Posts by Kumara Republic
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You'd emerge from the building, and be hit by this incredibly blue, incredibly big sky, with light of a clarity you'd not seen since you were last there. It's not just the skies - the light has a lot to do with it. I reckon NZ's about an F-stop brighter than the UK.
Cape Reinga-Stewart Island: 34°-47° S.
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I recall just after 9/11, when Parliament convened an emergency session, Richard Prebble effectively compared Marx Jones' act of airborne civil disobedience to mass murder by passenger jet.
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That's Intent to Supply in Texas and Oklahoma. Sex toys, not drugs.
Funny thing is, in Texas it's perfectly legal to sleep with 20 guns under your pillow. Even funnier still, when I pointed out the inconsistency to a colleague on a web forum (a local BTW, not a Yank), he responded, "You can't shoot marauding Englishmen with a vibrator." :lols:
Can I just say that Motorway Patrol is one of my favourite programmes?
Nothing so far can top this one. If it seems familiar, it definitely is:
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Are we starting to see some re-emergence of the old Bill?
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I'm told by an activist acquaintance that the infiltrators are easy to spot, as they're the ones who suddenly show up and push hardest for the most direct, extremist action. It's not just fishing... it can annd does go further into planting or entrapment.
Reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO unit from the Cold War.
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The pressure cooking had destryed the potential to love to read. Pace. Pace. Pace.
Sounds symptomatic of the kind of system that Japan is slowly moving away from, without the saving graces.
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To many people it will look firm and decisive, despite actually being meager and petty. So long as what is meager and petty is done decisively, it sends the important signals.
So too were Thatcher's Poll Tax and the Rodney King beatings.
Anyone hazard a guess as to the Granny Herald editorialists?
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Believe it or not, just before I left Scots Col for ChCh, I created a to-scale map of the College in the early 1990s (with the state-of-the-art MS Paint), jokingly depicting detailed plans to burn it down. Funnily enough, the HOD of English, who took in submissions for the school annual, took it as a joke. We're still waiting for someone to actually carry it out.
If I'd done the same thing at the elite college I'd gone to in ChCh, I probably would have been put in a padded cell, and Deborah Coddington would probably have written a magazine article about me.
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Wellington, 1990 - wagging.
Christchurch, 1995 - bunking. -
I've noticed the term "daddy state" gaining currency in the last few weeks. It's not a new term, but it seems only to have landed here very recently.