Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Russell Brown,
Perhaps, whatever his failings, he’s actually not a social conservative. The only time I’ve met him was when he sat next to me on a plane. We discussed a New Yorker story we’d both read.
Entirely possible, but Marriage Equality had him listed as a definite no, and I'd never heard of him saying anything to contradict that during the six years he was (and still is, urgh) my electorate MP. So if he isn't, he's keeping it on the down-low. Or he's had a sudden change of heart, or...etc.
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Gregor Ronald,
I can understand Russell’s reluctance about photos. I took a bike ride to New Brighton and back along the river several weeks ago, and felt the same way.
We drove through Avonside and part of Bexley in July, and did take some photos. It's the only time I've been back, and it seemed worth chronicling, but...it was tough, and I tried to stick to parts that clearly had few residents left.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Emma Hart,
My god I love the internet. Here are the voting sheets.
Brownlee voted for. I am genuinely staggered. Someone pointed out the age demographics of his electorate, maybe?
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And so I can understand the Koreans arguing for as long as they did as three points(or technically two) in one second does seem very wrong.
It seems less "wrong" than, er, "almost not physically possible", what with the bit where the clock stops and you come back on guard in the centre of the piste after a hit is scored and then restart the clock. I'd believe it in sabre, but it stretches the imagination in epee.
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The only charitable assumption here is that this guy is a Poe. Because otherwise, he's scum. And I hate to have to assume people are scum.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Sacha,
yet everyone left out that detail
It fascinates me as an anecdote because it's such a good example of how a result can be both true and totally wrong.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Islander,
Our suspicion, as a tribe, was that it was Nga Puhi or Ngati Porou…we really didnt think it was the latter, because we descend from them.
FWIW, I was explicitly told when learning Maori in school that we were learning the Ngati Porou dialect, but I don't know if that's a facet of the curriculum/textbooks or because our teacher was Ngati Porou.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
They were gotten up, every morning of the year, to swim in the cold pool. Sado-masochistic they must have been, back then.
Hey, I had to swim in an unheated, thoroughly shaded pool at 8am when I was at high school. Only in the summer, mind, but it didn’t precisely encourage a love of the activity.
Yeah, quite! Thus that myth is, uh, exposed. ;-)
IIRC it derived from a 1950s British study where they measured heat radiating off otherwise well-clothed but hat-less people in the Arctic. As the heat had nowhere else to radiate from....
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Islander,
I note it is your first posting, Suzanne Shirley. I do trust you are not a troll….
Come on now, a perfectly polite first post which happens to disagree with one statement in the original blog post is a long way from trolling.
But my gut reaction, based on my own personal experiences of how long it took me to discover that I wasn’t naturally straight-vanilla-monogamous and the people who got hurt along the way, would be “oh god, really, are you sure?” Which is not how parents are ever expected to react.
As it so happens, that is almost the precise sentence my mother uttered when I announced I was getting married (to the first person I had ever slept with).
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to chris,
The thing I’ve never quite understood about New Zealand school uniforms was dressing children in shorts in winter.
When my grandfather (and I think perhaps my father) were boarders at Nelson Boys, they kept the dormitory windows open overnight in winter to Build Character. Then again, I believe they also had a special scholarship for boys of Pure British Stock, so....