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Farts?
Smell of what you've been eating or drinking...
If you've had a night on cheap whisky & been eating titi & kangapirau & a heap of stir-fried puha & garlic & lovely rewena bread (been there/done that) your farts will seriously & wonderously stink.BUT IT IS A HEALTHY STINK!
When people are seriously ill (especially with various cancers)their bowel motions & farts really smell...sickly. Icky. Unhealthy...
Been there, smelled that, with 2 family members...
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
I know white butterflies arnt natives - and my gardener mother hates their caterpillars' activities - but i really love 'em...they are survivors-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
<q>spotty eyes matching its wings!</
...sort of. White butterflies have green eyes...
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
nd a small blue friend
O! I love it/her/him/whatever!
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Cant.
Poor this month, and a lot of incoming debts...
When i win Lotto etc- -
Up Front: Oh, Grow Up, in reply to James Butler,
It can be pretty interesting comparing the behaviours of people who have mental illnesses or other emotional disorders and know they need to deal with this stuff, and "normal" functioning adults who don't, and don't. It'
Or have very close family members - or friends- who have the mental illnesses/emotional disorders...
Another factor is actually being way outside the range for 'normal human,' yourself...speaking from experience, you generally get to the stage of "Hey! I accept the rest of you as you are- you either accept me as I am, or go bottle yourself - I dont give a damn."
Does take a thick hide & considerable (family& friend-enhanced)SELF- confidence...
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
If there is reluctance to accept this ant-work as an art-work, perhaps it might be agreed at least it is artish, or could the appropriate adjective be artic? That’s it – an Ant-artic installation on their doorstep and mine
Insects create art?
Insects have created art since they began ( and arachnids!)
And we have learned from them - and birds-
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Legal Beagle: A little known story of…, in reply to David Hood,
Sacha wrote “Nothing to stop people making up identifications, but I’m not sure why they would bother”
A little sidelight on that:
at one stage, people of non-Maori descent were claiming to be "Kai/Ngai Tahu" (this was in the late 1970s.)
Our tribe was the first known(yeah, that's in the world) to actually conduct a census of tribal members - in 1848.
To this day, unless you can trace your whakapapa to the Blue or Pink registry, you ARE NOT Kai Tahu - simple as that (the later registry was made after many Maori land court hearings and was produced in 1925.)Also, to this day, people claiming to be Maori/Kai/Ngai Tahu in national elections are checked out - or in any election that requires the qualification that you are of Maori descent (NOT THAT YOU FEEL KAI TAHU!)
My tipuna - up unto yea, including my mother! and myself!!- spent way too much time in the Maori Land Court making sure all was tika with our whakapapa to ever accept that kind of shit-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
All flowers should terminate in a butterfly! Or a moth! Or a fly!
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
Heh! & yea!
They can only do better than the current useless lot of 'Brand NZ' marketeers...