Posts by Danielle
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Truly, did you just have a quick imagine and decide, "ummmm, well below 1%"??
Tony, meet Grant. His 'arguments' largely consist of fucking idiotic, fact-free assertions repeated over and over.
(I was raised by a sole parent who worked full time from the age of ten. But I missed out on becoming a criminal delinquent. I feel cheated!)
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Callipygian? Sir Mix-A-Lot said it best: 'my anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon!'
Yay, Emma. Since I seem to agree with everything she says, it's almost like *I* have a PA blog. But without all that time-consuming 'having to write posts' stuff.
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whose chief function, as George Carlin once put it, is to scare the shit out of the middle class
I miss George.
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Also, there are already checks on sickness benefits. You have to provide regular doctor's certificates. See here.
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They aren't exactly nasty why don't the poor eat their babies ideas...
DPB mothers/fathers *are already working*. They're raising children.
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I ranted irritably about this yesterday to anyone who would listen. Honestly, single mothers are damned no matter which way they go. Work all the hours god sends, get blamed for neglecting the kiddies; stay on the DPB and try to raise them on $200 a week or whatever it is, get blamed for being a bludger, as if raising children isn't work that should be highly valued anyway.
It should also be noted that a single woman (only a woman? Not sure) over 50 with no dependent children can get the DPB. Most of those people will be women who were out of the paid workforce for most of their lives raising kids, and who will have been divorced or widowed. They'll be in semi-retirement. What on earth kind of employment prospects will they have?
Meh.
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But they're not anyway are they...chances are if the plane goes down at an altitude of more than 100 metres you are royally screwed anyway.
Dude. I take enough anti-anxiety medication to get on a plane as it is. Do you want me to become completely comatose or something? :)
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And on a different note.
RIP to the Black Moses.
Totally crushed by this. I actually said 'OH NO!' out loud at my desk.
I will be playing 'Do Your Thing' today. And endless Hayes-penned Stax recordings. And his epic versions of 'Walk on By' and 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix'.
Here's hoping he's hanging out with Dark Lord Xenu and L. Ron Hubbard right now. Or whatever Scientologists are supposed to do when they die...
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Quinn was *awful* at the opening ceremony. I can't count the number of times I yelled 'shut UP, you moron! You don't have to talk! Just watch the spectacle!' at the telly.
I have a shrewd idea the commentator who called the opening ceremony a militarised Disneyland meeting corporatised communism may have been on the money.
Oh, bah. Synchronised does not equal militarised. And of course they're going to try to make themselves look good. What, you think London's going to do a wee montage of All the Ways We Have Fucked Up Our Colonies in *their* opening ceremony?
It was conceptually pretty great, I thought. That lantern that was also a globe? Or the scroll painting that was continually created and recreated by each stage of the ceremony? I mean, that's neat!
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I was thinking more in terms of how power has always thrown shapes and conjured magic -- from the cathedrals of Europe to the movies of Hollywood.
Well, I was also reminded of Busby Berkeley musicals, for whatever that's worth. :)