Posts by Rich Lock
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I too love the Bjork dress, and every year since I've lamented there's no one ballsy enough to try to trump her.
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I vote yes on the Zoe Saldana gown-of-purple-growths! Who's with me?
I vote for the Bjork dead swan!
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Re: the Oscars. It's a glittery, razzmatazz, highly politicised circle jerk with beautiful people and expensive frocks. The films, to a great extent, are incidental.
But I'm deriving great amusement from watching people get all hot and bothered about it, like it actually means something and that some great injustice has been perpetrated in the choice of 2010 winners.
Because in all the other years they've held the ceremony, the acadamy members have really, really worked hard, lost sleep, and suffered long dark teatimes of the soul to really, genuinely make sure that the best film wins. So this is an abberation, a blip, an injustice! It cannot, and indeed must not, be allowed to stand! The future of art itself depends on it!
Seriously, it's more or less meaningless apart from DVD marketing. Chill.
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three weeks ago tomorrow. Unpacking almost finished.
Pfft. Amateurs. We finished unpacking the last of our UK boxes at Christmas. Seven years after we first touched down.
Beat that, suckers.
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I have come across this guy who reckons that it's a lot of racist reactionary garbage
OK, so we have a guy who thinks it's racist. And this is how he starts his argument.
here we have a little bit of the dark continent tucked away in the American city, as you can see by the predominance of black faces.
And at that point, someone handed him a big tall foaming glass of cool and refreshing FAIL.
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it's entirely possible to be an entrepreneur (or businessperson, or whathaveyou) without being right wing in the slightest
You mean like our host, Mr R Brown? But...but....Kiwiblog told me he was a socialist?
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You're not a real salesperson if you're a wage-slave. It's the commissions that inject the tincture of sulphur.
I once worked as a door-to-door salesperson on 0% wage and 100% commission. I needed the money in order to do trivial things like feed myself and have somewhere to sleep at night, and it was more or less the only job I could find, being young and stupid.
Although I eventually realised my employer was running an evil cult with himself at the head of an enormous pyramid scheme, my six months there did at least cauterise all fear of public speaking out of me. I've never really had a problem with giving speeches or presentations since.
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when I applied for a job at the Fight Centre I was somewhat saddened to realise that they thought the job was about sales
Aheheheheheheheheh.
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I thought a dick was someone who quotes Shakespeare sonnets at parties.
But... I've done that.
Was it in the original Klingon, though?
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"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill" - Sun Tzu
Anyway, I don't want to completely redirect Emma's thread. Although cultivating a state of zen calm in the face of the technically inept or wilfully abusive arseholes would possibly not ber a bad thing.
And an aikido-type redirect and deflection for an angry dickhead might be quite useful, if you can work out a technique that works.
More useful if they don't know who you are and you do not run into them regularly (eg: neighbourhood, school).
Not a matter of technique, but I always found a higher level of commitment in front of peers could shame the buggers into laying off thereafter. Blitzkreig. Mind you, that was before carrying weapons became common. These days, I'd probably run too and wear the embarrassment.
Blitzreig is a valid technique, but dealing with a persistent bully isn't something I have an easy answer for.