Posts by Sam F
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Malcolm: I'm so sorry not to have made it in the end, despite all my emailing. I lost track of my work parking card so had to zip around town for an alternative spot - by the time I got to Stark's at quarter to three, you must have all been in the midst of the tour. :|
Glad to hear a good time was had, and there are some neat photos in Sofie's set there.
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heck, it's all just waaaaay too paranoid for me - all i wanted to do was have a free discussion with you about how you understand, in what exactly you think consists, this animal 'awareness' of mortality..
Ah yes, you and your entirely good faith arguments:
i think its too much whisky!
If you have ever wondered why people scream 'troll' in your presence, your habit of delivering insults of varying degrees followed by "but I just wanted to pursue an intellectual point with you" is a big part of it. Also, you posting a wall of text about whether animals are aware of big-m Mortality (as opposed to nearby death or slaughter), when Islander had already expressed uncertainty on that anyway.
Islander's typically glib talk of 'species' and 'behaviours' sounds to me like nothing so much a person desperate to deny, semiotically at the very least, the awesome burden of her humanity at any - or possibly the least - cost, and grabbing at the lightest scientific straws available to he/r at every moment..
Your argument that possible awareness of death in animals = inherent 'semiotic denial' of one's humanity is ridiculous, and it's rather rich for you to cry about clutching at scientific straws given your history here.
pollywog sounds like real fun - tech got us into it tech gets us out of it - seems plain as day aye, ah, but PA personnel are a whole lot more religious than they know/care to let on!
Aaand a final, groundless accusation of closed-mindedness on the part of most everyone here. I'm not sure why Russell allows you to keep hanging around , but barring significant change in your behaviour I hope your work here is now done?
Thanks.
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Apparently it's possible to "finish" World of Warcraft rather than just be finished with it. What does such a person do next?
Go clock the Internet as well, I suppose? Or maybe he'll try a speedrun or two.
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That thread was a classic. Was it really as recent as August? The mind boggles.
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It tastes like X I've made myself. It tastes good.
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Ignoring criticism and review, surely Penguin can't stop the Listener printing quotes from non-Penguin books that just happen to be also 'quoted' in a Penguin book.
They've only withdrawn permission for the extracts by Witi Ihimaera, doesn't that leave it open some what?
Yes, I believe that technically Penguin only has jurisdiction over those bits actually written by their own author.
*Wild applause*
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Keybaggers?
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Well, look, it would be great to see some of the fantastic words that Prime Minister John Key uses in his world class oratory.
Robyn, did you ever see this?
In response to further questioning the Prime Minister refined his position, saying: "‘Look, if directly called upon to embark on an adventure I would probably go. You have to look at the specifics. If I were to be accompanied by Gandalf himself and any high elves then probably, yes, but if it was going to just be some dwarves and a bunch of hobbits then that would not be a high priority quest for me."
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Gilberterian.
The Fountainhead adapted as comic opera?
EDIT: Google reveals that Gilbert and Sullivan did a comic opera on the very theme of corporatisation and market values as applied to government - Utopia, Limited. Well I never. </threadjack>
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I feel weary and devalued just for mentioning it, but: Party Central?