Posts by giovanni tiso
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Philip Matthews has added his reflections here. I'd say he doesn't seem to be terribly clear on the standard definition of plagiarism, but then I'd hate to become "somebody called Giovanni Tiso" who is part of the Public Address "clique". As Harold Ramis said in Ghostbusters I believe, that would be bad.
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You need to play teams stronger than you to improve, no matter how bad you are - winning against terrible teams teaches you nothing.
Oh, I don't know. The USA has an almost guaranteed path to qualification every four years in a very poor group and yet a couple of cups ago they went pretty deep into the competition. Think also of the boon that qualifying to a cup is for a nation these days, in terms of the money that can be injected into player development.
Plus it's no like rugby: the players in national sides play the vast majority of their football with their clubs, not against other nations, that's what hardens them and tests their skill individually.
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I'm sorry that I picked on you Giovanni, I set you up to make a point.
On the contrary, I like it when people make my arguments for me - saves me a lot of time, and it has been quite a busy week chez this recent immigrant's.
If you bothered to ask me, I'd tell you that I am quite conscious of how my claims of being a person of this place are more tenuous than those of a Maori or a Pakeha. I have a great deal of respect for both of these cultures, am aware of how difficult and improper it is in some respects to establish boundaries between them. I also feel sympathetic to Michael King's arguments concerning the indigeneity of Pakehas. But King certainly never intended to elide all differences and erase history, how we came to be here, the fundamental negotiation that marked the birth of New Zealand as a modern nation.
One thousand years from now, the whakapapas of the people who live here - including my descendants, if there'll still be any - will be so intermingled that the already dubious bloodline case will be almost impossible to make, but even then the tangata whenua, understood as a unit of kinship, culture and history, will have a primacy in this land that no other group could aspire to.
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Big smile on my face right now. Although I question how it could be possible not to fall in love with somebody who phones you to ask about yeast.
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Let's not forget the land stealing and paternalism too.
Thank you Sacha.
NZ has an indigenous people, who (largely) signed a treaty with the Crown which allowed New Zealand to become what it is today. The attempts of people to move on from that basic fact now that chickens have come home to roost is really shameful.
Thank you Kyle.
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Argh! For not being able to properly participate. So I'll just say the words "Pierre Menard" and let somebody else elaborate if they so desire.
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Nonetheless, may I just interject from the sidelines for a moment? Great discussion you guys are having.
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Every time Goff takes a jab at Harawira, he shrinks. If he keeps it up, by the end of this week he'll have vanished.
So,so true.
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and relates to life much as masturbation does to sex.
So... a lot?
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Wellington? :)
No, Italy. For that is where I am originally from.