Posts by B Jones
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unless you can work it into a Liz Phair song we don't want any of that...
I realise eyeliner is out, but is it ok if my eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass*?
*Apologies if I got that wrong, googling Liz Phair lyrics at work is apparently not a good idea. -
There's a list of things women aren't allowed to talk about, and I want to know what else is on it.
Circumcision.
Can't think of much else, though. Perhaps women could have interested-third-party rights on discussing vasectomies, especially if they've been on contraception for fifteen years and had three kids by the time the subject comes up.
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We're not exactly establishing credentials to comment on rugby here, are we?
I'm a flipping expert on tears of disappointment and how hard it can be to choke them back, though. And it's not like boys have different tear ducts to girls.
Anecdotal evidence is too good a word for that rugby loss=domestic violence story. It's a subeditor slapping a headline on a vague story about what someone who's qualified to comment has heard from someone else who's qualified to comment, without any relevant data. Publishing it is just an excuse to repeat a common meme, like those (untrue) stories about how a woman over 40 is more likely to be killed by a terrorist than get married. It's careless treatment of serious issue.
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Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru!
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The time on the Freeview Electronic Programme Guide was an hour off yesterday, which is a pain when you want to know what's on now as opposed to an hour ago. I don't know whether that's something the Freeview people need to sort, or we can do that on our set-top boxes.
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I was also pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to get Freeview going. Just plug everything into the right sockets and it launched.
It's a shame that the manual (the DSE version of the Zinwell) was so dense - it could have done with a one-page simple setup guide in advance of all the advanced satellite selection carry-on. Also there were loads of acronyms they didn't bother to translate. I'm still wondering what an MHEG is, and whether I need to know more about it. There's no explanation of what the various flashing lights mean, and seems only to come in On and brighly-lit Standby if the power's plugged in.
Still, these are quibbles for more than seven viewable channels at the cost of less than 6 months subscription to one of the pay providers. I'm looking forward to more of the NZ-made kids' sci-fi from the 80s on 6 - a young Katrina Hobbs was in The Boy from Andromeda yesterday afternoon. Bring on Under the Mountain and the Kids from OWL.
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Good thing I didn't shell out for the extra year's warranty on the freeview box I bought an hour ago - the young man at DSE was doing quite the sell on it. It will go nicely with the telly, a 29 inch CRT purchased just before plasmas and lcds went mass market.
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Ahem, pedant?
Sorry, I'm one too, and would love my own chalk and ladder for café menus.
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Getting tangled up in a no-win intellectually dishonest argument while trying to explain the rules of logic to someone well past caring about them is tiring, alright. Horror, schmorror, my time is just worth more to me than that.
If I were engaged in the debate, I'd point out that the standard of proof is a lot higher for putting someone in jail than it is for firing someone, and higher still than deciding not to hire them in the first place. But I'm not, so I won't.
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ron wrote:
By the same logic,
You're comparing moonlighting in a legal enterprise with being charged with a violent offence. There's no same logic. That's like equating being a shopkeeper with being an accused thief.