Posts by FletcherB
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Leopold,
I just want to say... being schooled on history and regal names, by someone called Leopold is...... fitting. :)
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Westies and Boguns love Burberry?
This is news to me, but I may simply be out of touch despite living in ex-Waitakere City?
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No – it’s a legal term for anyone who is neither the Sovereign nor a peer.
You surprised me, but a quick google shows you are correct as far as british law is concerned. But multiple dictionary sources also suggest a common usage definition of "someone who holds no title or rank"...
Lots of non-chav commoners under either definition.
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Is “commoner” the posh word for “chav”?
No, commoner is anyone below “royal” and then possibly “aristocrat"….. but includes many good upstanding and decent upper/middle class subjects…
Chav is a particularly vile sub-set. They have different social-markers and styles of clothing, but are held in esteem somewhat akin to bogun or westie.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Wouldn't your passport be the way you prove you are Canadian?
So you have to carry something in order to prove you dont have to carry it?
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I would also like there to be some sort of mechanism in place whereby MP’s and ex-MP’s can lose their right to any on-going privileges as a response to certain behaviours.
Russell’s post highlights an anomaly… if someone resigns in shame from being caught defrauding the perks… they should not be able to continue accessing those same perks.
Similarly, Taito Philip Feild who was found guilty in court of abusing his position should also not be able to draw on any perks he “earned” access to in his time in that position.
Obviously, both draughting such a rule, and making it retrospective, are fraught with issues of fairness, etc. You’d also have to set some sort of “level” of transgression to trigger it…. you shouldn’t lose your superannuation for a speeding ticket.
(edit) ah, I see in the time it took to write my comment that Russell's now addressed this is already the case in some circumstances
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Came across a little girl called ‘Diamante’ the other day. So, not even semi-precious?
Name your child 'value-less fake copy of something precious'?
That shows a distinct lack of thought....
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Russell Brown,
http://www.westernsprings.school.nz/WesternSpringsCollege_Prospectus/Dress.html
It would seem they don't have a code, but they do reserve the right to deem something inappropriate... " In questions of acceptability of dress, the College’s decision will be final. Parent support is expected."
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I'm alternately enabling and disabling the much complained of typekit.... and not only do I have no preference, I can detect no difference...
What is wrong with me?
OS-X 10.6.4, Safari 5.02
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Congrats on the upgrade... (if a running a tad behind schedule... before lunchtime Thursday eh?)
Too soon to pass final judgement, but looks good to me so far...
From the sound of it you've got too much on right now to give us the low-down on the setup/install head-aches- maybe later? :)