Posts by Sarah Wedde
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We're not talking scrapped knees in the playground though are we? You don't just learn what your limits are if things go wrong with fireworks, you end up seriously burnt, or blind, or starting a fire.
If a nanny state is one that takes responsibility for those of its citizens who aren't sufficiently developed to take care of themselves, then bring it on.
Typing this while the neighbourhood around me resounds to the traditional Guy Fawkes noises of explosions and sirens. With a bit of luck the scrub in the hills around me won't be set alight tonight.
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Count Homogenised. Made me the soy drinker I am today.
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Living, as I currently do, with teenage boys--and their parents, in case that otherwise sounded dodgy--has me utterly convinced they need protecting from themselves, and we from them. They are not dumb kids, but everything they pick up gets turned into a series of "what ifs?" What if I stick my pencil in the hole in this rotary cutter and swing it around until it goes flying off across the room? What if I jam this tiny saucepan onto my brother's head? What if I throw this box full of matches into the fire?
They've got the inventive thinking part down-pat; but until the rational risk comprehension part of their brain catches up, no sane society would consider giving them access to gunpowder.
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For some reason Don't Cry for Me, Argentina popped into my head, possibly exposing certain megalomaniacal tendencies on my part.
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Sex miles? Hello? I live in the Hutt man! Think what you're trying to condemn me to.
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I don't think I've found any New Zealand sites particularly influential, but after I started blogging I found the early(ish) kiwi blog community hugely important in terms of a) keeping me going and b) getting me over my initial weird, scared, have-to-be-anonymous phase. It turns out you can be yourself online without having crazy stalkers come to murder you in your sleep.