Posts by giovanni tiso
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However, I shall have to bring you and the crew some James Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris next time I visit Media 7.
I think that after that piece of self-promotion you ought to send a bottle to every single PAS poster. I'll take the pinot gris, thank you, as the pinot noir is the devil's drink.
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equals losses of what to whom?
Yes. It's not local warming, unfortunately. So it's likely that a lot of the casualties and the flooded and the displaced will live thousands of miles away from the greatest contributors to the problem.
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With bells on.
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I got all nostalgic this morning after reading Gio's answer to Remember the days of the old schoolyard? . Summers were all golden in the fading memory of my youth, but this year, it's felt like a revisit, because I'm doing it all with Marcus.
I'm not nostalgic about my school days, nor about summers in Milan which were awful, but the weeks I spent at my nonna's were something else: days spent on my bike, evenings spent playing soccer on the street, with other kids of all ages, while feasted upon by swarms of mosquitos... I think of it now as my Kiwi childhood. When I discovered Google Earth one of the first things I did in fact was to check out nonna's village and its surroundings and trace my habitual bike route. I was gone for MILES, often on my own. Truly another world, it's not something we'd ever think of letting our children do. And that's a shame.
This Summer was too much work and wet and pretty boring I'm afraid.
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As long as nobody tells me to "just appreciate the game"
How do you feel about "could you just shut up for the rest of this over?"
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Comrade Russell's covert plan must be working then. Ops, I said too much.
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Edit: Sorry for linking your opinions with my own, Gio,
On the contrary. Plus you are of Italian descent, right? I think we should form a mini-hive mind just for that.
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There isn't enough money. Exactly. Would it be better if we continue to borrow ourselves into oblivion, like Greece has done, and is now paying a much higher price?
How about we don't cut taxes?
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I actually remember that.
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Funnily enough often the people who stay here to fight it out against all the geographical, small market, high tax, disincentives (not to mention toll poppy envy killings that go on under the guise of socialist indignation) are the ones with some moral fortitude.
Yes, like finance company directors for instance. Where would we be without the moral fortitude of these benefactors? And I tell you what, if there is a single business person who has left New Zealand because they felt besieged by tall poppy envy or socialist indignation, I want to meet them so I can laugh at them in person.
But that's not the point: the point is that a government that comes in, cuts the taxes to the wealthy, then proceed to cut services to anybody else on the grounds that there isn't enough money, has made its priorities obscenely clear. Are we ever allowed to question these priorities, or is that too offensive to the poor dears?