Gio once again.