Posts by giovanni tiso
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You made me check and with Giovanni I'm number five. Five! Oh boy...
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if you type 'Jacinda' in Google it helpfully predicts you mean 'Ardern' without any prompting
Only if you do it in New Zealand, internationally she's not in the top ten at least. And how many high-profile Jacindas could there be in New Zealand?
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You must miss the old country Gio.
We don't do small talk in Italy. We go straight to either eatin' or fornicatin'. Sometimes both.
Never an awkward social moment.
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Small talk irritates me as it irritates pretty much everyone on earth
Blame these guys.
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'trying to be popular and get elected discriminates against women and gays! Somehow!'
You didn't hear when I said I already had bingo? I don't need the Chris Trotter Special. I don't even know where to put a giant fluffy bunny.
Seriously: stop with this white middle class whine already, or they'll give you a column in the Listener. You're not just saying that Labour should stop being touchy feely. You're saying it should stop passing social legislation and go back to exclusively looking after, well, you. You voted National, we understand. It's tough. Did they cut your taxes? You poor dear. I really feel for you so bad. Now if you could kindly stop trying to blame us for the fact that you elected the likes of Tolley and Bennett along with the economic conservatives that you obviously craved, it would be just grand.
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The trouble is party members are more or less emasculated
I call bingo.
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Gio, keep reading the rest of what I said - your daughter has a valuable contribution to make to society and to your family and community, and fairness suggests investment in making that possible.
Currently she's being denied resources left right and centre and the philosophy of every single provider is that she has a need, not a right.
"Need" is what we might some day get around to responding to, when we feel sufficiently magnanimous and the budget allows for it. A "right" just has to be fulfilled as a matter of duty.
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How about talking (consistently and often) about needs rather than rights;
Oh no you don't. My daughter has a right to participate in society, not a need. If it's a need, then the government can say sorry, we don't have enough money or resources to respond to it. Get in line. If it's a right, well, that changes. And you bet she's "entitled" to it.
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I'm one of the people with vaginas you might as well be ordering to 'get in behind'
That's because you haven't yet learnt to respond to whistles. It would be so much more efficient that way.
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Ah, Tom! Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom...