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gave me a massive smile, a massive erection, and had me running around the club looking to score more ... which scared my wife who immediately took me home ....
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are we comparing watching women strip / dance about with no clothes on for the sexual gratification of men, to listening to opera? is paying to watch women as objects participating in the arts / culture?
I once had the 'privilege' of being one of the only males present at a sold out performance of Manpower at the Powerstation. Since that day (oh the horror, the humanity) I will bear no truck about how 'men objectify women' and 'women celebrate their sexuality' ....
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but he should have accepted the constitutional limits rather than seeking to make himself President-for-life
But remember, he is an avowed fan of Fidel Castro ... dictators always see themselves as benign.
Contrast this with US democracy: Bush I & II, and now possibly Clinton I & II. He insists not, but who would be surprised if Jeb ran in 2012?
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heh heh heh
but I have to say it was my wife's idea we go -- and I didn't actually enjoy it
Yes, it's always the wives that insist we should inject some 'culture' into our married lives. How else do you explain those stupid 'Ballroom Dancing' lessons they sign us up for? Opera, ballet, and theatre ... all would be dead without Female Midlife Crisis.
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I would suggest to this Govt that more people have been harmed by our 'Wild West' financial markets/rules than BZP party pills. And yet the Government's new regulations to protect New Zealanders (and it's the old bumble headed pensioners like my Dad who are always stung) from cowboy finance/investment schemes won't take effect until mid 2008. But BZP party pills will be gone by Xmas.
but if something better was available it would already be the best selling
Not necessarily. Why develop and introduce a new product when the new rules have not yet come into effect. Besides, they've still got warehouses full of BZP products to unload.
As for Pilger, I think he's coming at it from the "Chavez isn't so bad because others are much worse" angle.
or ... "my enemy's enemy is my friend" ... which is not always the best stategy.
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My first and only experience of lapdancing, (last century):
She was much younger and more nubile than me. Even Craig would probably agree she was "hot". She invited me for a lap dance in 'a private room'. I felt it was a part of life's rich tapestry that I should experience, so I said yes. So we went to this private room and she grinded and writhed all over me. And she was hot alright, great body, great breasts, and very beautiful face. She was the type of package that really did make you wonder: what's a hot girl like you doing in a place like this?
I was kinda aroused, but not as much as I thought I'd be at having a young woman's crotch millimetres from my face. (Oh the skill, she got so close yet never once touched). When she finished she leant in close and asked (in a whisper) if I'd like "something more?".
I figured it was another part of life's rich tapestry that I should experience, so I said "yes" and asked her how much for a blow job? Her face fell, she looked like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, and that I'd just shamed her and her whole village. For a moment I thought maybe I'd asked to dig up her dead grandmother's corpse and sodomise it.
Turned out by 'something more' she meant me forking out another $40 for a lap dance. Puh-lease! The first 3 minutes were a novelty but the last 3 minutes got boring real fast.
I haven't been back to Showgirls since. (But then, all my friends are married now anyway ...)
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Ugh. Why would people do that?
I blame the internet. All that blogging just encourages ppl to share their worthless opinions. </mine excepted>
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Anyway I went back to my hotel afterwards, wrote the feature up and faxed it back to the Herald
heh heh ... faxing? In my mind I'm sure I was using email in the 90's. But I'm really not so sure. Funny to think something we don't even think about anymore hasn't actually been around that long (in general use).
As for Dianna ... I woke up late on Sunday morning, heard she'd been in a car accident, and straight away said to my flatmate: "She's dead, they're just giving the public time to get prepared for the announcement". I'm weird like that.
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you are fergivin :)
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But yes, long term is the ONLY way to look at serious investments.
Which is how I looked at it. I started 5 years ago when Cullen started making all his noise about property=bad , shares=good. And whilst I know 5 years is not a long time it's still a MEGA bummer when the time you actually need the money is the time the market takes a dive. And having been in the market 5 years I haven't seen my stocks go up by 15% a year, despite what the commentators have been claiming. I really would have been better off if in the property market.