Posts by Che Tibby
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lol. "my dad is....", indeed.
i get what chris is saying, and lean towards your argument manakura. but, to perhaps add clarity to your debate, the aspect of indigeneity being overtaken by the disciples of Michael King is the attachment to place.
would it be helpful to suggest that the greater weight to indigeneity is leant by the relationship to being a colonised people?
to clarify, my ancestors arrived in whalers. i have a deep, deep attachment to this place. so, my family has become naturalised, and their identity has changed as the national identity has grown (note: there were no national identities prior to the latter C19th).
their attachment to place has generated a new identity, for which there is no clear term. hence the cooption of the indigenous label.
if you're still reading, i'd suggest David Pearson. or maybe a lebanese australian called Ghassan Hage. "White Nation" is a damn good read.
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hey, um, Chris and Manakura, i hate to wade into your argument here, but you are both arguing the same point.
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OK, at a different computer.
i saw that campbell live interview. that numnut insisting that the only reason NZL had a decent environment is because of farming made my jaw drop. my first thought being, other than the nitrate poisoning of the rotorua lakes you mean...
a similar farming-is-good-for-the-environment what-the-fcuk-do-you-townies-know meme runs in aussie. a meme that conveniently ignores the emptying of rivers to feed rice crops. rice crops in semi-arid landscapes. a meme that ignores salinity problems across huge areas of rural areas.
it really does baffle me that people still think that hell-for-leather development of farming land is the answer to growing the economy.
mind you, it's the same kind of mindset that sees good farming land turned into great sprawling townhouse developments.
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i'm a pig islander and therefore ignorant, but i have to break my recently imposed PA system-silence to register my disgust at the idea of more freaking cattle.
this is the same state of mind that puts wool-coated animals in the desert (and yes, i'm looking at you Australia...).
kyoto'll fix those buggers good, i reckon.
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LOL. rugby* paying bribes.... soz. my bad.
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Sth Africa Cricketers paying bribes - boks-box.
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headline: "white people denied medical treatment"
'crackerbox'
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How about anything with the -gate suffix.
Not just an '06 thing, but with tiler-gate, speed-gate, painting-gate, email-gate & whatever, its getting ridiculous.oh yeah... if i could award the prize, you just got it. jesus that goddamned "-gate" thing shits me.
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this is probably left field, but what about 'hyperlink'.
has anyone noticed that you can't underline words in documents these days because people complain about broken hyperlinks? everything has to be bold or italic
but on topic, stupidest word of the year, "eradicator".
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I'll make a supernacular toast to that.
is that like, vogels with a great alphabet soup on it?
but in all seriousness, i'm amazed i wrote a PhD without ever actually reading or using teh words,
lexiphanic
thoroughgoing
peripatetic
or Gammy.