Posts by Che Tibby
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There is a saying that we are all a bit autistic these days - although I imagine those on the spectrum would object to us all jumping on their bandwagon.
amen.
that said, i'm *completely useless* with remembering names. even members of my family. and i'm certain i'm not autistic, just absent-minded.
but i've always thought you to be somewhere on the spectrum there, mr. brown.
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great post. objects imbued with personal and familial meanings are one bundle of the secrets that make up my every day. they take on magicial significance and become arcane bulwarks against the shallowness of of our commercal lives.
enjoy milan. i'm sure the flood of old ghosts will be kind.
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Only if you've got some really good hooch to go with that offer
another great bit of advice from years ago was someone telling me that you can't have booze or drugs for 24hours before and after getting tatts.
"badly effects the look of the ink".
you mean, by making you get "bullpup" tattooed on your forehead?
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Take it up with Russell I/S, I was commenting on his going hyperbolic over the 2004 version of the same table.
you might be more wise taking on prebble on his making shit up.
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I've wanted a star on my foot for years
awww c'mon megan, don't be such a wuss.
come round at the weekend and i'll put one on with a needle and some biro ink.
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But I love it, because, 17 years later, it takes me back to that moment, those days, that place and time. It's like a great song or scent.
and that's *exactly* why i have them.
@emma. hold off on getting more. they're highly addictive and you end up getting them for the sake of it.
after my first i took a picture back to the same biker guy and he said "the lines are too close together" and send me away. took me about a week to realise the extreme yodaness of that statement.
take your time between tatts and make them mark a moment, an event, or a watershed, not a whimsy. all of my tatts are deeply personal.
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Did Cullen plan on spending 15.6% of GDP or was his planned spending percentage level based on previous GDP figures
not sure i could answer that, doubtless kiwiblog and the standard would have obviously divergent views.
what it indicates to me is the wisdom of the old saying, 'lies lies and damn statistics".
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ah, here it is.
I am looking here only at central government current spending (which excludes social security transfers). We all know National’s Sir Robert Muldoon was a big spender; he outlaid 16.6% of GDP on education, health and the like. Labour’s Roger Douglas and David Caygill cut that back to 16.1%. National’s Richardson-Birch-Peters-English regime cut the figure further to 15.8%. That is what we would expect (although their cuts were not as great as Labour’s).
However, current Labour Minister of Finance Michael Cullen has kept his spending even lower: 15.6%. Of course, he has actually spent more, because the economy has expanded.
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So it appears that Prebble is just pulling numbers out of his ass, but can anyone help with definitive, up-to-date numbers and any relevant commentary?
no. but i did enjoy reading the brian easton column in listener where here argued that public service spending relative to GDP is lower now than during the days of the razor gangs.
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@rachel
At the moment I am finding my $3.50 - $4 a day gets me space to work on my laptop, read the paper, meet people, generally be productive, and enjoy a good cup of coffee. It might be better to put the money in Kiwisaver, but a little bit of luxury in your life goes a long way.
damn right! kiwisaver? pah!
many a time i've grabbed all my reading and heading over the road to a local coffee shop. i sit up at the bar and drink my expresso and read with coffee machine going, people talking loudly everywhere, the bar staff chuckling, and the kitchen roaring.
but at the office? in the artificial quiet and the air conditioning? almost possible to concentrate.
the $3.50 is money well-spend.
(i think there might be a blog-post in there somewhere)