Posts by Danielle

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  • Up Front: Any Port in a Storm,

    WTF, dude?

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Up Front: Any Port in a Storm,

    You know what kills me, before I even get to the stories? The 'Hide My Visit' button. Of course, but also... god. That's horrible.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Speaker: What Diversity Dividend?,

    allow excessive immigration to wrest control of our destiny from ourselves

    Actually, rereading this utter twaddle has inspired me to say: dude. You know that people have been saying almost precisely this in NZ (and Australia, and the USA, etc) for well over a century, right? Over and over and over again, you read this sentiment in contemporary newspapers and magazines and political speeches... it's just flat-out reactionary bollocks. If you read any of the literature on the history of immigration to societies like ours, the children of overseas-born parents 'assimilate' perfectly well into the dominant society (whatever that happens to be at the time). I think you both underestimate how hegemonic socialisation can be in a country as isolated as ours, and also overestimate the ability of groups of immigrants to undermine that hegemony and create something totally different. At 'worst', you wind up with people who can speak two languages and enjoy both Vegemite and halva (or whatever). It's just not that big a deal, surely?

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Hard News: Chocolate elitism,

    beef-based soap

    Gosh, that sounds *amazingly* wrong. :) It reminds me of 'nuts and gum: together at last!'

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Up Front: Any Port in a Storm,

    Thank you.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Hard News: Chocolate elitism,

    Oh sheez. Soap? Washing my nether regions is now fraught with guilt? Is there not one single thing I can buy at the local supermarket which doesn't exploit someone vulnerable or deforest something or exterminate an endangered species?

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Busytown: Cry me a river,

    More pics for the property pervs among us.

    I spend a lot of time, as a property perv, mentally asking 'what possessed you people when you bought that lounge suite?'

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Seen Anything Good? Tales from the film…,

    Disgrace. Loved the book

    I could see its worth, but at the same time, the whole 'this woman symbolises white South Africa and she therefore shall be gang-raped to make up for apartheid' thing didn't sit particularly well with me. (Or did I have the wrong end of the stick there?)

    Whining: I missed Coco Avant Chanel because the idiots in the Civic car park kept letting people in when the place was full, causing a giant half-hour-long traffic jam, and by the time we got out the film had already started. To which I say: bah!

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Speaker: What Diversity Dividend?,

    Wait, we should have a democratic discussion about having a 'white nation'?

    As I'm sure you know, we had a White New Zealand policy 100 or so years ago. Waz not so grate, aksually.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Seen Anything Good? Tales from the film…,

    Although, Craig, they're so horrible that they're like a kind of grand folly of the old school. It's as if the Earl of Crack designed them. Everywhere you look is something ridiculous, inconvenient, or dangerous on a massive scale. Heh.

    Last night I saw Every Little Step, a documentary about A Chorus Line. So it was a documentary about people trying out for a Broadway show... about people trying out for a Broadway show. Meta! If you don't mind a lot of Jazz Hands, even the rejects were quite amazing dancers. (When I saw the original choreographer had died in 1987, I thought how horrendous HIV was in the USA's creative communities during that period. It must have been terrifying, and so sad.)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

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