Hard News: Unreasonable people vote
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Now you should know I dont go in for that stuff 'cos I weened myself off it. Pity I cant say the same about other folk.
We've all got our prophets. Mine are an eclectic bunch.
Easily solved, when your ready!
All right then, I can go as far as the moon tonight. But I'll be back in bed by midnight.
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Is John Lennon in there?
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After yer jaunt you'll feel refreshed and thirsty for knowledge.
There's this, this, and this
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OTOH, we New Zealanders could learn a lot about keeping homes warm from the northern hemisphere.
Indeed! and if we want to help wipe all that egg off Bill English's face (re the billion dollar budget shortfall) could we all go out now and buy a heap of expensive appliances, please...
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After yer jaunt you'll feel refreshed and thirsty for knowledge.
Actually I ended up feeling sleepy after my jaunts. But some of that was the mental exhaustion of watching an action packed 3D movie.
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there was an assumption of being able to control the environment at will
Heh. This is an ongoing joke in our extended family because three of us married Americans. 'Hey, you know what you could do to keep warm? PUT ON SOME PANTS.'
(Their *trailers* have central heating and cooling.)
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Meet some more unreasonable people who more than likely voted:
[quote]A decision by the Fountain Hills Town Council to hire a single trash hauler and begin a curbside recycling program has been met with angry protests from residents who accuse town leaders of overstepping their bounds and taking a leap toward socialism.[/quote]
As John Stewart would say, "the stupid! It burns!"
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(Their *trailers* have central heating and cooling.)
As I am becoming keenly aware, this seems less stupid when you realise exactly how hot and cold it can get in some parts of the country. I can put a jacket on, but the pipes can't.
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It's good to know that the Culture Warriors of the US have identified the real problem with the country: bears.
Truly beyond parody.
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this seems less stupid when you realise exactly how hot and cold it can get in some parts of the country
I don't even understand how my ancestral peeps survived in the fetid swamps of Louisiana, to be honest. Alligators, giant flying cockroaches and one thousand percent humidity. What an appealing prospect.
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More on tribalism: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Rush Liimbaugh
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It's good to know that the Culture Warriors of the US have identified the real problem with the country: bears.
We're here! We're queer! We don't want any more bears!
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We're here! We're queer! We don't want any more bears!
wine cooler?
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It's good to know that the Culture Warriors of the US have identified the real problem with the country: bears.
I just knew that would pop up again one day.
In my distant youth I spent a few months as a mail sorter in Sydney, where I made friends with a Canadian. One tea break we got talking with an old Australian, who'd been to visit his scientist son who worked in Canada. So, my Canadian friend asked, what did you think of the place? Oh, said Dad, the cities were very impressive, but once you got out in the wilderness it was an utter disgrace. Naturally we were keen to know what he meant by that. Well, said Dad, there were bears and things running around loose! Those Canadians, they really should be ashamed of themselves. -
It's good to know that the Culture Warriors of the US have identified the real problem with the country: bears.
Truly beyond parody.
And yet, wasn't that in an episode of the Simpsons years ago? (Not going to hunt it down on YouTube while at work...)
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Every Canadian I have met has been deeply ashamed. It's like their default setting or something.
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It's good to know that the Culture Warriors of the US have identified the real problem with the country: bears.
Truly beyond parody.
And yet, wasn't that in an episode of the Simpsons years ago? (Not going to hunt it down on YouTube while at work...)
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I don't even understand how my ancestral peeps survived in the fetid swamps of Louisiana, to be honest. Alligators, giant flying cockroaches and one thousand percent humidity. What an appealing prospect.
Seriously. Every winter I wonder why on earth anyone settled here in the first place. In their shoes I'd be hiking south as fast as I could.
The environment control thing really has to be seen to be believed. Heating a building enough that the pipes don't freeze and you don't have to wear everything you own is one thing. Heating it to the extent that you not only don't need a sweater but can't wear one because you'd die of heatstroke is quite another. Also - without a word of a lie - the same indoor temperature that people want in winter is typically considered unbearable in summer and addressed with heavy doses of a/c.
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Seriously. Every winter I wonder why on earth anyone settled here in the first place. In their shoes I'd be hiking south as fast as I could.
I believe a lot of the Mayflower Pilgrims basically froze to death because they were expecting (reasonably, really) English-style winters. Which was somewhat not what they got.
Also - without a word of a lie - the same indoor temperature that people want in winter is typically considered unbearable in summer and addressed with heavy doses of a/c.
Which actually gets seriously uncomfortable in the summer because you have to keep cardigans and jerseys around indoors to not freeze to death, the a/c is on so high. Admittedly some of that is psychosomatically induced by the outdoor temperatures, but during the brief heatwave I experienced in August I actually most liked being at home, where we practiced traditional Kiwi methods of cooling: opening all the windows and putting a fan on. Cool enough to be bearable, not so cold that going outside was a complete shock to the system.
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Also - without a word of a lie - the same indoor temperature that people want in winter is typically considered unbearable in summer and addressed with heavy doses of a/c.
I have been dying to rant about this for eight hours, because it is so true. They spend winter cranking up the central heating to ridiculous levels in some bizarre obsession with 'cosiness', giving everyone trying to sleep in the house night sweats. Then as soon as summer comes, a similar level of night-sweating is suddenly (and justly for me, because I enjoy a certain level of briskness while sleeping) cause for great concern! Madness.
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