Posts by Deborah
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I've gone and asked to be her friend, but for some reason, she hasn't responded yet...
Update: she has let me be her friend. What a champion. And the wee lad is gorgeous, as we would expect.
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Thanks for the link, Emma, and for the news, Jackie. I had been reading that wallywood thread too, but not today. I'm so pleased for her and her partner and her wee boy.
Have suggested you as her friend, so you can see all the bizzo.
I've gone and asked to be her friend, but for some reason, she hasn't responded yet...
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Our lovely Danielle had a boy, Deborah. A bonny big one.
Lovely news! Can someone point me to the thread here, so I can join in the general rejoicing? I've been searching diligently, but short of reading every damn thread, even the sports ones, I can't find anything.
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But that's the point of defensive driving, and defensive cycling, and defensive walking. It's about being aware that the other person might make a silly mistake, and adjusting your own behaviour accordingly, so everyone gets to go home that night.
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BTW, has anyone heard from Danielle recently (given some of the comments upthread about imminent arrivals precipitating driving lessons)?
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My car was written off last year, by a driver who just didn't see the red light. Those perceptual errors are genuine. (I was totally unhurt, he acknowledged responsibility - a bit bloody not to - and I got a full payout, and a nice shiny new car.)
As a pedestrian, I keep in mind that bicycles are bigger than people. As a cyclist, I keep in mind that cars are bigger than bikes. Being in the right and dead strikes me as a very bad deal.
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If we made all gains on sale of all houses taxable, whether they were family homes or not, then I wonder if we would have to allow mortgage interest costs to be deductible. It would be an expense incurred in producing the income (i.e. the capital gain), and usually, those costs are deductible. You might have to start thinking about whether repairs and maintenance was also deductible.
CGTs are notoriously difficult to implement and administer, and don't raise all that much money. It might be easier to simply deny deductions for depreciation on buildings.
If we're grumbling about how much tax is paid on housing investments (or in this case, tax revenue forgone), I wonder if we should also be paying attention to how much tax revenue is generated by the massive investment in farming in NZ?
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I like Bjork's swan dress too.
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FFS - PLEASE LEAVE THE TOPIC ALONE! This is one of the few forums in New Zealand where the idea that Kurariki might have been unfairly treated by the press gets a serious hearing, and you still come in and piss all over us, and treat us as though we're some kind of racist scum, because we might just want to say that no matter what, we don't get into victim blaming.
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I still think the indignation about Avatar is a bit ritualised.
Possibly because the story and characterised were so ritualised? There were some marvellous flights of imagination - I was fascinated by the floating mountains - but the very predicatability of what would happen made the whole film little more than an exercise in prettification.