Posts by Kumara Republic
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I believe morally and emotionally stunted might be an acceptable phrase. For now.
Does 'try-hard' come to mind?
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DPF:
I don't even recall the swear word in An Adagio Christmas, and while there was a subtle sensual overtone to parts of it, there was nothing at all x-rated, r-rated or even pg-rated.
Kids will love the show. It is loads of fun.
If there really weren't any 4-letter words in the show, then the media is making shit up and stooping to a new shade of yellow. Welcome to Dewey Defeats Truman. No, hang on, it's worse than that.
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And yea, until some government gets around to a massive construction project for genuinely affordable housing (like, under $120k in the main centres), that's going to be rough on a whole lot of people if anyone tries to put it right.
Sadly a pipe dream for as long as McMansion developers and suburbanites who think they're environmentalists are used to having their way.
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More wisdom from Brian Gaynor. It takes one to know one.
Brian Gaynor: Market not up to task of closing gap with Aussies
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Competition does give motivation to train, but it's often not motivation to train in a healthy way. I met so many people over in Australia who had been pushed in their sports as children (and some continued to push themselves as adults) that they had undergone quite horrendous operations to treat injuries, just so that they could carry on with something in which they were only amateur anyway.
If emotional injury counts too, then you can include "Lay Down Sally" Robinson.
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For the record, here's the guy's profile:
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As for the philosophy of the inaugural bikoi, that hangs together less well. Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.
If any group of motorists deserve to be pinged with higher ACC premiums, it should be the Hartley-Moores and Tony Friedlanders of this world. And also of course, anyone with an inferiority complex (shrimps who drive hulking V8's come to mind). Not likely to happen in a hurry though, since turkeys don't vote for their own Thanksgiving.
Personally I think it's the thin end of the privatisation wedge. Of course you want to accustom people to being segmented and paying higher premiums before chunks of risk pool are sold off. No doubt the highest-risk, uninsurable people will be left to the state.
Want to close the loophole? Then look no further than re-opening the litigation floodgates to any privatised accident insurance system. Then insurers will go, "Ohh stuff it, we're not going to make any money out of this." It'll be messy, and maybe Machiavellian to boot, but it'll remind people why ACC was formed in the first place.
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Oh come on... when it comes to the evils of filthy secular humanism Garth never takes his hob-nailed boots off. If this country ever turned into the fantasy land in Garth's head, I'd throw myself under the nearest bus.
Sounds remarkably like Disneyland With The Death Penalty. Must catch up on Willy Gibson.
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They're rather pleasant actually.....
Not when I visited the Gold Coast in the autumn of 1995. Talk about thermal shutdown.