Posts by Christopher Dempsey
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I took an implication from that that there may have been some malice/corruption during the original count on the part of those doing the counting, which is very disappointing if true.
You could, if charitable, take the view that polling staff were tired and as Craig has noted, unfocussed, having been at their station from 7am or so. Mistakes are bound to be made.
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I lived in Mt Albert, only a 1 min walk from Clark’s office, for 5 years, never saw her even once.
Her electorate office was on Sandringham Rd, right opposite Eden Park. You must be a very fast walker :)
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to ChrisW,
Turning old cars into works of art.
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I wonder, in 50 or 60 years time, will the PAS blogs of that time be filled with memories of bicycles? The first one, the one one went courting on, the family one, etc?
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Heh, modern life: when I saw that photo of your Dad, David, and his school mates standing around the car, I automatically assumed that the boys in the back of the picture around the car were busy texting, so similar the position is texting to playing cards…
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
I hope that the 'CLEAR' spray-painted 'sign' seen by the entrance will be kept as a memory.
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My grandmother's Morris Minor holds special memories - the car is long gone but seeing a Morris Minor brings back the memories of my beloved grandmother.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
In the end it seems to come down to animalistic behaviour, we are driven by our DNA to reproduce along a line that is predetermined by nature.
Yes. Though that theory flys out the window in my case, so I'll just plump for the theoretical construct that you are driven to reproduce only while I'm driven to have fun. *tounge in cheek*
But wait, there's more.
Romance may be driven by nature but there is something special about that attraction, that desire, that has to do with who we are as opposed to what we are and that something goes beyond sex and deeper into the spirit of being. It is a part of a universal conciousness that some would call God and, I guess, that is why they say God is love.No. Take it from me, and be rest assured, Gaia is love. *winks*
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
There's that as well.
I am from time to time subject of unwanted female attention (as I'm not obviously gay), and depending on the situation I either get a mutual female friend to tell them that I'm gay, or I drop a very heavy hint. Unfortunately the woman was slightly tipsy the last time I dropped the hint and it went right over her head. Sigh. Manners saves situations: Lovely to have met you but really I must chat to X over there.
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I just have to say that these posts are somewhat revealing of heterosexuality, a subject of which I am mostly ignorant of. All I can think, goodness, how so very different it is in the gay community and yet some of the situations I've read here are true within the gay community.
Sexuality is complicated - Gaia only knows why - but it sure resists simplification down to binary categories and binary behaviours. "But he's married!" my sister would say of some man I strongly suspected to be gay. "A wedding ring doesn't mean that you are heterosexually married." I would patiently reply. A wedding ring is a nominal symbol really.
I'd argue it's better to go with the flow, accept that sometimes you'll muck it up big time (as I have done), but that's part of life. I'd also argue that sometimes (because sexuality is complicated and a huge part of our lives) you will be hit on and you will hit on others; it is not axiomatic that a sexual connection will happen. Flirting is just flirting most times (as I discovered when travelling in France, where an older woman flirted with me and I thought, heh, this is interesting (cause I knew and she knew it wasn't going anywhere) so I played along). Flirting in the gay community happens quite a bit, but again, it is not axiomatic that you will sleep with the guy; it's just flirting, that's all.
Yeah, sexuality is complex and people are people , and sometimes behaviours are mis-interpreted. Mostly we manage to muddle through just fine.