Posts by Ross Mason
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Dug.
Yes, I agree all the support and encouragement in the world is necessary. We certainly needed it and had it. And it needs to be there to ensure it maximises the opportunity for our young to get a "good start in life". I have yet to hear from anyone who denies that breast is best. The WHO has succeeded in banning the promotion of formula as a substitute for breast milk around the world. Ironically, NZ exports the ingredients for the stuff throughout the world. What do you think most of the milk powder gets used for?
But what I see is a PR machine out there that formula is OK as a substitute for breastmilk. It can be fed by the partner so that they can feel included. Why bother with the pain. Why bother soaking the sheets. There is no doubt that it is better than nothing but it is not a substitute.
Ask any farmer - sheep or dairy, and tell them to wean their future profit on substitute milk. They would laugh you off the paddock.
And given other postings on other topics (ie public relations) I have great difficulty in deciphering the chaff (PR) from the real numbers of those who have to use formula.
Sorry. It is a hobby horse that I am afraid fires me up. Sorry sorry sorry.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Russell Brown,
Attributing that to an attitude problem on mum’s part is precisely the kind of pressure people have been talking about.
All the info I have ever read over the last 26 years (eldest's age) suggests it is (or should be) a minority who cannot breast feed. So I think my "more likely" qualifies as a measure of improving the majority if a more positive outlook is taken. And given what I commented later I think negates any patronising view surely. I may have been better to say to approach breastfeeding with more confidence rather than fear and trepidation. In my experience of coaching sport, confidence is everything.
But then, being a mere male what would I know. I've got no tits to get into a tangle.
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Breastfeeding: I have rarely - or even never - seen a farmer feeding calves formula from day one. They go out of their way to make sure the collostrum is stuffed into them for at least a week. Otherwise the calf is practically dead. Scours they call it. Too apt a description.
I offer to suggest the fear and trepidation to breastfeed is one of the major problems. It should come from parents that it is normal and natural to breastfeed. I proffer that those with that attitude are more likely to not have problems with "the latch" and other issues.
Midwives, Gynos. Yes there are battles. I just wish people would think about the risk management that has to go on in this modern-world-of-today. 150 years ago and your child had a pretty good chance of karking it within a year. Times have changed. On the galactic scale it is incredible the "success rate" we have for lowering child mortality. Which, unfortunately, makes the "errors" in childbirth, be they gyno or midwife, stand out like very sore thumbs. Again, we have contributed to mass improvement to the detriment of individual pain. I cannot help thinking that we do not educate ourselves enough on the fragility of our lives from the womb to the tomb.
Have we fogotten that we are animals first? If we treated ourselves as animals first and then worked our way up the intelligence chain I think we might have a better chance of understanding how we should treat, and what the fuck happens with, this chemical soup enclosed in a thin epidermis.
A large majority of us have drawn the short straw or had very near misses with self or family. Example: I have just got back from hospital with partner with suspect detached retina. In the past she/we have "suffered" seven miscarriages, 3 months bedrest to keep the first success brewing, M/C crash, stapedectomy (2), broken legs, internal bleeding to a blood count of 46...............
As a species I think we are lucky to even be here. Survive it, try to enjoy it. You only have one go at it.
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OK. I'll fess up. I paid Don's bill 2 weeks ago. Took a while to find someone in TVNZ to aim at though. Started at Accts Payable, who passed me to her boss, who then tried to contact someone else. Next day I finally got the bank acct number and a contact name. Seems it got through to the legal eagles. Emailed the screen dump of the payment and got an email saying it (the picture) arrived. I have yet to hear from them with either an acknowledgement of the payment or a receipt.
But ChrisW's brilliant idea would have worth doing, But who would complain and to who???
I suspect TVNZ are having a wee bit of difficulty figuring out what to do with "my" $50.
I paid because I too get pissed off with stupid statements of misfacts that should have been easily found out. I am certain they are broadcast in ignorance. (Perjoratively that one BTW).
Recently there was a TV piece on the latest snake oil treatment. The "balance" said so. Take your blood, spin it down, suck up the plasma - sorry, rejuvanating plasma - and inject it into the wrinkles.
Papers regulary correct mistakes within a day or so. Why can't TV do the same. Even a moving script across the botom would be useful. Oh...wait.....it could take all night to watch them go past.....
Hiring some science/engineering intelligent subbies would be useful.
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Eyrie...the spelling mistake was....
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Steve Barnes: That Bernays link was fascinating. You see, I didn't do media and "Pubic Felatios" at High School so I was/am never going to be an Ad Man. Although Bernays didn't think much of them anyway.
Enough to scare the shit out of you. Watching Brash's media minder nutating around the media swarm in The Hollow Men was eyrie.......
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A bug inside my head keeps tickling me and telling me it is all because of the polls.
I get the impression that Brownlie and co have been watching them very carefully. The lack of drop since all the options have been put on the table, and the woes, gotchas and downright lies being publicised, and still not a drop has meant that he thinks they are onto a winner in the election. Thus, why bother to improve Chch's lot.
So, sadly, it looks like the rest of the country, really, couldn't give a shit.
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Haiku rules?
Why?
Conformity.They autistic to form.
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Can you have,
Two line,
Haikus? -
TNVZ and the Herald still refer to looter as at 1-53pm.