Posts by Danielle
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'Regions'? What are these 'regions' of which you speak? :)
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I see no ones interested in the other gossip re the valentines day visit 2 weeks later. that was from an unnamed source, printed in a newspaper, so it must be true.
Even if it is true, it doesn't make the assault any less horrible.
I see what they're trying to do by leaking this information: it's pretty transparently an attempt to say that the assault wasn't actually that bad, because she was still all lovey-dovey at him on Valentine's Day. Of course, abused people often continue unhealthy contact with their abusers even after serious assaults have taken place. So, you know, shrug. They were both clearly in a fucked-up mental place.
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I know I'm late to this, but ... Johnny English???
That's when I knew that he was, irrevocably, a lame, tasteless, idiotic cipher. Forever and ever, amen.
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And within that is the retrospective of Edward Yang films.
I saw Taipei Story on Wednesday and enjoyed it very much. Yang has a lovely way of expressing very big themes through normal person-to-person conversation. (A key lesson learned from that film: if a character is listening to Kenny Loggins, they'll end up being a bad 'un.)
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I agree on the ass vs arse thing, Suze.
I say there's room for both, goldarnit. Why limit ourselves?
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reminds me of that meme where you put your digital music player of choice on shuffle and count how many songs until you get to one that would see you out of the running for PM.
Excellent! I tried it just now.
Song one: 'Girls, Girls, Girls' by Jay-Z.
And I'm OUT. :)
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The 'was radical left when they were young and now are hard right' is an often-stated, rarely true thing,
I can, boringly, list several US historians who were all Marxists in the sixties and seventies and now faff on about the wonders of authoritarian militarism and manifest destiny.
Truebelievers: they have a lot to answer for.
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- oppressor
- imperialist
- comprador
- puppet
- revisionist
- capitulationist
- right deviationist/left deviationist
- social imperialist/socialist imperialist (applied by China to Soviet Union)
- black elements
- rightist/capitalist restorationist (Chinese campaigns 1950s/60s)
- saboteurs/wreckers (Stalinist era purges)Many of these sound better when preceded by 'running dog'.
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'It's laughter and it's loving I disdain', huh? Nice sentiment for the Families Commission guy...
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That paper is great!
Prime examples include John Key agreeing that the Ministry ofWomen’s Affairs was run by man-hating lesbians [67]; former MP Newman agreeing that Mental Health Foundation CEO Judi Clements was a stupid bitch [80], and ACT deputy leader (and Social Services spokesperson) Heather Roy agreeing that the government had a feminazi welfare agenda [76]; positions they might have been more reluctant to take in the cold light of the mainstream media.
Heh. And also, yikes.