Posts by Megan Wegan
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to DexterX,
To understand broads – Jeez.
Pffft. Like we'd ever let you know enough of the Secrets to to get coursework out of them.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, since it helps my assertion that these are mostly just hobby courses for the privileged and not valid investments of the taxpayers money.
If I may point out, in the case of Harry Potter, it got millions of children reading books. Isn't understanding how and why it did that a good idea? And couldn't study into that be a social good? The more children who read, the better, I'd have thought.
I get that people are defensive about the premise, because my assertion means that they’ve wasted years of their life and quite a lot of money, but defensiveness, outrage and accusations of barbarism are not arguments.
Dude, what Danielle said. And for the record, you haven't convinced me my education was a waste of my life and money. Rather the opposite, actually.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Lara,
Every summer since I left Canterbury, I had found myself homesick for the plains. Mostly I envisage the road between Christchurch and ashburton, and the way it shimmers in the distance in the heat.
I miss the alps too. In Wellington, I often feel hemmed in by the hills. And the geography of the city still boggles me. I can navigate by the port hills, but I just can't do that in welly.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Especially with winter coming, and the general uncertainty of what is going to happen to the city. I was talking to a counsellor about this, and she wondered if there was planning to get trauma specialists and counsellors down there.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a broad understanding of human society
Why on earth would one want that?
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I do, however, find moving from flushing (albeit sparingly) to using the camping loo again quite hard psychologically – a step away from any hope of normality.
And the thought that you may have to do it for some time? I get the impression that people are starting to get more and more frustrated atm, and I wonder how that's going to manifest.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sacha,
It would be interresting to see how many New Zealanders have even heard of those people, let alone can tell you what field of knowledge they bring to the conversation.
It's also, from a media perspective, a pretty short list.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Emma Hart,
No, I am joking. Mostly. I'm actually wondering how the hotels and things like that are coping. Given there's so few of them actually operating. (And I will be staying in one in a few days.)
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Emma Hart,
So is teh problem the pond, or the pipes? Or both.
(And do those rules apply to visitors? Just askin')
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
If someone thinks it would cool to learn about the French Revolution, because they’ve always been kind of curious about it, then I’m lost as to why my tax dollars should pay for that, when they can just go to the library instead.
Yes, because every person knows *exactly* what they want to do with the rest of their lives at every given moment.
But then I have a humanities and social science masters degree, that only became even vaguely useful to my career in the past 3 years, so I would say that.
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Emma, you mentioned over on another thread about the sewerage issues. Given you're in the general vicinity, is there smells and assorted grossness now?