Posts by Jolisa
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Although if you'd gone to Rata Street school & not Naenae,. you'd almost certainly know my mum.
... cos she was a teacher? (Just checking how grievously I've been insulted here).
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David, you must have been helluva fit as a kid. Albeit with stinky feet. (I suppose that's how you fended off all the girls...)
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BTW, Andrew - hello, old sort-of-neighbour!
So what sort of mash-ups can we expect now - oldfriends.co.nz meets Streetview? I must say, it feels a little dodgy, stalking my old selves through several cities...
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Yep. For "black" read "Maori" (analogically) and then try making the argument that someone with one Maori and one Pakeha parent would not count as, say, New Zealand's first Maori Prime Minister.
Plus: who, under Craig's scheme, would qualify as "black"?
That said, the category of mixed race/ biracial/ multiracial is a fascinating and somewhat neglected one in the US, and Obama is certainly an important standard-bearer for that. So yeah, Craig's point taken. But he's still the first black President too.
Then again, you'd find pockets of people who would hold fast to the notion that he is not strictly African-American in the classic sense, not being descended from enslaved people.
Oh, it's all terribly complex. I need a non-jocular version of roflnui to round off this otoh-botoh post. (Which, by the way, have we standardised the spelling on that? And it's definitively lower-case, yeah?)
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OK now, my Dad has told me the cowpat story too, with an absolutely straight face. Make this townie's day: is it for real? or are you both (ahem) bullshitting me??
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I'm fairly certain the repeal of Section 59 made that illegal...
I'll gladly function as the test case that boring your children to death is still within the letter of the law. We're testing it on a daily basis over here.
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Holy crap, David, it used to take you 4 hours to walk to school? This was after doing the milking and making breakfast, obviously.
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(google maps streetview: making boring old farts more boring since 2008)
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Wow, I see from that link you provided Jolisa, that you can link directions to street view and "follow the blue line" through the street view. That's pretty neato...
So I can force my kid to walk with me, in more or less real time, the whole way to school! It is like time travel. With a tedious companion droning on the whole time, "oh look, there's the dairy where I used to buy a chocolate fish for 5c," etc etc.
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True Robyn ... and depending where you look, it's like time travel already. My 70s-licious childhood house is holding up nicely.
I'm shedding a tear over a couple of teardowns in other neighbourhoods though, and backyard vege gardens crushed forever under another brick-and-tile. Sigh.