Posts by Deborah
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I read those comments as sarcasm and/or irony, and the very opposite of Keith’s actual attitudes.
ETA: I think you have totally misread Keith's rhetorical intent.
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And the Greens’ small-business tax policy was both good policy
It's crappy tax policy, for a whole variety of reasons. The best reason is that such policies tend to increase compliance costs, as small businesses calculate their potential taxes under both available methods, and then pay whichever is the lesser. They treat it as a tax break, instead of treating it as a reduction in compliance costs.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Richard Aston,
Waitakere man = David Cunliffe
What??!!! Best you explain that, Richard, because I don't see the connection at all.
Stewart, Waitakere man is Chris Trotter's idealisation of what Labour ought to be about - working class men in caps who don't have any truck with women or gays or identity politics of any sort. Trotter seems to think that if Labour goes back to being all about the men, then it will get a higher share of the vote.
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The Dom Post has done the obvious thing, and found someone who has been unable to get police to spend anytime at all investigating the theft of money from their business, even though the person who did it has signed a confession.
Thief to hand herself in after police fail to act
Ross and Raynor Wilson, who own a travel agency in Wellington, are "gobsmacked" Mr Key's complaint to police about the recording of his meeting with John Banks has been investigated so quickly, while they have had no action, despite a direct plea to Police Commissioner Peter Marshall.
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whereas Key is an uneducated compassionless predator ... he sure as shit doesnt have ANZ’s interests at heart
Yes. In the last few days as I've watched the dummy-spit, I've become more and more convinced that he's interested in doing the job well, and proving that he can be a jolly good CEO of NZ Inc., but he's not actually interested in governing for *all* New Zealanders. He regards us as his employees, and now that people are not doing just what he wants, and not telling him all the time how wonderful he is, especially the media who have finally gotten over their infatuation with him, he is having a massive hissy fit, because he's not going to get a good performance review.
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since it’s not like .... they can’t meet in actual private
I'm not sure that they can, given than John Key's movements are probably highly scrutinised at present, and a meeting in private might suggest that they really were plotting something nasty.
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organic free-rage red meat
Please, please tell me that this was deliberate, and not just a typo, because I loves it. ’Though possibly I love it even more if it is a (revealing) typo.
And because I just can’t summon your wonderful use of … ahem… colourful language, I shall have say something very simple to show my agreement with you.
“Just so.”
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"Perhaps," said Darcy, "I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction, but I am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers."
"Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?" said Elizabeth, still addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. "Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education, and who has lived in the world, is ill qualified to recommend himself to strangers?"
"I can answer your question," said Fitzwilliam, "without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble."
"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."
"My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."
Small talk is in some respects a learned skill, for some of us. However, I'm not sure that it's a skill worth acquiring....
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So much to chat about!
So all things considered, you can imagine the state of mind in which I went to my hairdresser on Saturday. Now, my hairdresser herself is lovely, but I can only really deal with that kind of environment by viewing the experience as an anthropological field trip.
Clearly, you need to meet *my* hairdresser, with whom I talk design, and cats/dogs/children, and relationships, and books. It's one of the few times that I relax and just let someone else look after me. My previous hairdresser was good too: I talked feminism with him.
Once, a very nice woman kindly asked me if my daughter read the Color Fairies books like all the other daughters,
The Colour Fairies. Seven of them. Also, the Pet Fairies. Seven of those books too. The Holiday Fairies. Set of seven books. All written by the improbably named Daisy Meadows. At one stage we had about 50 of the damned things in the house, when our daughters first moved onto chapter books. We were contemplating writing a series of our own. The Sin Fairies. Lotta the Lust Fairy. Sally the Sloth Fairy. Gilda the Greed Fairy...
One of the questions I struggle to not tell the truth in reply to is, “How are you?” I’ve learned to say “Fine”
I find that "not too bad" works quite well as a response.
I don't do small talk with strangers, or with people I have just met. I usually need some warm up time, and then I'm good. But I'm just fine with lecturing, or anything that's performance oriented. Something about shifting to a different register, I suppose.
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I've been very impressed by the choirs singing the national anthems. Much better than the usual overblown cabaret warbling.