Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Lucy, ditto that anywhere in Auckland that there is a decent bike path. Which is actually a steadily increasing number of places. But no amount of town planning is actually going to make the place flat.
No, and I wouldn't presume to comment on Auckland riding conditions, yhaving never biked there. I just didn't like the implication that it was becoming *generally* more acceptable to ride on the footpath, rather than in specific conditions and places. I've seen some astonishingly cavalier cyclist behaviour here (including, but not limited to, riding the wrong way down the road) and it's just not good for anyone - cyclists, pedestrians, or drivers.
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So long as they mean 'riding slowly on the footpath'. Riding fast on the footpath led to the only serious accident I ever had on a bike. Roads are safer for that.
And not riding at all on the footpath at all in Christchurch, thanks, which has lots of lovely wide roads with appropriate cycle lanes. Especially since the majority of offenders are elderly people who don't bother with helmets and aren't awfully quick to avoid pedestrians. Oh, hey, and those two kids I nearly killed turning into my driveway one winter evening who were riding down the footpath sans lights and helmets with one of them perched on the handlebars.
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Far freakin' out. So Americans now get a whole five days to examine the text of "non emergency" legislation before it's passed. Some bits of democracy appear to be still coming ...
Someone want to suggest this to our new Government? I don't think we got five days on half the stuff they passed before Christmas.
(Not to malign New Zealand's generally very leisurely legislative process, but.)
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Doubtless due to the political correctness of our brainwashed lesbian police force. Wake up man!
Now, I *would* be willing to concede that domestic violence towards men by women is likely to be underreported to the police, due to social stereotypes about masculinity and getting "beaten up by a girl". And that's a problem worth considering. But, of course, neither of these things was Ralston's point, because it's easier to whine about the scary dyke feminazis and their determination to blame everything on men.
*sigh*
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Heh, I was actually born in Taihape. When you're three getting snowed in every year is the best
I am somewhat ashamed to admit my first thought was "wait, people reproduce in Taihape?"
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Well, it proved worthwhile but, on reflection, I think I should have courted the mother with the same vigour. As I recall, she was rather tasty.
...and you just upgraded yourself on the creepy-meter there.
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I've never driven that road, save in a very badly sprung shuttle at ten pm on a cold winter night (a rather different experience, needless to say) but your post is incredibly evocative of summer, especially the kind I've come to know in Christchurch.
My own childhood road, summer or winter, was State Highway One from Wellington up to Turangi, along the Kapiti Coast. I have vivid memories of endless traffic jams around Paekakariki (and the extremely memorable time we got to Ngauranga Gorge heading out one 23/12 and then had to go back for the ham we'd forgotten) and the boredom of the Manawatu before we finally got to the Desert Road and Ruapehu rose up before us. I haven't been that way for a good seven years now, but that landscape still has a hold on me that no other part of the country can manage, no matter how beautiful or grand.
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Obviously, Tolley has a picture in her head of what every truanting kid is like, and honestly believes that truanting is always caused by lazy and neglectful parenting.
I'd extend it a bit further, and say that National have a picture in their head of what poor/disadvantaged people are like, and why they're poor/disadvantaged. It's also reflected in the 90-day bill - that attitude that surely if people just work hard their employers will like them and keep them, and that no "good" employee will ever be fired unfairly under that bill. Because the people who get screwed over by it? Well, they're just lazy. Or something.
*facepalm*
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Thanks for the heads up on Drinking Liberally - it's my first Thursday evening off since...April. Sounds like an excellent way to celebrate this fact.
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Hey, I got an ANZ Qantas Platinum card a couple of years ago. While a full-time student. With no job. The delicious irony was that I'd applied for the predecessor Gold card when I did have a job, and got declined. Twice.
Ah, but with a job, you'd probably be paying off the balance in full every month or something devious like that, which the card companies won't stand for. As a student, you're much more likely to accrue lots of lovely interest.