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But if energy is so restricted that it effectively functions as money, wouldn't electric opening doors be pretty much non-existant?
On the contrary. Electricity company executives will have quietly suggested to all news media outlets that they might like to mention that opening doors by hand is 'anti-family'.
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And since there's something seriously wrong with this little town, don't you think that might well be the point?
The possibility did occur to me later. I guess I'm just unused to the portrayal of New Zealand as a land of shiny, happy people being a warning rather than an ideal.
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I had to laugh a bit at the 'futuristicness' of it.
In the future we'll have touch-screen phones, digital photo frames, and grey, modernist Wellness centres?? ;)
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TINML
Glad to see that, in the future, we'll have made huge advances in hubcap technology.
It's a wee bit disappointing to see yet another show populated entirely by Ponsonby-type characters. Apparently, in the future we'll finally be rid of the working class, the non-upper middle class, fat people, bald people, old people, ugly people, disabled people, and ethnics who don't have the good taste to be exotically mixed enough to pass.
Well, I didn't mean for that to comes across as bitter and angry as it does; just an observation really. I don't think it's a coincidence that Outrageous Fortune, the most successful local drama in... decades(?) is about working class people; it doesn't come across as being about Auckland wankers, so connects with the country at large.
Nevertheless he concept of the show is intriguing enough for me to keep watching, for now. The shooting-and-replacement scene in the bush was a genuine WTF moment.
I'll finish by predicting that while the future may be grey, it won't be light grey. -
Compared to what? may I ask.
What are you implying, sir?
Actually, don't answer that. ;)
But seriously, I think I'd prefer about a 12" screen over the current 9.7", and my eyesight is fairly okay. Mind you, I'm unused to phones, so... take it with a grain of salt.
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I had a play with an iPad in a shop yesterday. A bit small, if you ask me.
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Don't forget "ex-nun".
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Burn!
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I'll go elsewhere to have conversations about ethical consumerism and global interconnectedness.
No, don't do that; just don't mention specifics. Since everyone is as bad as everyone else, the fair thing to do is for us all to just sit around saying "Tsk. Isn't it terrible". ;)
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Hey, if anyone knows Firefox 3, could you please tell him that his latest update is fucking up my email?