Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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AMST106 was my gateway to complete unemployability (though with English, History and Classics as my other subjects I didn't really have far to fall).
I remember my stupid plunket-sponsored coffee group where everyone was discussing how to get their (under one-year-old firstborn children) into "good schools" so they could get "good degrees" and therefore well-paid jobs and being looked at like I was the prophet of Satan when I said I'd rather my kid just found the thing that made him happy.
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I can make a quick and simple dahl in under 30 mins but it's pretty average. I have some more "authentic" recipes but their complexity and requirement for specialised ingredients is off putting especially when shopping with and cooking for little children.
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I am awful at scrabble and other spelling/anagram games and tend to play at the 3 letter word, primary school level. I much prefer cryptic crosswords and games that play with the sounds and meanings of words. Oddly though I rather like the "Take Five" in the Listener.
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Kong
That one's easy: Address them by name as the first thing in your post. If necessary, quote a snippet of what it is you're replying to. It's a good habit anyway, for disambiguation, and other-reader convenience.
I do that. I even do that on sites where you reply to individual posts rather than the whole thread. What I mean is having a way of indicating that a thread contains a reply to something I've posted so I don't commit the inadvertent discourtesy of failing to respond where I should.
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Top of my list would be something to indicate which comments have and haven't been read - I've sometimes given up on longer, fast moving, threads because I just can't figure out where I'm up to.
No to threading but a way to directly reply to posts and maybe to notify people when they have been directly replied to would be good.
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Folic acid mints would work. Young sexually active women generally value fresh breath highly and morning sicky women are often helped by peppermints.
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It shouldn't be this hard to be green and vegetarian and non-stinky.
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I assume "fuck it it fits me" will also produce high-waisted jeans with room for actual hip/bottoms?
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The combination of penes on this thread and the two other PAS headings I can see on my other tabs being "The Peter Principle" and "A Very Simple Stroke" is almost too perfect to be co-incidence
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I read "caution" on the back of milk trucks and thought it was a brand of milk pronounced CAT-ee-on