Posts by Islander
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Interesting...I'll check the family's major tomato vine in Oamaru when I travel there this coming week, and see how selected suitable victims work out-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
nah, hideously dark creamish-with dark grey hair- gag! Sorry-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Think - large seal!
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to B Jones,
rosser didn’t lose his knife, he just had to check it into his luggage. Another thing I’ve seen happen is that you can post knives home from the airport.
Not quite that simple.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to B Jones,
but the alternative can be ugly - the Catholic church wants to arrest a guy in India called Sanal Edamaruku for pointing out that one of their miraculous bleeding statues was the result of a leaking pipe. He's facing blasphemy charges.
Yep.
Almost all Abrahamic religions are anti-female BUT - Islamic ones are much WORSE in their *physical* control of *all* women (the women dont have to be religious cohorts.) -
Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Ross Mason,
<q>but “disrespecting” is ok it seems.
If 'disrespecting' means detesting & acting against such groups - I'd say it was a positive human rights activity-
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Johnny Canuck,
Quite probably.
My - uneasiness- with the whole thing is if an activist pro-Muslim group got entrenchment here.
For me, all fundamentalist sects are nasty & dangerous, but Islamic ones - because of their anti-female skew- are the worst.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Gregor Ronald,
I actually sympathised with him for having his knife confiscated. I had to hand over a nice little Leatherman on my key ring
This has been a bugbear with me since I first began to travel by air* - I have, since I was 7 years old, ALWAYS carried knives - they are the consummate human tool. I've had complex (& v. expensive) Swiss Army multitool knives confiscated - and I KNOW the blades were under 6 cm...
* I no longer travel by air, so that little rort is history for me-
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Ditto -I grew up in North Beach, and my first jobs were in the New Brighton area...it is a Really Good Idea!
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to BenWilson,
You keep this tradition alive? Long may it last. Every other animal in the water is starkers.
Definitely. I keep a large towel on the rocks where I haul out, so I can be respectable if people turn up.