Posts by Michael Savidge
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In regard to the hoons...
I'm reminded of a quote by Micheale Mead's:
"If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.
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After seven years away (the last five in the US) I arrived home on Sept 10, 2001. The next day I lost a good friend.
I came home because I was rootless. I was an illegal alien and the States didn't feel like home at all. By that stage, NZ was also somewhat distant in my longings but my money, and options, were limited.
For a while, being back felt like I had failed at something. The pay was worse, the ski mountains had no trees on them, the locals all seemed to be navel-gazing and the culture seemed fractured and hastily constructed (in comparison to Europe I hasten to add, not the US). In the States I felt I could explore the landscape for the rest of my life and barely scratch the surface. Here I felt like I could see it all in a matter of weeks.
Over time I realised that what we have here is unique, if still in its formative years. People's hearts are open, even if at times their minds seem cloistered and their eyes blinkered. Travelling tears open our minds and makes us hungry for continual transformation. Coming home can feel like a straightjacket. Sometimes I still feel that way.
But mostly I love this place, these people and the view from this distant oasis.
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So y'were right....
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Really Sacha, why don't we just bloody check first.
Bayerische Motoren Werke
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I've always been bitter, given that my middle name is Matthew, that I never got a cent out of those pretenders, Bonn Motor Works, who have been trading on my initials for years.
I'm pretty sure that's Bayern MW dude...
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I feel that having good ways to deal with other's violence or discussing methods of safe intervention or protection, coud be far more useful in stemming these problems on the whole.
Should he have called the cops? the captain? Isaac Wshington?
Didn't exactly sound like the Love Boat.That's certainly a discussion I'd be interested in.
What would Gopher do?
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idiots may need empathy, but that doesn't stop them being idiots
Speaking of smug bastards...
And....oh I give up.
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I was merely stating that any man who allows himself to be goaded into assaulting a woman is an idiot.
Harsh, unfair and beneath your talent for reasonable analysis and description Paul.
The idiots need our empathy, understanding and goodwill as much as the victims if we are want, as individuals or as a community, to help reduce levels of domestic violence.
But you knew that already eh?
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So South Africa are unquestionably the best team until 2011?
Nope, but they are World Champions until then.
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The 2007 All Black team was not going at full guns.
Nowhere remotely near it.
It's hard to remember a time when they really were.
The second half performance against Wales is what we want, nay demand, all the time. It's our destiny or some such shit.