Posts by Emma Hart
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Given that the people "defending" marriage are constantly deferring to a higher power (in this case, the dictionary), perhaps a broadening of the definition would make them, as married people, feel that they were part of an institution that no longer had relevance to them? Would they have married in the first place if same sex couples could have done it?
There's a lovely clip somewhere I can't find of the state senate majority leader (maybe) of New Hampshire (maybe) talking about going home after they passed the bill and hugging his wife and feeling MORE invested in his own marriage. And that's what happens when countries pass marriage equality laws: straight marriage goes up , as ordinary people (I surmise) find marriage now more relevant to them, because it's evolved to be more in touch with its society, more inclusive.
But yeah, I think that's the weird thing about the screaming classes: they're truly conservative. Once a law is passed, they accept it. Nobody's seriously agitating to have homosexuality made illegal now, even the people who fought against legalisation.
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For me the oddest experience was returning to Christchurch, location of my student days and, one would have thought, brimming with memories. It was oddly blank and impervious to my attempts to connect.
Weirdly, despite having never left the city, I've just had this experience. I'm trying to arrange a 20th anniversary reunion for our KAOS lot, thinking about what people who left would want to see, where they'd want to go... and it's all gone, or changed beyond recognition. I'd been here the whole time and never really noticed.
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But Emma - don't you know nice girls don't do that sort of thing?
I believe I have been told that, rather a lot.
Double entry accounting?
Okay, I'm pretty sure accountants don't do that sort of thing.
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Perhaps the problem would be that you weren't including enough people in your relationships? A little from column A, a little from column B...
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But the PULSE can lose all they like and they’ll be back next year.
Don't be so sure.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Pulse are toast at next review - the thinking being that the NZ player base needs to be spread less thinly to be competitive with Aus.
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readers with good geek culture questions should feel free to email 'em to me
Especially the kind you think I might be better at answering than Keith. Honest, that's what he wants.
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I'd love to oblige you Bart, but I'm not sure how convincing my 'nineteen year old' costume would be.
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He said stories from the rugby league world had given group sex a bad press.
"This kind of thing has been going on since Adam and Eve," he said.
Oh basic maths skills...
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I wasn't there, but I saw him earlier in the evening -- he was in full regalia, with fashion ripped jeans, fingerless leather gloves and chains.
Thirteen year old me is SO jealous right now.
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Stuff has a comment thread if you want bizarre.
People may turn to gay relationships if their original relationships don't work out.
Yeah. That's how it works.