Posts by Ben Chapman
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Miso with everything!
Miso with avocado makes for a great fish taco dressing.
-
On the topic of deep-fried chips, I personally find the twice-frying method too much to handle at home, but I have great success with the cold oil method.
In this method, you put room-temperature oil in your pan. Cut potato into chips and add it to the cold oil. Then heat the oil and cook the chips until they are done.
Against all intuitive expectations, the chips cook perfectly and don't soak up much oil.
-
This showed up yesterday:
-
Believe it or not, I took the family down to Archives to see te Tiriti in all its rat chewed glory.
It was really very good.
They had a low-tech infographic outside where you could stick a sticker with the word that best describes your feelings on seeing the treaty. I chose "proud", as that best fit the uplifting feeling I got in seeing it. The kids chose "unified", "grateful" and "bored", but some of those choices were based on the colour of the sticker rather than the word.
-
The idea of covering Wuthering Heights with anything other than ironical intent is a bit of a mystery to me. Especially since I'm not convinced Kate herself wasn't taking the piss.
But when, after days of practice, I showed off my ukulele homage to an audience, based on this version
I ended up offending everyone by being so disrespectful to the original.
-
-
Something pleasant from 9 to Noon today:
-
Hard News: Media7: Doing it for the Kids, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
You really think the Minister's letter (which I wasn't overly impressed with BTW) was "bullying"? Well, I'll like you to go sit on that step over there between Michael ("liberals whiners are being mean to me") Laws and Chris ("criticising Winston Peters is like a media gang rape") Trotter.
Again, I don't think it is Tolley's letter that is being referred to as bullying by NZEI, but Key standing over the schools and publicly insinuating they are not doing their job properly and expecting them to take the entire blame for the bullying culture. I think it is fair to call that bullying of a sort.
-
Hard News: Media7: Doing it for the Kids, in reply to Ben Chapman,
From the perspective of the NZEI, with a difficult and sensitive problem to deal with, having John Key (who is the person being accused of bullying, not Tolley) talking tough to schools and threatening them with the ERO, without even talking to them about the problem, let alone offering any other constructive support, they’re going to feel bullied.
Especially if you accept that this is just an effort by Key to look tough on the issue - which I'm sure the NZEI do - making the schools the victims of his posturing.
-
BTW, any really think the NZEI did itself any favours with that press release. Because, of course, the Education Minister writing a letter they happen to disagree with is exactly like physical and psychological abuse of children in a place they should not only feel safe in, but are legally obliged to attend.
It doesn't have to be on a par with physical and psychological abuse to be bullying.
From the perspective of the NZEI, with a difficult and sensitive problem to deal with, having John Key (who is the person being accused of bullying, not Tolley) talking tough to schools and threatening them with the ERO, without even talking to them about the problem, let alone offering any other constructive support, they're going to feel bullied.