Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Isn't just assumed that John Key is personally responsible for everything even slightly crappy that has ever happened in the whole wide 'verse since just before the extinction of the dinosaurs?
You stop too soon, Craig. There's no evidence he wasn't involved with the Permian extinctions, after all, and I personally find that deeply suspicious.
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However, on a wee other note. Has anyone been to "Natures Discovery" lately? a franchise[?] that includes Westfield Queensgate and Papanui. They now have a free stand displaying creationist literature and "resources". (Small captial letters). For some reason I have an immense desire to cease visitng the place until they rid the place of it.
The chain's motto is "Discovering the Wonders of Creation", so it's hardly a surprise - they've had some creationist literature in every one I've visited. Luckily they mostly seem to be embarrassed enough by it to hide it in a corner. I wouldn't expect it to vanish any time soon, though.
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The first war criminal tried for crimes against his own people, he also is the first recorded use of the war criminal's classic defence that they're not accountable to us.
In the context of the seventeenth century, "war criminal" is a bit over the top. "Incompetent, stubborn, and not overly bright" is more where you want to aim.
Russell, in which country and socio-economic class do you reside. Obviously not in the real NZ alongside the poor and dysfunctional. Craig is a wealthy man insensed by the lack of democracy in New Zealand
I love the smell of ironic juxtaposition in the mid-afternoon.
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Someone should alert CYPFS.
I'm reasonably sure she doesn't read these pages, but I feel that's going a little far.
I'm starting to think some folks weren't taking this whole "march for democracy" thing terribly seriously.
There was a fairly concerted push from Editing the Herald to take this approach, bless them.
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What happened to now?
We have newspapers for that.
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I just can't enthused over beating Bahrain and then celebrating hysterically just because we qualified to turn up. How low is that hurdle?
Given that it's one we've failed to clear for thirty-odd years, I think a *little* celebration is in order. Small steps, after all...
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I ultimately just feel like this idea that writing has about itself, and that its readers has, of AUTHENTICITY is just a pretense.
(Be sure I am talking about 'creative' writing, not academic work).
So if the writers and the readers aren't valid judges of authenticity...who is? Do you dowse for it?
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Film-makers borrow and reference, but they are seldom considered to plagiarise.
I am fairly certain that if a director inserted unedited footage from sone else's film into theirs, or a script-writer lifted dialogue verbatim, and didn't credit the original film, then there would be tears before bedtime. It's more difficult to plagiarise film, because of the medium, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable.
Why authorship is so sacred now -- it once had no real meaning.
Because if your reputation, let alone your livelihood, is based on your creative output - it damn well better be your creative output. Or your reputation is a lie. And your livelihood is a fraud.
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And now he's obliquely referring to the French Revolution (although Goff as Louis XVI is a bit of a stretch).
I don't know, the economic state of the ancien regime does have some parallels with the modern day.
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2) They made Jeffrey being unfeasibly well endowed into a subplot. At one point, he's standing at a urinal and a black man next to him glances down, does a double-take, and says "Respect, man!" Subtle stuff, but from the heart.
The thinking behind this was that you can say anything about someone as long as you also say they've got a big knob.
And are willing to embrace racial stereotyping to do it?