Posts by Tom Semmens
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It starts. It goes for a bit. Then it stops. Then it shakes it all about.
The Jaapies get to keep their domestic competition intact complete with Springboks so they can nuture their player base.
For no apparent reason the Aussies get another team that will be allowed to pinch our players.
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@Gareth:
So the infinite improbability drive exists after all.
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One could reasonably speculate that the only reason Mr. Mason ended up in court was because the "culture shift" implied in the repeal of Section 59 empowered a bystander to intervene and to call the police, where once they would have said and done nothing.
We are all guardians of all our children, 24x7x365 - something that a lot of New Zealanders seem uncomfortable with.
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I was out for a jog last night when some middle aged idiot in an SUV missed me by about 2mm - I literally felt his wing mirror brush my nose - coming out of a gas station at high speed. When I yelled he was an "fucking idiot" he didn't apologise. He stopped in the middle of New North Road, got out, and literally twisted his body with the effort as he screamed abuse at me. He worked himself into such a paroxysm that he started to advance on me. I am sure if it wasn't for the fact that as he got closer he discerned I was younger and bigger than him he would have assaulted me.
New Zealanders are in such deep denial about how we are an incredibly violent and passive-aggressive society, and that is nowhere as obvious as in our attitude towards our children.
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The sooner the Herald goes to tabloid size and removes the physical dissonance with actual content, the better. Lets face it - it's an under-resourced tabloid whose journalists largely interrview Google and kiwiblog, and with with the same sort of editorial policies as other Thatcherite tabloids like the Sun.
With the Herald, it is all about managing your expectations.
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I am not trying to be smart, I genuinely do feel like a bacon sammie for my lunch now.
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Paul, Without death there can be no life.
Death is the only certainty of life. All us - man and pig - must suffer the pain of death eventually.
Are you seriously suggesting that your knowledge of your inevitable demise means you wish you hadn't been born at all?
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But Paul - it is hard to be a happy pig if you don't exist in the first place. I am reliably informed that Afghanistan, for example, has only one pig.
Lots of un-pigs are not happily snuffling about Kabul.
Sure, we eat them. But that is the reason they are in my paddock in the first place.
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Hmmm - I personally have no moral scrupples about eating a cat. Or a possum. Or even, at a stretch, Rover the happy Beagle. Not rats thought. Or mice. Or Capybaras for that matter. Hate rodents.
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Can we not not turn this into yet another threadjack by the moral crusaders of the vege lobby?