Posts by Deborah
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I much prefer to see Tuhoe as characterised by Tuhoe.com, the wireless broadband network being built by the Tuhoe Education Authority (with the help of goverment agencies and Waikato Uni) where Telecom was never going to bother. It's Tuhoe owned and controlled and it's a visionary project.
Well, yes... I agree. But it's also important for Tuhoe to characterise themselves.
And also, chances are there are plenty of Tuhoe who don't like the Tuhoe.com characterisation, as well as many who do. Perhaps there are plenty of Tuhoe who simply don't want to be lumped in under a particular label (terrorist / internet-ist / whatever). That's because I'm suspicious of group identities in any case.
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Robyn, where can I get one of those Oprah outfits?
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I suspect that families that grow up in areas where they have less contact with different sorts of people, tend to have more anger/fears about them. And that comes out sometimes.
Could be that the reverse is true. Have a look at this Financial Times piece about some research by Robert Putnam.
A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists.
His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone – from their next-door neighbour to the mayor.
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How come "underwhelming" didn't make the list - I thought it was the best on offer !
Me too!
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That will hopefully shut the fucker up.
Flocks of pigs in Point Chev today, Russell?
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If the objects of the abuse would rather just keep their heads down, what can the rest of us do about it?
I wonder if the objects of the abuse keep their heads down becasue they think that n one is going to stick up for them anyway, so they just have to cope.
Silence, on the part of the rest of us who aren't handing out the abuse, can be taken for consent, and even tacit approval.
So I'm more inclined to want to respond to the people handing out the abuse, and say something helpful and constructive, like, "Piss off, you fcukwits. We don't need racist scum like you here."
Could be a personally dangerous strategy, of course.
Also, I didn't think Jackie was saying something to the effect that all Cantabrians are racist. I thought the idea was more that there was a greater concentration of visible racist idiots there... But that's reading a lot into the short phrase Jacke used, and it would be good to give her a chance to say what she had in mind.
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"Sub prime" does it for me
Not for me. It's just too, well, foreign. I mcuch preferred Emma's "underwhelming". Such an understated, NZ way of saying that it's been a poor year. Of course, if you were a cricket commentator, you would talk about it being "very average". I just don't understand that construction at all.
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Good call, Jackie. Who is going to subvert the liberal complacency around here now?
Ka kite ano, Tze Ming.
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SNAP!
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I like fillybusters.
Oh yes. It's a very happy eggcorn.