Posts by giovanni tiso
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I shall look into it. Thanky.
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Wow. My ticket in the Flipboard queue came up. It reformats your social media into a "social magazine" --very impressively.
Interesting. One of the reasons why I have only one foot in Twitter is that I fear that if I started following people it would be the death of me. But if it was packaged with Facebook it might be more feasible (or at least it would be death in a single, pleasing GUI environment). Anybody know if there are similar apps for Firefox under Windows?
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Are there any other occupations that become the identifier like that?
Unemployed, immigrant and "Maori or Polynesian" are also popular. I am actually collecting these for a post. This is a good example because if she hadn't been an escort, she would have been a mother, and if she hadn't been a mother, she would have been a woman - not her profession (which is pretty much always stated in the case of men who aren't fathers). And if you're an old woman, you cease to be a mother, and become an elderly woman, unless you have grandchildren, in which case you become a grandmother. Whereas men are sometimes referred to as fathers, but rarely as grandfathers.
One could go on.
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I'm glad the Herald has settled on calling her a "woman", though, after swinging wildly for two weeks in its headlines between "escort" and "mum".
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Wrong thread - head on over to "a gloriously bad film".
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Yes, I think there were other clues in the game about the state of your character... Can't quite recall that aspect of it right now.
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Warrior needs food, badly.
that's a cryptic clue right?
You're probably being cryptic back, but just in case... it's a phrase that was spoken during Gauntlet. I'm quite fond of it because it's one of only two English phrases outside of music lyrics that allows me to remember what it was like not to speak English. I didn't back then, so it was like a string of sounds, but casting my mind back to it now I can recall the experience of not being able to decode it - and it's not a memory I can manufacture otherwise.
Funny how the mind works, and all that.
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Warrior needs food, badly.
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Robyn Gallagher blogs beautifully at robyngallagher.com
That she does. Lovely review.
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It wasn't a plug. It's where I bought the thing, because it's near my house. I didn't want to get into the JB Hi-Fi thing, but seeing as you asked ... I don't think going to JB is any different to going to Noel Leeming or Harvey Norman. Indeed, it appears that both those chains pay junior sales staff less than JB does. The difference is that JB got singled out by Unite and the others didn't.
Some workers at JB organised, elsewhere they didn't. But again, it's not a superfluous discussion to have. Nor is the point that cheap laptops can be as bad if not worse than the devices at the toy end of the scale. I'd fully expect to have that range of views expressed here, it really has nothing to do with you having to justify your purchase. Or if it does, it's to the extent that we all have to justify all of our purchases - and that's not a bad thing to consider every now and then.