Posts by Deborah
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It's like when I say that I miss kumara, I get told that there are plenty of sweet potatoes. Well, yes, there are, but they don't have the same flavour or texture. Differences of nuance.
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I think Robyn Malcolm and her cohorts don't understand that they have given Warner Bros the trigger they need to pull production out of New Zealand. Up until now, Peter Jackson's mana within the industry had been keeping the movies here.
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Idiot/Savant just characterised the screen works who met and marched yesterday as "useful idiots".
I prefer to see them as people who are worried about the economic climate, are like many people finding it hard to keep their finances under control, and who had been thinking, "Well, it's tough this year, but at least I should have work on The Hobbit for the next couple of years."
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It's the person it's attached to that makes all the difference.
Also, from the Seinfeld school of thinking carefully about gender and bodies:
Jerry: Well, I was walking around naked in front of Melissa the other day--
Elaine: Whoa! Walking around naked? Ahh... that is not a good look for a man.
George: Why not? It's a good look for a woman.
Elaine: Well, the female body is a... work of art. The male body is utilitarian, it's for gettin' around, like a jeep.
Jerry: So you don't think it's attractive?
Elaine: It's hideous. The hair, the... the lumpiness. It's simian.
George: Well, some women like it.
Elaine: Mmm. Sickies.
I don't go so far as that, because there are some male bodies that make me pause for a moment or two, in appreciation. But really, I just don't care all that much. My sentiment about them could go on a Hallmark card: it's the person inside.
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Regarding dames and knights, Dame Stella Lady Casey and Rt Hon Sir Maurice Casey solved the problem of what to call the peer's partner very nicely.
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Helpmate. Probably best only after 20 years.
I wore white (cream actually - suits me much better), he wore tails, and we had a full scale nuptial mass. All I can say is that I was quite young at the time. Nearly 21 years it seems that we have now moved on to being helpmates. I need to think about that for a while.
We put a note in the programme (oh yes, we were very formal) saying that I was not changing my name. Later on, my elderly uncles were gathered on the verandah, grumbling about it . My equally elderly aunt rounded on them, told them to be quiet and let Debbie(!) alone.
It branded me as the radical feminist in the family.
I think the state should get the hell out of the marriage game, or offer marriage equally to all people who wish to participate in it.
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The one that I get really, really irritated by is being called "Mrs". Makes me see red.
Renee of Womanist Musings refers to her partner as her unhusband.
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You think Russell is being mean? I think this is mean. It's a clip showing a Norwegian woman being taken to a crop circle, by a sceptic. The fun bit is when you get to see the shape of the circle towards the end.
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Good grief! What planet does Judith Collins live on?
Three strikes not out despite Garrett revelations - Collins
Police Minister Judith Collins says ACT MP David Garrett's past does not affect the credibility of the three strikes legislation which he proposed.
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I agree with Phil Goff's comments this morning that it must have been agonising for the victims to be unable to disclose that the very man campaigning for harsher penalties and more transparency had been so leniently and secretively treated.
I agree with that. To me, the greater harm of the crime is the hurt done to the parents, especially given Garrett's later campaigning on law and order. But we don't legislate to condemn hypocrisy. That will happen at the ballot box.
All the same, I am thoroughly unimpressed by someone falsifying documents, and trying to undermine the integrity of the system we have for identifying and protecting New Zealanders when they travel overseas.
ETA: Sofie - SNAP!