Posts by mark taslov
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I don't know about that, Ben. Sacha asked Chuck a reasonable question, and Chuck's reply was to brush Sacha off as a "flack" who was not worth responding to. While I don't think deliberate impoliteness helps any debate, I see no reason why anyone should feel any need to be careful about being polite to Chuck.
Yeah, obviously politeness wasn't so much my bent as the ostracism. And not so much the instance, but the trend, Ghandi had some neat tricks up his sleeve for getting people to leave.
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Man that's really unlucky.. Islander,yeah just some of the unfortunate early pakeha, although I imagine having the country settled by a whole bunch of shortchanged Eurotrash wouldn't have done much for the orignals' state of mind here either. Mainly I'm just proposing that these early frustrations have still not been adequately appeased and have been allowed to permeate the culture as a whole.
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Ben, reminds me of that Alanis Morisette song, I can't recall the name. The whole idea of keeping up with the jones' seems to be the such a hindrance in the quest for a better 'quality of life'. For my part I'd like to find some stats correlating domestic violence, and other violent crime with the weather and in particular sunlight. Seems the two best times for the NZ government to push through controversial legislation are either when it's just coming into summer or in the cold of winter.
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Thanks Ben.
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the name is mark, you're welcome inside the theme park when you feel the love Joe...oxo
Yeah I understand Sacha, thanks for replying, lovely day here too despite being cold as, last day of the Pig, fireworks sporadically echoing around the buildings. I agree, Chuck's been pulling all shades of shit out of his ass, almost as if his brain gets reformatted after every post. my only misgiving was the 'please leave' motif, and it's not as if, it hasn't been said before or won't be said again to other posters.
I'm not sure if Chuck could undermine the whole topic, when he writes like that, he does himself no favours. He's a couple of drops in an ocean of what seems to me to be another valid, sensible, relevant and interesting discussion.
I can't really talk, I take the bait worst than most, not helped by the fact that there's always a certain number of posters who are always easy pickings, when I'm looking for a bitchslap.
On returning to NZ in 1991 fom the UK, I was always surprised by the anger exuded by my pubescent classmates in that slice of paradise. I found it even more interesting upon coming to this fine totalitarian state, and find these people, poor as socks, oppressed as pressed pants, surrounded by pollution, but in remarkably good spirit, compared to the paradisians back home. Less cliquey, more collectively optimistic and happy to listen to one another without recourse to the shuddup, always making new friends.
I often wonder why NZ has this latent aggression, I in part attribute it to our origins, recalling the recordings made detailing woman arriving on boats, being selected as wives as they marched down the gangplank to begin their lives, living the next 7 years in a tent on a gold field near Arrowtown. It's a long time ago, but that anger and pain hs been passed from father to son, that need to put down. Teh rage. Can't help but feel the mildest sense of guilt, at my ancestor, working for the NZ company offering people the world, but ultimately providing a chance to compete in Survivor New Zealand.
Another theory (and this is hair brained stuff) is the idea of the lost paradise, the notion of our ancestors coming in search of the promised land, and having to share it with a whole lot of other no hopers, I was always surprised at the way people walk down the street in NZ, and don't say hi to people they recognize, though may never have conversed with, This is something more obvious in the cities, and to be fair to the country as a whole, I spent a number of years in that rank stench of a city, slapped on the Canterbury plains, which obviously coloured my perception.
I remember feeling the rage, back there. But over the years, I've been fortunate enough to observe different environments, and isolate what I identify what i perceive to be quintessential NZ elements, and ultimately I feel a lot of the pain and aggression seems to stem from the old adage coined in that familiar Fred Dagg favourite.
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another pie thrower...
who me, Chuck or you? be as you need to be Joe, but unless someone sucks it in and is prepared to tolerate the hardship of reading through crap that people like me write, the aggression and endemic violence epidemic you guys are surrounded by and pay taxes to advertize against is never going to dissipate.
For one so politically buffed, Joe, you've obviously noticed that democratic machines primary vent for societal frustration is the right to protest, and when you're all protested out, the government does exactly what was being protested against. It's a perfect system. unless you prefer the system they have here, where they just shut you up.
If i can handle your antagnistic bullshit Joe, I'm sure we can all handle Chuck's
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Hey Sacha and Sam, You may want to give me a beat down on this, but I have ever really got into the whole; we don't like what you have to say, please leave campaign,The internet is a pretty noninvasive way to voice 'opinions', I don't know, maybe I'm too jaded by years in the gulag, but it seems an affront to the whole concept of freedom of speech,and sounds no less angry than the protaganist's own drivel, Sure what Chuck is saying is erroneous, and misguided, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we were inviting him to embarrass himself more, than that.
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Sorry Kyle, I mentioned your parent's profession, because I was wondering if you're father had and had passed on any kind of sentiment about unreported crime and or citizens taking the law into their own hands.
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brush off domestic violence as something that only happens in some "other" part of society?
or say it isn't okay to brush off domestic violence as something that only happens in some "other" part of society?
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Mark, are you trying say that domestic violence happens at the same rate in higher socio economic homes where both parents are married to each other as it does in a home with a solo mother on a benefit and a live in boyfriend?
according to to the man, it's ok to say something like that
If so where is your evidence?
hidden in the penthouses of plush hotels, the parlors of renaissance palaces, and the women's toilets at ascot.