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  • Hard News: Ready for the Big One?,

    The Gourmands are coming! Lock up your anchovies!

    Now there's one for the list. And olives, stuffed, and in oil. The Mediterranean diet is supposed to have health benefits.

    Would it be too much to store carbonated water? Bit posh maybe.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Press, Privacy and The Paps,

    Craig. I agree. These things should be an individual's choice. What I was getting at is the media in most cases has no respect for this, and therefore you have to 'compartmentalise', as you put it elsewhere, or wear blinkers. And don't fret about my self-awareness, this has been taken care of by my months at PAS.

    And if you saw the post before I edited it, hope you're having a good laugh on my behalf, and at my expense ;-)

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Ready for the Big One?,

    I've just been told I need a Seismic Strap...

    Did the earth move...

    ...sorry, I'm having a hyperactive episode. I'm just initiating a self-regulatory 'Time out'.

    Postscript. God, I just read your blog post after posting this, so hope my comment above wasn't considered out of line. Glad to have you back.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Press, Privacy and The Paps,

    How to avoid unwanted political-media schadenfreude in the modern world.

    Link.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Still crazy after all these years,

    Wait, have I unwittingly become part of a social experiment? Don't we get tea and biscuits?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Ready for the Big One?,

    I was given one of those wind up dynamo radios, with battery back up, that also has a torch. The dial is so sensitive though, it keeps getting confused between bFm and The Edge, which is unforgivable, even in a crisis.

    As for water, didn't someone here use the phrase 'Think Cistern?'

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Still crazy after all these years,

    Personally, I'd rather the State was not positively interfacing with anyone's reproductive organs without obeying the third date rule.

    Informed consent?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Still crazy after all these years,

    The pro-choice movement should adopt this language to liberalise laws. The pro-lifers won't even know what's going on.

    This is what I was trying to get at yesterday with the paradox clause. Was it just me, or were there KB exponents suggesting Eugenics was somehow justifiable, but abortion wasn't?

    Oh, that's right, Darwinian law would presume that in this utopian world only 'worthy people' would be giving birth, which would make the unborn children sacred.

    It also relates to the fact that both eugenics and pro-lifers are inclined to take the freedom to choose away from the individual, as Sacha alluded to some time back.

    Happy daze...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: Still crazy after all these years,

    some positive actions and interfaces to occur at that point

    Good god, I suppose it is better that we know about these beliefs in our society, but only if we then do something to prevent them influencing public policy.

    Oh crap, too late...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Press, Privacy and The Paps,

    Staircase, please! The gin at Alfies was watered down...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

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