Posts by Che Tibby

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  • Up Front: A Short Word Before We Begin,

    follow up his I Am Not Spock book with?

    i am not leonard cohen either

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  • Up Front: A Short Word Before We Begin,

    even I wasn't anticipating lowering the bar this far this fast.

    i've heard that one too.

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    Because I'd imagine it's only pubs and cafes that need people for 3 hours around lunchtime

    a lot of those places struggle to find staff so end up with lamo, not-caring students. a lot of experienced workers would be good for the industry.

    otoh, it would increase supply enough to drive wages down.

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  • Up Front: A Short Word Before We Begin,

    lol. <che only just gets emma's joke>.

    which is an irony, considering how often he's heard it...

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  • Up Front: A Short Word Before We Begin,

    hmmm.. so you're obviously tze ming then

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    Still, I'd love to see the Labour/left go out there and lay that guilt trip on working parents

    labour don't have to. read the local fem.blogs, they're working through that issue already.

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    I would anticipate a proliferation in 15 Hour Weekly Training Courses as the only nett outcome with this policy.

    i'm not so sure. there are lots of part-time jobs in the service industry.

    but, the usual hours (in my experience) are 6-10pm fri/sat nights. and maybe sunday lunchtimes.

    otoh, housecleaners are frequently in demand in hi-income households. and perhaps nannying.

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    Although I suspect the incidence of tame doctors signing off on benefits for people who don't truly qualify isn't really very high.

    not so sure. i read somewhere that the incidence of small-town doctors being bullied/harassed into siging s/b forms is actually rather hi. apparently signing is easier than dealing with the beneficiary.

    which suggests two things.
    1. there are obviously people who really should be on the s/b.
    2. the one time i read kiwiblog seems to still haunt me.

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  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    I'm with Danielle, you're welcome to use an encyclopaedia to do basic preliminary research on a topic at any level, but it's not a good enough source for tertiary research in its own right,

    and i'm with both of you.

    anyone who quotes wikipedia as their primary source deserves to be mocked roundly and marked out of academia.

    it's like providing "all the stuff i found on google" as your font of wisdom.

    arial, 12 pint.

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  • Island Life: And later on, a bit of a…,

    Chocolate fish to anyone who can prove they've actually read anything by Strauss -- documentary evidence of brain bleeds, haemorrhaging eyeballs etc.

    i once read "the raw and the cooked" if that's any qualification.

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