Posts by giovanni tiso
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The extent of the trauma suffered in and around Christchurch may take time to emerge fully however, and should not be underestimated.
This.
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Is it me, or neither of the Christchurch bloggers have in fact posted this week so far?
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Nothing from Emma and Harvesbird yet, Isabel and Cheryl okay. If I wasn't such a twitter klutz I'd find more of our peeps.
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I'm afraid we're going to need everyone to confirm that they're okay again... a trawl through twitter has been largely fruitless.
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On the upside, the new issue of Investigate magazine apparently proclaims that oral sex gives you cancer.
To whom? The giver or the recipient?
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Scott Hamilton blogs on the response to the earthquake. Read the whole piece, it draws interesting conclusions, but this part seems especially apposite:
The response to the disaster in Christchurch is a lesson in what the state can achieve when it acts in the interests of vulnerable communities, and draws on the knowledge and muscle of these communities. The political right is fond of denigrating the state by arguing that it is inevitably corrupt and inefficient. For decades, the propagandists of right-wing organisations like Act and the Business Roundtable have been telling us that salvation lies in the weakening of the state, the farming out of even emergency services, and the tearing up of laws that limit what we can do to our physical and natural environment. It's unlikely, though, that we'll hear Rodney Hide or Don Brash telling us that the state shouldn't have led the response to the Christchurch quake, or that the absence of tough building regulations and the Environment Management Act would have protected the city better from the quake. They know that such arguments would be roundly mocked.
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And he is a Doctor!!! Of medicine!
And he pledged fifty dollars! Oh his own money! The man's generosity knows no bounds!
Fifty dollars, wow. The eyes of Cantabrian children will be sparkling tonight. Who has ever even seen fifty dollars...
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Bitching about TVNZ coverage seems a bit rote to me, to be hones
Maybe that's because they're so constantly underwhelming, but their function in the morning honestly just seemed to be distracting from the far more useful and insightful radio coverage. The extended six o'clock news at night had much more of a point to it, and was quite good I thought.
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Cool. Speaking of Te Papa if the big one comes during opening hours chances are somebody will be inside the earthquake simulator and won't they be just so impressed at how realistic it is?
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@Giovanni - Oh well, I've heard enough of your opinions on TVNZ before to assume the chance of you ever being pleased aren't great.
Yes, it must be my personal vendetta with the broadcaster. What other explanation could there be?