Posts by Lyndon Hood
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And global thermonuclear war isn't a fight between heavily-armed spheroids. I think if everyone understands a convenient phrase to mean something sensible, complaining that it should mean something silly is fairly pointless.
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Divorce is never an ideal outcome, but banning it will do sweet fsck-all to protect the family unit. More likely, it'll come to this.
A coronor once told my mother that we used to have poisoning and now we have divorce.
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Possibly my biggest problem with Twilight being popular is that I happened across Robin McKinle'sy bite 'n bonk (thanks) book Sunshine and found it rather quirky and enjoyable. Now it's like the pitch has been queered by another vampire book named after light conditions.
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How about moving out the back staff onto the front line dole queue?
I just adapted that into a Scoop headline.
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It might be clearest to assess the comedy scene by volume. If it keeps going up, that suggests it's improving for a combination of quasi-statistical reasons (most of anything is crap, but some is awesome) and because more people are supporting it.
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punchlining above one's weight
Actual LOL.
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I was pottering around on the Theatrereview site (waiting for this review) and there was a discussion of a Simon Sweetman blog post which has a certain all-NZ-comedy-is-shit flavour that I'm kind of bored of.
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I have listened carefully to Rodney Hide today, talking about his answer yesterday to the question "Has he costed the Government’s super-city proposal outlined in Making Auckland Greater: The Government’s decisions on Auckland Governance; if not, why not?"
He answered "Yes".
Today Rodney was eventually, under something rather like duress from the Speaker, explained that the Auckland transition etc. has not been costed. I had gathered by that time, and he subsequently clarified, that yesterday he was referring to the cost of making the proposal rather than of implimenting it.
People who deliberately break the language are not clever.
(Just blogged the above, thought I'd copy it here)
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One issue I remember being raised in terms of (comparative) R&D spend is that countries that have tax breaks are more likely to make damn sure all their R&D spend gets classified as such.