Posts by George Darroch
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Today my mother died. But someone will have to explain it to me: I didn't read Camus for the lolz.
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"Uh... dude... it does exist".
Unfortunately, one of the problems is that much of this commercial pornography features women who aren't ejaculating, but are instead using a bag filled with liquid to create the appearance of ejaculation.
I'm also worried that once this becomes mainstream not only will there be anxiety over failure to orgasm (and that of partners to bring the other to orgasm), there will be female ejaculation anxiety too.
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The irony of Key's saintly visit to McGehan Close was that until the day, he appeared to think it was in South Auckland, to judge by his bFM interview that week.
This is what really pisses me off most about the SuperCity. Manukau is soon to be gone, and then we'll forever be condemned to be known as South Auckland, with all the baggage that implies.
Is Key out of touch? I don't know. But he should watch out that he stays in touch with all sections of New Zealand society. Helen Clark patronised (in both senses) all sections of society with some dexterity for most of her time in office, and any political leader in NZ would do well to learn from her performance in this area.
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About 2 grand for the whole business, roughly. Which doesn't strike me as completely unreasonable.
But for those with a will and a way, there's ability to access and even interact with these interesting minds through the internet.
Kinda on/off topic, just because it's cool, MIT is offering a great deal of their coursework content on the net entirely free. Sweet.
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I definitely agree that parents can help, and their absence of support can hinder. But a loaded round of blaming does nobody any good.
Some people just learn differently and take a while to get there, and some just reach the level they get too and don't get past that. Either is fine. We're humans, after all, not clones.
My brother took a long time to speak, read, and write. My family has a few doctors in it, and they wondered if there was anything underlying it. It just turned out that he took a while to get up to speed.
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Real question worth pondering is why is one ok and the other not? is it something related to the chemical content?
Too much nitrogen is bad for the eyes.
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But it's fairly useless for a lot of everyday conversation, because that will be slangy & colloquial, and have a lot of in-referents.
Agreed! Written and spoken language are usually quite different. For speaking I'd advise getting DVDs and wearing out the pause, play, and rewind buttons, and saying the lines of dialogue in the way they are spoken. Children learn their first language by aping others in a non-judgmental setting, why not myself? As a result, my Spanish sounds a lot like a character from an Almodovar film...
And to bring things back on track, this is one of the reasons why standards environments can be such a bad thing. Putting pressure, and associating learning with stress, can harm the learning process.
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Gordon adds: The European Community research indicates very similar. The fact that 2000 words make up 87 or 90% of most spoken English, Spanish, French, Italian or German should not be taken as 100%. The other 10% will vary, depending on the specific usage. (ie, tourists visiting England and finding their way around London and English customs, will use different words in the other 10% than, say, a primary school child studying New Zealand geography or the Treaty of Waitangi).
That's absolutely true, and you can take advantage of that to learn a language. Sit down with a book in a language you don't understand, a dictionary, and pretty soon you find you're looking up the same words over and over again. Which is when you write those ones down for quick reference, or learn them through repetition and use. Not the only thing to do, but it helps greatly.
The other ten percent varies considerably, and thus requires the dictionary.
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Anyway, protest is futile theatre -- organisation is where it's at. I just broke a vow of years and joined the Labour party...
Good luck with that.
I've seen no indication that the current mob have vision or are susceptible to ideas, despite a good number of worthwhile members - most of whom keep their heads down rather than speak up against awful legislation their party supports.
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They did, to be fair, it's just that the ratio of average income to average house price was so much lower for them. And there were fewer lifestyle distractions to spend your money on otherwise. But sacrifices were most assuredly made.
It's about 9/1 now, as opposed to a historic average of 5/1.
As this graph illustrates, the ratio between house prices and incomes grew significantly in the last twenty years. Most of that occurred between 2002 and 2008. Twenty five percent increases in single years? What the fuck?
An Alliance or Green coalition would never have let that happen. At least, it's the kind of thing that they publicly abhor.
Labour loved this property boom - it inflated the economy with billions and billions of soft dollars, and created the illusion of wealth. It also
I think that those attacking National here are being somewhat one-eyed. This is very squarely a Labour Party problem. National may not have the will to fix it, and may seek to perpetuate it, but it was Clark, Cullen and Goff who were putting gasoline on the property speculation bonfire.