Posts by Rich Lock
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Boomer!
I've heard this relatively frequently in Auckland. Not everyday useage, but relatively frequently.
If the UK hadn't engaged in war crimes of that type they'd have lost the war*
Not worth getting dragged into this debate, unless you enjoy pointless death spirals.....
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Wouldn't even need to change the tourism slogan...
Now that did make me chortle.
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I've heard that P-manufacture produces a lot of toxic byproducts that are bad for the environment.
Does worrying about this make me some sort of commie-socialist treehugger? Should I see a doctor?
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I think they've succeeded in restoring NZ to the state it was in when I landed in Auckland in 1997.
Re-privatising of the rail network commencing in 3...2...1...
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VOGON CAPTAIN: There's no point in acting all surprised
about it! All the planning charts and demolition orders
have been on display at your local planning department in
Alpha Centuri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had
plenty of time to launch any formal complaints, but it's
far to late to start making a fuss about it now! -
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There's still plenty of eager Blairites out there, determined to back you into a corner at parties and earnestly explain to you why invading Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. And to casually dismiss any other concerns you might have about the way Blair ran the UK for 10-odd years.
When people get a belief like that, it's closer to religion than anything else.
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But, as your example indicates, they were status-objects.
Paul, a bit earlier you used the example of 'collecting' as something that defined art.
Surely status objects fit quite easily into that definition. You do seem to have shifted your goalposts a bit towards a 'public notion of art, that it is something shared by a culture'. You didn't start off with that as part of your definition, or if you did, I must have missed it?
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I'm glad to see that this thread has more or less degenerated exactly as I predicted it would do, all the way back on pg 2...
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Talked to a member of the [UK Labour party] the other day. He's the product of a liberal school which encourages critical thinking and being comfortable with who you are..... I asked him whether he supported [military action in Iraq] and he earnestly told me that [Saddam had WMD's], [the UK] needed [to support the US no matter what] even if all the profits went offshore, and he was sure that once we knew 'all the facts' it would have widespread support. Not surprisingly he was a huge [Blair] fan and believed every word he said. I wonder, though, whether anything will ever shake his faith.
Nothing ever shakes the faith of that sort of person. You just have to work around them somehow.