Posts by Mark Harris
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Social darwinists, the pair of you ;-)
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Le figlie di Maria son le prime a darla via.
(But you didn't hear it from me.)heheh. Not far off, at all. Though the secular were just as interested. ;-)
When I was a teen, you expected to lose one or two from the peer group to premature parenthood. Indeed, you knew some of the girls at the dance would be staking out what they considered were the likeliest prospects. But it always took two to tango.
I was staying at a friend's recently (in AK) whose teens were at two of the "better" schools (Dio and I forget the other), and they shocked me with their matter of fact stories about never using the girl's condom, as she's probably poked a hole in it - and this was from the female teen! It's rough out there for kids today. And they're not all as smart as these two.
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Steve clearly had several of your drinks, Sacha. I didn't know you were such a lush.
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I would say the Wellington equivalent of Auckland Grammar is Wellington College; not *quite* as posh, but they wish they were, and every bit as up themselves. I went to Wellington East (the middle-decile girls' school right next door to Coll) and the clash of culture, class, and gender was...interesting.
Not in your time, of course, but when I was at St Pats, we were still in the old grey muthafukka across the Basin from Wellington Col. We heard all sorts of stories about the liaisons along the fence line between Coll and East ;-)
One year (7th), we were invited to participate in the Shakespeare play with Wellington Girls, because they'd partnered with Coll the year before and there had been untoward goings on in secluded rooms, apparently. So they thought they would ask us as we were good catholic lads and not prone to immorality.
Seems no-one told them about the incidence of teenage pregnancy among good catholic teens left to their own devices...
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Thinking about old stuff, the Grauniad has a rogue's gallery of anti-piracy warnings:
Last week, the British film industry started its latest cinema campaign. But the touchy-feely new ads are in stark contrast to the hectoring, scare tactics of yesteryear. We looked through the archives to give you a video retrospective of 15 years' of anti-piracy campaigns.
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The central evil in the universe today is people's obsession with the internet. Or at least, I think so.
Ah, the heady days of 1995! I wonder what Kim would say now?
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You may be the first ever person to equate Scots with Collegiate and Christs.
Apart from the poor sods who went there.
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I'm trying to work out why Grammar is supposedly more desirable and "betterer" than a similar sized low-decile school
A lot of it is perception, that Grammar boys are somehow enhanced simply by being on the premises. It's not unique to Grammar - Christ's is similar in Chch, and W(h)anganui Collegiate used to also be seen like that. Scots in Wellington had that sort of gloss for a while, at least when I was at school - being good catholic boys at St Pats, we tended to regard the Snots Porridge boys as sissies ;-) .
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observing that the Autistic kids could find a normal school environment very distressing.
That's very true. And putting them somewhere else (where they can be more easily ignored) is so much easier than fixing the "normal" school.
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Oh great now there's going to be some National cabinet minister actually asking that question ....
Well, yes, because they all read PAS for inspiration...