Posts by andin
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</quote>I guess it had to happen one day (that is, the Wallabies beating the ABs)</quote>
It may happen again.......next year perhaps.
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I just don't see all business - even big business - as some great evil.
But it seems to now occupy so much of our time. But anyway, you fail to make the distinction between "business" and the people who are in it.
Sure a big corporation just sitting there looking all innocent is not evil. But funnily enough when that "business" gets down to its daily business those people (who are probably lovely people away from the job, have families they love etc) who make the business come to life will do some pretty stupid things. Things that might even be "evil". Of those people who work at the business, some even seem to undergo a personality change when they are at work. And then there's all that corporate loyalty crap gleened from just about every shit self help manual ever printed.Don't get me wrong, 'cos it sure as hell can be *monsanto, big tobacco, etcetc* - but negotiations and striking deals have been happening since humans first bartered skills and food, etc.
I suppose this could be filed under crap justifications for doing stuff.
My translation:
Hey we humans have been doing this shit for millenia cant change now, its in our DNA. Cause our ancestors bartering for food is just the same as a fast food conglomerate. Innit. -
The Sub editor overcooked the title but to me this kind of thing is interesting. Some choice quotes sans Hobbitery.
"In developed nations, women and those on a low income are twice as likely to be depressed as men and the wealthy. When DNA is tested in large samples, neither women nor the poor are more likely to have the variant. Worldwide, depression is least common in south-east Asia. Yet a study of 29 nations found the variant to be commonest there – the degree to which a society is collectivist rather than individualistic partly explains depression rates, not genes."
"Instead, the Human Genome Project is rapidly providing a scientific basis for the political left. Childhood maltreatment, economic inequality and excessive materialism seem the main determinants of mental illness. State-sponsored interventions, like reduced inequality, are the most likely solutions."
Or you can examine the minutiae of this fiasco, which ever you like.
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The Standard?
Can't be bothered with a forum where almost no-one is brave enough to use their real name.Its the lack of quality in their dialogue that puts me off. But I like the roughhousing. Where as Pundit is bland bland bland.
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I was talking about NZ films. Massive return on back end? Uh-uh.
Not even a modestly good one?
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Budgets are going DOWN. No two ways about it.
Its the potential massive return on the back end (if the film is any good, and of course populous film makers think their projects are worthy of massive acclaim) that will always suck people in.
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Who's coming to the Rally of Hope tomorrow?
Rally of Hope??????????
Jaysus give me hope. -
'Saturday night at the movies who cares what picture you see"
I doubt anyone fight's over the back row anymore. -
King Crimson Album
21st Century Schizoid Man.
If anyone thought anybody would change their minds about some deeply held belief during this. You'd be wrong. -
Forgive the strong analogism, but are unionists in NZ really going to become the new paedophiles in the court of public opinion?
NZer's have quite a good history of union vilification.
Not that Im drawing any parallel to the present situation.And there's quite a bit of anti-establishmentarianism in the mix as well.
Of varying Standards (Im not putting a link in)