Posts by Sacha
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a huge part of the problem is what you do with your brain when talking to someone on the phone
I also heard (somewhere I don't remember) that you mentally create a picture of the absent conversationalist - which is why talking by phone saps more attention than talking with someone sitting next to you in the car, handsfree or not. Seemed to fit experience.
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linkies?
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Despite many of the policies of the Greens being plain balmy
It's that global warming. Oh, nice edit.
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Understood. Ta.
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I'm very seriously thinking about casting my next party vote for the Greens or the Maori Party
Kia ora
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Because they didn't get a result, George, or because of how they conducted themselves in your dealings?
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Ah the subtlety of the single (') and double (") quote mark, which like many others I frequently abuse.
by Cthulhu's many-angled nutsack
Though not that elequently.
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Discrimination against the poor is open and acceptable in New Zealand.
Agreed. I wish we had a stronger, pragmatic class analysis that wasn't so cloaked in archaic "comrade" overtones.
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City Centre is still menacing and violent however
That's how it felt when I lived there - a sense of uneasy, suppressed violence bubbling beneath (swamp, anyone?). Reinforced by the stories I heard doing volunteer counselling work with men from many suburbs and backgrounds. And by experiencing the night crowds on subsequent visits. I do like visiting.
Like Russell, I find the threats in Auckland's CBD somehow more obvious and therefore less scary. But it's also my place, so I'm expecting blinkers.
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I got people hitting me up for money and cigarettes in broad daylight.
It's the approachable stubble. :)