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  • Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…,

    Sharing of experience, rather than mere opinion, is often a productive way through a sensitive debate. It's an important part of the culture here.

    Perhaps, but after dipping my toe in the water, I don't feel like sharing.

    But I'm not looking to hijack, so would prefer to leave it there.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…,

    I didn't say it HERE

    Okay, that's technically true, but it does appear on this page. It wasn't intended as a "gotcha" or anything. Hope it's not me that's the reason you want to go private.

    Back to the point in question, where does that leave someone who might want to say that it happened to them and wasn't that big a deal? It's a dilemma at least, you have to admit.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…,

    it happened at boarding school

    I was at the other prestigious Auckland boarding school in the late '80s, and I must say, I was stunned at what a hotbed of psychopathy it was. These sons of the business and farming elite were, to a large extent, a sick bunch. I was seriously beaten up (and I mean seriously), as were others, and that sort of thing was always treated by the staff as a rite of passage, if you can believe that.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…,

    Next person to minimise the importance of female-on-male rape is going to lose their fucking face.

    If someone wanted to talk about that happening to them, that warning's not exactly going make them feel terribly comfortable discussing it if they didn't have the "appropriate" reaction, is it?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…,

    Via Joshua Arbury's wonderful Transportblog. An inspiring video on the world's cities, innovative thinking, and climate.

    That e2 transport series should be compulsory viewing for the rebuilders of Christchurch.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Field Theory: Gruts,

    My Dad told me to dress to the left

    Why left?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin',

    For the record, that's not what I was asking, but don't worry about it.

    Other than that, I'm out.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin',

    I disagree that the question was tremendously unclear.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin',

    If you're asking specifically why NZF got so much more than other parties outside parliament, then ... that's because they got quite a few votes at the last election, and are polling better than the other non-parliamentary parties, and indeed, better than some of the parliamentary parties.

    Thank you. That wasn't too hard, was it? :)

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…,

    no. 8 fencing wire.

    Note: discontinued 30 years ago. :)

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

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