Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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I was looking at this discussion at work and there were far more Gravatars showing up here than I can see now at home. Caching, perhaps?
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Poo! Where's my gravatar!??
Ditto. I signed up about a week ago, but so far there's no sign of my Gravatar here. :(
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I just did a bit of googling for sites that mentioned the Palm Oil Truth Foundation.
What came up quite a lot were well written blog comments (just like Robin from Connecticut's one above) that championed palm oil in a personal sounding way.
Check out this example. It's just gently urging one of the ingredients in a recipe to be swapped with palm oil.
It seems like someone is sowing some astroturf seeds.
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1. It's been almost 10 years since adult "Porn Star" T-shirts were in vogue. I'm shocked that World, which has such a fine reputation for cool, would end up sewing like it's 1999.
Cool baby clothes are fine, but can't they at least be original and innovative?
2. I recently read "Female Chauvinist Pigs" by Ariel Levy. One point she made that really resonated with me is that while porn culture is currently very fasionable, and that porno look is pervasive in pop culture, the gyrating woman with big hair and big boobs may be one way of expressing female sexuality, but it's not the only way. It just happens that at the moment, it's the only way that gets attention and makes money.
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__most people are actually killed with this method, and should be outlawed and replaced with the "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"__
Outlawed! I like the idea that after an earthquake, someone could end up doing jail time for not reacting in the correct position.
Here's Snopes' verdict on the Triangle of Life:
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Kate M's reply was almost as entertaining as Stacey's original comments. Her fervent response reminded me of the furious teens writing to the letters page of RTR Countdown magazine, circa 1987, incensed that their favourite pop star had been criticised.
But I should probably shut up and not say anything because what right do I have to comment on the words that someone is saying about the other things that someone else is saying because if you say something about someone, then you shouldn't because you might hurt them by what you are saying and that would be a really mean thing to do.... [__That's enough - Ed.__]
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The Queen Mary 2 visited Auckland last weekend. It was an unusual, new thing and many Aucklanders got excited about it and went down to the wharfs to look at it and partied like it was 1959.
Why aren't Wellington media mocking Aucklanders for being excited about something as ordinary as a cruise ship and demanding they harden up?
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Pretty much every song Britney has release post "...Baby, one more time" has been about wanting to be taken seriously.
All you people look at me like I'm a little girl.
Well did you ever think it be okay for me to step into this world.I'm not a girl,
There is no need to protect me.Lyrics like that are obviously orchestrated, but I don't think the rumoured post-shave suicide attempt was. Unless - OMG - are they tweaking Britney for the emo market? Oh, say it ain't so!
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If this law is passed, I wonder if it will make us who were smacked feel a bit weird towards our parents.
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It might not be the most pleasant day out, but in the gift shop below you can buy Sixth Floor Museum t-shirts, postcards and kitschy Kennedy memorabilia.
When my mum was there, she picked up a fridge magnet showing the Texas Schoolbook Depository!