Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Key Questions, in reply to David Hood,
John Key has forgotten more than the entire Labour caucus will ever remember!
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Thanks for speaking up, Colin. Been thinking about this for days now, but I don't have anything to add other than moral support for your decision and the reasoning.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
On the other hand, what happened to your full-on big-file photos?
These are phone cam shots...quality is not great, and getting worse, the lens is getting more scratched and blurry every day. But it's the camera I'm always carrying.
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Hard Yakka
Not really the thread for this, but I clean forgot I took it. How work has changed in 30 years.
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Hard News: Media3: Panic or Peril?, in reply to Emma Hart,
"Sexualisation" of girls is a concept that buys into the idea that girls are not naturally sexual. Which is a lie.
I think it also cleverly packs in an idea that something has inherently changed, despite the fact that it's only recently in human history that people haven't been "sexualized" from a young age. Isn't the art of the ancient world jam packed with nudes? Didn't girls get married off at very young ages? Isn't sex something that's been on the mind of the human species for as long as they've had minds? Isn't some of the most ancient prehistoric art depictions of women devoid of much beyond their sexual features? Plato's Symposium contains a lengthy piece in which one of the party goers describes the most perfect kind of love being that between man and beautiful young boy. A good friend of mine took a photo from an ancient Indian temple he visited that he used as his phone background, depicting a woman giving a horse a blowjob.
I really don't think this is the first moment in human history that we've been exposed to smut. Practically every discussion I had with other boys from the age of 11 through to 14 was on every aspect of sexuality we could imagine. I bet this wasn't much different 20,000 years ago, with the main difference being that we'd probably be fathers a few years later.
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Love that bus stop photo!
Cheers. It's possibly the first time I've seen what seems to be an act of vandalism unintentionally improve the original. Check out the detail on this tree. An artist could have worked that by etching the glass and not come up with much better.
It could just be an accident, a stone thrown by a tire, but if it is vandalism, it would be odd to leave it at merely cracking the glass - unless they saw what I saw, curious random beauty of their own making.
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Hard News: Media3: Panic or Peril?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
But the only lyric the children hear is "Hey, sexy lady". And that's what they sing, over and over and over.
Which is the whole joke about Gangnam style. The song isn't even in English, they're picking out the line from the generic rap song, and mocking the sexualization. I still crack up at the scene where he's getting bukkaked by a massive cream fan.
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Emma, Emma, wherefore art thou?
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Summer is well and truly done for. This shot taken huddled in a bus shelter from cold wind and rain. I was very taken with the pattern in the glass. It has actually been shattered by a stone, but not one shard has fallen out. I think the artwork is holding it together. Beyond, a car passes.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Walking Distance, in reply to George Darroch,
Are you really on drugs? Apparently so
If my brain is eggs, then on dubstep it's definitely scrambled eggs.
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