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Muse: OFF TOPIC: This Is What Your Brain…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And, dare I say it, could it be possible that politicians are actually underestimating the great unwashed electorate?
Nah, although it would be nice to think people are getting smarter, more worldy even.
All they've done is overestimate their nous and political acumen. -
From the NOM blurb
““The New York Republican Party is dysfunctional. ”Yep irony leaps out at one. What they call dys is a long overdue new normal, it has been for a while now I’d say. The glacial pace of social change as it seems each person has to decide, OK I can cope and change my mind. Lucky he was educated, and able to determine facts from bullshit.
Perhaps he could recommend a reading list for some of his fellow countrymen.
And I’ll leave it there.
ETA Laura Nyro songs and 5th Dimension ....choice. -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
Friday, some read David’s blog and do a little digging but make sure they don’t credit him with breaking the story for them. Most still don’t get that there’s a story here.
Friday I was working, missed this. Thanks for setting me straight...or something.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
+1
No wonder they we being all tight-lipped over the last few days ago.
As I remember it, up till tuesday it was, can't say what, when. Wednesday, yes it will be tomorrow. Thursday announce, answer the questions, Friday it sinks in. Saturday, duck.
Its one day at a time. Yes vision...... -
Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to DexterX,
Is that a parody? If it is it’s brilliant Dex…ETA your whole post I mean.
but God does enjoy obliging people who say “X. will happen over my dead body”.
bloody god getting all the fun, sitting up there, watching our words, waiting till one of us foretells our death. I bet he’s sending an angel to dust off Gaff G’s pew as we write.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Damian Christie,
Yeah this is where I have an issue with the “let’s treat it as a health problem not a criminal problem…” line of thinking – to an extent.
That brings it to the individual at fault level, and you're on the defensive. Societies can be harmful to individual health or certain parts of it. As well as rogue individuals affecting those around them. Is there a bigger picture?
Hell yes..Stick out your finger to trace them just look at them all . . .
The Soft Boys – Rock n’ Roll Toiletfingerpainting with poo….I know who’d do that..
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(10) exploration of inner space (your own mind and consciousness)
Not to be undertaken alone if you value your sanity, especially if its not MDMA. Or at less have someone in the next room. Mrs Shulgin was very interesting on her ventures.
(11) spirituality – taking psychedelics in order to see God
Well you wont see s/he/it. But there's plenty of other interesting phantasms of the mind, sure to keep you occupied. And I bet little Johnny and Gerry would shit their pants.
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It's obvious that the drug of choice by a long way is alcohol.
Emma: "There is definitely a binge-drinking culture. If you're going to be drinking, you're drinking to get drunk."
The chairman of King's College board of governors, Peter Ferguson, says the drinking age should be raised, but the students doubt such a law change would have any impact on their alcohol use.
This is ringing all kinds of deja vu bells. Binge drinking culture......sure sounds familiar.
"It is an experimental time in your life and there is always going to be some experimentation. No one is going to deny youth are using them and some youth are abusing them but it's not solely a youth thing. I think it's society's problem."
Yeah. So can we do something about it instead of making everything illegal!
I have a few suggestions but what's the point. Some people have whipped themselves into a frenzy and the worlds going to end...as well.Andrew, 16: "The reason people take pills is you don't care about tomorrow. It gives you that feeling of happiness where you just want to be happy for that time. You're not worried about anything else in your life."
Yes and its more the stress of life that is becoming the problem, rather than the human (Iwould say) need, for all the moralists its weakness, to experience altered states. Ever see the buzz a child gets out of making itself dizzy?
We are all born with more than one voice in our head, why are we trying to deny it? The moralistic approach is not working. And (I'm going for overreach here) those kids better rest and recreate 'cause the future might demand more of them that it did of their parents. -
Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
new genres of the first nine decades of the 20th century stopped at a time that coincided with the explosion of digital media.
wouldnt say stopped. And didnt some big companies try and control that explosion. They seem to have directed it in their face tho', not that I'm an expert.
So many variables.I am not not terribly qualified to judge the content of the argument or satisfied that he has proved causation,
Yeah I'd say bordering on bullshit as well.
But we've got brains and speaking of things old..er. -
Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to David Haywood,
Hey, just reporting what some of the feistier neighbours are saying.
And I must say they seem like fine neighbours to have.