Posts by linger
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Oh, the missed potential in cake names. Wattaiwestorte; Wittiretorte...
[And David's point still stands: he did say less weaselly, not non -weaselly professions.] -
performance to date of Anne Tolley as Minister of Education?
Very Good (31.0%, 23 Votes)
BASED ON WHAT????The answer's right there: you only need 23 people to select that answer, for whatever random reason, possibly linked to limited literacy skills. ("Oh. Minister of Education? Education is good. So, Minister of Education is good." Baaaa.)
More seriously: a poll that small, of self-selecting respondents, can only produce meaningless numbers. -
that comma disappeared because of the italics problem
and that was a comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon.
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all kinds of dodgy
-- and yet, strangely, still not as dodgy as Joe's classic phrase
"wankfest on stilts"
-- that's really dangerous, when you think about it,
people tossing themselves off from a great height. -
What's so great about Foucault?
The pronunciation? Otherwise ... not so much...
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don't waste your time on Twitter
Go to Wither instead?
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are-you-out-of-your-freaking-mind-you-morons
Very much my reaction too (on reading a report in last Sunday's Japan Times ). I mean, it's so batshit crazy on so many different levels:
(i) the Kafkaesque insanity of attempting to try her as an adult , for child pornography of herself (surely at least one of these definitions has got to be flexible under the circumstances?);
(ii) the so-called "perpetrator" of the act is also the "victim": thus, any prosecution is by definition prosecuting the victim and compounding the effect on her life beyond any direct result of the original photos; it can't be defended in any way as championing the victim!(iii) the mandatory outcomes of any conviction (sex offender register) and the traumatically serious possible outcomes (e.g., maximum possible sentence is 17 years in jail).
Counselling might be appropriate here. But prosecution !? Sheesh. -
You seem to be assuming that a twat is inherently a Bad Thing.
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Simon: possibly most of the Aucklanders who know where the art gallery is are those who spend most of their time out of Auckland?
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Craig, the supercity proposal goes way beyond the "results not to your liking" into "people making decisions about your neighbourhood who don't live anywhere near you and don't have to suffer any consequences of their decisions". Which sucks shit regardless of the election results. FPP is just one way to make the results suck at even higher pressure.
You're right about the woeful turnout. But will the supercity go any way towards improving that by making Aucklanders more involved with local body politics?