Posts by Stephen Judd
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That reminds me that the only time I got the strap was at age 7, for the heinous crime of using the overhead projector to display "the fingers" while the teacher had popped out.
It had started with Deformed Rabbit, but the encouragement of my peers was too much to resist. Naturally, those who squealed with delight loudest went on to squeal on me when the teacher got back.
Did anyone ever learn any lesson from being strapped other than not to get caught, or that grown-up are shits?
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I would just like to take this opportunity to apologise to any staff members of Fairfield College, Hamilton, between 1982 and 1986. While I moaned about various things at the time, I now realise how easy I had it.
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Lighter stuff? Putin rears his head.
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Eek, the "except when it's not" was directed at Sofie's "life is good."
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Most of us live through the time when we have the faculties of adults directed by the common sense of a P-addled baboon, but not everyone.
We joke about locking the daughter up until she's 30, but I won't be doing that. I'm going to worry like hell though.
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Would you like an MA with that?
I owe it all to Henry Root's World Of Knowledge.
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Mateship, in that sense of pure loyalty that transcends the law and heterosexual ties, goes back to Sumerian epic, Gilgamesh and Enkidu. It is the stuff of epic poetry. Especially when its bonds are broken. The essence of heroic epic is when two loyalty directives conflict (eg family vengeance vs mateship, love of a woman vs mateship) such that honour cannot be satisfied.
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I would like people to be civilly united. Not only do I find it stylistically nicer, it gives me pleasant images of elaborate courtesy.
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Kyle: the market at Waitangi park currently features:
- dim sum
- artisan sausage inna bun
- various baked goodsNo bacon butties I'm afraid. Still, given that every stall holder has a large knife, I'd keep accusations of pansy to myself.