Posts by Lucy Stewart
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There's been lots of stuff done on why stilleto heels are sexy from changing calf muscle shape to changing the the way the bum moves. Whatever the biology is it works for me and I heartily encourage you to spend your dollars on them :).
I find the four extra inches of height definitely play a role in the feeling good about oneself, too. Not enough to be worth the day-to-day hassle, but on the odd occasion - brilliant.
Ah. This is the internet after all.
It took until page eighteen - that's progress, right?
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Oh, you asked for it Lucy.
*shudder*
(I'm actually quite partial to Keats et al. in small doses - likely the result of sixth-form-English indoctrination - but there's just so much of it. Going on. And on. And on.)
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Yes, beauty is truth. ;P
Shelley, Keats - what is this, the Thread of Whiny English Poets?
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Older women aren't allowed to like what they see in the mirror?
Of course not. The cosmetics industry would collapse, and the recession's bad enough already, don't you think?
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People smack for different reasons. Many do it out of anger, but others do it because they genuinely believe the infliction of pain is a valid way to correct errant behaviour (“spare the rod” etc). I’m not saying that’s a valid approach towards parenting, but we shouldn’t assume anyone who smacks has simply lost his/her temper. In many cases they may simply need to learn better parenting skills.
And someone who speeds may need to learn better driving skills, because they're not paying attention rather than doing it deliberately. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be illegal. Quite frankly, I find the notion that someone would rationally and in cold blood inflict pain on their children in order to teach them a lesson much, much creepier than someone lashing out (which is still reprehensible but at least comprehensible.)
If the child who runs across the road gets a belt immediately afterwards, he/she may refrain from running across the road again. In that case is it prevention or correction? I have no idea.
If it isn't stopping them doing it *in the act*, it's not preventative, surely?
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It's not at all clear in what circumstances section 59 allows the use of force. It is reasonably clear, I think, that you can use force to restrain a child from running onto a busy road, but if you smacked your child afterwards for doing it (even immediately afterwards), that might still amount to an offence (subject to the police's discretion not to prosecute).
Er, seems pretty straightforward to me. You can stop a kid doing something by whatever means are necessary; you just can't hit them because they did it/tried to do it. What's confusing there?
More to the point, why is that a problem? I submit that anyone who smacks their child after that child tries to run onto the road (having successfully prevented them doing so) will be doing it to relieve their own stress/anger more than anything else, which is hardly the stuff of which good parental correction is made.
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7 Days actually reminded me most of the BBC Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy shows (The Now Show, The News Quiz, etc) only rather edgier - though that only worked in its favour sometimes, as Craig notes. But it definitely has potential, and once they've settled into the format and lost the urge to be offensive just because they can I think it should be a cracking good watch.
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Tell me exactly what "disruption" would go down if Hide handed in his ministerial warrant.
But what would Aucklanders do, Craig, without Rodney to guide them? What would they DO?
(I think actually the argument might be that if Hide flounces off it will lead to drama and delays and generally more speedbumps in the road of an already chaotic process, but I'm more overcome by the tantalising dream of Hide flouncing off in a snit, so.)
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As for coming along and posting every now and again, and then disappearing for a while, I don’t have an interest in many of the topics, and I don't have the time to post that many of you apparently do!! I have wondered from time to time; what the many frequent posters do for jobs, because whatever they do apparently allows them a lot of time for non-work related activities!!
Re: the Pratchett discussion on the other thread, another quote comes prominently to mind.
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ex-hippy feminazi pseudo-massage therapist parked sideways across two kiddie parks.
Not to excuse her behaviour, was the "feminazi" descriptor *really* necessary there, Mark?