Posts by insider outsider

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  • Island Life: More time with the family,

    The principal at my kids' decile 10 state primary school sent a note round very early on last year saying homework isn't the norm at his school as there was no great evidence it worked and home time was best spent playing and being with family and all the learning that goes with that.

    reading between the lines he was saying - stop being so angsty you silly wmc parents - your kids will do much better sharing your time than doing stuff they should be doing at school in the first place

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: Tidbits ahoy,

    Clarke et al who are worried about petrol prices should be even more worried.

    The govt is about to give your local council the ability to levy another 10c on petrol for local vanity projects... sorry that should read transport and infrastructure and other projects.

    That will go on top of the cost of carbon and the extra cost of biofuels that are also being legislated. The only way is up baby...

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: Spin Spun,

    I think I got it Ben ...but it took me a while.

    My concern about media is not that they reprint releases. Some of them actually might be well written (eh Jason?) and actually true (shock horror).

    My concern is that other media pick up the story uncritically and do not develop it. Why do the media believe what each other say and print. I would have thought they would have been the last ones to trust each other's writings...

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: Freely-exercised contempt,

    xtra screens my spam for me except for some fake Trade Me stuff. Of course only God knows what else is not getting through... Oh what the hell probably only endless forwarded jokes and baby pictures only the mother could love

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: Random,

    If Obama is a smoker, this surely will be great for our FTA with the US as him and the appropriately named Winston will be able to make major advances while hanging out outside the back door of the White House.

    Helen may not approve though...

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Radiation: Making a list,

    What do you mean Lionel's come back from the grave? When, where?

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Bottom is a Magic Place,

    Palmer also introduced the undefined "principles of the treaty of Waitangi"...

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Bottom is a Magic Place,

    or was it Himmler?

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Bottom is a Magic Place,

    Hitler had two but they were small

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Bottom is a Magic Place,

    Dylan

    "This sentence to me smacks of a secondary preventative notion"

    "This sentence whilst probably ego-brusing to the parent"

    Brilliant!

    Couldn't understand the rest: "harmful effects of re-institutionalisation which the justice system is progressively mediating" Say wha?

    nz • Since May 2007 • 142 posts Report

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