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Stephanie Mills quoted by Herald:
"It's trademark Paul Henry and there are bigger issues in the world to worry about - like people dying of leukaemia from French [nuclear] testing. I think he likes being controversial - that's a polite way to put it. This is who I am and people make choices about who they are.
"I have a really wonderful family, three gorgeous kids, a loving husband, great friends, really challenging job that I do part-time around all the other things I do in my life, and I love my life.
"I'm secure with myself and I feel sorry that these people are so insecure about either their own appearance or mine. This is not about me, it's about them."
She had not made a formal complaint, "at this stage".
"My main concern is I've committed a lot of my time and energy to helping stop nuclear testing and I'm really proud of that and I'd really like people to focus on those bigger picture issues. There's more to life than skin deep."
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Ouch.
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Aha - a military brat. :)
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That's my RAF grand-dad
All about the trousers..
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Hilarious.
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Heh. With mortified Aunt Ali on the front pew making gestures at him to shut up..
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which everyone avoided contemplating
Because the number of people willing to keep rasing false equivalences despite being told repeatedly they are unwarranted is thankfully close to zero. How about we make it zero?
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which makes the supposed need to pollute the Avon & Heathcote all the weirder
Joe, I think they're talking about peak overflows when mixed stormwater and sewage systems get hit by big rainfalls. Big pipe only works for the rest of the time.
Same as Auckland region, though at least we treat ours first. The beaches of the Eastern Bays can verify that doesn't apply when the overflow systems kick in after a downpour. C&R dominated councils have knowingly under-invested in separation work for half a century, offloading the cost onto their children to keep today's rates bills lower for them and their wealthy constitutents. Many of whom ironically live near those beaches, which gives you a sense of their priorities or their lack of ability to genuinely influence their representatives. Don't even start on how the Royal Commission will affect that.
Sewage failure is sadly one of those things that makes our "clean green" claims a lie all around the country - ask surfies in Dunedin as noted and other spots like Gisborne. Solving the problem requires an inter-generational acceptance of long-term investment rather than a fashionably selfish get-rich-now attitude. It will be most interesting to see if privatising water treatment is able to provide any part of the answer. Thanks for the conversation, David.
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Ms. Saunders may also be suffering from a dissociative disorders that deserve sympathy and understanding, not condemnation.
Failing that compassionate explanation, I'm afraid she's simply a bit dim and morally struggling (aint cognitive dissonance a bitch). Bridget doesn't seem a bad person but she should stick to commenting about clothes and whatever that limited tribe of bored rich folk who wear them said to each other at promotional waterfront parties. Somewhat harsh?
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Response to Sheppard's opinion piece by Greg Cotmore, former Radio Active programme director. Mark Harris will enjoy the reference to Darwin, and I quite like this from comment#4:
The MP3 format was created in early 1994, and with the proliferation of high speed broadband into homes in the late '90s it was clear that the horse had bolted. Not only bolted, but well and truly down the road taking up residence in a greener paddock and sire to a number of healthy yearlings.
And I can just picture the conversation in the RIANZ head office more than a decade later:
Recording Exec: "I've got an idea. Lets make it illegal to open stable doors"
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