Posts by Petra
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The Reptilian Dutch appear to have been planning this for some time. Willem Drost painted Bathsheba in the 17th Century, and she looks just like Kate Middleton (if that's even her real name!) And ChocoolatePrincess on YouTube is very hurt about this union. ChocoolatePrincess - a true Pleiadian name, if there ever was one - is quite obviously the woman Wills should be marrying at our taxpaying expense. Poor sweet Willsy, he just has no clue whatsoever.
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Awww, don't be such a Kills Wait Kilt Wilt! Have some fun with it - go on, let your meh down.
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Mail orders also travel via air craft. Extreme aircraft are space craft. She may be a Reptoid spy, out to sabotage the Royal Pleiadian Peacemakers with Russian puppy hounds and evil intergalactic polo ponies. It makes perfect sense.
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Wills 'n' Kate jandals would be good.
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Oooh, now might be a good time to sell a couple of old Women's Weekly mags I have that contain special features on the wedding and engagement of Charles and Di. Trade Me, here I come! :-D
The Daily Mash has a nice take on things, methinks: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/DREARY-WOMEN-GIVEN-SOMETHING-NEW-TO-TALK-ABOUT-201011163260/
lol
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Hard News: Moving targets, in reply to Ross Mason,
re: Corruption Perception indexes
Perception is not always fully aligned with reality. Without proper public registers and accounts, like those rodgerd suggested - "...a register of all gifts and donations each MP recieves? Who signs off on whether MPs can recieve gifts and donations? Where’s the register of expenses? Where are the business cases, if you like, for travel registered, along with the costs realised? Are the claims ever subsequently justified?" - and Sue Kedgley's suggestion of a public lobbyists register like they have in the US, we will often be beguiled into believing that our good Kiwi blokes and sheilas in business and politics are less corrupt and more honourable than those blokes and sheilas in politics elsewhere.
Personally, I think our business people and politicians are just as likely as anyone anywhere to become a bit dodgy - heck even a lot dodgy! - should the incentives for them to become so be just right for them. (For some it'll be money, for others it'll be power, etc).
Our politicians are paid very well, and their perks are generous. At the very least, they owe it to us - the citizens and taxpayers - to play straight, stay honest, be transparent in all their dealings, and be open to rigorous scrutiny. Cheats and rorts - even if not strictly illegal - should see them losing much of their ex-MP "entitlements".
For the most part, politicians make me feel a bit like this (they saw us coming):
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omg, page numbers! this calls for a celebratory Friday arvo ale, and a song to boogie to!
Oh, yes.
Thanks, CactusLabs peops! U R 2 orsum. :-D
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Danielle, try the page up / page down buttons. End will take you to the bottom of the page, and Home will take you back to the top. Much better for keeping the RSI in check, too.
EDIT: just realised that this may not actually be helpful to what you're asking. hmmm.
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Thanks, Jack, but I use Google Chrome. I find that it’s a much less cluttered browser that loads a lot faster (though I admittedly haven’t used Firefox for about 18 months now).
I suppose I could download a new version and see how it compares nowadays…. Oh, ok. I’ll try it!
EDIT: Actually, no need to go to FF – I just tried the scroll wheel click on a link, and that worked perfectly. Thanks! :-D -
Just got one more wee nitpicky thing:
If you click on a link, it moves away from this page. I’ve done this a couple of times already this morning using the webpage links next to commenters’ email links, which has me wandering away from PA. Then I close the window because I’ve had a good gawk and want to come back to PA…
If links in PA were set to open in a new window/tab, then it would be much easier to come back to where you began, and would stop people navigating away from PA.
Does that make sense? Am I being too picky?