Posts by Danielle
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I've always kinda thought this, but these sorts of situations prove that insurance companies are basically the devil.
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One of my dubious talents: an ability to closely imitate Charlene's spoken-word interlude in "I've Never Been to Me". That's truth! That's love!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Cinema 'Tron, in reply to Mr Mark,
the truly horrendous Delta Dawn
GTFO.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
Again, let’s not rationalise one form of bullying by citing another.
There is a pretty big qualitative difference between sending a bunch of "you're a crappy feminist" tweets and *sending a black person pictures of lynchings*. Holy shit.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to giovanni tiso,
We should be careful not to excise the right of criticism when expressing our distaste for pile-ons, nor to lump all reactions to the lowest trolling denominator.
Aha! This explains what I wanted to say. Not every reaction can be characterised as just part of an unthinking pile-on and, indeed, there may be a core of really cogent criticism in the midst of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It's a question of signal to noise ratio.
FWIW, I sit on the fence quite a lot on various Twitter-provoking issues, and I find all the pickets kind of uncomfortable.
This was alarming, gendered and weirdly abusive.
I - the lucky abusee! - have actually been called worse, but not much worse. Although the general smallness of NZ does, oddly, make things a bit scarier. Being abused in America pretty much guarantees the person will never see you; this guy made some noises about tracking me down. (He probably could have used my husband's incandescent rage as a beacon, come to think of it.)
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Hard News: The Cycle Frolic, in reply to Sacha,
Had already joined up their systems before the amalgamation.
Not in any way that made a difference to punters though.
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Believe me, neither am I, but since I'm not actually trying to have a fight at all, things should be golden. Kumbaya, etc.
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I honestly, honestly have no idea what in this thread could prompt the passive-aggressive threat to turn off comments. This is... really not a very contentious conversation (unless "Danielle's negative opinion of the Herald" is a sign of the apocalypse). Am I missing something?
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Damian Christie,
I’m saying it’s a bit of column A and a bit of column B, and they’re related.
So your point is, to quote Flight of the Conchords, "be more constructive with your feedback"? Or what?
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Damian Christie,
If it’s all the same with you (and everyone else here), there are plenty of places, blogs, other PAS threads where you can discuss what you don’t like about the NZ media. To do so on this thread is kinda missing the point.
Uh, noted? I'm not sure where you expect this to go then, since the post seems designed to head the discussion precisely in that direction.