Posts by Lucy Stewart
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As a saver (I'll ignore my student loan. Everyone else ignores theirs!), this cut is yet more shitty news for me.
Seconded. I was really enjoying my 8.2% interest rate, thank you very much. At least on the gardening front I won on broccoli (harvested and eaten while it was still $3+/head in shops. Score.)
Every year, I want to cross this concept with something Call of Cthulu-ish, where you battle Elder Gods in a shopping mall while trying to avoid Christmas Music San Damage. One Mistletoe and Wine equals ten Snoopy's Christmases equals a hundred Fairytale of New Yorks.
I feel this has great cross-over potential with that part of Pratchett's Reaper Man where the shopping mall is a living organism that defends itself with vicious soldier trolleys. Add in some mind-controlled zombie-shoppers, and you've got yourself a great computer game.
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Though only in one game every four years
It was a few more than that in the horror run of 1998.
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The Crusaders' jersey? Seriously? A sword on the front?
I feel that this sort of phallic symbolism encapsulates much of rugby culture quite nicely.
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My street seems to have been done last summer sometime, given the presence of now-ex-flatmate's car in the driveway and my big pot of basil on the windowsill. Also, our letterbox is the nice big old wooden one we used to have, rather than the small blue metal ugly-but-hooligan-proof one we now possess. (They knocked it off, we nailed it back on, they knocked it off, we propped it back, they smashed it into tiny pieces...it was a tortuous and drawn-out death. Bloody students.)
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Happy anniversary! I don't think your man needs tax-deductibility to make him cooler; merely setting up a wireless network while looking after children qualifies him for godhood, let alone the rest of it. (Then again, the children probably don't run around unfixing the network as fast as it's fixed, either.)
When she was planning her future family she said, "I'll need a boy. I'll probably get one of those at university".
That was pretty much my plan throughout adolescence, being far too busy at the time to pay actual attention to the opposite gender (and likewise busy repressing any attraction to the same one.) It still surprises me that it actually worked.
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On the topic of journalism, a small interjection - I think the author of this Herald article wins some kind of award for Most Inappropriate Metaphor. Just, what.
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I really love cricket as the perfect opportunity for a summer outing; you get sun, grass to lie on, (at the Basin Reserve, anyway), and entertainment without the stress of attending a shorter sports event. Also, no-one yells at you for reading in between balls. I think my father still hasn't forgiven me for bringing a book to that one rugby test match.
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In modern Western countries, polyamory isn't like that. Yes, traditional polygamy has been a hugely sexist, possessive institution - and a Judeo-Christian one, of course. But that doesn't mean that a modern polyamorous relationship has to be that way.
Hell, *marriage* has been a hugely sexist, possessive institution - until really very recently.
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On Windows the software is a complete PITA, it's fairly unreliable, requires registration that locks it to the PC and all that proprietary malarkey. Stephen Judd reports that the latest version of Ubuntu shows TV perfectly well in VLC Player though, so that's cool.
Is that so? We've been mucking around with doing a complete switch to Linux in our household, but the TV card is the one thing that won't work properly. If the latest Ubuntu release has fixed that, it's excellent news.
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We need more evidence than that ...
The perfect subject for some of that contract commission research ACT wants, don't you think?