Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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My first thought on seeing that paragraph yesterday (well maybe my second thought if you count spluttering expletives) was "Emma's going to post angry".
Women get some pretty mixed messages about what is acceptable dress -you are expected to dress "nicely" and "accentuate your assets" and also "not put it all on display" all in garments largely designed for those devoid of hip and bust.
I largely buy the listener because I can't be arsed figuring out which day the paper publishes TV listing. Oh and Diana Wichtel.
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I know a heck of a lot of people who are quite happy with the way the law is as it stands but didn't vote because the question was dumb. And a bunch more who would never condone smacking a child but got carried away with the "this law doesn't prevent serious child-abuse so is therefore useless" arguments (which is about as sensible as saying "it shouldn't be illegal to pinch your neighbour's TV because someone once robbed a bank to the tune of $10 million" but there you go). Lots of basically decent people who would never raise a hand to anyone failed to either get it or to make a stand.
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If Brian Edwards has gone for 70 years without any male role-models he can't have been looking very hard.
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Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology will always be, to me, CPIT. Pronounced spit.
I was doing a bit of temp work desktop publishing at CPIT during the name change (mostly swapping new logos for old on business cards) and that is definitely the pronunciation I've always used.
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Does that make polytechnics "P-techs"?
When my parents both worked at a Polytech it was "Polly-wolly" sometime with a "doodle" on the end. Work talk was "Polly-speak" and was banned from the dinner table.
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Oh and Teachers College was always "T-Coll".
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I generally said "Uni" but I think "varsity" has passed my lips a few times too. I went to "college" before that but now refer to it as "high school" for reasons of clarity born of trying to communicate with American internet folk.
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I really don't think in an arts degree it's about the content - although it does come in useful sometimes - it's really all about how engaged you are with the joyousness of learning. That says alot about someone, I always think. It strikes me that people who are doing career oriented degrees these days are in for a very sad time.
I once mortally offended someone by answering their question about what use my BA was with "I learned how to think". She took that as a slight on her mental capacities which I really didn't mean (at least not that time).
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Two varieties, eh? Almost mathematical..
Having had a very similar major I'd say it was the stupid relationships which required the actual maths.
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Who would you have preferred to have designed the plane you are flying in?
Umm... someone who has worked in the field for several years and has built multiple planes all of which have consistently failed to fall out of the sky?