Posts by recordari
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One of my faves - trying to explain why "New Zealander" is not an ethnicity. In 140-character bites.
Bloody colony, innit?
Someone even wrote a paper on it. Seeking an ethnic identity: Is “New Zealander” a valid ethnic group?.
The conclusion;Strauss (1959: 15) stresses the importance of language on identity, noting “[a]ny name is a container; poured into it are the conscious or unwitting evaluations of the namer”. Furthermore, altering names is “a rite of passage”, enabling the evolution of a “new self image” (Strauss, 1959: 16, 17). If ethnicity is seen to be both culturally constructed and reflective of individual choice, as generally agreed in New Zealand, the historical practice of recoding “New Zealander” type responses as “New Zealand European” and, ultimately, “European”, has been conceptually incorrect.
Interesting. Not sure I agree, but worth some further consideration IMhO.
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Bart, you've got it easy. I know a cosmologist. He goes to dinner parties and people ask him if there's a God.
In America, mind.
And what does he say?
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And my undies are made in China, sadly. I will have to hunt down NZ made ones, or at a stretch, Aussie made.
That should be a rule in the Undie 500. Down under undies™ only.
[coat]
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What was that one called that had a solid chocolate core? Seem to remember it was one of the earliest choc bars (was that it?), and certainly well before Magnum, etc.
LBN. Yip. Choc Bar. You can read all about it in the TipTop library. Jelly Tips since 1950s? That's like really ages ago.
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Here 'tis.
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I see it differently.
Yes, and so do a few other people, many of whom live in China.
But also this article from 2009 indicates China's environmental malaise is not quite as bad as Western media would have us believe. Particularly if sourced from the US, as their house ain't so clean, and getting dirtier by thousands (millions?) of barrels of oil a day.
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We must desist from being anti
and it is on the whole remiss to dis,
but surely 'tis just to mock establishment
of any creed who purport Arian
syllogisms or other fey ism(s).Innit?
Are we there yet?
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Well, quite. The 50s NZ male was not known for his conversational vivacity. That sort of thing was frowned upon.
But grandmothers, in my experience had plenty to say. A cup of tea, a game of chess or backgammon, and stories of old China, with a bit of Confucius thrown in for good measure.
She told a wicked joke also.
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Try this maybe? Wiktionary.
Why does it do that!
They get more commission I guess. It is very annoying though. You think 'Yusss, I've won', and then 'Oh, who's that bloody trying to outbid me now?' Bloody 'auto-extension'.
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A little bit o true story
Beautiful. Don't feel so bad having prompted the posting of this.
sesquipedalian
Yes, especially for those with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.