Posts by Rebecca Williams
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oh dave, russell may be many things, but he is not the source of all info for all journos.
find the taskforce suggestions yourself! you only had to listen to the 5.00pm news on national radio to hear most of them.
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I was just saying, I didn't think it was as bad as it could have been
i didn't think it was too bad. gooberish, yes.
but could you imagine someone really dignified doing that ...? like, ooh, i don't know, helen clark?
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My dad went to his wife's school reunion in Christchurch last weekend. The first thing that happened to him was a very short man started telling him about how much he hates Auckland, and refused to be deflected, diffused or ignored. I think it kind of ruined it for him.
I'm with Emma on the Group A, Group B thing. I already see people I want to see from school.
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i mostly lurk but just really wanted to say thinking of you emma, everything crossed that it goes as well as possible and for a swift recovery. be nice to the nurses, i believe they make the joint run.
btw, tramadol can be your friend, as someone else said, but it can also be your dissociating, boomy-eared pain in the ass. that said, i'm not sure that there are so many options.
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On a related note is it just me or is the Clayton Weatherston/Sophie Elliot case just getting more and more bizarre.
erm, yes, i think so too. and more and more sickening. the defence is so cynical, it's quite staggering.
And on another slightly related note is the increased profile(Listener cover, TV programme, nationwide speaking tour) of Nigel Latta over the last week so close to the referendum a coincidence or am I just cynical and suspicious? Although he doesn't say it you get the feeling he leans towards a no vote.
he does pretty much say in that listener article that he would be voting no. bit of a mixed bag, the old latt-meister.
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aha, thanks for clarifying russell. i certainly hope she's had some help in that regard (must confess i didn't watch the whole interview, i'm still finding it a bit unbearable to hear anything about that case, and when i saw it pop up on TV last night i thought, oh my god, not more about all that. selfish maybe but i tend to protect myself re what i watch on TV these days).
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thank you for the post. all very good points, and moving support from you for women in domestic violence situations or the aftermath of those situations. it is genuinely heartening to converse with men who are anti-violence and truly recognise the impact on women, and who truly recognise who is responsible.
I'm still a little angry about the degree of enabling that went on around him though; the people who not only bought into the denial but helped him market it.
totally. i hadn't thought of the word enabling, but that's exactly what it was. it was sickening, watching vietch justify and minimise what he did, and just as sickening watching the people around him, media included, lapping it up and perpetrating the story that he "lashed out" because he was provoked.
re dunne-powell having had help finding her words, i genuinely don't know what you mean. help from a therapist? help from preventing violence organisations or similar? help from a media coach? family?
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And if there had been a bit of work on drafting a half useful bill then a lot more of us would have voted for it. I don't know whether it was laziness or a lack of judgement on Metiria's part but frankly the bill presneted to parliament looked like it had been drafted by someone who had been high for weeks.
this was partly my point - if a bit of homework had gone into it, it would have been worth a look. anyone suggesting that cannabis should be prescribed for mental health problems doesn't deserve their bill looked at. maybe it will get to select committee when it's worth looking at.
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there is a lot of crap around about how cannabis is a gift from the earth, harmless etc etc. sorry folks, just not true. a certain number of people can use cannabis recreationally with little or no harmful effects. another group can suffer very badly from the effects of it - depression, anxiety, drug-induced psychotic symptoms ... not to mention legal hassles, family problems, financial problems ...
it's not quite the harmless little plant a lot of smokers would like us to think. the fact that turei included "depression and mental illness" as reasons for being prescribed this depressant is reason enough for the bill to have been kicked out without even a first hearing, IMO.
the fact that alcohol is a legal drug which causes known harms (while cannabis remains an illegal drug) does not have anything to do with whether or not cannabis is harmful. two seperate conversations.
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great descriptions of something so many returning New Zealanders experience. some of what's happening to you certainly rings true with me. i'd say give yourself a couple of years to settle back in pretty comfortably (i've been home just over three years).
one thing that might not have occurred to you is that part of the process of moving home is a grief process. i reckon, anyway.