Posts by Steve Barnes
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I constantly meet Westerners – including some with Chinese spouses (how do a Chinese woman and a white supremacist wind up married to each other?)- here who behave as if the International Settlements were still functioning and extraterritoriality still applied.
Sad but true. Back here we call that Kiwiblog I guess, those that seem to think we are still here to civilise natives and that we have an unalienable right to the worlds resources, that white is right and our ignorance is better than the ignorance of "Others"
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Even I have made mistakes. I once admitted I was wrong when I wasn't
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
+1
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Danielle,
so if anyone would like to do the search, and then break down the statistics for Danyl
Oh will you children behave?
And Danyl. When in hole stop.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. -
The reason I was "gobsmacked" was that these particular people are good people who usually agree with me (hence "good people") I was just amazed that they would believe these things and more amazed that they thought it was common knowledge. We do have a big problem with the media, bigger than I thought.
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How come all unions are a bad apart from the police one?
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I get the impression the are Herald readers.
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Not to my knowledge, they seem quite intelligent, if not a bit pub bound and on other matters seem quite informed. I was dumbfounded to be honest. It makes you wonder where they get their information from. I will work on them. ;-)
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Sacha,
“That was where he (Taane) went off and refused to co-operate,” O’Connor said. He said police had no intention to arrest when they went back but were forced into a corner by the unco-operative singer.
So why did they arrest the bar manager and the DJ and why did they go back?.
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Aw, c’mon – try! Chance a viewpoint! Ve haf squidbits for a prize!*
Oh Gosh. wiggly bits ;-)
Up here, in my second home, we have the problem of tourists. Don't get me wrong, we love them really, well, their money anyway. So, at holiday season we "have" to have extra cops imported. These tend to be new cops and as such, they tend to be a little over zealous. Add to that the seasonal crop cops and you have a "situation".
Many locals resent this intrusion and many fall foul of the change in lifestyle that is forced on them by the sudden increase in "Law and Order", why?. Well many of them came here to get away from the oppressive attitude that you get from impersonal policing in the city and why many of them say "Fuck the police".