Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to BenWilson,
Just us, several million Pacific Islanders & the Aussies eh?
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I think we have the same bouganvillea - but that bromeliad! My!
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Danielle,
S “Male brain” alert: I am really good at reading maps
So am I (they are __printed__things ) BUT I am ratshit awful finding my way around cities without written or e-maps…bush/beaches – cool! I know where I am, easily orient by sun (moon if necessary) – put me in a city by myself & I run*, wheezing, in ever-decreasing circles-
* well, stagger then crawl then
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
How does this Government arrive at these decisions – they say they don’t have money and need to save money by making cuts, and then they effectively fire someone who will cost them a million dollars at least in severance because the only recently blooded Minister is hard to work with – can we be shown the logic in this, step-by-step?
Aside from the fact that the current woesomely-incumbent governpeople are incompetent, selfserving & aware of the axe coming - they just dont care. They've raked off their chunk, ensured their lackies got paid, and have NO sense of realising how history will deal to them...tiresome arrogant self-centred wee shits whose names will only be associated with disasters from the johnkey to the peteredout-
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
<q>Shouldn’t that say: “The strategy was developed by the region’s Mayoral Forum before they conspired to have Ecan replaced by commissioners” ?
“And their names shall cursed from generation unto dying generation for their greed and lack of understanding. And the last of their progeny shall curse them most – “There was a green and pleasant land where birds and humans dwelt in joy – now there is a stinking desert and these ones are to blame
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Sacha,
in words perhaps
One of my brothers didnt talk *in words* until he was nearly 5.
As someone who reveres words, written & spoken & sung & engraved in telling pictures, I didnt find communicating a problem-I have a cousin who hums things - all of his family - pretty well get his gist-
Report
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Stephen Judd,
And it may be that the biological basis for spree killing is not testosterone driven status aggression alone. Perhaps the biological fact of having a penis makes it much more likely that you get a particular kind of socialisation which is also a prerequisite.
My family is a matriarchy (and it took an outside male, marrying in, to wake us to the fact.) It's always just been - normal. The senior women decide, and the rest of us do...we come from Kai Tahu, Orkney Scots & Lancashire lines, and the socially dominant women in those cultures have always -urm, ruled the roost?
One of my male sibs doesnt like shooting. He's a really good fisher. He is very gentle with younger/way older/ disabled family members. It's - just the way he is. The other of my male sibs has been - since he was in his very early teens - a superb hunter (fisher not so much) and an easily-dominating male (his family & friends just accept that that is - him.) I can always rely on them for family/personal help. Despite having the same parentage, they are very different people-
my younger brother can be so gentle with his kids that it makes me want to weep- but he can also be uncompromisingly tough. My other brother has not had kids - he is good with anyone who needs support.
Sooo...
May I point out our father died when I was 11? I am oldest.
Both my male sibs were way younger (one 4 years younger than me, and the other 7 years younger.)
The matriarch - aside from all the stories - was my tiny (she stood 4'9") Nanna
and her only daughter, our mother...
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Hebe,
Christmas hasn’t really come to PAS so I’ll post this in Capture because this is beautiful and sad, like some of the photos.
Thank you Hebe!
I've onsent this to my mother, who lost a cousin in North Africa, 1942- -
Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
From the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and onward, young men – and young white men in particular – have increasingly been asked to yield what they’d believed was securely theirs.
That comment - and the viscerally disgusting Bushmaster tripe - make me sad, feel helpless - and seriously worried about portions of our world (more so than before...)
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I’ve just put together a set of 16 cards of Victorian Chchch, for Smith’s Bookshop, from photos they own
Do you e-banking Ian?
Love to have a couple of sets (plus p&p natch-)