Posts by Just thinking
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Issues of consent in our culture are not well resolved (roast busters et al). I'm very uncomfortable with the oversight of such a policy.
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John Masters kept the maps which were needed to prove Kiwi Troops were sprayed. He was known affectionately as Mother Hen.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This is of course corporate welfare, but just imagine if this concept was extended to first home buyers. Build your house and pay for the land when you sell it. Land is the issue, this could be part of the solution.
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Hard News: Anzac Day II, in reply to nzlemming,
Cheers, I bet you'ld say we have a constitution too😉
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I don't think ANZAC day defines NZ, but it is a part of the story. Much of my family always wanted to go home and never did. We were very much involved in Empire during WWI. Our national anthem is still God Save the Queen and our Queen is the same as England.
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I like ceremony and ritual, so I marched in the dawn parade and when asked carried a flag (one I had previously stolen from my parent unit), I did so. To me these are rituals for the living to remember the dead, and the only good to come from a funeral is meeting old friends.
I did feel odd being addressed as a veteran. Correct enough, but not entirely accurate. My service was here, not over there. My closest brush with death was seeing a mate sob and howl into the breast of his girlfriend thinking about one who didn't come back from Peace Keeping.
I intend to wear a red and a white poppy next year.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ian you've missed the true joy of the stadium, & its great theater. Where else do you ignore the dancing girls and stand cheering for the horseman. The joy in stamping your feet on the semiperm scaffolding to create such a din as to put the opposition kicker off . Of course the overpriced draught beer just adds to the experience. Thankfully the stands and bike tubes have gone never to come back.
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Had a wee read of The Neglected War about our invasion of Samoa. What a drunken shambles. Stole the treasury and drunk the proceeds, canned Germans without trial, stole their businesses but then let the crops rot. Imprisoning Samoan wives & mothers with infants for staying with her Chinese husband. And then the flu.
Onward Christian Soldier marching as to .... -
These guys and dolls had their office building collapse around them, killing some of their works mates, the PGC building four years ago to the week. This may well be what the shrinks have been talking about with on going stress post quake.
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news from the story, we're rebuilding! There is no where else in the city where this could have happened. No other office blocks opposite bars. -
Speaker: Once in a Lifetime: Unofficial versions, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sounds like the same guy. An over qualified Spanish interior decorator (assuming the quals are legit). Nothing was too hard here, they just did as little and as quickly/badly as they could. The physics line was from the EQR Manager. I suspect it was to confuse or antagonise. It achieved both.