Posts by Nat
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OnPoint: Fiscal Responsibility is the…, in reply to Paul Williams,
Perhaps, though there's plenty of GST exempt products in Australia and the world still spins.
Yes, although there was outrage there too when the deal was done. And that was when retailers had more flexibility with their POS systems (as they were implementing GST for the first time). Here it will be have to all be retro-fitted to what is already there.
Has anyone demonstrated that GST -free fresh food has increased its consumption, in Australia or elsewhere, relative to non-fresh food?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Islander,
To say I LOVE chili chocolate is something of an understatement...and chocolate-ginger cant be prised out of my tentacles...
+2
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Danielle,
Was just about to suggest 'concupiscent' and use it in a sentence when my partner got home and said I looked like I'd been doing something naughty.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Danielle,
I wonder if I am alone in thinking that "horny" is the most cringeworthy word on earth.
I definitely don't love it. Good substitutes?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Paul Williams,
Assimilation assisted by Russell at the Orcon Great Blend...
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, to be safe, they need to be doing it when they're not horny, and using a condom. I can recommend the contraceptive power of this approach.
Either that or have a photo of Murray McCully handy.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Moz,
If two people have unprotected PIV sex once there's a small chance one of them will get pregnant,
Although perhaps this small chance is increased because the 'once' that the two people decide to have unprotected PIV sex is when the woman is ovulating - and more horny - and (so I've heard) more sexually attractive. If the two people are teenagers and there's any ambivalence about the decision, I'd bet this is when they do it.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Years later, I was telling my Mum about that discussion, and she asked me when I knew what the closed door signified. I think I may have been about 4.
Perceptive!
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Paul Williams,
We’ll be signing up for ethics as soon as its available.
Didn't Fred Nile do a deal with Farry O'Barrell to pull the ethics classes in NSW Paul?
I remember our Religious Instruction classes in Victoria - we called them ridiculous interruptions - but I only have very hazy recollections of formal sex ed. I think it was run by the PE teachers, in their tracksuits and netball skirts.
I do remember my best friend and I hearing a rumour when we were about 8, that to have a baby, a man put his penis into a woman's vagina. We were horrified (on the basis that that is what our parents must have done, three times each), and went to the school library only to have our worst fears confirmed.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to George Darroch,
I agree with George:
There are two separate issues at hand here, in either case.
The first is the degree to which breastmilk confers benefits to a child (if any).
The second is the degree to which these benefits (if they occur) obligate the mother to provide these, (and importantly, other parties to facilitate this)
In the case of childbirth, the first is the degree to which clinical/non-clinical settings and types of supervision confer benefits to the child and mother.
The second is the degree to which this obligates the mother and other parties to facilitate these.
The key word here being "degree". And I think that the competing ideologies exaggerate that degree. Or mis-estimate it. Or make it up. So that we're left with these mythologies of the perfect natural childbirth and perfect natural breastfeeding. Or the perfectly safe childbirth. Ideals that most births and feeding experiences will never live up to. Leaving women disappointed, mainly in themselves. But if we could admit that it's rarely ideal and have a better knowledge of the distribution of experiences, then we might alleviate some of that disappointment.
On the "you should just have the right attitude then breastfeeding will be easier" issue: I think this gets the causality around the wrong way. You are more relaxed, less stressed when the baby is breastfeeding successfully. It's the same error as "your baby will sleep better if you are more relaxed". You're relaxed because your baby is sleeping!