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Hard News: Debate like it's 2008!

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  • Steve Reeves,

    Emma, it is Stephen Fry---what a record, what a man!

    Near Donny Park, Hamilton… • Since Apr 2007 • 94 posts Report

  • Bob Munro,

    Just another Tibet link. This time James Miles of the Economist
    in an interview with CNN on what he observed in Lhasa last week.

    What I saw was calculated targeted violence against an ethnic group, or I should say two ethnic groups, primarily ethnic Han Chinese living in Lhasa, but also members of the Muslim Hui minority in Lhasa. And the Huis in Lhasa control much of the meat industry in the city. Those two groups were singled out by ethnic Tibetans. They marked those businesses that they knew to be Tibetan owned with white traditional scarves. Those businesses were left intact. Almost every single other across a wide swathe of the city, not only in the old Tibetan quarter, but also beyond it in areas dominated by the ethnic Han Chinese. Almost every other business was either burned, looted, destroyed, smashed into, the property therein hauled out into the streets, piled up, burned. It was an extraordinary outpouring of ethnic violence of a most unpleasant nature to watch, which surprised some Tibetans watching it.

    Christchurch • Since Aug 2007 • 418 posts Report

  • Tony Kennedy,

    Alternatively you could put a call in to the "Yellow Peril"

    Exactly the kind of post I can no longer write, folks.

    I was thinking more a long the lines of a briefing :-)

    btw - good to know that you still visit PA now and then

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 225 posts Report

  • tussock,

    I wonder what happened around 1500 to make people drop swive and take up fuck as the preferred slang. Swive being a crudely poetic description of the action, fuck being a derivative of animal husbandry terminology.

    It seems rather like the whole of society stopped talking about having sex, and started talking about making babies. Tough times, mind; I suppose people got the idea the only way to beat the incessant wars, famines, and plagues was to out-breed them.

    Since Nov 2006 • 611 posts Report

  • Jackie Clark,

    I thought this
    was, as the French would say, tres genial.....

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report

  • daleaway,

    But its spelling is incompitant.

    Since Jul 2007 • 198 posts Report

  • Jeremy Eade,

    génial (adj) - of genius, inspired

    Jesus jackie,I took german and cigarette smoking at school. It took me ages to google that.
    But thanks for the great link, I love the 1970's school projector room style commentary.

    Swive (Hows it supposed to sound?)Like hive? I'll start using it.I need some new words.

    "But its spelling is incompitant.

    but we all got what it meant, Ya get a pass for that, .

    auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 1112 posts Report

  • Dave Waugh,

    And for your Creationist easter Monday enjoyment I bring you this hysterical blog!

    http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php

    Enjoy :-D

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 98 posts Report

  • Jackie Clark,

    Just as an aside, Jeremy, the french use "genial" to mean cool, really.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Jesus jackie,

    Now that really is elevating you to ....a... supreme being! Ha

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Jeremy Eade,

    "Now that really is elevating you to ....a... supreme being! Ha"

    or a well meaning middle eastern bloke with a who simply wanted the bank out of his temple.

    cool. french for cool, i'll write that down. I'm gonna get that school c french one day.

    auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 1112 posts Report

  • Jeremy Eade,

    "Now that really is elevating you to ....a... supreme being! Ha"

    or a well meaning middle eastern bloke with a who simply wanted the bank out of his temple.

    cool. french for cool, i'll write that down. I'm gonna get that school c french one day.

    auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 1112 posts Report

  • Lyndon Hood,

    Oh, now this was kind of sweet.

    In today's questions Winston Peters just attempted (in a degrees-of-seperation kind of way) to accuse Keith Locke of supporting China. Cullen responded by excusing people who might be over-enthusiastic about new regimes with specific reference to Zimbabwe.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

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