Posts by Danielle
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continue the cringe
Embrace the cringe! BEEEEEEEEE the cringe! :)
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I just read the full text of the speech. I did like 'I will not accept the status quo as a solution'. But I'm worried they'll end up with something complicated and not particularly efficient.
Oh, also, Matt Taibbi's 'we're all dooooooooooooomed' healthcare article in Rolling Stone was an interesting read, I thought.
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Not only are over 60% of personal bankruptcies in the USA caused by medical bills, but *75% of those people HAD health insurance*. It is FUCKED.
The reason that none of them know that socialised medicine is better is because they have a hugely insular news media and education system (at least until upper undergraduate level) and a very tiny proportion of them travel. Live there for a while: you'll never hear anything on the news channels about any other country unless the story is something disastrous. A large proportion of them think that there are millions of us ready to storm the gates to get into their country because we're all so terribly miserable in our own places. It is truly amazing how many people asked 'but why would you want to go back there?' when I said we were moving to New Zealand. (All this is obviously to be read with various disclaimers about 300 million people and it's hard to generalise and yadda. I'm just talking about the dominant culture, obviously.)
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Wooly valley episodes-yay
OMG! NZ On Screen, I would like to marry you, in some sort of abstract way.
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Either they're ruining their message by getting so aggro that people are scared of them
T'other day, I walked past two MRAs with megaphones on the corner of Wellesley and Queen Streets. I did my best not to listen, but managed to hear 'well, a woman gets all the money in the divorce *and* all the kids and never has to work again!' or some such bollocks.
Also: this thread has... a lot going on.
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I think Gio's avatar should be a big moustache on an ice-cream truck, so we don't get confused.
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Dyan and Sam are both causing snerkfests over here. Heh.
I was there with my partner and the human evidence of our own pelvic affiliation! Don't get me wrong. What I didn't like was the parade of wankers with big sunglasses and expensive buggies
<voice of portent> Attention, denizens of Grey Lynn Farmers Market! There walks among you a man - with partner and his offspring - who is qualitatively indistinguishable from all of you. Yet he is superior in some ineffable way! And he scorns you! And yea, you shall know him... by his homemade felafel. </voice of portent>
(I go to the Oratia Farmers Market, anyway.)
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In his defence, he hated There Will Be Blood.
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“He gonna leave yo’ ass for a white girl!”
There is no 'gonna' in that Kanye line. (I'm not sure what that proves, except that he's an inaccurate lyrics quoter.) Also: Idris Elba will always be Stringer Bell to me.
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But everywhere in Queenstown is $10 a dish too expensive :(.
There is a French restaurant in Queenstown that does (or did) a cauliflower soup that still lingers in my memory as the most perfectly seasoned, exquisite thing I have ever tasted.