Posts by Lucy Stewart
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David Thomson of Massey University... Apparently it finds that the thieves are the generation born 1920 - 1940, rather than the baby boomers.
Weren't they mostly busy having rationing and dying in world wars? Unless you count the expenditure on WWII and its aftermath, and I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt on that one, it's hard to see where they had time to be selfish...
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I think that's the reason for the popularity. A lot of people are dicks.
In that case, they should try not to advertise it quite so openly.
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Oh, stop that. Next on our list is buying a house, and I'm trying to be sensible and practical about my love for lead-lighting, wood panelling and high ceilings.
My mother has taken to window-shopping (well, internet window-shopping) for houses in other cities. All the wood panelling and lead-lights you could want, and no chance of actually buying them.
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So I don’t want to freak anyone out or anything, but I thought I should warn you of something I noticed just recently: it’s nearly Christmas.
This pretty much epitomises how I feel about Christmas every year, lately (lately being "since I left home and it started being my problem".)
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That's just cause it's shit, Lucy. Nowadays, I have teenagers of my own, so if I want to listen to someone go on and on about how everything so unfair and everybody's so lame and nobody recognises their unique snowflakeness... no. I'm never going to want to do that.
I particularly remember all my classmates gushing about how much they loved it because they understood Holden, he was like them, and being unable to think anything beyond "But he's a dick."
Shakespeare for High Schools: Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Othello, Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare Never for High Schools Under Any Circumstances: King Lear, Hamlet.
What are your feelings on Henry V and A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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Dear Just thinkiing- you can guarentee that there wqs *never* a triple star in any way of maori esoteric thought ( we actually used to think in 7s.)
Nothing crept in during the 19th century from Christianity (Holy Trinity etc.)?
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Hmm, perhaps that's true of any novel you're forced to read at school? Then again, maybe not: I bonded fiercely with all my obligatory school reading, and those novels and plays and poems still have a palpable aura for me.
I don't go back to books I studied at school, because I'd practically memorised them by the time we were through, but I do remember learning to love even the ones I didn't like on first read, because deconstructing the characters and language and plot gave them meaning they hadn't had before. (All except Catcher in the Rye, which I still loathe in an unadulterated fashion.)
Which is a long way of saying: I was that kid, too, the one who borrowed books off the teacher. Of course, I also had the Internet to discuss the books I was reading for fun, which probably changed the paradigm a little.
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a little global warming, a few meted ice sheets and it may well turn out he was right .....
He was also right a few million years ago. When I said traditional, I meant really traditional.
That one will be forever reserved for the con..um...liberation of Australia.
I see no reason not to use it in advance...
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Or if you're James Cook Banks peninsula ....
I for one think we should return to the traditional values that made this country great and abandon this "Banks Peninsula" nonsense. The discoverer of our nation said it's an island, and that's good enough for me!
(Other options include: Somes Island, Kapiti Island, the West Island...)
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"From dissension*, envy, hate
Ladies, please bring a plate"Men a bottle, don't be late!
This arvo in our free-ee land!