Posts by Emma Hart
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I meant to note that merely because you can't quantify the benefit in some sort of bean-counting fashion, that doesn't mean it isn't there.
I consider my Eng Lit degree to have enormous public utility, given the number of things that I was better at when I finished it than I was before I started.
The Shorter (and less effective) Ben: The One Rule is 'don't be a dick'. If you are a dick, you will be treated like one. I will worry when PAS starts being dickish to people who aren't dicks.
Also, if you make a statement which can easily be construed as insulting to a large number of people, and more than one person in that group responds to it? You're not going to get a lot of sympathy for calling "dog-pile". Unless, of course, we're all supposed to get together and elect a spokesperson? Because it's Megan. (And Gio, and James, and Rob and Danielle. Okay, that didn't work.)
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In my case, I'd incorporated the siren into my dreams
Have you seen my new digital watch, Dude that's a fucking awful noise, etc...
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them
Thomas Jefferson says taking the piss is awesome.
Could you do NZConservative while you're there?
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to giovanni tiso,
For the record, you convinced nobody because as you correctly point out you have no argument - just a premise and an assertion, repeated ad nauseam, also known in the business as trolling.
No no, I'm not fucking having this. Until we get another word for trolling I'm going to fight for it to maintain its meaning, which includes the central concept of bad faith. And I'm only about 80% convinced that Danyl can't possibly genuinely hold his position at the extreme he's arguing at.
We need another word for a "troll" who actually believes what they're saying.
But then, my brain is still aching from trying to work out how to untangle my literary studies (not useful, apparently, but then also gained by simply "reading books") from my historical studies (useful, apparently, in some kind of freakish way), when the history and literature influence each other to the point where they're completely intertwined (cf Condition of England novels, which you won't see anyone reading on the bus).
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Lara,
Dude, my daughter loves horses, and is currently (and for the rest of the year) going to school out at Halswell Residential College...
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
Is there anything we can do to help?
I've been pondering this, because the immediate practical answer is, "Well, no, not really."
So let me be less immediate, and less practical for a bit.
Take a hunk of money and put it aside. And next year, when Chch can function as a first-world city again, and host a Great Blend, come down. Meet us, talk to us, drink with us. Stay in our hotels, eat in our eateries, drink in our drinkeries, shop in our shopperies. And possibly more important than all of that, give us something to look forward to.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Ok Let’s see if this works and it’s not my fault if this derails
Aw, wookit da kitties! D'aw!
See, that helped.
Especially with winter coming, and the general uncertainty of what is going to happen to the city.
Yeah, y'know, we keep hearing, get back into routines, do things normally as much as possible. And I completely understand that. We just don't have that option. There's almost nothing we can do the same was as we used to. And it's so draining, the extra twenty minute drive to get groceries. I wanted boots and a bra the other day, we had to go to Riccarton.
I'm certainly worse than I was a couple of weeks ago. All my recognised stress responses are going off - which boils down to 'run away and do something REALLY stupid'.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
So is teh problem the pond, or the pipes? Or both.
(And do those rules apply to visitors? Just askin')
Both.
And, seriously?
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Emma, you mentioned over on another thread about the sewerage issues. Given you're in the general vicinity, is there smells and assorted grossness now?
No. Or at least, not from the sewage treatment plant. (We were told we totally shouldn't move here because of the smell from the plant. You can never smell it. When you can smell something whiffy, it's low tide at the estuary.)
There are still a few streets where there are or have been sewage leaks where it's really whiffy.
But what they're talking about with the sewage now is an overload causing a catastrophic oxygenation failure in the ponds. Things seem to be getting better, but the messages around this have been really confusing. In the eastern suburbs, there've been constant conflicted messages about whether we should be flushing (our street was offered chemical toilets if we wanted them, not told we should be using them) and I don't know if the conservation message is getting through in the west at all. Because, y'know, Fendalton's waste goes through a fuckload more piping than ours does, and still (mostly) ends up in the same place.
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Heh, as Megan posted, I was typing a comment which boiled down to "KITTENS! Pics!"
Home is where the cat is. Though I also need a patch of dirt I at least have usage rights for.
There are some photos here (can't find an 'if you're not on Facebook' link for these). Not of kittens.