Posts by Deborah
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DPF has just made up a beauty in this post on the Electoral Finance Bill amendments
fillybusters
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And three more words or phrases which I think indicate nothing more than the paucity of the speaker's vocabulary
yeah right
gutted
stoked
I would be delighted if I never, ever hear or read them again.
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Great list, Graeme.
How could we have forgotten (so far)...
xtra service
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I am so over rugby, so I say to hell with reconditioning, conditioning, or any variant thereof, or in fact anything to do with the wretched game.
"Underwhelming" (Emma's suggestion) - now there's a good word for the year.
Two further suggestions:
"**Common sense**" - as in the way the Electoral Commission et al will apply the electoral law. The same sort of "common sense" the police have shown in Ruatoki, I suppose.
"**Vindication**" - for Louise Nicholas.
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And given that I'm moving to Australia in just 36 days now, I'm rather hoping that Howard will be out. It looks hopeful.
Of course, once the federal government goes Labor, it's likely that the state governments will turn Liberal over the next few years. It's one of the finer checks on power that seems to operate in the Australian federal system, with people sorting out the government they want overall, over time.
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Michael Laws on Radio Live this morning said he was changing his opinion on this prosecution as more detail emerged. .... I presume he reserves the right to flip flop again if a white middle class 'family values' type is ever arrested for smacking.
So it would have been better if he had just stuck to his original opinion despite the new information?!!!
It's people who won't change their minds, no matter what the evidence or argument, that I find offensive, and frightening.
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And I think the original "bundle" meaning has something to do with the Latin root from which the Fascists took their name.
The fasces were bundles of sticks carried by lictors, the ceremonial guards that accompanied Roman officials (consuls and the like).
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My gran said not to "sleep" with married men.
Oh dear. I sleep with a married man every night.
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'Though I do think it was justified in the case of this "smacking" conviction.
Does anyone know the rule for using one quote mark - ' - or two - " - ?