Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Pirates were a damn unpleasant lot but every other kid wears a pirate costume to parties these days.
That is a comparison I really wouldn't feel comfortable making.
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Gawd, Yamis - you're right. No laughing matter in Samoa.
At least it sounds like they had a decent evacuation plan going. It could have been much, much worse.
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It's... bordering on hilarious the way it manages to portray librarians as unAmerican enemies of free speech, and book challenging as both a sure way to protect children, and too ineffective to worry about.
I think we can put it down as being yet another example of reality's well-known liberal bias.
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I've only seen once in some Brit tv drama over a decade ago a woman sitting in bed with her partner and not pulling the sheets around her ears.
Given all the nipples currently on display on the six o'clock news, this just seems even more ridiculous. Although not more than the ad for "extended and uncensored footage" on the 3 news website, which poor Hilary Barry was just forced to put in an extra plug for. One can't help thinking that if nudity was less problematic, we wouldn't be forced to put up with this.
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Although the bikinis they come out in don't hide much so I'm baffled, and intrigued.
Or...maybe it is just social pressure/habit, and the deformities are in your imagination? Like society telling them that anything short of "perfect" body parts are deformities? Seems a bit of a stretch to assume otherwise.
It saddens me that women feel judged - especially since, many times, it really is all in their own heads.
Doesn't make it any less real, in a lot of ways. The trick is to remember, if you can, that it doesn't ultimately matter. (Or, like me, be so crap with any form of face-to-face communication other than verbal that anything short of direct comment floats on by.)
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Does anyone have a wire brush suitable for my mind's eye?
I believe bleach is what you're after.
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Note to self, do not make days-gone-by cracks about Nelson on internet.
It's a bit like Blenheim: everyone buggers off to more interesting places ASAP, so the rest of the country is populated with ex-Nelsonians. And, unlike Blenheim, it's popular enough for holidays that plenty of people have fond holiday memories of it, too.
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I shouldn't be, I suppose, but I thought it was only men who went to such lengths to hide their bodies from each other.
Women also have the added issue of societal encouragement to judge each others' bodies - so exposing yourself is implicitly exposing yourself to judgement. It kicks in pretty young.
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Swim regularly, and pretty soon you've seen thousands of bodies in the changing room. I find it hard to understand how people are hung up on things.
One of the most enjoyable parts of mandated swimming at intermediate used to be the outrage and squawking I could get from the rest of my class by taking my togs off, drying off, and then putting my clothes on, rather than futzing around with getting changed under the cover of towels and school uniform. Personally I preferred the speed and relative dryness this allowed, but apparently the sight of my nude eleven-year-old body was just too much for all the other eleven-year-old girls to bear.
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If you are speaking english then use the english pronounciation.
Now *that* would be Poe-worthy. Sadly, it's probably serious.