Posts by B Jones
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What? Did pakeha get aggregated into New Zealander rather than New Zealand/European? There are a lot of people I know who deliberately wrote pakeha to swizzle both the "let's all be indigenous" line and the suggestion they're from anywhere else.
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And also how your definition of indigeneity applies to nomadic peoples.
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Manakura, I'd be interested in your translation of tauiwi. My impression is that it contains a sense of otherness (people from far away?) that pakeha (people who are fair-skinned, like the pakepakeha) doesn't convey. The way I've heard it used makes me wonder whether it's a little like "native", in the sense that it's technically accurate but gets up the noses of people it's applied to.
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The districts with the top ten proportion of "New Zealanders" are Waimate, Mackenzie, Grey, Westland, Selwyn, Southland, Central Otago, Marlborough, Timaru and Clutha.
The districts with the bottom ten proportion of "New Zealanders" are Manukau City, Kawerau, Chatham Islands, Wairoa, Auckland, Opotiki, Waitakere, Papakura, Porirua and Gisborne.
It's not a melting pot name. The Auckland cities have a lower ratio of "New Zealander" to "European" than most provinces, except the Chathams, Kawerau and Kaipara. In the Chathams, New Zealanders come from somewhere else.
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Either I signed on to something apple-related in my old flat
Suddenly flashes back to trying to download Quicktime to watch a Lord of the Rings trailer, all on a dialup connection....
Mystery solved, conspiracy over.
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Um. Not entirely thrilled with all the sign-in inconvenience. It decided my email addy was already being used (I figured when I registered my ipod a few months ago), then when I went through all the "forgot your password" rigmarole, it signed me in and told me my address was my flat of four years ago, which I've never used on this computer or any software on it.
Either I signed on to something apple-related in my old flat and forgot about it (but what? Itunes is new) and they've saved it, or it's sucked information off my computer that's somehow survived through three Windows upgrades/reinstalls and two hard drive replacements. Weirdness.
Fragile Ipods? My bro-in-law thinks he got a virus on his plugging it into computers in southeast Asia. The music's still ok but the other data folders are nowhere to be seen.
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I take it we're not talking about the one where Grandpa walks in and Van squeaks "Not the teeth!!!"?
There was a movie called Outrageous Fortune in the 80s. It had Bette Midler and Shelley Long in it, and it was very silly. However, it did relate a bit better to the title because the main characters were wannabe actors with a Shakespearian bent. Whereas it's hard to see either a link between the NZ tv show and Hamlet's soliloquy, or to Shakespeare in general. Except that Shakes did some pretty good interfamily dramas, and Jethro's just now getting all Hamletty on Judd and Cheryl.
BSG is the best thing not on television, IMHO. They'll have no audience left if they wait till next year to screen the next season - I saw it for rent down at the video shop recently. It's continuing with its eerie applicability to real life - the troops on Galactica let off steam in the boxing ring, while in Fiji the army and civilian authorities face off in a rugby match.
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I won a prize at school for a poem about maths. The only way that could have been nerdier would be if I'd written a computer program to generate it.
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I mean, many Australians aren't particularly famous for their open-minded attitudes towards Aboriginal culture.
That being said, they still had Yothu Yindi singing Treaty and Midnight Oil performing in tracksuits with "Sorry" printed on them at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics. And Savage Garden singing Affirmation, which includes the lyric "I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality", for that matter. Almost makes up for them featuring Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham in the opening ceremony.
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Out here on the edge, the empire shut up shop in 1947 when New Zealand signed up (16 years late) to the Statute of Westminster. It's doing well to be still fading after nearly 60 years.