Posts by giovanni tiso
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So... who's going to win the Ghana v. Uruguay quarter? Don't leave us hanging, man!
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Hospital food is totally underrated
Speaking as a person who received every other meal from a hospital for a year, I'd say it's overrated if anything. But certainly one of my most pleasant culinary discoveries during a three-day period of dietary duress was that jelly counts as a liquid. Go jelly!
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I use Vito, my burly Italian cousin browser. It promotes adoption by dropping by other browsers and making comments such as "nice cascading stylesheets you have here, it would be a pity if something were to happen to them". Expect it to rise in the rankings quite quickly.
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PC Gone Mad.
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Uh, I think the cultural power balance in this situation is illustrated nicely by the respective outcomes for David Fane and Stephen Goodman (understanding and pleasant chap though he is). And Paul Holmes, the cheeky whitey with the free pass.
I'm not disputing that, I'm just saying that you made a statement - it's not racism if it's aimed at whites by non whites - that is demonstrably false.
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What, you're saying racism doesn't involve power? Or am I missing a more subtle position in my tiredness?
I'm saying that a Samoan saying that Hitler was right to exterminate the Jews is still racist - unless in fact he didn't mean it at all, as I suspect.
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(the opposite of any informed understanding of what racism is)
I wouldn't go that far.
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In Palmerston North it is known as the "Napier syndrome".
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Einstürzende Neubauten started as an MRI soundtrack band. True story.
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I did! Scan for diverticular disease (which I always try and explain to people is nowhere near as serious as it sounds), drank the sachets, waited, taken to a room -- and was then told that the specialist had declared "Why are we doing a scan? I have two scans of this man already."
I had it down as an "only in the Wellington DHB" sort of story. I guess I was wrong.