Posts by giovanni tiso
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When they got onto Winston Peters having "risen above being a Maori" the atmosphere of suppressed hysteria in the car almost levitated the Hillman Imp off the road.
Thanks for that story, really.
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with a solid supply of misgivings and doubs
The doubts regarded mostly my ability to spell, and were well founded obviously.
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It was then that I decided to give up any idea of getting a proper degree.
Ah, but none of you has had the experience of sitting exams solely for the purpose of delaying a call up in the army, right? Right?
I could tell you stories... really, really boring stories about my frustrations with how the humanities are taught at university back home. So it got to the stage where I also figured I wouldn't get a degree and that's that, but Justine kept insisting that we'd come to Wellington and I'd love the system here, and indeed I started from scratch at 27 - with a solid supply of misgivings and doubs - and her favourite lecturer way back then ended up supervising my PhD. So it all worked out for the best.
But speaking of parents and the children's choices, my mother now maintains she was always supportive of my determination to study something I liked, and I humour her for the most part, but at the time of my glacial exam sitting and my moving in with Justine to be poor and not have time to study she even enlisted a dentist cousin to give me a speech. I never wanetd to punch somebody so hard before or since.
(Actually, the same guy decided all on his own to also give me a speech about how I was abandoning my parents before we left to come here, and it ended unforgettably with the phrase "Do you have any idea how far Denmark is?"
Good times.)
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Does that make polytechnics "P-techs"?
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Varsity was Uni over in Australia.
I say varsity. And before that, I spent several years at ool.
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Local Man, Steve Barnes, Urges Young People to Remove Themselves From His Lawn Forthwith
Heh. A friend of ours told the neighborhood kids to "clear off!" within a week of becoming a homeowner. Then again, he bought in Karori, which is notorious for claiming friends for the Dark Side.
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I don't care, because that was really hilarious reading.
Indeed. Although as a keen scholar of Middle Kingdom Egyptian mining techniques I did feel slighted somewhat.
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'Digital repositories' - I mean honestly, does that not sound like something one would stick up one's jacksy?
You neglected to mention that one of the things that repositories do is "ingest" information. That comes right after "harvesting". And before "defecating", I suppose.
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Great, thanks Danielle, I see they got my thesis in there after much dallying from Vic and its stupid repository.
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"Professional small boy"
Ohhhh....!