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Craig R:
Rubbish. Michael Laws is not a cunt. A cunt is a multi-functional, yet aesthetically pleasing, orifice that has brought much harmless pleasure into the world. Laws is none of the above.
Does that then make Mr Lhaws an adherent of the Oedipus complex?
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If only I'd realised that whilst I was actually there, I might have been less horrible to others on several occasions. Oh look, a chance to link this again.
It's time for the odd to get even!
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The whole thing sounds like a digital Suez Crisis - a judicial victory for the MAFIAA, but a political victory for the Pirate Baysiders. And the Baysiders won't be taking this ruling lying down.
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I've just heard something that really shocks me about what Veitch's people are doing.
The Sunday newspapers are going to be very, very ugly.
Not just this?
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Margaret:
The main reason is that a significant proportion of the kid's I went to school with fulfilled every private school kid stereotype - pretty racist, class-ist, and very entitled - their parents were usually just as bad. Obviously they weren't all like that - I like to think I'm not, and the people I were friends with weren't either (mostly). I don't think that the culture of the school particularly encouraged it but being surrounded by like-minded kids at school and socially certainly amplified it.
The story of my senior high school life - and in the same city too. Was your tour of duty in the mid-1990s?
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A lot of it is perception, that Grammar boys are somehow enhanced simply by being on the premises. It's not unique to Grammar - Christ's is similar in Chch, and W(h)anganui Collegiate used to also be seen like that. Scots in Wellington had that sort of gloss for a while, at least when I was at school - being good catholic boys at St Pats, we tended to regard the Snots Porridge boys as sissies ;-) .
And St Andrews in ChCh was in the news for the wrong reasons a little over 10 years ago - its boarding house prefects were very publicly revoked of their duties after they abused their powers a step too far.
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Actually I think the 'we need to let in more sons of old boys' actually means 'there be too many asians here.'
Like David Do?
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Eddie: private schooling isn't what it's cracked up to be, as far as my own experiences are concerned. I was sent to two of the country's "Ivy League" high schools, one in Welly and one in ChCh. In particular, the ChCh one turned out to be full of "snob yobs" - in 1996, my 7th form year, at least 7 of these snob yobs were nabbed for substance abuse at an end-of-school party. I'll try and dig up the article for that one.
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Unless of course it's starts to get nasty I get some sort of perverse pleasure watching these wackos. Real Clear Politics's front page usually has a link or two to the more extreme blogs, which often make the comments on Red State look like a charm school. I just can't help myself. People think I'm odd, but looking at this thread I feel more comfortable in my fetish. I'm not alone.
This I believe rings a bell...
The Indy 7/11/2002 - Is this the end of the rainbow for South Africa? -
Right wing opinions are ideal for modern media. They are simple, aggressive and emotive. They fit nicely into little packets of prejudice which can be digested in seconds. The rolling news narrative of Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and friends is that of a conspiracy of smart liberal Jews above and a seething Roma underclass below. In between is Reichsvolk, blue collar and red state, who is as mad as hell and is not going to take it any more.
Sounds remarkably like producerist ideology. At the risk of breaching Godwin's Law, I've substituted a few words in Paul L's original post, and the end result is self-explanatory.
America's red & blue state terminology confuses many at first, being in reverse to popular colour identifications elsewhere.