Hard News: Citizen Key II: The High School Years
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B Jones wrote "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."
And read the poem out to the Chess Club.
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I resigned for family reasons... Yeah right
The irony being that he does have worthy family problems of his own causing to deal with :D
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Yearbook stalking! Here I was, thinking I'd seen everything there ever could be on the Internet...
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Speaking of prizes, at our school prizegiving recently three students were announced as having gone through high school with 100% attendance. There were stunned gasps of astonishment, amazement, bewilderment and general awe. I think I missed 3-5 days every term for the duration which would add up to about 50 days over five years. How somebody doesn't miss one day is beyond me and indeed the few hundred in attendance as well. Well done those young champs!
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That is impressive, they managed not to get sick during winter once in 5 years.
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I missed a total of 3.5 days school from primary until I graduated university. Getting sick in the school holidays sux :(
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I was credited with 100% attendence at high school. Completely wrong, I clearly remember bunking off regularly.
Sigh does that mean that I was so utterly insignificant that it mattered not if I was there or not!!
It is funny the things one can be proud of really - I have a stamp in my passport giving me 48 hours to leave the UK, (innocent, but long story) and my parachuting certificate are two things I am immeasurably satisfied about in my life.
Such a simple (and insignificant) soul, me!
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I can see the next tui billboard already:
I shouldn't, but I can't help myself...
How about one of those red|blue billboards worded thusly:
Honest | Don
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I shouldn't, but I can't help myself...
How about one of those red|blue billboards worded thusly:
Honest | Don
Nice.
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Oh, and debating isn't nerdy for the record. It's ultra-nerdy. And we're proud of that fact.
Oh Marcelo, talk nerdy to me.
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Have just failed in an attempt to initiate a thread (how does one do this these days?) about (presumably) a mate of Russell's called SJD, who put on a terrific gig last night with some of his pals. The gig was significantly better in my opinion that the tired old greatest hits gig that U2 put on (& I do like U2!!). Word from the ticket collector is that SJD's new album is due in March, which seems a stunningly long way away. The new songs that were played last night look to be every bit as good as his last effort (being the awesome Southern Lights).
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My school didn't need no poets nor no english and it done me no harm.
I walked the same hallowed halls as Michael Laws, though a year or two behind and I have no recollection of him. We both followed in the footsteps of Andy Haden.
It's a funny old game, the growing up game and the choices one makes to become who one is. -
The new songs that were played last night look to be every bit as good as his last effort (being the awesome Southern Lights).
Ah, and you'd have heard some of those songs if you'd been at the Auckland Great Blend back in July ...
Re starting threads, you can't. You can do so in OurTube and Monitor, but I'm exercising a measure of control for the time being. Everyone is, of course, free to contact me and suggest a thread ...
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I resigned for family reasons... Yeah right
Sensing that the relentless efforts of the media over his stolen e-mails had impacted on National’s efforts in holding the government to account, he chose to step down as leader and will be retiring from politics in 2007.
I mean, Don would know better than she would, but still.
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"The only National MP present was Don Brash, escorted by Bryan Sinclair."
Was Don attending this breakfast meeting at Diane Foreman's in his jammies?
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I shouldn't, but I can't help myself...
How about one of those red|blue billboards worded thusly:
Honest | Don
Heh... except what politician would you put on the honest side? Certainly couldnt be Helen Clark.
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To change the subject to one close...
the newish Shadow Cabinet.Getting rid of the stupid PC Eradicator role---- Yes!
Dumping that talentless drone, Richard Worth....Yes!!!
Promoting Katherine Rich...Well, Yes.but...
Maintaining that other talentless bore, Judith Collins....No.
Elevating Chester Borrows, another boring godbot.....No
Maintaining National's dire hardline anti-welfare
and anti-union policies................................ NO WAY!!!
Five out of ten, John.Craig Y
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One further point off for elevating Williamson, the single worst thing ever to happen to IT in this country, but a point back on for doubling up in Maori Affairs.
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And another one for restoring Women's Affairs as
a shadow portfolio.Craig Y
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And having checked Scoop, yup, Worth is
now only an associate shadow, which seems
to be an indication that Key has recognised
his talentless droneship. Pity one can't say the
same about co-drone and social conservative
apparatchik Judith Collins. Why is she ranked
above Katherine Rich, who is a far better
politician?Craig Y
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Williamson ranks up there with Max Bradford for successful sector reform.
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Thinks: wonder if Collins could withstand a
co-ordinated onslaught against New Right
anti-welfare policies...?Craig Y.
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Collins strikes me too as a bit of a talentless bore... but only in the sense that Helen Clark is. They're both doctrinairre figures who pander to their bases, with a streak of mongrel and mouthy quickness thrown in to good political effect. You never hear either say anything with any real imagination... neither will ever surprise you. Consider Clark's conference address that Slack recently saluted (leading me to read it)... it's so closed-minded as to be painful. You may share her views and so not see it, but she is easily as boring and rigid as Collins and for structurally identical reasons.
E.g. "New Zealand has high rates of imprisonment and high rates of recidivism. I draw only one conclusion from that : the system isn’t working."
You may think that's an OK thing to say but on various levels it's crazy. (1) Clark indulges in the fallacy of thinking that you can draw any conclusions about imprisonment rates without knowing how much crime there is (Collins sometimes makes an analogous mistake of drawing conclusions about divorce rates without knowing how many rotten, divorce-worthy marriages there are). If the underlying behaviors are very bad then even very high imprisonment (divorce) rates might be too low. (2) Clark then proceeds to say, bizarrely in my view, that tinkering with the prison/justice system is the thing to try to do. There's a problem alright but only a doctrinairre lefty of a singularly unimaginative sort could possibly say that tinkering with the systems for managing symptoms are a significant part of the solution to that problem (if there is a solution). (3) What a clueless moron to be caught in public bleating "It's the system" - does the left never learn anything? Are individual human beings on the left's radar at all? Clark in this way so perfectly embodies a kind of brain-deadness of the (New?) Left. It's an amazing performance.
Well, you may think I'm being unfair, but I stand by the basic judgment: Collins = Clark. You just don't see it because Clark's closer to you and you think that you and people like you are pretty great! You're not rigid and ideological....and so on.
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What claptrap, Stephen. Only ideology prevents people from seeing differences between Collins and Clark?
I loathed Margaret Thatcher with every fibre of my being. But however much I hated her game, she was definitely on top of it, for many years. So is Howard, so was Kohl, and so on. And Clark has been on top of hers. Collins has demonstrated nothing to suggest she is in their league.
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Simon: I think you mean "from seeing similarities".... Anyhow, I don't deny that Clark has won some elections or that she has some skills... I don't know what you mean by saying that Clark has been "on top of her game" - is that just the same thing as winning elections? I think that Collins and Clark are similar in their somewhat maddeningly blinkered, vaguely menacing, political and intellectual styles... and gave some examples to make this "strange bedfellows" claim stick. You respond with... a list of leaders, in effect suggesting that any comparison across the aisle, between winners and losers is impossible. That strikes me as dopey, sorry.
Do feel free, BTW, to adduce evidence of Helen Clark having a great and subtle grasp of issues, or any occasions on which she's done something unorthodox that has rattled the cages of her party. (I do see the former fairly often from Cullen).
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