Posts by Emma Hart
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I responded to some dork
no-one here - ironically it seems with the exception of Lucy Stewart - is at all interested in debating
We need a word for this, we really do. "Irony" just doesn't seem sufficient.
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I'm thinking of calling for a moratorium on the c-word.
Copy-editing? Cause there's this whole argument about whether or not it has a hyphen just sitting there...
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Habitual crims are relatively happy with three square meals a day cooked and paid for by someone else, TV 24/7 if they wish, gyms that as Simon Power said in the House that would cost a hefty annual fee out in the community, and being in a place where work is entirely voluntary.
Right, yes. Stunning analysis that.
When I was seventeen, David, a friend of mine who was an 'habitual crim' was sent to prison. He lost his home, his social group (they basically cut him off and kept moving) and eventually his girlfriend, who discovered she wasn't prepared to wait after all.
I didn't grow up middle-class, David, if that would make me completely incapable of understanding anything, and I have been inside a prison. So... does my anecdata make me even with your anecdata, or can you find some snarky way of invalidating my experience? Cause I'm fairly sure you don't know any more about Lucy than you do about me.
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Emma, the PA writer I feel most sorry for is Hadyn. He tries to have these serious sports discussions and we'all end up talking Lime in Coconut.
Well, given I did that to him, I think he should just have to suck it up. Through a straw.
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glorified copy-editing
Not a phrase you see every day. It's been a while since I've been glorified, and never for copy-editing.
Okay.
I imagine this has been happening in some form since the first town meetings in Athens, has anyone worked out suitable counter strategies?
I'm going to deal with this in an area I've become depressingly familiar with: prostitution law. We managed, somehow, to have a pretty good low-key debate about prostitution, and end up with a good law. It's not perfect, but I'm of the opinion that it's better than anything else on offer.
Why? How did this happen, and how come the debate in Britain is such a shitty mess?
My reading of the situation is that what was different here from in Britain (and Sweden, and over Prop K in the US) was:
- the central involvement of the Prostitutes' Collective. None of those other countries have consulted with whatever organised representative body exists for the sex industry.
- the work of Georgina Beyer, and her very presence in the government - someone who knew what they were talking about because they'd been there.
- the emphasis on practicality over ideology.For some reason the conservative Christian pressure only got applied after the law had been passed, when they ran a petition for a repeal and I had to throw my kid's friend's mother out of my house.
Unfortunately, the lesson appears to be that you have to sneak this shit through while the screechers are looking the other way.
I do expect people to disagree. I know some people prefer the Swedish model (which criminalises the buying of sex, but not the selling). Whatever the ideology, however, I can't see any reason to exclude the sex industry from a debate about the future of the sex industry.
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Can we also not spoil my thread? I think you guys already have enough space dedicated to this argument, yes?
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But I have read a number of grammar and style guides, and never before have I seen an example like this one.
Then reflectively she responded, "I'm not kissing that, there's dog slobber and blood all over it ..."
I'm struggling to think of a possible context for that sentence.
Aw, thank you. I spent hours hunting through our archives for examples and then carefully context-washing them.
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Heh, well it took me ages to see the moved full stop, I'm sober, and I wrote a guide to punctuating speech for our writers because almost none of the fozy duckwits can do it.
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Knowledge Bro, the village's camp librarian? :)
For some reason, in my head Knowledge Bro is big and quite butch. Possibly a Leatherman.
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Whad'ya tryin' to do Emma - keep us on topic????
Hey, someone asked a serious question back on page one and I still haven't addressed it.